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Editor’s Note: Cartoonist Bill Watterson is quoted as saying, ‚ÄúI’m not in denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.” Reality can look very different when observed from different perspectives. This week’s Chronicle is about the power of perspective. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has input from life coaches about growing personally during layoffs. A life coach in California says that finding happiness is simply a matter of choice. One doctor sees health coaching as a new way for doctors to avoid dealing with insurance companies and malpractice lawsuits. The owner of a closing design shop wishes she had sought the outside perspective of a small-business coach more frequently. Sometimes changing perspectives can make all the difference. 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 and Linda Ballew.
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Executive/Business Coaching
What to Know About Coaching Your Successor
March 10, 2009, BusinessWeek – USA
Preparing your successor can be a leader’s greatest challenge. If you handle it the right way while you are still at an organization, it can mean that your successor enters to applause while you bow out gracefully. So what do you need to know about coaching so you can ensure a smooth transition?
Need to Know: Coach Yourself
March 10, 2009, PersonnelToday.com – UK
Having a coach to help us work through difficult situations or make important changes can be a wonderful thing. However, such resources do not come cheap and not all of us can afford the luxury. Fortunately, we can all have a coach any time at no cost: we can learn to coach ourselves.
Discover Client’s Needs for Productive Sales Call
March 9, 2009, Gary Post Tribune – Gary, IN, USA
My first thought is, another sales call about something I do not need. The first few words turned me off, left me cold and sounded like everyone else. My emotions are stone-cold frozen and quickly spreading throughout my entire office. Brrrrrrr!!!!! Sales Coaching Tip: This is why cold calling is named cold calling, because it creates ice.
Recession-Busting — How to Be Part of the Recovery
March 9, 2009, Henley Standard – Henley, UK
Through project teams, the commercial group is addressing subjects such as parking, traffic flow, residents’ amenities and attracting new businesses. Barbara Richardson, chairwoman of the commercial group, has also negotiated a special business coaching offer with the aim of improving the business performance of existing local enterprises.
Needing a Fresh Set of Eyes
March 9, 2009, Crain’s Chicago Business – Chicago, IL, USA
After opening Lakeside Interiors in Wilmette 4¬Ω years ago, Fern Allison met “occasionally” with a small-business coach. In hindsight, she says, she needed more help, especially as the economy worsened.
Boosting Your International Success with Coaching and Mentoring
March 9, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
Why do international lawyers hire coaches or seek mentors? Often, it’s to help them exceed their prior performance. Perhaps they want to develop more clients globally, make partner, get promoted, or become leaders within their law firms or field.
Executive Q&A with Jay McCurry: Corporate Trainer Finds His Niche
March 8, 2009, NewsOK.com – Oklahoma City, OK, USA
McCurry’s corporate training sessions focus on customer service, leadership development, conflict resolution and executive coaching. But that just describes his past three years.
Investing for Success!
March 6, 2009, Online Recruitment – UK
Yet all too often one of the first things to be cut, during periods of change, are the budgets related to managing and developing talent; when in actual fact this should be seen as a time to invest – assuming this investment is in the right place! For example, let’s look at investment in executive coaching and whether it should be for all or just the select few.
Is It Time for Coaching to Don Some New Clothes?
March 4, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Olivia Stefanino suggests that it’s time for coaches to roll up their sleeves and offer practical help and prove their versatility if they don’t want to lose their shirt in these recessionary times.
Life Coaching
When Layoffs Hit, Look for Ways to Grow, Life Coaches Say
March 9, 2009, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
The Seattle P-I talked with local life coaches in Seattle about how to cope with change and prepare yourself to explore the unknown. Career coaches will tell you how to revamp your résumé and tap into transferable skills, but life coaches can help revamp attitude and map out a future that heretofore was unforeseeable.
Workshops Offered for Parents and Teens From Local Life Coach
March 6, 2009, Sparks Today – Sparks, NV, USA
Teens have always gravitated towards Life Coach Lesia Knudsen, and parents have always called to ask her for help. The Sparks resident knows she has a special gift and has made her passion for young adults the focal point of communication workshops she conducts for parents and teens.
Why You Should Hire a Life Coach
March 6, 2009, U.S. News & World Report – Washington, DC, USA
While hiring a coach can seem like a wasteful indulgence during a recession, the people I interviewed told me that it was during tough times, or times of transition, that they most valued such targeted mentoring. Still, with the average coach costing around $500 per hour, it doesn’t come cheap.
In This Economy, Ask Yourself the Right Questions
March 6, 2009, Fox Business – USA
While so many people in our nation right now are frantically searching for answers that will keep life as they know it afloat and intact, one man wonders this: Do they even know the question?
Note: Lable Braun has contributed several blog entries to the Coaching Commons.
Life Coaching Blogs
Widows and Dating: The Differences Between Men and Women
March 9, 2009, By Widows Breath Coaching
Men are not like women. They are built differently, they think differently and they act differently. (Thank goodness…who really wants her man to be a woman?) You may think that this is obvious, right? Yet we women often look to our men to react as we ourselves do.
What Is a Health Coach, and Why Are They Paid $121 an Hour?
March 9, 2009, By Kevin Pho MD
Some sites promise $121 an hour (“at least”), without having to leave home, and there are no worries about malpractice. Imagine what those with an actual medical degree can do as a health coach. It’s no wonder why so many physicians are leaving medicine, and finding cash-only alternative medical practices so appealing.
How Are the Guys Doing?
