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Editor’s Note: Work, work, work! Find a better way to deal with workplace issues, get better at the job you have, get a better job, better not settle for just being good at your job, better start a business. Seriously? Coaches from Canada to Hong Kong, from the US to the UK to South Africa are writing, reporting, being interviewed and blogging about the nail-biting, adrenalin-pumping career challenges of 2009. When a coworker receives unfair promotions and favors from management, one business coach recommends bringing it to a boss’ attention in a calm and collected manner. How can a young professional fresh out of college communicate that they’re worth hiring? One executive coach’s book may have some timely answers. Need coaching in a business specialty? This week’s chronicle offers help for a handyman franchise owner, unemployed attorneys, writers, nurses, bloggers and even co-dependent coaches. All work and no play? Of course not. Smile (or laugh) as singer John Mayer plays life coach this week in a post on his Twitter account.
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Executive/Business Coaching
Business Coaches Help Owners, Bosses, Employees Succeed
April 6, 2009, The Tennessean – Nashville, TN, USA
When Hadley Hurford Jr. decided his home repair company needed to grow, he didn’t add an extra handyman to his staff. Instead, Hurford hired a business coach. With the help of Hendersonville-based coach Mike Hedge, Hurford plotted how his Mr. Handyman franchise could grow from $600,000 in annual revenues to $2 million and from employing four handymen to as many as 20.
High Spirits + Energy = Better Job Search
April 3, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
In my previous article I shared ten tips for tending to your career in a down economy. As we continue to struggle through these uncertain times, I’d like to focus on the last point I raised‚Äîthe importance of staying positive.
Career Coach in Demand
April 2, 2009, Agoura Hills Acorn – CA, USA
Tough times call for action. In today’s job market, potential employees must give themselves every edge they can. Dr. Ian Rosen of Applied Development Solutions in Oak Park is a career coach who prefers to focus on the present and future rather than the past, and on identifying and working toward overcoming barriers to a person’s career success.
Do You Want to Make a Life or Make a Living?
April 2, 2009, National Post – Toronto, ON, Canada
The silent killer for the inner spirit is being a slave to obligations, while not feeding our inner purpose. While answering the call to duty for family, boss and company may be laudable, continual neglect of our own inner development and spirit will produce resentment, anger, regret, boredom and apathy. And then you can serve no-one honestly. As a professional executive coach, I have worked with hundreds of people in all walks of life and careers, with a focus on these questions: “what should I do with my life?” and “what should I do for a living?”
Life Coaching
How Successful Executives Can Up Their Game Plan
April 7, 2009, Dispatch Online – South Africa
At that point in their career, with all eyes on them, there is added pressure on executives to excel. This is when they might want to up their game plan and develop their skills to make them even more valuable to their employer. This is where Carita McCallum comes in. McCallum is a life coach who helps successful executives to achieve their goals in life.
How Coaching Can Change Your Life for the Better
April 7, 2009, Glasgow Daily Record – Glasgow, Scotland, UK
For many of us, these turbulent times have meant having to make some big decisions about our future. Most of us do our best to muddle through by ourselves, taking advice only from those closest to us. But more and more people are turning to professional life coaches for help as they reach a crossroads.
The Co-Dependent Coach
April 6, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Is your client starting to depend on you for solutions? The issue of dependency is one of the moral dilemmas of coaching. Particularly in today’s difficult market, if you’ve promoted yourself successfully, passed through the vetting stage and contracted with a coachee, it can be tempting to continue with this person, rather than having to go through the whole rigmarole again with someone else. It may be easier, but it’s unethical, if you’re prolonging the relationship for your benefit not the client’s.
John Mayer, Life Coach
April 3, 2009, OK! Magazine – New York, NY, USA
Though it was only a week ago that John Mayer declared that writing on micro-blogging site Twitter.com is “inherently silly and inherently dumb,” that didn’t stop Jennifer Aniston’s on-off-on-off boy-toy from waxing a bit philosophical on his Twitter page recently.
