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Listen to an Uncommon Conversation: What is a Mastermind Group?

Elizabeth Crouch — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:10:23 +0000

Listen to the audio recording below:

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon to 1:00pm Eastern

Guest: Nancy Gerber, PCC and Nancy Spivey
Host: The Coaching Commons
Topic: What is a Mastermind Group?

“The Nancys” — Nancy Gerber and Nancy Spivey, long time business coaches and founders of www.TheMagicofMastermind.com — were with us in March for an Uncommon Conversation about “The Magic of Mastermind.” They return to talk about how starting and leading Mastermind groups is a natural fit — and perhaps an additional revenue stream — for coaches.

With the changes in the economy and the continuing evolution of the coaching profession, coaches are looking for new ways to serve greater numbers of people at a more modest price point, while also generating more consistent revenue for their businesses.

Mastermind groups, when well organized and facilitated, are a powerful tool for growth and transformation that can be simply and easily delivered, creating “magic” for both coaches and clients.

In leading Mastermind groups for coaches every month, the Nancys have experienced a tremendous surge of excitement and interest in the process and how it can enhance the business of coaching.

Topics to be covered in this one-hour program will include:

*Principles of Masterminding
*Distinctions between Coaching & Masterminding
*How coaches use their coaching skills to be great Mastermind facilitators
*A live 30-Minute Mastermind Session facilitated by “The Nancys”

For more information, visit http://themagicofmastermind.com

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from July 28, 2009: Finding the Goodness in Business

Elizabeth Crouch — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:12:46 +0000

Listen to the recording:

Tuesday, July 28th
Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern Time

Guest: C.J. Hayden, MCC, CPCC
Host: The Coaching Commons
Topic: Finding the Goodness in Business

Imagine a world where business is a force for good. Perhaps more than you think, this is the world we live in right now. All around you, visionary entrepreneurs are launching enterprises that serve a triple bottom line — contributing to people and to the planet, not just to profit. The era of the conscious business has arrived. Are you a part of it?

Did you know…

* Estimates suggest the social entrepreneurship sector employs around 40 million people globally, with 200 million more as volunteers

* 72% of U.S. consumers consider the social responsibility of a business when deciding whether to buy its products and services

* Companies with the best social responsibility ratings consistently out perform others in their class by a ratio of 9 to 1

* Small businesses like yours give more to charity and donate more volunteer hours than their corporate counterparts

In this conversation, we’ll be discussing questions like these:

Is conscious business just a tiny corner of the liberal, progressive world, or is it a growing, worldwide movement?
Can a coach be socially responsible, give back to his/her community, protect the environment, and still earn a good living?
Do your clients care whether you’re socially responsible?
What about the social responsibility of your business clients?
Can they – small businesses and corporations alike – afford to be socially responsible?
Why should they bother? And why should you care if they are?

About C.J.:

You may know C.J. Hayden best from her book and coaching program Get Clients Now!, but C.J.’s private coaching clients are social entrepreneurs, activists, and community leaders. Since 1992, she’s been helping conscious citizens build business ventures to effect social change.

C.J. is the author of three books and over 300 articles on marketing, entrepreneurship, and social action. She has published and taught in more places than she can keep track of, including Choice, Principled Profit, John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, and The Coaches Training Institute. C.J. was a founding director of the first international nonprofit association for coaches, which later merged with the ICF. She currently serves on the leadership teams of the Send Girls to School Project, Social Enterprise Alliance San Francisco chapter, and Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship.

Find out more about C.J. at www.cjhayden.com

The Star-Ledger: Career Coach: Internet An Entryway To Finding A Job

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:50:54 +0000

From The Star-Ledger – Newark, NJ, USA
June 13, 2009

By Lee E. Miller

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, it doesn’t affect your chances of finding a job. If, on the other hand, you don’t have an online presence that makes you “findable” on the internet, you will be at a disadvantage in finding employment in today’s highly connected business world.

The internet has not only changed the way we work it has changed the way people are hired. According to a recent survey by Jump Start Social Media on how social media is being used in the hiring process, of the hiring managers surveyed, 66 percent visit Linkedin, 23 percent visit Facebook and 16 percent use Twitter to find job candidates when they are seeking to fill openings.

How do you build an online presence that will allow employers and recruiters to find you if they are seeking to fill a position for which you are qualified? Creating an online presence goes well beyond merely posting a resume on various job boards like TheLadders.com or Careerbuilders.com. It requires having information about you available in as many places as possible, making it more likely that employers that might be interested in hiring you will be able to find you. In addition to helping those seeking to fill positions discover you, having a strong online presence facilitates networking with other professionals.

Create a VisualCV to showcase your skills and experience online. Join the professional networking website Linkedin. Create a Facebook page that highlights your professional, rather than personal, life. Be sure to have profiles posted on the private networks that many professional organizations, like the National Association of Female Executives, are starting to include as part of the services they offer to their members. Also, if you are doing volunteer work with nonprofits that have their own networks be sure to post profiles there. Add a link on your profiles to your Twitter page if you’re using it for professional networking.

Write articles online that deal with current issues of interest in your profession. Volunteer to speak at professional events where your bio will be posted online. Offer insights on the important issues facing your profession by writing a blog. If you don’t have the time or inclination to do that, answer questions on issues of interest in your field on websites such as Yahoo Answers or Linkedin.Then cross-reference the various items that you have posted on the web. Make sure that your profiles include the relevant key words that people would use to find someone with your skills and experience.

Alison Doyle, author of “Internet Your Way to a New Job,” a must read for anyone looking for a job in today’s job market, offers the following advice:
Ensure consistency in what you say and how you choose to brand yourself. Make sure everything you post, including information on websites that you are using for purely social networking, portrays you in the way you want to be depicted. Employers may gather information about you from several places online. Inconsistent information or unprofessional behavior may hurt your candidacy.

Use the internet strategically. Build and nurture your network. Schedule time every day to network online. Keep your information current. Use the internet to find people that you know but have lost track of and reconnect with them.

Keep track of what you do and be sure to follow up with people. If you see an article of interest to someone in your network, send it to them. If you read an article someone in your network wrote congratulate them. Keep you network informed of what you are doing and be sure to thank people who help you. Offer help to others whenever you can.

Don’t rely solely on the internet to find a job. “Cover all the bases. Don’t think you can just go on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, put up some information about yourself and you will miraculously find a job.” Most jobs are still found through people with whom you have face-to-face interactions. While the internet is a great way to build you network there is no substitute for meeting and talking with the people in it.

The job market today is extremely competitive. Understanding how to use available technology will help you stand out from the crowd. Strategic use of the internet in your job search will not only help you get a job quicker, demonstrating that you know how to effectively harness the power of the internet will make you a better candidate.

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The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – May 7, 2009

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:00:24 +0000

Editor’s Note: Wave goodbye to the Chronicle of Coaching. The weekly compilation of global media-talk about coaching is getting a makeover. Sort of.

Three years ago, when the Chronicle first went live, there were only 10-15 coaching articles to be found each week. It was like detective work to find them. Now the Chronicle of Coaching is overflowing with TMI! (too much information) At least, too much to read in one sitting. So starting next week, we’ll offer coaching news, hot and fresh each day, under the headline, ‚ÄúThe Commons DeNewsinator.” You’ll find it front and center on our Coaching Commons homepage. So visit more often to read what’s new – Still BIG news, just smaller bytes.

