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Editor’s Note: The rollercoaster global economy means the job market is more competitive. This week’s Chronicle offers a wide variety of coaching counsel addressing leading stressors in the workplace. For the first time, Britain is offering coaching to citizens living in public housing or claiming government benefits in order to help boost their confidence and motivation to find a job. In Ireland, job coaches are offering individuals practical assistance seeking employment and emotional assistance coping with a job loss. One London career coach advises carefully crafting a network of friends, colleagues and family members to increase progress in the job search. Another coach from the US suggests that accepting a pay cut may be the best and only choice for now. So is there a bright note this week? Certainly – Life coaches say add optimism and creativity: organize a to-do list with color or poetry, make a list of 100 (yes 100) things to be grateful for, and take a walk and breathe with nature, enjoying what the Japanese call ‚Äúforest bathing.”
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Executive/Business Coaching
Newly Unemployed? Your Coach Awaits
April 29, 2009, Irish Times – Dublin, Ireland
A new industry is springing up on the back of the thousands of people who have lost their jobs due to the recession. Courses advising people how to find work, how to cope with unemployment, and to how to keep their sanity while on the dole are proving very popular. Two such ‚Äújob coaches”, Clodagh Hughes and Nial O’Reilly, are offering free coaching to unemployed people as their contribution to get the country get back on its feet.
Lost Your Job, Boss? Join the Club
April 29, 2009, Times Online – UK
Thus, it is to support the region’s beleaguered business community that Mr Criddle has launched a kind of executive support package. The Metier passport scheme is a combination of career coaching, psychological support and networking opportunities. At ¬£3,000- ¬£4,000 a year it is not aimed at those on their uppers, but at top-level executives affected by the recession.
Your Office Coach: Adjusting to Different Management Styles
April 28, 2009, The Olympian – Olympia, WA, USA
Calmly explain you are worried about morale and feel your new manager could use some coaching. Offer examples of the business problems created by her leadership style. Suggest the HR manager talk with some other employees. Then wait and see what happens.
Career Coach: Go With the Flow and Accept the Pay Cut
April 26, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
Let me be clear: The world has changed. Salaries and benefits packages have fallen and that trend will continue as many companies reduce costs to stay afloat. You must get with the program and change your expectations. This is not the time to get rich, but a time to survive.
Put Me In, Coach
April 23, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Sharon’s journey to becoming an ‚Äúexecutive coach” began at a local church where everyone ‚Äúwould line up outside my door to ask my advice on team development, strategic planning, and how to develop their ministry and staff. I thought it would be really cool to help people bring more of who they are into the workplace, so I talked to people and found out about coaching.”
Coffee Break: Coach Says Entrepreneurship Not a Bad Idea
April 23, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
The economic downturn actually presents entrepreneurs and small-business owners with a variety of advantages like reduced competition and lower leases, according to Nick Cohron, a business and career coach in Summit.
When You’ve Set the Pattern With an Employee, You Have to Be Tough to Change It
April 21, 2009, InfoWorld – San Francisco, CA, USA
At the risk of sounding self-serving, sometimes executives like the ones you describe need someone from the outside to tell them what to do differently. In this case, I’d advise bringing in someone who can provide both strategic consulting and executive coaching: the strategic consulting to help these two understand what they need to do differently from an operational perspective, the executive coaching so that they understand how they need to behave differently to lead a larger organization.
Life Coaching
Life Coach to Help Jobless Londoners
April 27, 2009, This is London – London, England, UK
Unemployed Londoners are to be assigned a free “life coach” to help them find work. In the first scheme of its kind in Britain, people claiming benefits and living in social housing will be offered free therapy courses to improve their confidence and motivation to find a job.
Coaching: The Global Perspective
April 27, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
With a Global Convention on Coaching and key UK coaching bodies signing a ’statement of shared professional values’, 2008 seemed a ground breaking year for this emerging industry. The convention’s laudable desire was to establish more defined codes of ethics, standards of practice and qualifications within the coaching industry.
Lawrence Life Coach Offers To-Do List Tips
April 27, 2009, Lawrence Journal World – Lawrence, KS, USA
Train yourself to think that every task on your to-do list is something that you personally want to accomplish, rather than something you have to do. If you need to clean the house, don’t dwell on the chore; remember that you want the house to look nice, so that is why you are cleaning it.
Life Coach: Recommended Diet, Lifestyle Changes
April 26, 2009, Lansing State Journal – Lansing, MI, USA
Making diet and lifestyle changes will have long-term benefits on your health and your heart. These recommendations are from the American Heart Association.
