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Editor’s Note: With the recent accusations surrounding Illinois Governor Blagojevich back-room dealings and New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Buress’ ill-fated gun possession, controversy and scandal are all over the news. As this week’s Chronicle of Coaching shows, the coaching industry is not immune from creating a little controversy of its own. The United Kingdom’s Home Secretary drew attention for spending ¬¨¬£2000 in taxpayer money on executive coaching sessions, while an elementary school principal is given a coach and leadership courses… at a hefty cost to the public. At Planned Parenthood’s branch in Indiana, a nurse was suspended for giving ‘abortion coaching’ to a presumed 13-year old. One coach thinks he has a way to weed out athletes prone to creating controversy before they enter the league. An executive coach says he has the solution for businesses to come out ahead during a global recession: spend, spend, spend. Have a fantastic mid-December week! ~ Alex Goldsmith
The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, designed to show where and how coaching appears in the popular culture worldwide. It is not intended to be a summary service nor a news roundup, although it may serve that purpose for some readers. The Chronicle is new each Thursday morning. Compiled and edited by Alex Goldsmith, Linda Ballew, and Ruth Ann Harnisch.
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Executive/Business Coaching
Business Incubator Offers Part-Time Deals
December 9, 2008, New Hampshire Business Review – Manchester, NH, USA
The Amoskeag Business Incubator has created an affiliate member program for small-business owners who need professional services on a part-time basis. If affiliate members decide to upgrade their membership to full status, they can receive additional services, such as taking priority when permanent office space becomes available as well as the use of technical assistance, business coaching and support from the incubator’s business experts committee.
Think Outside the Box
December 8, 2008, Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
If small businesses want to do more than just survive the economic downturn, it can’t be simply a case of business as usual, says small business coach and consultant Robert Gerrish.
Team Coaching: Dispensing With the Me, Myself and I
December 8, 2008, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Team coaching not only enables the performance potential of a team to be fulfilled but also increases a team’s capacity for self-sustaining development. Well that’s the theory anyhow. And there has never been a more important time for teams to work effectively and efficiently to pull together and work through the downturn.
How Businesses Can Benefit From the Recession
December 8, 2008, Henley Standard – Henley, UK
In my business coaching practice, my clients have managed to ensure their management systems and controls are in good health. They will definitely be the first to benefit from the recovery. Combined with disciplined and judicious investment in marketing (advertising, sales, etc.) they have a serious competitive edge.
Minister’s ‘Training to be Leader’ Costs ¬¨¬£2000
December 6, 2008, UK Express – UK
The under-pressure Home Secretary underwent six sessions of “executive coaching” since taking up her role in June 2007. Her lessons are understood to have included dealing with stress and voice training.
Family and Office Roles Mix
December 3, 2008, New York Times – United States
‚Äö√Ñ√∫Work is nothing more than an entirely complex set of relationships,‚Äö√Ñ√π said Michael W. Norris, a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, who runs monthly leadership coaching groups and individual sessions with senior executives. ‚Äö√Ñ√∫You have partners that are your equals, subordinates, superiors,‚Äö√Ñ√π Mr. Norris said. ‚Äö√Ñ√∫It’s parents and siblings. All of these dynamics that are exactly the same in the workplace, just the titles are different.‚Äö√Ñ√π
Companies Benefit From Managers Who Coach With Emotional Intelligence
December 4, 2008, American Chronicle – Beverly Hills, CA, USA
In the current climate of economic uncertainty, it is critical to have managers that possess emotionally intelligent (EI) management skills to keep employees focused on their assignments in spite of the stress that surrounds them. It is often said that your manager can “make or break you”.
Solve More Problems than You Create
December 2008, Reliable Plant Magazine – Tulsa, OK, USA
As a leader, you need to make numerous decisions every day. Some decisions may appear monumental, while others are seemingly trivial. No matter what kind of decisions you face daily, you certainly want to make sound choices that eliminate problems rather than create them.
Life Coaching
Coaching Alafia Principal Could Cost District Thousands
December 8, 2008, Tampa Tribune – Tampa, FL, USA
Now retired, the longtime educator is serving as a mentor and coach for Smith at the suggestion of a 16-member school effectiveness assessment team sent to review the school after Alafia parents complained about Smith’s leadership skills.