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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The Chronicle of Coaching strives for 100% accuracy and regrets any deviation from that standard. Our policy is to correct errors promptly and prominently, in the next edition and in the online archive. Please tell us immediately if you see something wrong.

Executive/Business Coaching

Your Office Coach: Focus on What’s Important
May 5, 2009, San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Although you’re putting a lot of energy into this battle, it’s not clear what the war is about. In fact, you might be the only person fighting. Since these co-workers seem to be doing you no harm, your resentment may simply reflect the inevitable frustrations of a mid-life career change.

Motivators, Coaches Weigh In On ‘Dirty’ CEO Label
May 2, 2009, International Business Times – New York, NY, USA
A group of three motivators, whose work includes executive coaching, business management consulting and formulating creative approaches for changing organizations, weighed in on a discussion topic asking if the negative perceptions some Americans have about chief executive officers as being greedy and incompetent is fair and when the CEO label can stop being a ‚Äúdirty word.”

Leadership’s Ripple Effect
May 2, 2009, Telegraph-Journal – Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Leadership is an important skill for managers, but a company with developed leaders across the workforce right down to the lowest level employees will have a ripple effect of benefits, executive coach Marilyn Singh says.

Someone to Watch Over Me
May 1, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
How many coaches have supervisors, and of those that do, are they truly benefiting from it? Alan Ward argues that supervision, done properly, is in the best interests of the coach and the coachee.

Five Steps for Effective Sales Coaching
May 1, 2009, BusinessWeek – USA
While the link between effective sales coaching and better sales performance is widely known, the majority of sales organizations fail to realize the full potential of their investments in sales coaching training. Often times, this means missed opportunities for dramatic improvements in top-line revenue growth, margin enhancement, conversion rates, as well as sales forecast accuracy, and sales rep retention and engagement levels.

Outplacement Becomes a Coveted Benefit in Hard Times
May 2009, Workforce Management – Irvine, CA, USA
Also as a result of the recession, career transition services for executives have begun to take a new form. Many employers that signed up for executive coaching and promised outplacement services for these employees (should that be necessary) now find themselves in a position where they don’t want to lay off executives, but they’ve eliminated the positions for which they were hired.

Your Office Coach: Adjusting to Different Management Styles
April 30, 2009, Grand Forks Herald – Grand Forks, ND, USA
Getting a new leader almost always means adjusting to a different management style. The key is to recognize “different” does not mean “wrong”. Your previous boss apparently liked spontaneous interaction, while this one prefers planned communication. Either approach can work, but the change is uncomfortable, especially if you are a more spontaneous person yourself.

Life Coaching

If I Were My Own Life Coach…
May 5, 2009, Beliefnet.com – New York, NY, USA
If I were my own life coach, I would say: “Victoria, the hell with it. Seriously. Take care of yourself, take care of your family, and everything else can take a number.” And since I am my own life coach right now (I’m spending my money on book publicity), I’ve been taking my advice.

What Have You Been Up to These Past 100 Days?
April 30, 2009, Huffington Post – New York, NY, USA
Everyone is welcomed to join in the practice, and many of us do. However, how many of us applied this random time marker to our own lives, and conducted a review and assessment of what we have been up to these past 100 days?

Life Planning After Divorce: Tips to Rebuild Your Life and Your Goals
April 30, 2009, San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
“Divorce shakes the whole foundation of your life and puts it on sand that blows in the wind,” said Joanie Winberg, author of “Rising to the Top: A Guide to Self Development.” Winberg became a single mom after a 20-year marriage. Her struggle to rebuild her life after divorce led her to become part of the newest coaching specialty – life planning after divorce.

Niche Coaching

Tackling the Teething Pains of a Busier Lifestyle
May 5, 2009, Financial Times – London, England, UK
One of the most important issues for any organization’s human resources department is how best to manage maternity leave. In recent years, some companies have been turning to specialist maternity coaches to help ease the shift from high-flyer to mother and back again.

Money Shrinks Soothe Souls of the Tragically Rich
April 30, 2009, San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
Across the country, so-called wealth coaching has never been more profitable than in the current economy because rich people have never been more frightened. “And the reason they’re more afraid is that more of them believe this time is different,” Gottfurcht said. “They believe this (recession) is more semi-permanent.”

Life Coaching Blogs

How Life Coaching Helped My Blog
May 5, 2009, By Tracy, I Hate My Message Board
After our last coaching session, I felt like much of the conflicting emotions I was having dissipated greatly. We spoke about obliterating undermining beliefs and reframing situations, which helped me enormously in my tendency to second guess decisions.

The Fine Art of Listening
May 5, 2009, By Gina Baksa
Think back to the last time someone really listened to you. I mean really listened. For more than a few minutes. Without interrupting. Listening with all their being, until you’d actually finished your train of thought, and in some cases even your whole sentence?

Guest Interview with Dr. Margaret Jones on Leadership and Spiritual Abuse
May 3, 2009, By Futurist Guy
Dr. Jones’ own status of a survivor of spiritual abuse in several church settings – plus her work as a psychologist, counselor, and life coach – give her a unique, pastoral care perspective on such topics. And so, I posed a series of five virtual interview ‚Äúcluster questions” on topics related to spiritual abuse.

Company Life Coach
May 2, 2009, By Coach Scott, Corporate Life Coach
Today there is no separation between work and life. Problems outside of work are brought into work. A company life coach will benefit you by sitting down with troubled or upset employees and help them overcome their problems.

How Do You Become a Life Coach Who Has Total Certainty About Your Ability to Find Clients
May 1, 2009, By Jeffrey T. Sooey
If you are like many life coaches, one of your greatest fears is wasting time and money on a marketing strategy, and falling short of your coaching client goal. There is so much information; you might often not know where to start. This is coach training you can start using today to improve your results.

Learning and Empowerment
April 30, 2009, By Stephen
There is a shift in the balance of power that happens in a typical coaching, mentoring or managerial relationship. At first the coach may need to manage the client, having power ‚Äòover’. As the work progresses, the coach hands back power, sharing it with the client.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Follow Your Dream
May 5, 2009, By Real Business Coaching
Do not care what other people say. Men have no clue what’s going to happen and what is going to happen certainly isn’t based on the past! Many visionaries have stuck to their dreams despite the criticism and declaration of others. A dream is powerful. Ideas cannot die.

Books, Products, & Services

A Mother’s Day Gift for You
May 4, 2009, By Kailani, Island Life
Beginning May 8th-for 48 hours only-you can download a free copy of the new, award winning book, The Mother’s Guide to Self Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life by Renee Trudeau, a nationally recognized career/life balance coach (a $20 value).

Newt Gingrich, as Life Coach, Offers Success Story Based on 5 Principles
May 4, 2009, U.S. News & World Report – Washington, DC, USA
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has rarely strayed from the public’s eye since leaving the House of Representatives more than a decade ago. The author of several books, fiction and nonfiction, Gingrich is now adding “life coach” to his list of accomplishments.

Join ‚ÄòCoaches United for Success in America’
April 30, 2009, By Key to Success Coaching
Coaches United for Success is a coaching program designed to help support job seeking professionals as they navigate their search. Through the coaching relationship, we help our clients to look at the possibilities and the potential for something wonderful to manifest on the other side of unemployment. In some cases, being laid off frees you to take risks, reinvent yourself, and find the job of your dreams.

Flight of the Conchords Opener Plays Life Coach in New Book
April 29, 2009, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – St. Louis, MO, USA
The advice site grew into a self-help parody book, ‚ÄúThe Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life,” released earlier this year. ‚ÄúIt can help you do anything from raising a family to becoming a rock star to farming ‚Äî literally whatevs,” said Mirman.

