Welcome to The Coaching Commons » and management http://coachingcommons.org Where Radical Possibilities are Explored & Pursued Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:43:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – October 9, 2008 http://coachingcommons.org/news/the-chronicle-of-coaching-news-of-the-week-october-9-2008/ http://coachingcommons.org/news/the-chronicle-of-coaching-news-of-the-week-october-9-2008/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:36 +0000 admin http://www.coachingcommons.org/?p=989 read more]]> 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

Your Office Coach: Tell Owners Their Spending is Hurting Morale
October 7, 2008, Belleville News Democrat – IL, USA
Raises were canceled, but there still seem to be a lot of extra management expenses. This has had such a negative effect on morale that some people have…

Professional Courtesy At All Levels Can Be Elusive But is a Vital Skill…
October 6, 2008, Gary Post Tribune – Gary, IN, USA
This complaint extends from business networking events to answering e-mails to actually returning phone calls. And even within my own business coaching…

Three Ways to Market in the Fourth Quarter
October 2, 2008, CEPro – Framingham, MA, USA
Early holiday cards, a customer appreciation event and a digital holiday catalog will help your company market in Q4…

Beating the Leadership and Management Crunch
October 1, 2008, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Coupled with this is the growing use of workplace mentoring and coaching
as development tools to embed learning in the workplace, and of action
learning…

Abhijit Pradhan Launches Superstar
October 1, 2008, TV Next – New Delhi, Delhi, India
Led by Abhijit Pradhan, the company offers Executive Coaching as a
business enabling tool that helps organisations achieve their short and
middle term…

Life Coaching

Taking the Stress Out of the Big Move
October 6, 2008, The Times – Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Certified Life Coach Judy Klipin and her partner Felicity Hart, of
Stellar Life Design, understand that sometimes the most difficult
journey isn’t…

Celebrating Life
October 5, 2008, The Nation Newspaper – Bridgetown, St. Michael, Barbados
I call myself a life coach. Today, I am celebrating life. It is never
too late. My strength comes from the joy I have in the Lord, and knowing
that nothing…

Put Some Spark Back in Your Workday
October 5, 2008, Austin American-Statesman – Austin, TX, USA
Austin life coach Lin Scheib has some ideas to get your energy back.
Scheib, the owner of Lightning Life Coaching…

Niche Coaching

Career Coach: Unmasking Your True Potential
October 6, 2008, Animation World Network – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Do you want to limit yourself to what a 22-year-old decided for the rest of your life? Why not spend the rest of your life doing what you really want to do?

Laughter Coaching is Serious Business
October 4, 2008, Arizona Republic – Phoenix, AZ, USA
The quintessential belly chuckle of the jolly ol’ gift-giver has been adopted by other jovial figures ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ laughter is…

Medica Wants to Put Health Coach Between You and Your Bad Habits
Minneapolis Star Tribune – Minneapolis, MN, USA
Preventative medicine leads to better quality of life for the patient and longer, healthier, less costly medical futures as…

Penn and Teller Say Life Coaching is Bull(bleep)
October 2008 – You Tube
WARNING: These videos are rated R for language, nudity and will be offensive to some viewers.

Life Coaching Blogs

How To Be Comfortable With Your Spiritual Life Coach
October 6, 2008, By Fast Track Coach
A spiritual life coach can help you to find life’s purpose in a whole new way. However, you may not feel extremely comfortable at first when it comes to sharing your spiritual beliefs with a stranger. These suggestions will help you…

Who’s A Fake Coach?
October 6, 2008, By All About Life Coaching
With the growing trend of life coaching, everyone is calling themselves a coach these days. I recently joined twitter, a cool social networking site. It’s amazing how many people who are in sales and network marketing call themselves…
October 5, 2008, By David B. Bohl
I know it sounds clich‚àö¬©‚Äö√Ѭ∂but the power of positive thinking really does bring an avalanche of wonderful things pouring into your life. From your job to your marriage to your social life…

Opportunity Magnified: The Value in Seeing What Others Miss


The Secrets of a Coach
October 5, 2008, By tsvetankapetrova
That’s right, your coach, being a coach knows that if you do things on your own it will take a lot of time and effort. But coaches know that a personal coach you will easily triple your productivity, so they naturally work on their…

How to Choose a Life Coach Training Program
October 5, 2008, By dougnau
Picking a life coach training program is a personal choice and has as much to do with the format and content of the program you are considering as with your intentions of taking the classes. Individuals in my courses varied from…

Life Coaching for Parents
October 4, 2008, By Suite 101
Life coaches benefit parents, businesses and families by identifying goals, helping to achieve work-life balance and acting as a supportive sounding board.