How to Get the Right People on Your Team
December 7, 2008, Lifehacker – San Diego, CA, USA
If you’re not ready to hire a professional coach, then get yourself someone who will help keep you accountable to set and hold to your new goals. This new model of peer-to-peer coaching is priceless, especially for people outside the traditional corporate environments like entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Words of Compassion
December 7, 2008, Jamaica Gleaner – Kingston, Jamaica
Morris was the life coach and London-trained neuro-linguistic therapist who was to change her life. That day in the bank, she suggested to Martin that a special brand of counselling would help her to see life in a different light and help her to achieve the goals she really wanted for herself and her children.
Happiness Increases Longevity…Where Do We Find This Gift of Life?
December 7, 2008, By Compu-Poker Blog
Coaching identifies core values, personal strengths and obstacles blocking people’s happiness and provides the forum for planning and carrying out a plan to create desired results. Unlike therapy, it focuses on co-creating a desired future based upon the person’s natural abilities and skills.
A Life Coach and Career Consultant
December 5, 2008, Bizjournals.com – Charlotte, NC, USA
Bemiller walked away from the world of a steady paycheck and poured her education and professional experience into forming her own business, RLB Coaching and Career Consulting in 2007. The business combines her intricate understanding of human resources and her background in psychology to assist clients with everything from resume preparation to interviewing techniques, though she says her passion is the work she does as a life and career coach.
Niche Coaching
Budget Coaching Pays Big Benefits Susan Campbell
December 9, 2008, Hartford Courant – United States
Coelho at least learned financial responsibility at her job as vice president/relationship management at Prudential Retirement. And last year she became a volunteer budget coach with Co-opportunity Inc., a Hartford-based nonprofit that helps move working families toward economic stability.
Video Captures Abortion Coaching
Washington Times – Washington, DC, USA
Planned Parenthood of Indiana has suspended a nurse after the release of an undercover videotape showing her coaching a supposed 13-year-old on how to duck Indiana’s laws about parental consent on abortion and the reporting of child sex abuse.
Life Coaching Blogs
The Sky is Falling… The Sky is Falling…
December 7, 2008, By joyceleelifecoach
Now… being a Law of Attraction Life Coach, I generally keep up on current events, but I do not spend my time listening to the endless doom and gloom reports that depress and scare everyone. I know that the world is better served by my energy being positive and centered and healthy.
Grow Your Business and Fight the Recession with Life Coaching
December 7, 2008, By Christina Helwig
After spinning my wheels trying to accomplish some major goals in my life, I finally bit the bullet and hired a life coach. The changes I have seen lately have completely blown my mind. My coach has helped me in ways I never thought possible to expand my business and create real wealth in my life.
Life Coaching in the Workplace
December 6, 2008, By Steve Uhlenbrock
A growing number of savvy executives in the USA and UK are negotiating a life coach as part of the salary package. They believe a weekly or fortnightly session with someone who can enhance their professional performance is just as an attractive salary, company car, gym membership or private pension plan.
Lessons from a Life Coach – What My Clients Have Taught Me
December 6, 2008, By sarahf
As a life coach, I have the greatest job in the world. Just like athletes have personal trainers to help them achieve their best, I’m a personal trainer for the soul.
The Top 5 Reasons You Should Have a Coach
December 6, 2008, By playmp3
You have a coach for sports, for personal training at the gym, why wouldn’t you have a coach for something as important as managing your life. Many people do not exactly know what life coaching is. Simply put, it is having someone that guides you and leads you into what it is you say you want to do with your life.
5 Tips to Evaluate if a Business is a Business or Someone’s Hobby
December 5, 2008, By Dream Catcher Life Coaching
1. Credit Cards. 2. Contract. 3. Systems. 4. Active Listening Skills. 5. Insanity.
Survive & Thrive During the Holidays: Intentions are Everything
December 5, 2008, By paulag
You couple intentions with actions to create experiences you most desire in your life. It is an integral part of the law of attraction in action. Intentions are made with an open heart and spirit. You leave the door open for what you what you want to occur, or something better.
Are You a Life Coach with an Integrated Spiritual Energy Management Process
December 4, 2008, By Sharon Wilson
I was talking to a life coach the other day who was learning the Energy Management process that I teach in my programs. She mentioned how much she really loved scripting and journaling as processes to help her manager her energy…
Life Coaching & Business Coaching: Finding Work-Life Balance
December 2008, By Coach Jeremy
As a professional coach, both for business, sales and life, I find that these areas area critical for success. I started a linkedin.com group that is fully dedicated to “Balance & Fulfillment for Business Leaders” that you might want to join. We are sharing and helping each other with these exact types of questions.