Publicity Releases

Hummingbird Reinvents Life Coaching with AboutMyLifeStages.com
May 6, 2009, PR Web (press release) – Cincinnati, OH, USA
Hummingbird Coaching Services has unveiled the newest version of its life coaching service, AboutMyLifeStages.com. The service enables employers to encourage healthy, balanced lifestyles among employees and positively impact health care costs and productivity.

Life Coach Social Network Membership Site Being Auctioned
May 5, 2009, WebWire (press release) – Atlanta, GA, USA
The BigLife.ws life coaching social network is a cornerstone of the most valuable and respected industry in the world… life coaching, entrepreneur coaching and self development. All the hard work has been done. You just take it over and run it. You can do this business from home or while you travel. Your creativity and ability to network is a valuable asset.

Divorce Coach Jerry Canino of Top Divorce Coach LLC to Expand His Practice Nationally
May 4, 2009, PR.com (press release) – Merrick, NY, USA
Divorce coach and founder of Top Divorce Coach, LLC, Jerry Canino, is now expanding his practice to accommodate the growing demand of men and women throughout the United States who seek his progressive personal coaching strategies to help them recover from divorce.

Executives Embark on Second Careers in Tough Economy
May 1, 2009, Franchising.com (press release) – Highland, IL, USA
Despite the serious challenges in the current economy, however, Dr. Bruce McLaughlin, Business Coach with The Entrepreneur’s Source in Highland, Illinois says there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for many seasoned executives looking to make promising career changes.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – April 30, 2009

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:00:13 +0000

Editor’s Note: The rollercoaster global economy means the job market is more competitive. This week’s Chronicle offers a wide variety of coaching counsel addressing leading stressors in the workplace. For the first time, Britain is offering coaching to citizens living in public housing or claiming government benefits in order to help boost their confidence and motivation to find a job. In Ireland, job coaches are offering individuals practical assistance seeking employment and emotional assistance coping with a job loss. One London career coach advises carefully crafting a network of friends, colleagues and family members to increase progress in the job search. Another coach from the US suggests that accepting a pay cut may be the best and only choice for now. So is there a bright note this week? Certainly – Life coaches say add optimism and creativity: organize a to-do list with color or poetry, make a list of 100 (yes 100) things to be grateful for, and take a walk and breathe with nature, enjoying what the Japanese call ‚Äúforest bathing.”

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Executive/Business Coaching

Newly Unemployed? Your Coach Awaits
April 29, 2009, Irish Times – Dublin, Ireland
A new industry is springing up on the back of the thousands of people who have lost their jobs due to the recession. Courses advising people how to find work, how to cope with unemployment, and to how to keep their sanity while on the dole are proving very popular. Two such ‚Äújob coaches”, Clodagh Hughes and Nial O’Reilly, are offering free coaching to unemployed people as their contribution to get the country get back on its feet.

Lost Your Job, Boss? Join the Club
April 29, 2009, Times Online – UK
Thus, it is to support the region’s beleaguered business community that Mr Criddle has launched a kind of executive support package. The Metier passport scheme is a combination of career coaching, psychological support and networking opportunities. At ¬£3,000- ¬£4,000 a year it is not aimed at those on their uppers, but at top-level executives affected by the recession.

Your Office Coach: Adjusting to Different Management Styles
April 28, 2009, The Olympian – Olympia, WA, USA
Calmly explain you are worried about morale and feel your new manager could use some coaching. Offer examples of the business problems created by her leadership style. Suggest the HR manager talk with some other employees. Then wait and see what happens.

Career Coach: Go With the Flow and Accept the Pay Cut
April 26, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
Let me be clear: The world has changed. Salaries and benefits packages have fallen and that trend will continue as many companies reduce costs to stay afloat. You must get with the program and change your expectations. This is not the time to get rich, but a time to survive.

Put Me In, Coach
April 23, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Sharon’s journey to becoming an ‚Äúexecutive coach” began at a local church where everyone ‚Äúwould line up outside my door to ask my advice on team development, strategic planning, and how to develop their ministry and staff. I thought it would be really cool to help people bring more of who they are into the workplace, so I talked to people and found out about coaching.”

Coffee Break: Coach Says Entrepreneurship Not a Bad Idea
April 23, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
The economic downturn actually presents entrepreneurs and small-business owners with a variety of advantages like reduced competition and lower leases, according to Nick Cohron, a business and career coach in Summit.

When You’ve Set the Pattern With an Employee, You Have to Be Tough to Change It
April 21, 2009, InfoWorld – San Francisco, CA, USA
At the risk of sounding self-serving, sometimes executives like the ones you describe need someone from the outside to tell them what to do differently. In this case, I’d advise bringing in someone who can provide both strategic consulting and executive coaching: the strategic consulting to help these two understand what they need to do differently from an operational perspective, the executive coaching so that they understand how they need to behave differently to lead a larger organization.

Life Coaching

Life Coach to Help Jobless Londoners
April 27, 2009, This is London – London, England, UK
Unemployed Londoners are to be assigned a free “life coach” to help them find work. In the first scheme of its kind in Britain, people claiming benefits and living in social housing will be offered free therapy courses to improve their confidence and motivation to find a job.

Coaching: The Global Perspective
April 27, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
With a Global Convention on Coaching and key UK coaching bodies signing a ‘statement of shared professional values’, 2008 seemed a ground breaking year for this emerging industry. The convention’s laudable desire was to establish more defined codes of ethics, standards of practice and qualifications within the coaching industry.

Lawrence Life Coach Offers To-Do List Tips
April 27, 2009, Lawrence Journal World – Lawrence, KS, USA
Train yourself to think that every task on your to-do list is something that you personally want to accomplish, rather than something you have to do. If you need to clean the house, don’t dwell on the chore; remember that you want the house to look nice, so that is why you are cleaning it.

Life Coach: Recommended Diet, Lifestyle Changes
April 26, 2009, Lansing State Journal – Lansing, MI, USA
Making diet and lifestyle changes will have long-term benefits on your health and your heart. These recommendations are from the American Heart Association.

6 Networking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
April 23, 2009, HarvardBusiness.org – Cambridge, MA, USA
If you were my coaching client, I would simply say: network, network, network. And yet among my clients, networking is often an underdeveloped skill.

Artists Use Life Coach to Beat Recession
April 23, 2009, Wimbledon Guardian – Cheam, England, UK
Europe’s largest collective of artists, huddled in a small annex of Wimbledon, are enlisting the help of a life coach to stave off the recession.

Niche Coaching

Communication Coach: Slackers Hit Chopping Block First in Lean Times
April 25, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
The people he wanted to let go were underachievers — people who just weren’t producing or carrying their weight. In fact, there was a list of employees whose names came up over and over again as people who were pulling down the firm.

Media coaching: Do the Hardest Thing First
April 22, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
I was just media coaching a woman who was in a major scuffle with the media due to a very controversial product that her company recently released. We were prepping for another equally controversial product that’s now on the market and she was scared out of her mind. Rightly so.

Life Coaching Blogs

Coaching ‚ÄúSafety Net” Questions – For When Your Mind Goes Blank
April 28, 2009, By Become A Certified Coach
Using a safety net question helps the flow of the coaching conversation, takes the pressure off the coach and puts the focus back where it belongs – on the client (as opposed to on ourselves and ‚ÄúWhat do I say next?”).