6 Networking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
April 23, 2009, HarvardBusiness.org – Cambridge, MA, USA
If you were my coaching client, I would simply say: network, network, network. And yet among my clients, networking is often an underdeveloped skill.
Artists Use Life Coach to Beat Recession
April 23, 2009, Wimbledon Guardian – Cheam, England, UK
Europe’s largest collective of artists, huddled in a small annex of Wimbledon, are enlisting the help of a life coach to stave off the recession.
Niche Coaching
Communication Coach: Slackers Hit Chopping Block First in Lean Times
April 25, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
The people he wanted to let go were underachievers — people who just weren’t producing or carrying their weight. In fact, there was a list of employees whose names came up over and over again as people who were pulling down the firm.
Media coaching: Do the Hardest Thing First
April 22, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
I was just media coaching a woman who was in a major scuffle with the media due to a very controversial product that her company recently released. We were prepping for another equally controversial product that’s now on the market and she was scared out of her mind. Rightly so.
Life Coaching Blogs
Coaching ‚ÄúSafety Net” Questions – For When Your Mind Goes Blank
April 28, 2009, By Become A Certified Coach
Using a safety net question helps the flow of the coaching conversation, takes the pressure off the coach and puts the focus back where it belongs – on the client (as opposed to on ourselves and ‚ÄúWhat do I say next?”).
Manifesting Evolution in Consciousness: On Self-Compromise
April 27, 2009, By Sherry Bakhtian
Once again love, not having it, not recognizing it, and anything related to it has determined the course of our lives. When a coaching client comes to this point in their session, they are usually ready to acknowledge what exactly it is that they do want in a relationship.
Be Your Own Mentor: The Healing Power of Trees
April 27, 2009, By Karin Marcus
As a Life Coach and Retreat Leader, I have always thought of nature as an essential partner. My preferred method of one on one coaching of “Walk and Talks” is done outdoors.
The 4 Stages of Transition
April 27, 2009, By Shann Vander Leek
My talented and brilliant mentor coach, Deb Martin shared some valuable information with me awhile ago about the 4 stages of transition. This material along with my personal story have become a big part of the focus of my life coaching.
Qualities of a Good Coach
April 25, 2009, By MTI Coaching
It is very easy to advise people. All you need to do is look at his or her situation and come up with suggestions on how you think he or she will be able to improve it. But this is not the essence of coaching; coaching requires a relationship between the coach and the client wherein both are in the same place and move towards the same goal together.
Are You Grateful?
April 24, 2009, By Kelly Thorne
One of my favorite life coaching exercises to do with women is to help them create a list of at least 100 things (yes, I did just say – 100 things on a list) that they’re grateful for in their life.
Using an Online Dating Coach to Find Love, Happiness. and Even Find Your Soulmate
April 22, 2009, By Anything Personal
As an added benefit to the convenience of online dating, clients can also receive the services of an Online Dating Coach or ‚ÄúLove Coach” as we’re sometimes referred to by our clients.
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Sales Management: The Role of Coaching
April 27, 2009, By Ian Brodie
And finally, they need to understand not only what’s needed for their team’s roles: but also what is needed to continuously improve their sales management capabilities.
What Do Children Teach Us About Leadership?
April 27, 2009, By Andrew Bryant
Both Tasha and Nathan like to clap for themselves when they do something right and they both beam when Zurina and I give them praise. As a leadership consultant I know how important it is that I continue to praise even moderately good performance as research by Dr Ethna Reid shows that teachers who get the best results, validate regularly.
Did Christopher Columbus Have a Coach?
April 24, 2009, By Tom, SmartCompany.com
I’ve worked for a couple of coaching companies, OneCoach and TEC /Vistage, so I’ve seen how having a business coach in your corner can make a huge difference. I ran a faster marathon (and achieved one of my life goals) because I had a great coach, pushing me further than I might have gone on my own. But here’s the thing: You can actually coach yourself.
Books, Products, & Services
Inspiring Mother’s Day Gift is Full of Heart and Easy on the Wallet
April 26, 2009, PR.com (press release) – San Francisco, CA, USA
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Publicity Releases
JavaBlackBelt Adds Coaching to e-Learning in Breakthrough Java Courses
April 19, 2009, Emediawire (press release) – Brussels, Belgium
JavaBlackBelt, a global leader in Java learning and powered by over 50,000 developers in its global community, today announced the immediate availability of coached e-Learning for Java developers in Europe, North America, and India.
