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UPDATE: Coaches Care Project Releases Report on Charitable Giving

“We fell short,” James Komosinski said about his Coaches Care Project and last June’s “Success Summit.” “We couldn’t muster enough of an audience to raise the funds we had hoped.”
According to a financial report released to the Coaching Commons, the Success Summit and other contributions

Mark Joyella | February 7th, 2010 | Continued

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ICF’s D’Alessio Promises “A New Beginning”

After months of divisive debate, a decision.
And some coaches believe, a distinctly new approach.
The ICF president, Giovanna D’Alessio, writing on the ICF blog that there would be no rush to replace the three-tiered credentialing system at the center of debate. “We acknowledge that all the input received helped us realize that there are areas of [...]

Mark Joyella | February 5th, 2010 | Continued

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Coaching History: Mary Beth O’Neill – Coaching With Backbone and Heart

A coach and consultant for over 20 years, Mary Beth O’Neill has a Master’s degree in Applied Behvioral Science with an emphasis in organizational development. O’Neill applies elements of classic organization development to executive coaching, including coach self-management, organization behavior, family and organization systems.
Her approach is based on having a results orientation to a leader’s [...]

Vikki Brock | February 4th, 2010 | Continued

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ICF to Keep 3-Tiered Credentialing System; ISO to Be “Revisited”

The single-credential concept is off the table–for now.
In a message posted on the International Coach Federation’s blog, ICF president Giovanna D’Alessio writes “the decision of the Board is to keep the existing 3-tier credentialing system in place until January 2012.” The decision follows months of discussion and debate and a contentious forum on the ICF’s [...]

Mark Joyella | February 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Why Doesn’t Every Coach In The World Have Their Own Coach?

I am frequently surprised when I meet coaches who don’t receive coaching themselves – coaches who don’t regularly jump into the passenger seat of coaching and engage as a client in the very process that they would normally facilitate for others.
To me, this is like a naturopath who eats McDonald’s, a stressed-out massage therapist or [...]

Kerryn Griffiths | February 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Celebrating 12 Years: International Coaching Week February 7 – 13, 2010

The purpose of International Coaching Week is to provide a week each year to educate the public about the value of working with a personal, business or executive coach and to provide an opportunity for coaches and their clients to acknowledge the results and progress made through the coaching process.
Coaches offer a variety of pro [...]

coachingcommonsadmin | February 1st, 2010 | Continued

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Growing a Coaching Business from a Part-Time to Full-Time Job

Kathy Stoddard Torrey started coaching five years ago, and she says in that time she’s struggled to make coaching a full-time job. “I’ve run across very few people who earn a living just coaching,” said Torrey, who supplements her own coaching income with consulting work and teaching. “It’s almost like athletes–there’s those few that are [...]

Mark Joyella | February 1st, 2010 | Continued

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Coaching History: 1996 Book – Coaching for Teamwork

Football great Vince Lombardi wrote Coaching for Teamwork – Winning Concepts for Business in the Twenty-First Century based on lessons from sports.  Presenting insights for a winning coach and a winning team, Vince captures the essence of the modern workplace and workforce.
According to Vince, coaches know they belong on the sidelines – that they can’t [...]

Vikki Brock | January 29th, 2010 | Continued

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Coaching Mind, Body and Spirit at the Cellular Level

John Burr’s passionate about his way of coaching–really, really passionate.
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As a motivational speaker for Fortune 500 companies and an Olympic gold medalist, I have seen what makes an individual most successful in the boardroom and on the slopes.
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It’s been nearly seven years since the sudden death of Thomas Leonard, the man universally known as “the father of modern coaching.”
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Coaching History: David Peterson – Executive Coach and Coaching Psychologist

David Peterson has been a coach since the 1980s.  In fact, he began writing his Ph.D. dissertation on coaching in 1987 and attended the Coaching Caucus, hosted by the precursor organization to the Professional and Personal Coaches Association (PPCA) in San Francisco, California in March 1994.
With Mary Dee Hicks, Peterson developed a coaching paradigm and [...]

21Jan2010 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
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Chris Hewett never intended to get into coaching.
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20Jan2010 | Mark Joyella | 2 comments | Continued
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“Warrior” Coaches

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18Jan2010 | Mark Joyella | 0 comments | Continued
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Coaching History: 1996 Book – Leader As Coach

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14Jan2010 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
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10Jan2010 | Mark Joyella | 12 comments | Continued
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Coaching Gay Men in the Workplace

Mark Strong says his life changed five years ago, when he hired a coach. “I had found some real success, but it wasn’t until I hired my own life coach in 2005 that I started to truly cross off every item on my ‘Wish List,’” he said.
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8Jan2010 | Mark Joyella | 2 comments | Continued
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7Jan2010 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
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6Jan2010 | Mark Joyella | 6 comments | Continued
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