The Benefits Of Hiring A Weight Loss Coach
October 2, 2008, By Galileo Labs
If you cannot afford to join a profession weight loss program or to hire a personal weight loss coach, you may have some low cost or free options. Often neighborhood weight loss support groups will team people together, and sometimes…

Saying Yes to Things We Don’t Really Want: Are We Doing Anyone a …
October 1, 2008, By Dave W.
One of the most common things I hear from clients is that they have too much on their plate, or rather things they don’t even want to have on their plate. This stands in the way of having time and energy to do what they really want…

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Common Coaching Complaints from Managers
October 7, 2008, By Heather McCulligh
As for ‚Äö√Ñ√∫coaching taking too long‚Äö√Ñ√π, well, managers need to understand that this is part of their job. Expectations need to be set from day one that moving into management is more than a title change and a pay raise, and that coaching is a…

Improving Business Performance Through Corporate Executive Coaching
October 7, 2008, By Dr. Earl R. Smith
Executive coaching supports more than just personnel who are part of senior management. More and more corporate companies are turning to executive coaching to complement the overall development of their employees – particularly their…

Getting Management Buy-In
October 6, 2008, By Dave Crisp
Another 25% felt that lack of coaching/mentoring negatively affected the effectiveness of learning and development opportunities. A similar proportion ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ 24% – felt that lack of learner buy-in was a major issue…

A Business Coach Can Teach
October 6, 2008, By Dane Masters
Are you wondering why business coaching is even necessary for certain business owners and entrepreneurs? Don’t presume that business coaching is assistance for businesses that are struggling to succeed; in fact, business coaching is…

How to Grow Your Business in This Market
October 6, 2008, By Jeremy McKane
The main purpose of this website is really to help people grow their business and automate some of the daily tasks that rob you of your time. As I have said before, you need to keep your advertising budgets if not double them in times…

Small Business Growth Club
October 2, 2008, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
I have been raving about Scott Hallman and his business growth training centre called the Small Business Growth Club for the last year after I found it and was amazed by the high quality content which took you by the hand and showed you…

Making a Lifelong Difference
October 2, 2008, By Terry Dean
In that time I’ve helped thousands of entrepreneurs succeed online through coaching, products, and other people’s seminars (Yes, I should hold my own workshops also). This past weekend I had the chance to go to Eben Pagan’s Green Room…

Books, Products, & Services

Job Search Magic: Insider Secrets from America’s Career And Life Coach
October 5, 2008, By sruthin
Description: “A wealth of information for the job seeker and a gold mine for career
counselors…

Publicity Releases

10 Reasons for Hiring a Business Coach
October 7, 2008, Business in Berkshire (press release) – Windsor, Berkshire, UK
Using an Executive Coach will open your eyes to new ways of thinking and will help you to work more effectively alongside others. Clients don’t keep paying…

Executive Coaching Retreat Promises MultiSensory, Transformative…
October 3, 2008, PR Web (press release) – San Diego, CA, USA
Executive coaching needs an overhaul. At least the first meeting does. At the first meeting, a
professional coach…

New Career Coaching Service Targets Marketing and Advertising …
October 3, 2008, MarketWatch – USA
Under the Direct Marketers On-Call umbrella, Frayne had set up DMOCoaching in 2002 to focus on the career guidance and executive coaching that so many job…

Chris Steely’s “Joie De Vivre” Highlights the Culture of “Fun …
October 1, 2008, PR.com (press release) – Las Vegas, NV, USA
His background includes business coaching, entrepreneurship, corporate
business development, operations, and project management. A specialist
in executive…

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