Best Business Mentoring & Coaching Books of 2025

The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier is a practical guide for busy managers who want to incorporate coaching into their daily routine. Through seven essential coaching questions, the book shows how managers can unlock their team's potential by saying less and asking more. The book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics to turn practical advice into practiced habits. The Coaching Habit is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their leadership skills and take their workplace from good to great.

The Power of One More by Ed Mylett is a motivational self-help book that draws on the author's 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and coach to reveal powerful strategies to help readers live an extraordinary life. The book focuses on the premise that you are only one more intentional thought and action away from unlocking dynamic and impactful changes. With practical strategies and time-tested solutions, Mylett shows readers how to tap into their superpowers and gifts to achieve success in all areas of their lives. Overall, The Power of One More is an indispensable roadmap to realizing and exceeding personal and professional goals.

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson is a practical guide to building and scaling a company's most important resource: its people. The book offers tactical information on crafting foundational documents, strategic planning, hiring, team development, and feedback mechanisms, all of which can be applied to companies of any size and industry. The author provides dozens of pages of worksheets, templates, exercises, and example documents to help company builders create scalable operating systems and lightweight processes. Overall, Scaling People is a detailed roadmap for creating sustainable and scalable companies that are set up for long-term success.

The book "Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS" by Shirzad Chamine is a New York Times bestseller that reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. The author's groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs that cause significant harm to achieving full potential. The book provides breakthrough tools and techniques to conquer these Saboteurs, increase Positive Intelligence (PQ) dramatically, and access untapped mental powers. The book also offers practical applications, including team building, mastering workload, and improving work/life balance. Overall, the book is a great resource for anyone striving to achieve their full potential and lead a fulfilling life.

Do It: The Life-Changing Power of Taking Action by David Nurse is a self-help book that offers readers a proven solution to actualizing the life they long for. Nurse identifies nine reasons that hold people back from taking action and provides actionable tools to overcome personal roadblocks. The book is based on extensive research studies, the science of the heart and mind connection, and captivating examples throughout history. Through the nine archetypes, readers will learn profound lessons about themselves and come away with a newfound awareness of what holds them back. Overall, Do It is an inspiring and hands-on playbook that will help readers achieve extraordinary success by cultivating the life-changing habit of taking action.

I'm Not Yelling is a must-read for Black women navigating the workplace. Elizabeth Leiba provides statistical and anecdotal evidence to guide Black women in business to find their voices in toxic work environments and become successful business leaders. The book explores the experiences of racial inequity and discrimination at work for Black business women and provides strategies for racial trauma healing, emotional support, and business success. This work guide is a great addition to any collection of workplace culture books and is highly recommended for anyone looking to instill positive change in their workplace culture.

The New Model of Selling by Jeremy Miner and Jerry Acuff offers a fresh approach to selling in today's market. With traditional sales methods becoming increasingly ineffective, the authors provide advanced skills aligned with human behavior to succeed in sales. The book is not just another sales book with tips to read and forget. Instead, it reframes sales through the lens of neuroscience and persuasion, emphasizing problem-solving and personal connection. Jerry Acuff, one of the authors, has been named one of the top ten sales experts by Global Gurus for six consecutive years. Overall, The New Model of Selling is a must-read for anyone seeking serious success in sales.

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen is a must-read book for anyone who wants to lead a fulfilling life. Drawing from his experience as a leading thinker on innovation, Christensen offers lucid observations and penetrating insights on how to forge one's path to fulfillment. The book is spiritual without being preachy and is especially relevant for young people embarking on their careers. It is also useful for anyone who wants to live a more meaningful life in accordance with their values. It is a well-researched, thought-provoking, and genuinely helpful self-help book that is highly recommended.

I Love It Here by Clint Pulver is a book that offers insights on how to create a successful workplace culture that employees will love. The author, who is an Emmy Award-winning speaker, shares his experience of conducting thousands of undercover interviews with employees across the country. The book reveals the best methods for identifying talent, building a sense of ownership, and reducing employee turnover. The author's understanding of mentorship will shift the way you view leadership and change the way you gain the trust of those in your circle of influence. I Love It Here is a must-read for anyone seeking improvement in their life and business.

The Compound Effect (10th Anniversary Edition) by Darren Hardy is a must-read for anyone looking to achieve extraordinary success. The book offers practical strategies to eradicate bad habits, install key disciplines, and capture the elusive force of momentum. It also provides valuable insights into the real, lasting keys to motivation and the acceleration secrets of superachievers. With no gimmicks or hyperbole, the book reveals the core principles that drive success. Overall, The Compound Effect is a brilliant formula for living an extraordinary life.