EMCC Introduces Coaching Accreditation It Calls “The Benchmark”

In a drive to corner the market on “coaching credibility,” the European Mentoring and Coaching Council has announced the European launch of what it describes as the “first research based coaching certification,” known as the European Individual Accreditation (EIA).
“We’re excited to contribute with a qualification of this level and credibility for the coaching and mentoring [...]

Executive Coaching: Measuring (and Communicating) ROI

Researchers in Norway recently set out to answer an enduring question: does coaching (in this case, executive coaching) really work?
The Dutch researchers looked at 144 executives and middle managers at a Fortune 500 company and found that yes, coaching makes a difference.
It can even, they wrote, “transform” performance on the job.  ”Findings indicate that there [...]

Coaching Teachers at Troubled Schools Without Playing the Blame Game

In coaching—as in comedy—it’s often all about the timing.
As the recent decision to fire the entire staff at an underperforming high school in Rhode Island has sparked a fiery debate over how best to improve failing schools, IAC president Bob Tschannen-Moran is releasing a new book and training method focused on coaching teachers and improving schools [...]

Research Update: Coaching Guides Cancer Survivors to Better Health

Most coaches would argue passionately that coaching changes lives. But does coaching save lives?
New research suggests wellness coaching may make significant strides for recovering cancer patients, putting them on track for healthier, longer lives. “We are excited about our initial results,” said Dr. Mary Lou Galantino, a professor at Stockton College and Adjunct Research Scholar at [...]

Coaching Olympians and CEOs

This week, the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team made Olympic history, winning a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Games. The team broke a nearly 90 year streak without winning a single medal–and this year, they’ve won two. “There’s a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction,” said Tom Steitz, a coach who’s worked with the [...]

IT Business Edge: Coaching Makes Employees More Productive

February 23, 2010 – IT Business Edge – USA

If there’s one thing millennial employees want, it’s professional guidance. That message came through loud and clear when I interviewed Lisa Orrell, author of the book “Millennials Incorporated” and a consultant who works with companies to educate their executive leaders and management teams on how to better recruit, manage and retain millennial talent. She told me:

“The great thing about millennials is they are very open to coaching and training. Some older generations have a strong aversion to it. But millennials are like, ‘Teach me, train me, coach me anywhere you can. I want as much guidance as I can get.’ The more companies realize this and address it with this generation, the better.”

Coaching is important for older employees, too. A silicon.com article cites an International Personnel Management Association study that found ordinary training typically boosted productivity by 22 percent, while training combined with coaching increased productivity by 88 percent.

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ICF’s D’Alessio: Restoring Trust Is Top Priority

The ICF’s message to its member coaches: we hear you—all of you. “I’ve received incredibly good feedback,” said Giovanna D’Alessio, the ICF’s president. “It was a really good gift for us.”
The gift—delivered in person and in blunt fashion at the ICF’s annual conference in Orlando last December—involved not just the hugely discussed proposal to change [...]

Coaching Associations: Collaborate, Cooperate, or Compete in 2010?

Coaching is on the move—growing and expanding—and, increasingly, the world’s dominant coaching associations are working together to ensure that growth continues.
“There is an increasing recognition that coaching is the most personalized and effective tool to develop human potential,” wrote the ICF’s president Giovanna D’Alessio and president-elect Ed Modell. “In five to ten years’ time, the [...]

Using Coaching to Close the Gap Between Remote Workers and Managers

It’s common for coaches to work from home.
But increasingly, some of the world’s biggest corporations are saving money by allowing employees to telecommute—by one 2009 estimate, 34 million Americans work at least some of the time from home—and researchers at Forrester predict 43 percent of US workers will telecommute at least some of the time [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]