Manifesting Evolution in Consciousness: On Self-Compromise
April 27, 2009, By Sherry Bakhtian
Once again love, not having it, not recognizing it, and anything related to it has determined the course of our lives. When a coaching client comes to this point in their session, they are usually ready to acknowledge what exactly it is that they do want in a relationship.

Be Your Own Mentor: The Healing Power of Trees
April 27, 2009, By Karin Marcus
As a Life Coach and Retreat Leader, I have always thought of nature as an essential partner. My preferred method of one on one coaching of “Walk and Talks” is done outdoors.

The 4 Stages of Transition
April 27, 2009, By Shann Vander Leek
My talented and brilliant mentor coach, Deb Martin shared some valuable information with me awhile ago about the 4 stages of transition. This material along with my personal story have become a big part of the focus of my life coaching.

Qualities of a Good Coach
April 25, 2009, By MTI Coaching
It is very easy to advise people. All you need to do is look at his or her situation and come up with suggestions on how you think he or she will be able to improve it. But this is not the essence of coaching; coaching requires a relationship between the coach and the client wherein both are in the same place and move towards the same goal together.

Are You Grateful?
April 24, 2009, By Kelly Thorne
One of my favorite life coaching exercises to do with women is to help them create a list of at least 100 things (yes, I did just say – 100 things on a list) that they’re grateful for in their life.

Using an Online Dating Coach to Find Love, Happiness. and Even Find Your Soulmate
April 22, 2009, By Anything Personal
As an added benefit to the convenience of online dating, clients can also receive the services of an Online Dating Coach or ‚ÄúLove Coach” as we’re sometimes referred to by our clients.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Sales Management: The Role of Coaching
April 27, 2009, By Ian Brodie
And finally, they need to understand not only what’s needed for their team’s roles: but also what is needed to continuously improve their sales management capabilities.

What Do Children Teach Us About Leadership?
April 27, 2009, By Andrew Bryant
Both Tasha and Nathan like to clap for themselves when they do something right and they both beam when Zurina and I give them praise. As a leadership consultant I know how important it is that I continue to praise even moderately good performance as research by Dr Ethna Reid shows that teachers who get the best results, validate regularly.

Did Christopher Columbus Have a Coach?
April 24, 2009, By Tom, SmartCompany.com
I’ve worked for a couple of coaching companies, OneCoach and TEC /Vistage, so I’ve seen how having a business coach in your corner can make a huge difference. I ran a faster marathon (and achieved one of my life goals) because I had a great coach, pushing me further than I might have gone on my own. But here’s the thing: You can actually coach yourself.

Books, Products, & Services

Inspiring Mother’s Day Gift is Full of Heart and Easy on the Wallet
April 26, 2009, PR.com (press release) – San Francisco, CA, USA
The Women Masters Teleseminar Series makes a wonderful and meaningful gift for mothers and daughters alike. Offered free of cost, this program is about sharing the wisdom and insights of our most respected women experts with women (and men) worldwide. Additionally, 10% of proceeds from the upgrade package benefit Women for Women International And Girls, Inc.

Publicity Releases

JavaBlackBelt Adds Coaching to e-Learning in Breakthrough Java Courses
April 19, 2009, Emediawire (press release) – Brussels, Belgium
JavaBlackBelt, a global leader in Java learning and powered by over 50,000 developers in its global community, today announced the immediate availability of coached e-Learning for Java developers in Europe, North America, and India.

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from April 30th, 2009 – Helping Your Clients Find Their Transferable Skills

Elizabeth Crouch — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:02 +0000

Listen to the recording:

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon- 1:00pm Eastern Time

Guest: Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCC

Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: Helping Your Clients Find Their Transferable Skills

The concept of transferable skills is important for job seekers in today’s economy. In your resume, cover letter, and during the interview process, you need to prove that you have the experience, knowledge, passion, and drive to get the job done.

How you explain to potential employers what you’ve done up to this point, depends on what you want to do next.

If you have been doing the same job for years, and plan to stay in a similar position, or identical industry, your present skills are what you showcase to employers. If you are looking to switch industries or take a different position than the one you have now, you will have to show potential employers why you are the best candidate and the best match for the position.

Transferable skills are the skills you have acquired up to this point in your life that can help you do something else in your career. This means your entire life, not just what you have been paid to do.

Join Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCC, veteran career coach and author of 6 best-selling career and business books as she shares her secrets on how she helps her clients find and showcase their transferrable skills so they can find a job in today’s tough economy and job market.

Note: this is a Q&A call. Deborah prefers to find out what’s on your mind and directs the call based on what’s important to you. So, brings lots of questions!

More about Deborah‚Ä¶..

Deborah is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and the President of Surpass Your Dreams, a successful career, life, and mentor coaching company that has been delivering a message of motivation, success, and personal fulfillment since 1998.

She specializes in four areas with emphasis on Career Change, Career Development, Career Effectiveness, Wellness, and Mentor Coaching:

1) Career coaching for Senior Executives, Vice Presidents, and Managers who are looking for new career opportunities or seek to become more productive in their current role.

2) Life coaching and Wellness coaching for those who want to improve other areas of their lives in addition to their career.

3) Start-up and practice building for those who want to make coaching their next career.

4) Writing services for those who want to stand out in their career.

Before becoming a coach, Deborah spent twelve years running sales & marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies and dot.coms. She currently works with a variety of clients including Coaches, CEO’s, Entrepreneurs, Financial Service Executives, Internet Executives, Lawyers, Marketing Executives, MD’s, Partners, Professionals, Senior Executives, Sole Proprietors, Students, Small Business Owners, and Vice Presidents.

Deborah’s extensive education and background:

Graduate of Coach University’s Accredited Coaches Training Program in Business and Personal Coaching

Advanced Training in CoachVille’s Graduate School of Coaching

Founding member of Coachville.com

Member of the International Coach Federation

Member of the East Moriches (NY) Chamber of Commerce

BA in Marketing from Hofstra University

AAS degree in Data Processing from Queensborough Community College

Certificate in Financial Planning from New York University

Professional Background: Financial Services, The Internet, Marketing, Sales Management and Web Technology

Learn even more about Deborah here: http://www.surpassyourdreams.com

As always, please post your thoughts/questions below.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – April 23, 2009

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Editor’s Note: As the economic challenges continue, job jitters create opportunities for coaches. Coaches are helping clients become indispensable to their employers, they’re helping lawyers and auto dealers find new business, or they’re championing clients who are rethinking their careers. Some people are deciding that now is the perfect time to become a coach, including supermodel Nandinii San, now offering soul coaching in Mumbai. Autistic adults in Delaware are getting specialized coaching to help them succeed at jobs that allow them to do something productive and satisfying. Health coaching helps children learn new diet and exercise habits. What’s the right thing to say to someone who’s fighting cancer? A communication coach told a television audience that a greeting card might not be the best way to send your message, and he got an earful from people who disagree. Finally, in the week we celebrate Earth Day, it seems appropriate to feature a coach whose specialty is green – a green thumb, that is.

Professional Coaching: Friendship for Sale? Voice your Opinion

Executive/Business Coaching

Coaching Conundrums: What to Do When Your Client is Feeling Defeated by the Recession?
April 21, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
During the current financial crisis, we’re hearing more worries from clients (who are) concerned about staying afloat. This particular conundrum features a business owner – but the coaching points raised could apply equally to someone concerned about losing their job within an organization.

Emerging Program, CEO Coaching & More
April 20, 2009, Kansas City Star – Kansas City, MO, USA
Pusateri was so impressed with CEO Coaching & More that he signed on in 2008 to be a coach and this year he joined an alumni group for those who have completed the program but want to continue to learn and network with one another.