Friendship Leads to New Business
April 3, 2009, Aberdeen Press and Journal – Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
‚ÄúWe’d both often found ourselves offering our confidential advice and reassurance to others, and then receiving a lot of positive feedback from those we supported,” said Ally. And now – nine years after first forging their friendship at Aberdeen University – the two women are harnessing their natural skills with Stepping Stones Life Coaching.
Life Coaches Named for April 23 Mini-Retreat
April 2, 2009, The Coloradoan – Fort Collins, CO, USA
Many of us wonder if we are on the “right” path. Especially during tumultuous times like these, we consider making changes in our personal or professional life. We wonder if we are headed in the right direction, what else might be out there for us, and how we can explore options and find answers. Joan King and her cadre of professional coaches can help!
Each of these coaches has been personally selected by Dr. King, and each has built a distinguished career helping others. Each has the education, experience, insight and training to help you transform your personal and professional life.
Life Coach: It’s the Only Job for Me
April 1, 2009, Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
Coaching challenge: The next time you are frustrated with someone, ask yourself these questions: What is my part in this situation? What options do I have? How can I manage my feelings through this situation? The person you have the most influence over is you, which is a great place to start.
Faydra Rector-Sargent: People Change as They Grow
April 2009, Red Bluff Daily News – Red Bluff, CA, USA
People are always changing and evolving. If you put all of your investment in assuming how they will respond to life, you may not get much of a return. What’s more, if your assumptions are always negative or cynical, you may be in for an even bigger surprise.
Chiswick Life Coach Says ‘Eureka Moment is Incredible’
March 31, 2009, Hounslow Guardian – UK
He said: “It’s incredibly simple but so effective.”The job satisfaction has been incredible – seeing that eureka moment when people recognise the problem that has been stopping them.”
Find a New Job in Retirement
March 31, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Life coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Transition coaches are the latest expression of personal coaching and usually help people retire. They use exercises, readings and other methods to help clients identify their goals and strategies to meet them.
Niche Coaching
SCORE ‚ÄòSpeed Coaching’ Event April 30
April 3, 2009, New Hampshire Business Review – Manchester, NH, USA
Small-business owners who are seeking good business advice – and fast — should consider attending the Small Business Speed Coaching event on April 30 in Concord, NH.
Life Coaching Blogs
Secrets to Getting the Top Salary of a Life Coach: Business Coaching Certification the Coaching Schools Don’t Understand
April 6, 2009, By Jeffrey T. Sooey
There is one secret technique to getting top salary of a life coach that isn’t based upon the ability to psychoanalyze your client, or have some great ‚Äòintuition’. You can’t learn this skill with some business coaching certification, nor can you produce great results without it (unless you get top salary of a life coach simply because you are a guru already).
Writing Instructor vs. Writing Coach – Which Do You Really Need?
April 6, 2009, By Suzanne Lieurance
But generally, a writing coach works with a person (or persons) who knows the mechanics of the type of writing he wants to write, but he has trouble staying on track. The writing coach’s client needs help with specific strategies to develop a focus for his writing (and perhaps even for his writing career) and then comes to the coach seeking additional help maintaining that focus.
6 Things I Secretly Hope are Included in Life Coaching
April 5, 2009, By I Hate My Message Board
On Tuesday I have my first session with Tim Brownson! It was tremendously generous of him to agree to coach me and based on what I’ve read from other bloggers he’s coached, it’s going to be a very valuable experience. Now, I know a bit of what to expect based on these blogs, especially Jay Frawley’s Inner Noodle series, but there were a few things that weren’t mentioned that I secretly hope are included.
You’re Just a Dreamer
April 4, 2009, By Blessed With Full Hands
One of the things I do “on the side” is life coaching. I do it more as a ministry and I do not actively advertise. My full time job of being a mom to three boys does not allow me to do it any more than a little. But, when I meet with a life coaching client, I love it.
Sadness = An Opportunity to Create
April 4, 2009, By Creativity Coach Sherrie
Don’t take this the wrong way, and certainly don’t let sadness rule your life, but don’t rule it out either! If you don’t sort through the feelings of pain, they’re just going to linger and may even get worse.
Luv Coach Q&A: Frustrated with Marriage
April 2, 2009, By Rebecca Brody
You may feel like life is suffocating and you may feel trapped, but neither one of those is true. You have given up the position of financial provider for your family, and in the process, it seems that you have forgotten that you are the provider of everything else.
