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Editor’s Note: An old German proverb says ‚ÄúCharity sees the need, not the cause.” This week’s chronicle is about coaches recognizing the need. The New York Times reviews a new TV show designed to coach others on their love life. A UK life coach tries to help a reality TV star battle cancer, while another coach helps herself by writing a thank you letter to her heart. With layoffs looming large in the United States, an office coach tries to help a doctor regain his old job. Single and looking for love? One coach recommends learning to love yourself. This week, recognize the need, then give or find help.
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Executive/Business Coaching
Closing the Gap
February 17, 2009, Business Standard – Mumbai, India
One executive described how his company had narrowed the offering of corporate university ‚Äúcourses” and increased the coaching, training and developmental assignments tied directly to the daily work of the employee.
Laid Off, Left Behind or Looking?
February 15, 2009, Gazette Online – Solon, IA, USA
Lisa Van Allen, owner of Van Allen & Associates Personal and Business Coaching, says grieving the loss of a job is a natural reaction. “Allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling and give yourself time to go through the stages of grief that we associate with dying,” Van Allen said. “There certainly is a loss. You can’t repress these emotions because it’s not healthy.
Workplace Coach: In Tough Times, Lead — and Listen
February 15, 2009, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
As an executive coach, I always have my eye out for leadership “best practice” examples. The news often draws attention to the bad examples (such as the recent million-dollar office renovations and bonuses being awarded during Wall Street’s meltdown and subsequent government bailout). I want to share some positive examples from recent local news (and one from afar) that I believe we can learn from.
Office Coach: Fired Doctor Should Give Bosses an Injection of Enthusiasm
February 12, 2009, Arizona Daily Star – Tucson, AZ, USA
Describe your plans for the future and ask them to reconsider your termination. If an immediate reversal seems unlikely, see if they will give you an additional six months to prove yourself. At that point, they can review their decision again.
Life Coaching
Life Coach: Skin Care
February 16, 2009, Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Our panel of experts answers your questions on everything from skin care to school bullies and how to encourage parrots to talk.
A Little Direction
February 16, 2009, MassLive.com – Springfield, MA, USA
True Directions covers the gamut of career development issues: the company offers coaching and consulting to help professionals balance creative risk-taking and working towards the bottom line.
Weatherly Woman Aims to Help People as Life Coach
February 15, 2009, Citizen’s Voice – USA
At her most recent gathering, Colangelo hosted her first workshop in a series for women at the Dragonfly Cafe in Hazleton. Throughout the spring, summer, and fall, Colangelo plans to have more workshops. The goal of the workshops is to create a group of women in the Hazleton area who support and mentor one another about careers, major decisions and just daily life.
Charles Darwin, His Name is My Name Too
February 13, 2009, Dallas Observer – Dallas, TX, USA
I’ve been real thoughtful about my career choice — not because of my name, but because of who I am. The dynamics of natural selection play into that to the extent to that those whom I coach both formally through my practice and informally through my family could make choices that would have a negative impact on their lives.
Ten Questions: Personal Life Coach Kelly Thacker
February 12, 2009, Edinburgh Evening News – Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
(An interview with Kelly Thacker.) She is 28 and lives in Duddingston. She is a personal life coach and owner of Lust for Life Coaching.
Bournemouth Life Coach Helping Jade Goody Fight Cancer
February 10, 2009, Bournemouth Daily Echo – England, UK
A happiness and confidence coach from West Parley has been offering words of support to reality television star Jade Goody, who is battling cancer.
Life Coach: Releasing Worry
February 11, 2009, Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
Tyler began our session with, ‚ÄúToday we got news that one of the industry leaders in a similar market went out of business. The economy is changing and if you don’t change, you lose. I’m worried I might lose my job.”
Get “Unstuck” In Your Career and Personal Life
February 10, 2009, Park Record – Park City, UT, USA
Successful people have that desire to be wise stewards of their time, energy and resources in achieving great things. Unfortunately, we’re not all Great Gatsby’s. That’s why life coach Terry Sidford would like to help.
Love Yourself This Valentine’s
February 2009, Red Bluff Daily News – Red Bluff, CA, USA
There is no greater love that you can give than to genuinely love yourself. When you truly love yourself, all good things come your way. It is through developing the habit of self-love that you come to expect only the best for yourself and draw that to you.
President Barack Obama is Our First Life Coach
February 2009, BlackNews.com – Columbus, OH, USA
Barack Obama is the first person of color to be elected President of the United States of America. He is also one of the youngest, least partisan and most technologically savvy, and in my opinion he’s the first president to life coach the country.
Niche Coaching
Peer-to-Peer Coaching Provides Cost-Effective Aid to Firms, Associates
February 11, 2009, The American Lawyer – USA
Individual coaching can enhance the performance of a law firm and its top performers; however, the cost of providing it to every attorney in a law firm is prohibitive. Yet, coaching improves individual career development, accelerates culture change, improves organizational effectiveness and enhances personal productivity.