Mentors Can Show You the Way
April 19, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
It’s easy to confuse mentoring with its popular first cousin, executive coaching. There are, however, some big differences between coaching and mentoring.

Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream?
April 18, 2009, New York Times – USA
This interest in what makes people tick, and curiosity about what keeps them from realizing their dreams, drove me to become a business coach 13 years ago. I never tire of hearing people’s stories, or of learning ways to help the creatively oppressed come alive.

6 Ways to Sabotage Your Career
April 17, 2009, FOXBusiness – USA
Jennifer Mounce, founder of Coach Effect, a career coaching and consulting firm, recalls a client who found two candidates for a position, and ran a check on different social media sites. “One of the two candidates actually had a video online talking about how they hate their job and their company. Suffice it to say, if something is going to tip the scale, having a video posted about how much you hate your company is it.

Stress Management for the CEO
April 17, 2009, Forbes – NY, USA
Debra Nelson notes that CEOs have three unique areas of stress that can exceed other people’s. Those are the pace of their work life, the pain of downsizing (in today’s economy) and social isolation. Nelson is president of the NelsonQuick Group, an executive coaching firm, and has 25 years of experience in stress research.

Aspiring Rainmaker: You Can’t Go It Alone
April 16, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
Working with a mentor, coach, or a coach-led rainmaking group helps lawyers get objective feedback about their client development goals, develop a strategy for reaching those goals, identify the high-payoff activities that harness the lawyer’s strengths and match his or her preferences, create a step-by-step plan to incorporate those tactics into a routine, and overcome the obstacles that will inevitably arise.

Can Happiness Help You in Business? A Visit to Zappos
April 15, 2009, Huffington Post – New York, NY, USA
An online retail company whose CEO says their primary purpose is not to make money, but to spread happiness‚Ä¶
Whose customer service agents try to make an authentic connection with callers…
Whose in-house coach’s job is to support staff no matter what their needs, even if it means helping them develop a plan for quitting the company and switching vocations.

Life Coaching

Good Coaching Can Increase Performance in Sports, Personal Life
April 20, 2009, Naples Daily News – Naples, FL, USA
In the past decade careers in business and personal coaching have shown prolific growth. Ren√©e Kennedy-Edwards founded Coaching 4 Success on the theory that coaching with a degree makes a difference. Kennedy-Edwards is uniquely qualified with a master’s degree in educational psychology.

NHS to Give Overweight Children ‘Life Coaching’
April 20, 2009, This is London – London, England, UK
Those attending will get monthly face-to-face sessions with psychology coaches as well as weekly telephone sessions. The life-coaching scheme is being piloted from this Saturday by the NHS in north-east London. Redbridge primary care trust is the first to test the life-coaching classes, but others are also signed up to the programme. Experts say mind training will transform the attitudes of children to food and exercise.

Web Worker Careers: Coaching
April 16, 2009, WebWorkerDaily – San Francisco, CA, USA
Despite the current economic climate, in which training tends to be the first thing cut from tightened budgets, the coaching industry continues to grow. A coach acts as a sounding board, motivator, mentor and teacher, and can provide advice topics ranging from time management to relationship issues. Is coaching a possible career for you?

Interview: Ariel Joseph Towne, Life Coach
April 16, 2009, Digital City – New York City, NY, USA
Thus far 2009 seems to be both a year of rebuilding and change, with millions of people finding themselves at a crossroads and wondering what to do about it. But if you’re finding yourself completely baffled to the point of inaction, maybe you need a life coach.

Niche Coaching

Turning to a Health Coach
April 21, 2009, News & Observer – Raleigh, NC, USA
A key component of the integrative approach: a trained individual familiar with the system and what it has to offer who is also in tune with a patient’s goals for healthy living. Someone who could provide direction, motivation and support in reaching that goal. A health coach. “We start with basic things like listening skills,” says Julie Kosey, Duke’s integrative health coaching manager, who also was Kathy Hare’s coach. “We teach how to be present with a person, to listen deeply and understand their goals and motivation. We let the client hold the agenda.”

From Supermodel to Spirituality Coach
April 20, 2009, Daily News & Analysis – Mumbai, India
Supermodel of the 70s and 80s, Nandinii Sen has returned to Mumbai to take up her role as soul coach, transformational therapist and past life ‘regressionist’ after having lived for many years in Bangalore.

DIY: Personal Training Via Internet or Phone
April 20, 2009, Los Angeles Times – CA, USA
Now there’s training via Internet and the phone. Such coaching has become enormously popular in the last few years, spawning a mini-industry of tailored but flexible workouts. Some programs offer customized, downloadable regimens based on an online questionnaire, with little or no trainer interaction; others provide extensive one-on-one phone coaching.

Coaching, Training Can Lead to Right Job for Autistic Adults
April 20, 2009, The News Journal – Wilmington, DE, USA
Ben’s mother said her son’s successes as the first autistic adult to go through a job coaching and training program created by Autism Delaware — formerly the Autism Society of Delaware — highlight the potential within this growing population. With help, these adults can put to use the skills they’ve spent most of their lives learning, and also meaningfully contribute to their community.

Communication Coach: Readers Deliver Thoughts on Card Controversy
April 19, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
I received an overwhelming response — most of it critical — to my recent column and “Today” show appearance in which I argued that Hallmark greeting cards for sensitive subjects, particularly cards for people dealing with cancer, can miss the mark.

Time Out With the Garden Coach
April 16, 2009, Lake Oswego Review – Lake Oswego, OR, USA
Lessons are available for just about anything to anyone wanting to learn or improve a skill set. And now, locals can tackle another obstacle that may have grown into a daunting task after a long winter – gardening.

Life Coaching Blogs

Do You Need a Life Coach or Therapist?
April 21, 2009, By Shann Vander Leek
Coaching is a good fit for a goal-oriented person who prefers to take responsibility for their processes and outcomes. Coaches work with ‚Äúhighly-functioning” people. Meaning the assumption is that the client is healthy, willing and fully capable of achieving their goals.

Awesomeness Inspirer: What I Didn’t Pack
April 20, 2009, By Life Coach Jen
I’m number one in my life now. I have many loves but if I’m not first, meaning my mental health and happiness, than the loves in my life will suffer. I’d gotten so good at taking care of me through journaling, breathing, meditating, walking, lying with my cats, writing, coaching, being coached, etc, that I thought I’d never leave that place.

Coaching Through Debt
April 19, 2009, By Paul Cullingworth
I was in debt and I mean serious debt. That day I decided to stand up and use all my Coaching skills to help me get through my debt. I took my head out of the sand and faced up to the mountain of debt that I had built up and ignored over the previous few years. And because I made the decision to take my head out of the sand and face up to my debt, it became not only one of the most frightening days of my already eventful life, but it also turned out to be the turning point in my life.

Make Money Online: Keep Your Sanity With a Mindful Life Coach
April 18, 2009, By Jijo Sunny
If your objective is to get your professional and personal life in order, then you should hire a life coach. An ideal skilled and professional coach will give you the self-esteem needed to achieve peace of mind and your goals.

Professional Coaching: Friendship for Sale?
April 16, 2009, By Linda Ballew
Are coaches just high-priced buddies? Are people becoming so dependent on ‚Äúexperts” that they can’t make personal or professional decisions without hiring one? Yes, according to Charles Eisenstein.
NOTE: Linda Ballew is the Co-Editor of the Chronicle of Coaching and serves as team leader at the Coaching Commons.

