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Editor’s Note: Prolific author Helen Keller once wrote, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.‚Äö√Ñ√π This week’s Chronicle offers a few lessons from the world of coaching. One Seattle executive coach looks at the lessons business leaders can draw from incoming USA President Barack Obama, while a life coach in the UK took her own struggles with work-life balance and turned the subject into her specialty. Another coach helps new business school graduates by teaching them three important lessons they probably didn’t learn in school. Stuck in a bad situation? A life coach in Colorado recommends pretending that you are the coach and teach yourself how to move forward. Recognize and honor the lessons that come your way this week.
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Executive/Business Coaching
Workplace Coach: Obama Offers Leadership Lessons
January 25, 2009, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
As an executive coach, it’s my mission to teach, coach and foster “best practice” leadership with my clients. Thankfully, we all have a new role model for exemplary leadership in the new commander in chief.
Keeping Business All in the Family
January 24, 2009, New Zealand Herald – New Zealand
Ben Ridler runs business coaching company The Results Group and is well versed in the unique needs of family businesses. He’s had people storm out of coaching sessions. “We had a couple of brothers who were in business have a punch-up in the boardroom once‚Äö√Ѭ∂‚Äö√Ñ√π
Study Exposes Coaching & Mentoring Weakness
January 21, 2009, is4profit – Farnborough, Hampshire , UK
Global research from ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) suggests coaching and mentoring is being poorly practiced across the finance profession, revealing a lack of understanding of good practice and ultimately leading to poor returns on training investment.
Your Office Coach: Abusive Manager Won’t Change Without Incentive
January 20, 2009, Belleville News Democrat – IL, USA
To reduce the risk, ask other humiliated colleagues to join you in going to HR. Avoid the spotlight by making someone else the spokesperson. Present several specific examples of employee mistreatment. Since management has tolerated Sandra’s behavior for a quarter-century, the odds of them taking action may be slim.
Life Coaching
Bizline: Life Coach
January 27, 2009, Summit Daily News – Frisco, CO, USA
I’m a life coach with a health twist. I work with busy people who want to reclaim balance between their work and their personal health and wellbeing. I help them to identify and successfully achieve progressive goals leading to long-term change through an intensive, personalized coaching program.
Living on Purpose: The Ups and Downs of the Economy
January 24, 2009, Vail Daily News – Vail, CO, USA
Coaching Challenge: When you feel stuck, pretend that you are your own life coach. First describe what is going on for you as the client. Then step into the role of the life coach. What questions will you ask to help the client move forward?
Woman Works for New Life
January 24, 2009, Salina Journal – Salina, KS, USA
Baxter was accepted into a transitional housing program for the homeless. The program, offered through an organization called New Beginnings, not only provided her with shelter, but also life coaching and other support.
Life Coach Helps People Redesign Their Lives
January 22, 2009, Sea Coast Online – Portsmouth, NH, USA
Many of us start the New Year with an ambitious list of resolutions. Lose weight. Start exercising. Find a new job. Save money. By now, the end of January, those resolutions often fall by the wayside. What goes wrong?
Cusick Works With Clients to Visualize Positive Future
January 22, 2009, DarienNews-Review – Darien, CT, USA
Life coaching is not the same thing as therapy, however. “[Life coaching] is based on positive psychology, taking your strengths and going with them, instead of taking all your bad things and trying to fix them,” Cusick said.
Julia Hobsbawm Interview: The Balancing Act
January 20, 2009, Scotsman – United Kingdom
Julia Hobsbawm knows she’s lucky ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ yet for all her oft-counted blessings, like everyone else, she’s sometimes overwhelmed by the conflicting demands of 21st-century living. When that sensation hit critical mass, she sought the help of a life coach, who helped her get back on track.
Life Coaching Blogs
24 Hours
January 25, 2009, By Kim Ades
I live a busy life. I’m growing a thriving coaching company, planning a wedding, traveling when I need to, and juggling the driving, social, homework, and mood schedules of a family of seven.
