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Are You Listening?

Stories from a Coaching Life

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Are You Listening?

By: Jenny Rogers
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
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'The coaching room can sometimes become its own theatre. A marriage unravels right in front of you. A shaming confession is made. A secret hugged for many years is disclosed. Tears of wrenching anger and despair can take up the whole session. These are times where you and the client hold your breath because nothing is ever going to be the same again.'

It is very rare as an adult to find a place where you are not judged, where you can be open, honest and vulnerable: that is exactly what coaching provides. This book brings together twenty different stories which represent the very human dilemmas a coach can encounter. Coaching is not therapy but it is closely related, and while many people seek (or are assigned) executive coaching for work problems, just like therapy each person brings their whole self to the conversation. Exploring Jenny's beautifully written and moving stories will offer the reader a chance for deep reflection on the meaning of modern relationships.

© Jenny Rogers 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Management & Leadership Mental Health Mentoring & Coaching Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Workplace & Organisational Behavior Workplace Culture Inspiring Coaching

Critic reviews

Every coach and leader needs to read this book! Filled with engaging, impactful stories, Are You Listening? looks behind the curtain of coaching sessions with high level executives. Learn how to fuel your success with your failures and share in the struggles and triumphs of real leaders
Jenny Rogers cherishes the core of truth in each of us. Are You Listening? takes us with her as she brings people back to that core. When you finish the book, you will see people differently. Not many gifts are for ever, but that one is'
Are You Listening is quite simply the best book about coaching I have ever read. It's about the real experience of coaching, rather than a new-and-improved template or method, so it gets right down to the tangled complexities of human exchange and growth. Jenny's wise and humane stories will make me a better person
Jenny's coaching was life changing in my early career and I have never forgotten her rare combination of attention, rigour and wry humanity. Her beautifully written book is fascinating about the challenges of being human and the revelatory power of great coaching
Jenny Rogers effectively invented the art of executive coaching, and she's certainly done more than anyone to advance and professionalise it. Her remarkable new book inhabits a place between fiction, non-fiction and memoir. It's The Examined Life, Kitchen Table Wisdom, It's All in Your Head, Do No Harm, Love's Executioner and Let Me Not Be Mad all rolled into one. It's a revealing look back on three decades of fascinating encounters, an honest examination of the big questions that make us all tick and, above all, a generous, wise and incredibly moving testament to the power of compassion, acceptance and change
Jenny Rogers has done for coaching what Irving Yalom did for therapy: written a book full of moving stories that show the process, and the benefits
Compelling and compassionate, comprehensive and challenging, the eighteen beautifully-written client histories show that coaching is concerned with big questions of love, authenticity, self-worth, autonomy, isolation, life-purpose and death. Coaching is about 'listening with exquisite attention, offering acceptance, challenge and kindness'
A fascinating insight into the lives of leaders and the challenges they bring to coaching, from one of the World's best executive coaches. Read this for a fly on the wall view of executive coaching
This exceptional book brings together, in rare combination, deep and compassionate insight into individual psychology with a sophisticated understanding of working life in organisations. It will be a source of wisdom for managers everywhere, but also for anyone interested in human nature
All stars
Most relevant
Deep wisdom here in a series of stories told with humility, honesty and profound perception

Real wisdom here!

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This book provides excellent insights into a range of coaching experiences from a top class coach. It is so well written. Absolutely wonderful! Highly recommended as a walking companion - although bursting into laughter whilst walking alone may occasionally have left passers by wondering 😎

Brilliant and insightful

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This is far more than a must read/listen for any coach or person undergoing or considering coaching. These are engaging and authentic stories of human experience told with wise insight. The author's vast experience, professionalism, empathy and humour shine through. The inclusion of elements of memoir, in which the author so frankly shares aspects of her life, emotions and occasional professional missteps, elevates the work to something way beyond a "book about coaching". It is well narrated and I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Human stories beautifully told

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I say intense as the stories are clearly true and at times raw, all of this is in a good way. Giving you a realistic expectation of being a human being and a coach to real people with real problems. Offering a lot of honest insight. Thank you!

Unexpectedly intense and engaging read

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Jenny’s insight and honesty inspired me. So much to learn for all coaches at any level.

Don’t hesitate - read this book.

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