Archive for Vikki Brock
Dr. Vikki Brock, MCC, is Team Lead for the one-of-a-kind Virtual Museum of Coaching here at The Coaching Commons. Based on interviews about the evolution of coaching with over 175 coaching 'influencers' she also contributes mightily to our Coaching Hall of Fame. Though some may consider 'The History of Coaching' a dry topic, Vikki believes 'the roots determine the fruits' and promises the museum won't be a stuffy place. Vikki is also the only executive and leadership coach we know who supports clients from a 50 foot sailboat named Cuidado, moored in Ventura, California next to the Channel Islands National Park.
Coaching History: James Flaherty
James Flaherty, along with Julio Olalla and Rafael Echevarria, was a student of Fernando Flores and took his work and influence, merged it with their own work, and created New Ventures West in 1986 and Newfield Network in 1990 respectively.
Each played a major role in the development of ontological coaching, which involved working with clients using [...]
Coaching History: 1996 Book – ASTD Trainer’s Sourcebook COACHING
Written by the late Dennis Kinlaw, The ASTD Trainer’s Sourcebook COACHING – Create Your Own Training Program, includes customizable training designs and fully reproducible workshop materials. This book was published as part of an open-ended series where all materials are open-source, and can be reproduced or modified without constraint.
The purpose of coach training is to [...]
Coaching History: Cheryl Richardson – Personal Development Guru
Cheryl Richardson, in her own words, “had been working as a tax consultant in the late 1980s, specializing in small business development, and she discovered that a lot of life planning questions and issues would come up as a result of that work.” She joined Coach University in 1992 and soon afterward changed careers.
The first president of the [...]
Coaching History: 1996 Book – Coaching, Mentoring, and Managing
The first edition of Coaching, Mentoring & Managing: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Performance Problems and Build Winning Teams was published by Micki Holliday in 1996, with a second edition in 2001.
Written as a management resource, this manual includes practical techniques to coach employees to become more productive, positive, inspired, and effective.
Presenting a trademarked StaffCoach Model, the word [...]
Coaching History: Frederic Hudson and Pamela McLean
Frederic Hudson is a Rockefeller and Danforth fellow, and earned his doctorate from Columbia University in New York.
In 1973 he was founding president of the Fielding Institute of Santa Barbara, a learning organization whose mission was providing graduate degrees to midlife adults through an innovative self-directed learning model that embraced the intersection of change and [...]
Coaching History: 1996 Book – Sales Coaching
Linda Richardson published “Sales Coaching – Making the Great Leap From Sales Manager to Sales Coach,” as a brief and concise book covering the fundamentals, nuances, and tools needed for moving from boss to coach.
The key was how to create a sales coaching culture steeped with developmental coaching, as a part of every day contact.
Linda looks [...]
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 [...]
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, Lombari captures the essence of the modern workplace and workforce.
According to Lombardi, coaches know they belong on the sidelines – that they can’t [...]
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 [...]
Coaching History: 1996 Book – Leader As Coach
Written by David Peterson and Mary Dee Hicks, Leader as Coach – Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others states clearly that coaching and development are not optional, in fact they are a competitive edge. This book is for leaders who want to lead their people and organization to greater productivity and success.
Peterson and Hicks identify five high-impact [...]
Mike Jay – Coaching Innovator
Mike Jay’s contribution to coaching is stirring the pot, identifying what is missing, and creating innovation.
Mike Jay was working as an independent consultant in 1988 when an individual wanting coaching approached him and said he heard that Mike was the person who could help him achieve what he wanted to do.
Thus began Mike’s entrance into coaching from the field [...]
1997 Book – Simply Live it Up
Written by Teri-E Belf with the support of writer Charlotte Ward, the brief solutions identified in this book are the creations of Results Unlimited (Jinny Ditzler, founder; Graham Alexander, co-owner; Ben Cannon and Sally Hedges coaches), a UK form that certified Teri-E in 1988 to do Success Coaching.
This book is a coaching book, without the [...]
Coaching History: David Clutterbuck and David Megginson – European Coaching and Mentoring
David Megginson and David Clutterbuck co-founded the European Mentoring Council in 1992. In 2002 they expanded the organization’s menu to include coaching, changing the name to the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Originally a United Kingdom based association, in 2005 the EMCC became European-wide.
1995 Book – Development First
Written in 1995 by David B. Peterson and Mary Dee Hicks, Development First is a companion volume to Leader as Coach: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others by the same authors. Published by Personnel Decisions International, this book identifies a five step process for self-development.
The five steps include:
Focus on priorities: Identify your critical issues and [...]
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1994 Book – The Career Coach
Written by Carol Kleiman in 1994, The Career Coach provides inside tips to getting and keeping the job you want. According to this book, the career coach gives guidance and inside information to help readers win the right job and have a successful professional life.
Throughout the book there are coach’s tips, which are more like [...]
Eva Wong – More About China’s Key Coaching Influencer
Eva Wong pioneered coaching in China from the mid-1990’s. At the time, according to Catherine Ng, coaching was “viewed as a Western management tool.” According to Wong herself, the mission of her company, Top Human, was “to help China . . . [by] expanding the ability of people to communicate differently within their cultures.”
Chinese born [...]
1995 Book – The Team Coach
Published by the American Management Association in 1995, this book by Donna Deeprose provided new skills for supervisors and managers working in a team environment. This book begins with a look at the revolution of using teams in the workplace and their supervisors making the transition to coach.
Self-directed work teams (SWDT) are named as the [...]
Julio Olalla
Julio Olalla (1945 – ) was a lawyer in Chile for the Allende government before he was exiled and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1978. In California he met and worked with Fernando Flores, the founder of ontological coaching.
In 1990, Olalla co-founded the Newfield Group with Rafael Echevarria for the [...]
Virginia Satir – Coaching the Family System
Virginia Satir (1916 – 1988), a psychotherapist, was best known for her work with family systems. Her contributions to coaching were many and included the concept of the “presenting issue.” This concept was that the surface problem was seldom the real problem – it was the way people coped with the issue that created [...]
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1995 Book – Masterful Coaching
Written by Robert Hargrove, this was the first coaching book I discovered after entering the coaching field in 1995.
Based on the stewardship, internal commitment and learning model, Hargrove looks at the role of leadership as building a shared vision, empowering and inspiring commitment, encouraging team reflection and learning to make better decisions, and coaching people [...]
The Coaching Hall of Fame – Nominations Open Here
What is The Coaching Hall of Fame?
It’s a virtual place here at the Coaching Commons where key influencers, leaders, and contributors to the coaching field are recognized and honored. Most of the names listed here so far came from my Ph.D. research into the emergence and evolution of coaching.
Some Hall of Fame individuals are from related
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1995 Book – Everyone’s A Coach
Co-authored by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula in 1995, Everyone’s A Coach was a Business Week bestseller when published. Providing five business secrets for high-performance coaching, Blanchard (author of The One-Minute Manager) and Shula (led Miami Dolphins to five Super Bowl appearances and named 1993 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated) share their [...]
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