Excellent follow up - Rated 
Following on from Curly Martins highly successful "The Life Coaching Handbook" her latest book "The Business Coaching handbook" will have the same positive impact on businesses as her first book had on individuals.
The book is full of great practical examples and models, my personal favourites are the chapters on marketing and advertising, which are alone are worth their weight in gold.
Curly's passion and enthusiasm for the subject is apparent when reading and she also has the ability to put across coaching in an easy to understand way.
A 'must have' for all small businesses - Rated
As a small business owner, I have found this book invaluable. When you start out on the road to building something new and exciting you can often become distracted or lose some momentum. Curly has written a great book based on her own practical experience of building a successful business and uses her superb coaching skills to help you navigate through a series of searching questions. Having a real coach in business is essential and if you don't already have one, The Business Coaching Handbook is the next best thing. This is a very worthwile book to add to your collection.
The book has paid for itself already! - Rated
I ordered the book because I have Curly's other book The Life Coaching Handbook and like her clear uncluttered approach to topics and easy to read style of writing. I was not disappointed with this book.
I decided to select one of the chapters and follow it through so that I could judge the book properly. I selected the PR chapter and blow me down, I created a press release for the first time and from this I now have several new customers.
Its great, I have new business and the book has already paid for itself. Great bargain! Thank you Curly Martin for writing this book, I am looking forward to reading and taking action on the other chapters.
Silent Partner - Rated
This is a great book and has some really good examples in the form of metaphors, which help to explain the circumstances where the techniques or tools can be used.
Each chapter has a story at the beginning, which is followed by the chapter contents and a really useful action box at the end with a commitment type page for putting dates in to make sure you take the action.
There are action boxes in each chapter which, if you have been running a business for a couple of years like I have - you can just read the boxes and take action.
As time for me is a challenge I enjoyed the chapter on the time management and because of the easy to use and easy to read layout I found I could manage the time I needed to read the book easily. Some days, when I had time I could complete a whole chapter and other times when I was busy I just managed to check out the action box. Either way I am moving forward and that for me is the key to the success of the book.
Well done this is my silent partner.
Not about Business Coaching at all - Rated 
There are plenty of "run your own business" books on the market, so do we need this one ? The answer, of course, depends on whether it has anything new or interesting to say; and the answer to that is "partly".
The book starts extremely well with a clear and simple approach to goal setting; some excellent material on managing your time; good stuff on marketing; and an interesting chapter on "tactical socialising" (a softer approach to networking). After this strong start though, the book descends into a seemingly random selection of chapters including PR, advertising, an inadequate 12 pages on staff management, and a slightly bizarre chapter on waste (suggesting you give staff alarm clocks to limit internet usage). There are some glaring omissions too, including nothing on raising finance; on debt collection or customer care; on professional or public indemnity; on franchising (a popular route for many,) or on a host of other business subjects. I also found the folksy writing style a bit off-putting.
Most surprising of all however, given the title and subtitle of the book, is that it is not about "business coaching" at all. There is nothing in here about running a business coaching business. Nothing on professional development, qualifications and registration; and nothing on setting up business coaching contracts, including the challenges of having two clients - the organisation paying and expecting results and the individual being coached. Nor is there anything on business ethics and what to do if, when dealing with a client, you suspect bullying or harassment or other problems. Nothing about coaching tools or approaches.
Overall then, there are some very good sections, but, in my view, the book misses out a lot of very important elements. I would not recommend it.
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