3 Myths about Life Coaching
April 16, 2009, By Scott Asai
1) Crazy: Only people who are confused or messed up need a Life Coach
2) Age: Life experience determines competence. A Life Coach can only help clients that are younger than them
3) Value: Life Coaching sounds great, but it’s too expensive.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Business Coaching: Simpleology Joe Vitale Law Of Attraction
April 21, 2009, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
Interesting to see that the Law of Attraction is attracting more attention again. Today it is the announcement of the next Simpleology course, Great Teachers Series: Dr. Joe Vitale Teaches the Law of Attraction.

My Dealer Coach: Prime Time for Safety First, Safety Inspection That Is
April 20, 2009, By Steve Shaw
Interestingly enough my service advisors all developed a blank stare for a few minutes. So it was necessary to explain the concept further. After some discussion it became apparent that this was actually a new technique that other dealerships are using successfully and that it actually made sense.

Corporate Life Coach: Leaders Need a Coach
April 18, 2009, By Dr. John Townsend
If you aren’t getting some sort of coaching in your particular area of leadership, you probably should consider doing so. A high percentage of people reading this article are likely getting some form of coaching. In fact, it is the norm today to have a coach, and almost aberrant not to have one.

Books, Products, & Services

The Successful Single Mom: Get Your Life Back and Your Game On
April 20, 2009, Business Wire (press release) – Las Vegas, NV, USA
May the 11 million single moms in the United States have a happy Mother’s Day, although many of them are struggling to get their life back while being everything to everyone. That’s why Honor√©e Corpron, an executive coach, speaker, and author, has written The Successful Single Mom: Get Your Life Back and Your Game On, Leading Edge Publishing.

Publicity Releases

Coaching Culture Needed in Recession, Says CIPD Study
April 20, 2009, PM Online – USA
‚ÄúLine managers should be encouraged to develop a ‘coaching style of management’ but can never be expected to fulfill all the functions of a specialist coach, according to a new CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) research report.”

Plumbers Coaching Provide Effective Strategies for a Successful Plumbing and Trade Business
April 20, 2009, PR Friend – USA
Plumbers Coaching presents an effective concept to plumbing and trading. Many businesses close down before even getting started or even remain at grass root level due to misconception or little or no information regarding the right concept. Plumbers coaching offer an informative insight as well as tips and videos along with strategies to guide you through a successful profitable business.

CorpTalk Introduces New Coaching Concept
April 16, 2009, MarketWatch (press release) – Westfield, NJ, USA
To help the broadest possible range of clients stay on the front end of this economic downturn, CorpTalk is pleased to introduce three online, self-directed coaching programs and one easy-access live coaching program.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – April 16, 2009

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Editor’s Note: Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, ‚ÄúA good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” The items in this week’s Chronicle arrive from around the globe and guide us to all sorts of destinations. For those good travelers who never intend on staying in one place, a life coach has nine tips on the best way to live a nomadic lifestyle. For those traveling to Malaysia, check out a coach who uses color therapy to help her clients. A Belgian life coach in Shanghai assists expatriates who’ve also made their moves permanent, to reinvent themselves. And traveling out of her comfort zone this week: Britney Spears put on a life coaching hat at a recent concert in Vancouver, delayed due to smoke, and recommended the crowd cut the smoking out. To all our readers, enjoy wherever you are and wherever you’re going.

Are You a Spanish Speaking Coach? Latin America Needs Coaches

Executive/Business Coaching

Are You Looking for New Ways to Grow Your Business?
April 14, 2009, Rundtownnews.co.uk – Spain
It’s the usual story – it’s a lot easier for those outside the wood to see the trees. This is how a business coach can discover your limitations and coach you to develop and implement a step by step plan that will provide proven solutions to your revenue or profit issues.

Your Office Coach: Avoid Becoming Another Casualty in a Lost Corporate War
April 13, 2009, Belleville News Democrat – IL, USA
For the sake of your own career, you should stop fighting battles in a war that’s already been lost. If the CEO has begun to view you as a problem, you could soon find yourself out on the street.

Coaching Business for New Business Owners Opens
April 12, 2009, Santa Rosa Press Democrat – Santa Rosa, CA, USA
The new office of The Entrepreneur’s Source in Petaluma has one goal ‚Äî to make the entrepreneurial dream of business ownership easier to attain for aspiring local entrepreneurs.

As Recession Deepens, Career Coach Alan Cohen’s Business Remains Strong
April 12, 2009, Staten Island Advance – SILive.com – Staten Island, NY, USA
Q: With unemployment skyrocketing, business must be good? A: Now more than ever there is a need for coaching. The world is suffering from a real identity crisis, with people defining themselves by what they do — then losing their jobs and feeling that they have no identify. We are not our jobs. Our jobs ideally are one way of expressing our purpose.

Alicia Rodriguez ’78
April 2009, Colby Magazine – Waterville, ME, USA
In her career as an executive leadership coach, Alicia Rodriguez ’78 waits for what she calls, the ‚ÄúAha! moment”‚Äîthe instant when her client ‚Äúgets it.” Rodriguez works both with leaders who want to lead better and people who are moving into leadership positions for the first time. She helps clients to see how they are perceived by others.

Life Coaching

Ask Maddisen: How to Resolve Communication Blocks
April 14, 2009, Huffington Post – New York, NY, USA
Before you begin practicing the specific steps of successful communication, let’s look at the ground rules you must both honor in order to make the steps work for you. Following these ground rules will create a foundation that strongly nourishes healthy and productive communication between you.

Life Coach Helps Expats Reinvent Themselves
April 15, 2009, Shanghai Daily – Shanghai, China
Belgian life coach Alexia Michiels came to Shanghai as a “trailing spouse” and had to reinvent herself. Now she helps expat women leave their comfort zone and do the same. Sam Riley reports.

What’s the Secret to an Endless Vacation?
April 13, 2009, MSNBC – USA
Nine tips for becoming a ‚Äònew’ nomad in 2009 – #3 Don’t forget your patience. ‚ÄúAnd your sense of humor,” says life coach and blogger Lisa Haisha, who has been on the road since the age of 22. ‚ÄúWhen dealing with new cultures and languages, both are essential.”

Success Coach: Keep Your Perspective on Worries
April 13, 2009, The News-Press – Fort Myers, FL, USA
Many of us have had the experience of feeling very stressed out and worried about a situation on one day, then calmer and more positive a day or two later.

Council Appoints ‘Life Coach’ for Darwen Residents
April 12, 2009, Lancashire Telegraph – Blackburn, England, UK
More like a life coach or a buddy than a personal trainer, she will encourage people to set their own goals and to make changes, such as losing weight or giving up cigarettes.

Great Life Series Offers Coaching and Tips for Finding the ‚ÄúRight Job”
April 12, 2009, BlueRidgeNow.com – Hendersonville, NC, USA
The morning program will be presented by Pardee Hospital and Western Carolina University and will feature national speaker, job coach and author, Peggy Collins, and image consultant, Susan Stewart, as keynote speakers.

Watch: Obama Steps Up as National Life-Skills Coach
April 9, 2009, Scripps News – Washington DC, USA
It’s not easy being our national life-skills coach. In two and a half months, Obama’s reach into our psyches, our daily lives and our sense of emotional and financial wellbeing has been nothing short of phenomenal. And, strikingly, most of us are pleased.