JR’s Not So Literal Logging: Life Coaching the Un-Coachable
January 24, 2009, By JR Moreau
Last night a friend told me I should be a life coach because I seem good at inspiring people to take risks in life and chase their dreams. I took this as a compliment, but realized that I couldn’t be a life coach for a lot of the same reasons why I probably can’t ever be a teacher.
Make This the Year of Accepting Yourself
January 23, 2009, By Journey On
That’s what we’ve been discussing in the life coaching and executive coaching sessions so far. For example, your theme might be making your life an adventure. Or it might be seeing yourself, dancing for joy. Mine was seeing this year as a magical year.
Self-Discovery Questions
January 22, 2009, By The Priority Pro
Yesterday in my e-newsletter and blog I provided some practical principles and strategies for self renewal. Here are some questions to help you get started. Working with a professional coach will also help you create the structure and accountability to transform yourself and align with your top priorities.
The Jeremy Taylor Show and About the House
January 22, 2009, By Ronda Miller
‚Äö√Ñ√∫Now, I am a Life Coach and all those nerves have fallen by the wayside…well, most of them. Whenever I am faced with a new and scary opportunity (and everything can be looked at as an opportunity), I simply remind myself that I am a Life Coach and I can do anything. What a freeing thought that has been!‚Äö√Ñ√π
Money Brings Freedom!
January 20, 2009, By Rebekah Simpson
You have heard the term, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫Money is the root of all evil,‚Äö√Ñ√π and ‚Äö√Ñ√∫freedom isn’t free.‚Äö√Ñ√π
Well…..What if that is not true? What if Money is good, and what if freedom is free?
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Three Things You (Probably) Won’t Learn in Business School
January 22, 2009, By Ed Batista
A lot of the coaching work I do with students involves helping them increase their risk-tolerance in interpersonal situations‚Äö√Ѭ∂. And at every stage, we fail. But each time we fail, there’s something to be learned from the experience–and the most important lesson is how often we mistakenly inflate the costs of failure.
Motivation through Executive Coaching
January 22, 2009, By Corporate Coaching
Executive coaching equips leaders with the skills and attitude essential for motivating their teams. Motivation is a sentiment among people that arouses interest in the work at hand, enables them to focus their attention on specific goals and stimulates them to persist to find ways of achieving their individual targets and broader organizational goals.
Why Your Company Needs Business Coaching
January 22, 2009, By Better Business Coaching
Here are 10 ways a qualified business coach can get your business to the next level.
Networking with Tact and Professionalism
January 2009, By Winifred Winston
Networking is the process of developing strong relationships over time with people who can help you locate information, resources, and other people. This is accomplished by sharing your information, your expertise, your resources and your contacts.
Books, Products, & Services
Local Life Coach Launches New Book
January 2009, Woodlands Online, LLC – The Woodlands, TX, USA
‚Äö√Ñ√∫The Indrani Principle: Inhale Life, Exhale Joy‚Äö√Ñ√π published by New Vision Publishing Group, features eight principles that demonstrate how simple it is to make sustainable change in one’s life.
Publicity Releases
Kamjah – The Holistic Approach to Life Coaching
January 23, 2009, Times of the Internet – Miami, FL, USA
It’s never too late to change your life says Life Coach, Kamjah who has done just that by launching his own life coaching business.
Celebrities and Athletes Turn to Life Coaches for Help
January 23, 2009, WebWire (press release) – Atlanta, GA, USA
Celebrities and athletes are turning more frequently to “life coaches” to help them manage their personal and professional lives according to Dr. Tom McQueen, President of Celebrity Life Coach, Inc. headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
Biometric Screening, Health Coaching and HRA Participation Grows …
January 22, 2009, PR Newswire (press release) – Minneapolis, MN, USA
Demand for HealthFitness’ employee health and productivity solutions grew in 2008, due to expanded interest from existing clients and targeted incentives. HealthFitness (NYSE Alternext US: FIT) is an award-winning provider of integrated health promotion and fitness management solutions for on-site and dispersed employee populations.
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