The Benefits of an Intuitive Life Coach
December 2008, By Life Coaching Dot
If you have ever visited a life coach institute, you may have picked up some intuitive life coach techniques that you can take home with you in order to improve your life. From making lists to organize your finances and life priorities, to spending more time with friends and family and learning the art of conversation, a life coach course can give you the skills you need in order to be a more productive citizen and family member.
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Coaching Champions At Work
December 8, 2008, By Frank Salisbury
In sports there is an unconditional acceptance that the coach is key to unlocking potential, in business coaching is seen as merely another name for training, and training as we know is for trainers to conduct, whilst management is on a on a different plane and status level altogether.
The Big 10 Questions That Could Change Your Business
December 8, 2008, By blueyes
More and more companies hire a business coach to work with individuals or teams within their organization to facilitate changes within the context of the organizations’ culture to achieve extraordinary results.
What Makes a Good Business?
December 8, 2008, By Jeremy McKane
A number of factors go into why someone decides to start a new business. What was your reason? I think most would agree that they wanted to do something more. Others might argue that they wanted to push their potential in the in the marketplace without barriers. There could be a number of reasons, but what really makes a good business?
Coaching Cures the Loneliness of the Small Business Owner
December 6, 2008, By Mia McBride
This is one of the basic foundations of business coaching; one of the main reasons it’s thriving. In a word, most small business owners, despite their expertise and success, are lonely. They don’t have anyone to talk to, or to listen to for advice and support.
Public Relations Definition For Business Owners
December 6, 2008, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
Public relations / PR is an important element of the marketing techniques you should be using to promote your business but are you clear on a public relations definition?
Coaching the Best – The System
December 5, 2008, By Lance Cooper
A bell-shaped performance curve with performers ranked best to worst across the curve, provides a visual gauge for planning coaching time and training strategies.
Willingness to Serve
December 5, 2008, By Charrise McCrorey
I began working with Steve Chandler, a phenomenal coach, author and trainer, and a team of 9 other coaches. After developing my coaching practice for about two years, I felt ready to take on new challenges.
Books, Products, & Services
Does Life Suck? Go From Crappy to Happy
December 9, 2008, MSNBC – USA
In her new book, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫Get a Life That Doesn’t Suck,‚Äö√Ñ√π consultant and life coach Michelle DeAngelis serves up a combination of street-smart wisdom and cheerful irreverence as she shares how to enjoy life regardless of the roadblocks or potholes along the way.
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Ambitious Women
December 3, 2008, PR Web (press release) – Austin, TX, USA
Life coach Ann Daly PhD offers advice to ambitious women who want to live large in 2009. Excerpted from Dr. Daly’s new ebook, “A Year of Clarity: The Monthly Guide for Women.” What are the best New Year’s resolutions for ambitious women?
Publicity Releases
Executive Coaching Firm Declares 2009 “The Year of the Fearless Leader” and Challenges Corporate Leaders to Rise to the Occasion
December 8, 2008, PR Web (press release) – San Francisco, CA, USA
Executive Coaching firm Mariposa Leadership, Inc. is declaring 2009 to be “the Year of the Fearless Leader.” In 2009, as presidential elect Barack Obama…
Coach Develops Program to Uncover Hidden Behavioral Issues in Pro and Scholastic Student Athletes
December 3, 2008, PR NewsChannel (press release) – Tampa, FL, USA
About Garret Kramer: Garret Kramer is a life coach for athletes and the managing partner in Inner-Sports LLC. He is also the head ice hockey coach at The …
Ruth Ann Harnisch Accepts ICF Foundation Invitation to Join Board
December 2, 2008, MarketWatch – USA
Ruth Ann Harnisch, a leader in coaching-related philanthropy, will join the Board of Trustees of the International Coach Federation Foundation for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2009. The ICF Foundation’s mission is to support coaching research, pro bono coaching and other studies related to the coaching profession.
NOTE: Ruth Ann Harnisch, President of The Harnisch Foundation, is founder and funder of The Foundation of Coaching and The Coaching Commons, and The Chronicle of Coaching.
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