Coach Yourself!: Increase Awareness, Change Behavior, and Thrive - Hardcover

by Antonia Bowring (Author)

Become the best version of yourself using these practical frameworks exploring the power of performance coaching from a Top NYC Executive Coach.

Coach Yourself! is a guide for people who are committed to increasing their awareness about behaviors that aren't serving them at work or in the rest of their lives, and then taking the necessary actions to move forward. If you're ready to explore changing habits and behaviors to improve how you show up in work and life, this book is for you. With practical and accessible frameworks exploring the power of performance coaching, Top NYC Executive Coach Antonia Bowring teaches readers to use her performance coaching formula: increased awareness + changed behavior = flourishing individual and thriving work performance.

Bowring offers recipes, frameworks, and tools you can use to navigate the exhilarating, and inevitably bumpy, journey through your professional life. You'll discover:

• Foundational definitions and concepts, including discussions about the different kinds of coaching, the benefits they bring to the table, and the processes they use
• The importance of your values, and how they anchor your progress through your coaching journey
• Communication strategies used by the world's most effective problem-solvers and decision-makers in the world

While this will be an essential guide for professionals and leaders, anyone can pick up this book and apply the frameworks to various aspects of their life. The essence of coaching is that we have the answers inside ourselves, and the role of the coach is to help us access our own answers.

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You've probably heard about the advantages and benefits of personal performance coaching. But not everyone has the time, money, or inclination to begin a coaching relationship. So, what should you do if you're ready to improve your work performance and personal life but aren't ready to pull the trigger on your very own performance coach?

In Coach Yourself!: Increase Awareness, Change Behavior, and Thrive, veteran executive coach and strategist Antonia Bowring delivers an insightful and easy-to-read roadmap to self-improvement and change. You'll learn to navigate your personal and professional life by becoming more intentional about how you listen, what you say, and what you do.

The author offers key tools for you to change your life, progress at work, and find more satisfaction in your personal life. You'll discover that your ability to influence and determine what happens to you is much greater than you may have thought in the past.

Coach Yourself! provides critical coaching frameworks for beginning a self-improvement process, communication skills development, managing teams, and maintaining the gains you've made in your journey through the maintenance of enduring habits. It will help you become aware of the counter- productive mindsets and behaviors that are holding you back and teach you how to replace them with thoughts, words and actions that can change your life for the better.

Perfect for executives, managers, employees, and professionals everywhere, Coach Yourself! demonstrates how to find the keys to a flourishing personal and work life within yourself. Everyone who's serious about improving their life and wants to start doing it now needs to buy a copy.

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Praise for COACH YOURSELF!

"In Coach Yourself!, Antonia Bowring brings her decades of experience as a management coach to new audiences seeking to gain a cognitive edge in an increasingly competitive workplace."
-- Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Antonia has helped me become a better leader to my team at Milk Bar. Her book is a must-read guide for anyone who wants to put her deep coaching experience into action in their own life."
-- Christina Tosi, Founder & CEO of Milk Bar

"Every successful leader I know has had some type of executive coaching. I brought Antonia into the company to help develop our leadership team and it has been a game changer. I'm excited that her work is now accessible to everyone at the company and beyond. The world needs more great leaders."
-- Alex Chung, Founder & CEO of Giphy

"Antonia's book is a reminder of the possibilities we all have within us. With this book's help and the support of your network, you can achieve so much more than you ever imagined."
-- Lindsay Kaplan, Co-Founder, Chief

"Many business executives wish they could get coaching on the wide spread of issues that challenge them but lack the time and resources to find that coach. This book is what they're looking for. Not only will these frameworks help you become a better leader, they'll help you to develop lasting habits which will make you formidable in the workplace."
-- Chris Anderson, Head of TED

Author Biography

ANTONIA BOWRING is an executive coach and strategic facilitator with extensive experience in early-stage startups and corporate settings. She is a member of New York's Top 20 Coaches List and is part of the Forbes Coaches Council. Antonia has special expertise in supporting leaders with ADHD and helping them leverage their strengths to achieve their goals.