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Strength in Numbers: Help Us Connect Every Coach To The Coaching Commons

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Published: July 30, 2010 under Archived Featured Articles

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We sense it. The frantic world needs coaching to come on strong.

People are past ready to make changes in their lives. Just watch CNN, observe the workplace, survey the marketplace. Freeze-frame time and look around. The time is right and ripe.

When people know more about what coaching can do, they’ll be lining up at your doors. Phones will be ringing in your pockets 24/7. Your diaries and calendars will be filled.

As your clients find their answers, the effect of the transformation will be seen, heard, felt – and more people will want to know how to make their own changes. As your clients begin to wake up, they’ll nudge and shake others awake.

That’s what we’ve been waiting for, isn’t it?  A groundswell of public awareness and an understanding of the power of coaching? For everyone who wants a coach to have one? To watch the world become a thriving, peaceful planet, populated with individuals who love their lives and feel deeply connected to all life?

It’s bound to happen.

My suggestion is that we make it happen NOW.

It’s time to connect and advance as a bold, global coaching movement. We’ll work out the glitches together, keep each other acutely informed, and firmly grasp that common goal. We’ll save valuable time if we move forward together.

Help us connect every coach to the Coaching Commons. 

The Commons will supply the breaking news, the international daily news, the platform for lively commentary on controversial issues, the latest research to boost ROI and coaching credibility, and contextual history about the roots of this unique profession.

One coach is a powerful agent of change. A million coaches moving forward together? That’s a whole NEW definition of “strength in numbers.”

About the Author

Linda Ballew heads up the 'Breaking News' section of The Coaching Commons and is Operational Team Lead to boot. Responsible for coordinating all mentions of coaching around the world each week, Linda truly has the pulse of coaching's place in popular culture. And with 20 years of experience in the nonprofit world behind her, we rely on Linda to be our glue.

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Vahedeh Varee on August 3, 2010

I loved reading this article Linda!

It is definitely time to use ALL the skills, knowledge, training and Passion of the coaches in the world to transform the world into a happy and peaceful world, where Everybody is at their Best.

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