5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Career Coach
April 7, 2009, ABA Journal – Chicago, IL, USA
Finding a good coach is the same process as finding a good doctor, lawyer, or Pilates instructor. You ask for recommendations. You do some research. And ultimately, you decide whether you feel a personal fit.

Niche Coaching

Heal with Colors
April 14, 2009, New Straits Times – Persekutuan, Malaysia
Chew, who holds a doctorate in holistic coaching, has been conducting classes and workshops on color and clay therapies for the past four years. When attempting either color or clay therapies, you have to visualize the colors or shapes that can help calm the mind. Color therapy can be used to heal grief and loss, such as losing one’s job, a loved one or personal belongings.

ADHD Coaching
April 13, 2009, Manila Bulletin – Philippines
A team may have the best players in its roster, yet, they need a good coach to maximize the potential of each one of them. The same goes for ADHD coaching ‚àía relatively new field that is fast emerging as one of the many approaches, services and treatments for ADHD.

Life Coaching Blogs

How to Sell Coaching? – Use These 5 Steps
April 14, 2009, By Super Affiliate
What if you discovered easy simple to use formula to sell your coaching online? Step 1 – Use the massive power of joint ventures to boost your sales. Step 2 – Affiliate marketing is the key to massive success. Step 3 – Here’s how to use the power of viral marketing. Step 4? Pre-selling tips to sell your coaching easily. Step 5 – Website promotion is the key to massive success.

I’m Not Your Friend
April 14, 2009, By Carolin Dahlman, Love Coach
Today I got an angry email from a client. It happens. She was upset about the way I had questioned her in our last session. But that’s the power of love coaching my dear. I don’t act as your friend, “supporting” you in every way.

Getting Unstuck: The Facts on ADHD Coaching
April 12, 2009, By How To Treat ADHD
As important as a coach’s credentials are, even more crucial to a successful coaching experience is the ADHD client’s willingness to do what he or she can to create a more fulfilling life. Coaches can inspire this willingness.

Dear Universe
April 10, 2009, By Tara, Life Coach
So I remembered a great coaching homework I assigned to a client recently. As you know I believe in the power of gratitude and that the Universe will provide if you have faith. So while in a session with a client my creativity fairy came out and decided that it may be beneficial to my client to write a letter.

Britney as Life Coach
April 10, 2009, By Creative Loafing
I can hardly stop laughing long enough to write this blog item, but I’ll try. Here’s what’s so funny: Britney Spears is giving people advice on how to live their lives.

CityMommy Interviews Mothercraft
April 9, 2009, By Dayna
Mothercraft is a life coaching company that empowers moms to make unique career choices, to parent purposefully and craft truly amazing lives. We help really smart, high-achieving mommies get unstuck from the obstacles that that are holding them back and create the career, family & relationships they want. We’re all about a mom’s growth and development, and everything that happens to her‚Äî inside and out‚Äî from the moment she becomes a mom.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

How Much Does Your Penny Cost?
April 14, 2009, By Justin Lukasavige
I help individuals and businesses who are struggling nearly every day, doing things the way they’ve always been done, afraid to try something new. In the current Business Coaching Group that I’m leading, I pointed out on the very first day that the economy has changed.

Time to Vent, Time to Coach
April 8, 2009, By Adam Hayes
As a consultant, I’ve seen this situation play out at numerous client sites and the worst possible thing that can occur is trying to coach the individual parties involved while tempers are flaring. Think back to when you were a kid.

Books, Products, & Services

A Little Life Coaching from Maria Celeste Arrar√°s
April 13, 2009, Latina – New York, NY, USA
Through a series of anecdotes, she takes you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the cutthroat world of television and talks about the obstacles (divorce and betrayal from a personal assistant, for starters) she’s had to conquer in order to make it to the top of her personal and professional life.

The Wisdom Tradition from the Jewish Scriptures: Helpful for Women?
April 11, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Accepting life as it comes is a hallmark of this book. The Wisdom tradition provided a simple kind of life coaching to the ancient Jews.

Publicity Releases

Life Coach to Visit CL
April 10, 2009, Northwest Herald – Crystal Lake, IL, USA
Marshall Goldsmith, a life coach, will offer a free session from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. April 23 at Crystal Lake Holiday Inn, 800 S. Route 31. Goldsmith will offer personal and professional advice to those in attendance.

Jas Darar Received Double Honors at ActionCOACH’s 2009 EMEA Conference
April 2009, Franchising.com (press release) – London, UK
The conference culminated into an Awards Dinner to honor the “best of best” in business coaching from the regions of Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Neurofeedback, a True Approach to Holistic Life Coaching in San Diego
April 2009, PR-USA.net (press release) – San Diego, CA, USA
Holistic Life Coaching, a San Diego based wellness center, now employs painless and drug free modalities through an emerging and effective treatment called Neurofeedback.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – April 9, 2009

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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.

Ask Yourself a Dangerous Question at the Coaching Commons

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.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – April 2, 2009

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Editor’s Note: Ahhh, spring is in the air in the northern hemisphere. And with spring comes the yearly ritual of spring cleaning. This week’s Chronicle offers help tidying up both professional and personal lives. A former stripper, now life coach, cleaned up her own career and is advising others on ‚Äúwhipping” their career into shape. Looking to clean up the world? One coaching firm has advice for those interested in getting into the green jobs market. In the face of tough economic times, an executive coach recommends polishing your resume right now, while another coach has advice on how people losing their jobs can ‚Äòclean up’ on a severance package. This week, coaches are motivating clients to spring to action with a fresh perspective on their lives.

Are Expensive Coach Training and Certification Required To Achieve Your Goals?

Executive/Business Coaching

Your Office Coach: Looking Ahead, Polish That Resume Now
March 31, 2009, Bellingham Herald – Bellingham, WA, USA
With your job security in doubt, you would be wise to start preparing for the worst. But don’t let anxiety send you running wildly off in all directions. Use this time to plan and organize an effective job search.

Inside the Mind of a Coach
March 30, 2009, Rundtownnews.co.uk – Spain
From the start I explain that it is you who decides what your coaching is going to be about. ‚ÄòWhat can I help you with?’ is normally my first question and then we take it from there.

Three Truths About Coaching
March 30, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK.
Coaching is flourishing. There’s no doubt that coaching has hit the mainstream. These days you’re hard pressed to find an organisation big, medium or small that’s not using coaching in some form or other, it’s the constant topic of articles in all the business magazines and websites everyone from consultants to plumbers are adding ‘…and coach’ to their taglines ‚Ä¶ even Dilbert is mocking it. And this is not such a bad thing.
NOTE: Join Michael Bungay Stanier for an Uncommon Conversation on April 8th at the Coaching Commons.

Executive Coaching Changing as Economy Shifts
March 30, 2009, Fort Worth Business Press – Fort Worth, TX, USA
As leaders look to improve their organizations, they must pay particular attention to developing those who will follow them and to creating new rising stars. Executive coaching is designed to aid those transitions.

Urban League’s nextOne Program Developing Minority Business Dreams
March 28, 2009, Chicago Sun-Times – United States
Eighteen months ago, the League launched its nextOne program to assist a select group of established Chicago companies in partnership with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. The intensive six-month program provided industry specific one-on-one business coaching to entrepreneurs.

The Baggage We Bring to Work Each Day
March 27, 2009, Business Week – USA
Each of us brings our whole self to work each day, regardless of whether we have a chance to express and actualize ourselves in our jobs. As an executive coach, one of my most important roles is to help my clients understand what they are bringing to work each day. I often find that people use language to describe bosses or co-workers that sounds as if they are describing parents or siblings.

