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Hello from the UK! Carol Braddick will be stirring the pot on the topic of managing coaching. For starters, whoever thought we might need to "manage" coaching? Carol works as an Executive Coach and OD consultant through the Graham Braddick Partnership. She has been immersed in researching, writing and speaking about company practices in coaching for several years. Carol has worked in the field of people and organisational development for over 15 years, including with global firms such as Hewitt and Towers Perrin. Carol has completed the Fielding University Graduate Certificate in Evidence Based Coaching. Her professional development in executive coaching also includes programmes with Management Futures, Lore International Institute and Oxford Brookes University. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Pomona College and received her MBA in Finance from New York University. Originally from New York, Carol has also lived and worked in Latin America. Currently, she, her British significant other and their assorted pets live in a tiny village north of London with ample opportunities to step outside the world of coaching and enjoy countryside adventures and surprises.
What’s Your Coaching Style?
Let’s say you work in Human Resources (HR), interviewing coaches. You’d like to have a “pool” or short list of coaches to refer to your executives. You’d also like to give the execs a sense of a coach’s style, and find out from the exec what style he or she would work best with.
If [...]
Reach and Richness: Is Coaching Scaleable?
In the early days of the dot com boom, companies went up a steep learning curve of expanding reach (touching as many targets as possible) and richness (providing an experience that cultivates repeat business).
Coaching is facing the same scale dilemma: how to expand access to coaching (reach) while providing a rich coaching experience? [...]
Managing Coaching: Think Like a Customer
Who “manages” coaching?
In some large companies, there is an official Coaching Practice Manager. My fav title for this role, used in a voice mail greeting, was: Hi, this is XYZ….Global Focal Point for Coaching.
Although I enjoyed the voice mail greeting, Focal Point in the job title tells us something about what [...]
A Thread on “Managing Coaching”? Huh?
Of many super lines in Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (written by Jane Wagner, performed by http://www.lilytomlin.com/thesearch.htm) here’s the gist of a fav:
Whoever thought we would have so much quality that we would have to control quality? Have Quality managers?
You get what’s next…whoever thought we’d have so much coaching that [...]