March 9, 2009, By Daisy Swan
I work with a lot of men and have been thinking a lot about what male ‘issues’ vs. female ‘issues’ are. There have been a lot of things written lately about how men have been affected more by the economic downturn than women.
How to Sit Down With the Kids and Tell Them You’re Divorcing
March 9, 2009, By Shannon Cook
There are few conversations a parent dreads more than the one where it is time to explain that mommy and daddy are getting a divorce, and that the picture of their lives as they know it is about to change forever. No parent wants to cause their children pain, and unfortunately there will be hurt, confusion, and anger as a result of announcing this life transition.
Bahamian Coaching
March 7, 2009, By Center for Positive Change
We took a grand tour of the Bahamian flats firsthand, led by one of the most sincere and trusted coaching guides on the planet. His skill, coaching approach, humor, and wisdom were amazing. He taught us how to appreciate life again, and how to sing to the fish, how to use stealthy casts, and how to laugh at ourselves.
Dating or Love – You Choose
March 7, 2009, By Carolin Dahlman, Love Coach
Dating columnist Sam Brett has started a booty school and will offer one-on-one coaching. That’s great. The more people helping others to fall in love the better. I love “competition”. If more people realize that they probably need more than another 10 blind dates to find love, there will be more happy relationships.
Church and Society
March 6, 2009, By Tom Nankervis
Life coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual who wants to make positive life changes. The Rev. Jim Robey, a United Methodist elder endorsed as a life coach, views the process as a way to help a person move into the ‚Äúfullness of life” which Jesus offers.
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Top Ten Things You Would Never Hear a Coach Say
March 5, 2009, By Angie
Coaching is about the client and NOT about the coach, usually. Sometimes a coaching experience might be worth a share if a coachee is stuck – but not usually. It’s all about them – not you.
Would a Writing Coach Help?
March 5, 2009, By Word Grrls Blog
First, a writing coach can help you stay focused and on point with your current project or goal. Next, a writing coach can help you over those rough spots when you’re stuck in a rut or aren’t sure which avenue to take next. In addition, a writing coach is someone who encourages and supports your efforts, yet offers concrete suggestions to assist you in reaching the next level on your creative journey.
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Now is a Great Time to Start a Home Based Business
March 9, 2009, By David B. Bohl
I know we are all concerned about economic conditions these days, with massive job layoffs, declining housing markets, and plunging stock prices. Yet, the rise in unemployment has created a great opportunity for those who have entrepreneurial dreams.
Open-Ended Questions – Tools for Engagement
March 9, 2009, By Marcy Nelson-Garrison
What a pleasant surprise to show up at a recent Minnesota Coaches Association meeting and see that my deck of Q? Basics, was part of the program. The presenters greeted attendees at the door with a basket of the open-ended questions and we were each invited to draw a random card.
Business Coaching: Men, Why It’s Time to Look at Women’s Magazines
March 7, 2009, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
Twice in the last week I have received the tip that to improve my ability to write headlines, I should take a look at women’s magazines. Just to be clear, that’s magazines written for women and not the top shelf magazines with photos of naked women.
10 Questions to Find Out if You Suck at Wealth Management
March 4, 2009, By John Mckee
Many leaders are dissatisfied with their personal life and financial situation. In this blog, leadership coach John M McKee suggests managing each of the three key life elements to ensure satisfaction over the long haul.
Books, Products, & Services
Choose Joy: You Have the Power to Improve Your Life, Says Author
March 4, 2009, Daily Breeze – Torrance, CA, USA
It is perhaps appropriately ironic that the day I was scheduled to interview Michelle DeAngelis about her book, “Get a Life That Doesn’t Suck: 10 Surefire Ways to Live Life and Love the Ride,” I got into a car accident. What better way to brush off life’s little accidents than with the help of a life coach who, naturally, specializes in dispelling dissatisfaction?
Publicity Releases
Margaret Lynch, Success Coach and Author, to Guest of ‚ÄúBare Naked With Nora Klaver”
March 10, 2009, PR Urgent – Oak Park, IL, USA
‚ÄúBare Naked with Nora Klaver”, Voiceamerica’s popular internet radio program, welcomes author Margaret Lynch to the March 12th episode. Lynch is a Success Coach, an Emotional Freedom Technique Expert and an author who has written a series of books called the ‚ÄúSecret of Intentional Wealth”.
La Dolce Vita Retreats. Empowering Women to Live the Life They Envision
March 9, 2009, BigNews.biz (press release) – Irvine, CA, USA
The long-time dream of mompreneur and professional Life Coach, Janice Briggs, created the company to help provide women with international travel opportunities that combine experiential learning and creative self-expression to enhance the mind, body and spirit.
Got Coaching? Try Coaching for Commitment – Rare Author-Led Public Workshop Scheduled
March 7, 2009, PR.com (press release) – Pueblo West, CO, USA
Coe and Zehnder are best known for their work as executive coaches, keynote speakers and master facilitators. They work with clients internationally to help them improve their leadership quotient, management and coaching skills, employee engagement and retention, team effectiveness, operations and ultimately the bottom line.
American Health Announces New Disease Management and Lifestyle/Wellness Programs
March 5, 2009, Marketwire – Worthington, OH, USA
Program highlights include disease management and lifestyle coaching; interactive online tools; at-home and onsite biometric testing; onsite and online educational programs; and disease-specific equipment, such as glucose meters, weight scales, and blood pressure cuffs, which are equipped to send electronic readings to American Health’s Nurse Coaches.
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