Leadership coaching is the first coaching text to recognise the need for coaches to engage with an individual¿s personal and psychological issues to enable coaches to identify interventions that demonstrate how emotional awareness can be translated into improved performance. It presents these concepts in a highly accessible format that is aimed at readers of all backgrounds whether they are practicing coaches or sponsors of coaching, or human resource professionals or line managers.In addition, the book explores the competencies and training required for coaches and the process for sponsors tasked with buying coaching services.The book provides readers with a practical toolkit illustrated with a wide range of concise case studies, diagrams, tables and worksheets.