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David Clutterbuck’s Best Reads of 2023
As usual, the year has been full of the joy of discovery through new books from around the world. Here, in no particular order, are my top reads for 2023. Enjoy.
by Max Landsberg, LID publishing
Max brings the ancient Chinese wisdom to life, with frequent stories to illustrate the philosophical concepts and how they originated. He also offers practical insight into how to apply the concepts to modern dilemmas in the workplace.
2. Team coaching for Organisational Development
by Helen Zink, Routledge, 2023
What it’s like to be an internal coach embedded in a top team – valuable lessons for all internal coaches, external coaches, HR professionals, change managers and leaders. (See more below).
3. Confident Career Conversations
by Antoinette Oglethorpe, Rethink Press, 2023
Most managers struggle to have meaningful conversations with their direct reports when it comes to career progress beyond the current job. This is a straightforward guide that could be given to any manager.
by Theodora Fitzsimmons, Marinate Behan Dougherty et al. Routledge, 2023
Sector-specific coaching is an emerging theme and an important contribution to diversity of coaching approach.
by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligman. Nicholas Brealey, 2023
The new world of work needs new ways of thinking and being. I particularly liked the sections on creating meaning at work.
6. Mentoring Entrepreneurs – The insider’s guiding to shaping success
by The Human EdgeThe Human Edge used to be called Mowgli.
The book summarises 20 years of practical experience of mentoring programmes aimed at entrepreneurs, especially in the Arab world and in East Africa.
7. Solution Focused Team Coaching: 2nd Edition
by Kirsten Dierolf, Cristina Muhl, Carlo Perfetto, Rafal Szaniawski. Routledge, 2023
Brings up to date thinking on how to apply solution focused approaches to teams.
8. The Human behind the coach: How great coaches transform themselves first
by Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli. Rutledge, 2023
There’s a growing realisation that coaching is far more about being than about doing. This is a well-timed book that explores how to leave competencies and rote practice behind.
9. How migration really works: A factful guide to the most divisive issues in politics
by Hein de Haas. Penguin, 2023
Challenges prevailing wisdom about the “problem” of migration – helped me maintain my quota of regularly having my assumptions challenged.
by Doug Mackie. Routledge, 2023
A tour de force of both theoretical and practical perspectives on how leaders can lead on sustainability. Aimed at leaders, and especially business leaders, it contains valuable guidance coaches and mentors can use on, for example, climate aware goal setting.
by Mustafa Suleyman. Bodley Head, London, 2023
At once scary and hope-inspiring, a look at the near-future world of AI and biotechnology.
12. The Naked Neanderthal
by Ludovic Slimak. Allen Lane, 2023
Just my kind of book – busts many of the common assumptions about Neanderthals by weighing them against the science. Most of what we think we know is no more than anthropomorphism!
And, of course, there are the books I’ve written or been involved in.
by David Clutterbuck, Routledge
David’s retrospective examination of 45 years of evolution in coaching, mentoring and leadership and is now available from all good bookshops!
The Complete Handbook of Coaching
Edited By Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova and David Clutterbuck
This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings and professional issues. It supports trainees and professionals to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Each chapter includes discussion questions to facilitate reflection on the topic, further reading suggestions and case studies that help trainees make the crucial link between theory and practice.
This Fourth Edition comes with a new chapter on Diversity and Inclusion in Coaching, updated content throughout on cross-cultural coaching and updated Further Reading. A new online Teaching Guide provides chapter teaching and assessment suggestions, videos and further reading to help support trainees’ learning.
Edited By Julie Haddock-Millar, Paul Stokes, Nora Dominguez. Foreword by David Clutterbuck
Reciprocal mentoring represents an approach to mentoring in organisations that is both timely and of critical importance in the context of diversity, inclusion, equity and the power shift in mentoring practice. This book provides insight into how reciprocal mentoring programmes can strengthen mutual learning and encourage true partnership between participants. It explores the design, development and evaluation of these programmes in six different contexts: entrepreneurial, healthcare sector, third sector, education sector, private sector and membership organisations.
Managing Organisational Politics: How coaches and mentors can help
Open University Press. David Clutterbuck, Tim Bright, Lise Lewis, Riddhika Khoosal
For employees, managing politics is a core skill. For coaches and mentors, there is the constant dilemma of how to help a client thrive in a political environment while remaining authentic. Coaching, Mentoring and Organisational Politics draws on the experiences of coaches, mentors, leaders and managers from around the world.
As all organisations are political environments, politics are likely to affect every coach at some point in their professional career. The authors expertly navigate this complex topic, going beyond collating existing concepts and undertaking new, first-hand research into what issues are considered “political” and the challenges they pose for leaders.
The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook: A Guide to Developing Ethical Maturity in Practice
Routledge. Edited by Wendy-Ann Smith, Jonathan Passmore, Eve Turner, Yi-Ling Lai and David Clutterbuck.
This new handbook works to guide the reader towards ethical maturity to strengthen their practice, though examination of theory and thought provoking practice examples.
Routledge. Helen Zink. Foreword by David Clutterbuck
Walk in the shoes of the team, the team leader, the organisation, the team coach, and the coach’s supervision and support networks, for a unique insight into team coaching and impact on wider organisational development.
By Dumisani Magdlela, foreword by David Clutterbuck
This book introduces Ubuntu Coaching, offering tools for transformative coaching and showcasing stories of Ubuntu and connection practices from seasoned coaches. It provides practical day-to-day management advice within a transformational framework, emphasising holistic well-being, relational dynamics, and organisational cohesion.