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Written by CBraddick

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More