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Business Coaching – A Growing Trend
April 6, 2009, By Organic Blueprints
One of the biggest trends in the business world is to seek Business Coaching. Retaining a Business Coach doesn’t mean your business is failing or that you necessarily have a problem to solve. Instead, Business Coaching is often used by business owners to create a collaborative opportunity to review ideas and create structure for improving their businesses, management style and professional skills.
Business Coaching in Challenging Times
April 6, 2009, By Carole Davidson
It has become apparent that not only is the global economy in crisis but
those in leadership positions have been exposed and shown an inadequacy
of coping techniques.
Dealing with Favoritism at Work: Golden Boy/Girl Syndrome
April 4, 2009, By Powerful Mind Coaching
I call it ‚ÄúGolden Boy/Girl Syndrome”: Someone you work with in your office has been singled out by your boss as exceptional and deserving of special consideration and, perhaps, additional perks and compensation you and your co-workers do not receive. As totally and incredibly aggravating as the Golden Boy/Girl Syndrome is, and justifiably so, your primary job is to take care of yourself and your own career.
8 Questions with Tim Besse Co-Founder of Glassdoor.com
April 3, 2009, By Seattle Interview Coach
Q: When I think about Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter, its users have come up with creative ways to use the core software. Has the Glassdoor community created anything unique with functionality or data?
A: Our mission is to become the world’s most trusted source for helping people make informed decisions about their work. We really are unique in the type of content that’s available and the functionality of the site, which we designed to help people engage with one another to improve discussions in and around the workplace.
‚ÄúWork On Your Business, Not In It.” Huh?
April 2, 2009, By Angus Gordon
If you’ve never heard the motto ‚ÄúWork on your business, not in it”, then you probably haven’t spent much time hanging around business coaches, or fans of the various iterations of Michael Gerber’s E Myth. If you own a business, you shouldn’t be spending your time doing the day-to-day things that keep the business ticking over (“working in your business”). Instead, you should hire, outsource or automate these tasks, and concentrate instead on the ‚Äúbig picture” strategic tasks that will make your business bigger, more scalable, more efficient, more saleable down the track, and so on (“working on your business”).
Books, Products, & Services
New Book Helps Up-and-Coming Professionals Discovers the Keys to Workplace Success
April 6, 2009, Emediawire (press release) – Nashville, TN, USA
As the state of the economy declines and unemployment rates skyrocket, recent college graduates and young professionals, managers, and leaders need tools to help them become strong contenders in a competitive job market. Executive Coach and Leadership Development Executive, Charles I. Story, uncovers key tactics to career success and more in his debut book release, “Success in Your Pocket or Purse: Its More Than Who You Know”.
Publicity Releases
2009 Coaching Roundtable Series Kicks Off in Hong Kong with Coaching Executive Women
April 7, 2009, NewsReleaseWire.com – Hong Kong, China
As women executives expand their roles in the business world, they continue to encounter specific challenges as their careers develop. Human Factor International created the Coaching Executive Women program to address issues facing women executives and to provide an opportunity for networking and learning with key thought leaders and senior business executives.
New Coaching Program Helps Charge Nurses Develop Leadership Skills
April 4, 2009, PR Web (press release) – Lenexa, KS, USA
As the frontline leaders on a hospital unit, charge nurses make a tremendous impact on financial outcomes. B. E. Smith has a unique leadership development program that sends a tenured nurse executive coach into the work environment to teach charge nurses the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving healthcare climate.
Nearly 600 Entrepreneurs Gathered at InfusionCon 2009
April 2009, PR-USA.net (press release) – Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Infusionsoft also unveiled the new Double Your Sales Coaching Program exclusively to event attendees. The business coaching program was officially announced today and is open to all entrepreneurs, regardless of whether or not they use Infusionsoft’s technology.
Executive Coaching Helps De-Stress Leaders, Builds Employee Stability
March 31, 2009, PRNewswire (press release) – Rockville, MD, USA
At a time of economic uncertainty, executive coaching helps companies survive and thrive, says executive coach Laurie Hackett-Maddalena.
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