Offering a Helping Hand in Building a Love Life
February 9, 2009, New York Times – United States
With the aid of Fran Greene, identified as a ‚Äúflirting, dating and relationship coach,” he proceeds to try to turn Ms. Walker into a bar slut. They drill her in various flirting techniques popular in pickup joints: the hair toss; the sending of drinks to men spied across the room; a suggestive handshake that ought to require a masseuse’s license to administer.
Life Coaching Blogs
Hostility Kills
February 15, 2009, By Coaching Parents
Most of us don’t really know what our hearts do. We also don’t know what hostility is, much less how the two interact and influence our health. Such ignorance can prove fatal.
A Letter to My Heart
February 13, 2009, By Life Coaching for Women
As I wrote this post, I thought how strongly this letter drives home the importance of listening to your heart to create the life you desire. It is impossible to be fully comfortable in your own skin if you tune out what your heart is saying… so start tuning in today.
Happily Ever After?
February 13, 2009, By Karin Manske, Life Coach
One of my friends got married. After having being single for 20 something years she got married at age 68 and she was glowing and radiant with love and excitement.
The Holistic Nature of Coaching and Being Coached
February 13, 2009, By Susan
The student said that she’d heard a lot about the high-quality ways of living that many coaches had carved out for themselves. She wanted to know if that was the “real deal,” or just a legend floating around the virtual halls of Coach U.
Interviews in Creativity: Jennifer Lee
February 12, 2009, By LifeDev
Today’s interview is with life coach Jennifer Lee. When did you decide to do creative work professionally? JL: I’ve always been creative and crafty. During my corporate career, I used my spare time to sell some book arts and explore how to better integrate creativity with coaching.
Here is Why I’d Be a Good Life Coach
February 10, 2009, By Brad Flory
Declining fortunes of the newspaper industry force a man in my position to make a fallback plan for a new career. I want to be a life coach. Life coaching is a wide-open market not even listed in the Jackson phone book between “Lie Detection” and “Lift Gates.”
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Business Coaching: Coaches Are Not Just For Sports
February 17, 2009, By Gabriel Adams
A business coach is used to help a person make their business process more successful. Do not confuse a business coach with a consultant, because a consultant is usually brought in for advice on a single project, or a few similar projects.
Executive Coaching Can Help You Greatly
February 17, 2009, By Bartt Iccles
These four themes cry for personal attention of an experienced business coach. When a company hires a business coach, he has the opportunity to step back and look at things from a different angle.
Harvard Business Review on Executive Coaching
February 16, 2009, By Ed Batista
Harvard Business Review’s Diane Coutu and Carol Kauffman surveyed 140 executive coaches (including Rebecca Zucker, who gave me some great advice when I made my own transition into coaching), and they’ve generated a set of resources from the data that both coaches and clients will find useful.
The CIO’s Coach: It’s No Longer Business As Usual
February 16, 2009, By Kim Batson
With these unchartered and rapidly changing times, the global economic collapse and huge numbers of layoffs at all levels and industries, it takes a radically new mindset to gainfully and quickly secure your next position.
What are the Benefits of Coaching to the Organization?
February 15, 2009, By Maria
One constant in coaching is that it is focused purely on enabling people to consistently improve their performance. It creates the opportunity for each client to bring more of their potential into reality for the benefit of both the individual and the organization.
Publicity Releases
How to Attract Your Ideal Client
February 14, 2009, RisMedia.com (press release) – Norwalk, CT, USA
Have you clearly defined the qualities of your ideal clients? In coaching people for the last 30 years, I have found that most people are fuzzy when it comes to knowing who they really most desire to work with.
Small Business Coaching Trio Unveils MarketingActionClub.com
February 13, 2009, Newswire Today (press release) – Leawood, KS, USA
The site includes free marketing articles, marketing resources, a marketing blog, free marketing video tips, and much more for anyone wishing to join the membership side of the site. Members gain full access to a complete, step-by-step marketing course, a members’ only forum, monthly marketing teleclasses and live coaching calls, as well as a marketing resource library.
Robertson Lowstuter Expands Executive Coaching Team
February 10, 2009, Marketwire (press release) – Chicago, IL, USA
Privately held Robertson Lowstuter, a leader in coaching, developing, and transitioning executives, is pleased to announce that Stephen Axel, Pat Mater, and Barbara Hancock Annin have been added to its executive coaching team.
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Thank you for including my post “A Letter to My Heart” in your roundup. I look forward to surfing through some of your other selections !
I like what you want to say, but I would like to say that it all depends on the person who is getting the benefit of consultants and coaches, because both are different. A coach always thinks for your betterment, but a consultant can have different thinking….