How To Integrate Legal Mentoring With Law Practice Management
March 27, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
Mentoring programs usually start off with a bang and then fizzle, leaving younger lawyers dazed and confused, and at least a bit cynical. What does work, however, is to integrate good mentoring and coaching skills into the way your firm is managed.

The Psychology of Stress
March 25, 2009, msnbc.com – USA
And if you’re an entrepreneur in an economy on the brink, your perspective could be getting a little loopy. Actually, it’s called cognitive distortion, says Edward Trieber, a clinical psychologist, an attorney and the managing director of Harris, Rothenberg International LLC, which provides integrated solutions, executive coaching, web development and more. Cognitive distortion can cause people under undue stress to discount positive events, seeing only the negative.

Life Coaching

Find a New Job in Retirement
March 31, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
You have probably heard of ‚Äúlife coaching,” a relatively new field. 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.

Vail Valley: Charge Up Your Personal Energy Engine
March 30, 2009, Vail Daily News – Vail, CO, USA
During a recent coaching session with one of my clients ‚Äî let’s call him Bill ‚Äî he shared with me something he has been doing for a while that helps him maintain an optimistic approach to life. Get this ‚Äî whenever the gas gauge on his car goes below full, he immediately fills his tank.

Jumping Into the Green Job Market
March 30, 2009, GreenBiz – Oakland, CA, USA
Nick Ellis, a managing partner of Bright Green Talent, an environmentally focused executive search firm whose services recently expanded to include one-on-one career coaching, is quick to dispel what he says has already become a “classic myth” in the nascent green job market.

Career Coach: Train Yourself to Be More Productive
March 29, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
My marathon training has me finding parallels in my career. In our multitasking, juggling, out-of-balance world, it is critically important to stay focused on the specific task at hand, since that will enable you to perform at your highest level.

Life Coach Stacia Pierce Teams Up With Celebrities to Empower Women
March 27, 2009, Lansing State Journal – Lansing, MI, USA
Life and style coach Dr. Stacia Pierce announced celebrity guests Tasha Smith and DeShawn Snow will speak at the Women’s Success Conference on May 21-23 at the Lansing Center. Pierce invites business owners and women desiring to be at the top to come be personally coached at America’s most influential event for women.

Don’t Quit Your Job Unless You Have Another: Life Coach
March 27, 2009, Timmins Daily Press – Timmins, ON, Canada
Now is not the time to quit your job. “Times are tough. Find another job first before you quit a job you don’t like,” said life coach JoAnne Ward at a recent seminar in Kelowna, B. C.

Thorhallsson: Discover the Benefits of Transition Rituals
March 26, 2009, NSB Observer – New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
Some of these rituals may be of interest to our readers. Upon arising in the morning, it is especially important to greet the day openly and consciously. Gratitude for the gift of a new day accompanied by a verbal expression of optimistic expectations for the events of that new day set the stage for a bright beginning each morning. Morning stretching or hand massage is a pleasant way to greet a new day.

Elizabeth Loyd, 60, Psychologist, Life Coach
March 25, 2009, Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA
Psychologist Elizabeth Loyd kept a sign in her office that summarized her approach to therapy. It said: ‚ÄúNo whining.” Of course, she was a caring listener. And her manner was always warm and supportive, said her husband of 41 years, Jerry A. Loyd of Cumming. But at a certain point, she’d tell her clients, ‚ÄúWe’re not here to listen to your story over and over. We’re here to do something,” he said.

Coaching Conundrums: What to Do When You Think Your Client is not Telling the Truth
March 25, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Most external coaches don’t get the opportunity to see how their clients perform in their job or interact with their colleagues. You may get a third-party opinion by way of a briefing from a sponsor or manager but, other than that, your only information is what the client chooses to tell you. So, what do you do when you think your client is failing to tell you the truth or perhaps even lying to you?

Niche Coaching

Life Lessons From a Beauty Pageant Coach
March 25, 2009, CBS 11 – Dallas, TX, USA
These days more and more people are finding themselves unemployed. But finding out what works for beauty pageants can also work in real life. In a room of about 25 people at the Frisco Seniors Center, pageant coach Laura Lewis of Plano asked her audience, “Is that why we’re here?” Those in attendance are seniors who want to get in shape and are also looking to get back into the working world.

Dominatrix Career and Life Coach Whips Clients into Hardcore Action
March 23, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Erika Lyremark, ex-stripper, knows firsthand that just because a job is lucrative, does not make it rewarding. Now a successful career and life coach, she has learned that just because your dreams may seem hazy and out of reach today, does not mean they are unobtainable tomorrow. It may just take a little ‚Äúwhippage”.

Life Coaching Blogs

A Life Coaching Haiku?
March 30, 2009, By Gaia Community
As I am working on creating the next chapter in my life I am exercising all my creative energy. At the moment, one of the projects I’m working on completing is a short story.

What is This Pain?
March 30, 2009, By Laura Fortgang
As a life coach and now, more recently, as an interfaith minister as well, I am called on by people to help them heal their lives. “Let me understand my place. That will bring me peace,” is something I hear often.

Who’s a Fake Coach?
March 29, 2009, 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 “coach”.

You’re Close-Minded
March 29, 2009, By Tim Brownson
How do I know that you in particular aren’t open-minded you may be wondering? It’s because nobody is, including me. It’s a state that doesn’t exist in the human condition in my less than humble opinion. To be properly and genuinely open-minded you first have to accept that you may be close-minded.

Coaching Celebrities
March 26, 2009, By Tolik – Articles World
Coaching celebrities is a great gig if you can get it. But expect to be flexible, available and hard working. It’s also wise to be conservative in your billing. If you do a few of these things and more, you’ll end up with a great client!

Surprises We Should Have Expected
March 25, 2009, By Bob Dale
On the surface, Anxious Andy/Angie is a ‚Äúperfect” coaching client‚Äîmotivated and solution-oriented, on the move and in a hurry. But, Anxious Andy/Angie may be too hurried. When Andy/Angie is being coached, anxiety can propel the process and create an emotional sprint for a solution‚Äîa quick solution.

Negotiating Your Severance Package – Should You?
March 24, 2009, By Cecile Peterkin
Given that the economy is nowhere near as strong as it could be, more and more companies are looking at layoffs as an option that will help them to stay in business. No matter how great you are at your job, there is a risk of the company eliminating your position – and if that happens, it’s likely that they will offer you a severance package. What many people don’t know is that negotiating a severance package is possible.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Healthcare Management: Coaching Case Study
March 31, 2009, By John Coxon
John Coxon & Associates work with managers in hospitals, aged care facilities and medical centres. We provide management consulting services when asked and we work one-to-one with managers in a coaching relationship. This case study involves one of our coaching clients.

GROW Into a Coaching Model
March 30, 2009, By Mike Morrison
The GROW model has been around for some time. It is widely believed that GROW was originally developed by Graham Alexander, who worked with Whitmore. GROW has been used successfully by coaches in sport and business as well as by many organizations as part of a change towards a coaching style of management.

Business Coaching: How To Reduce Lead Generation Costs
March 27, 2009, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
I have strong views on this – your lead generation cost must include an assessment of your time to help you to look across the different ways of attracting prospective customers and making an objective assessment. The easy way to calculate the cost of your time is to decide how much you want to earn and divide it by the number of hours you want to work. That gives you an hourly rate.

Coaching is Largely a Sham and Leaders are Largely Born and Not Made
March 29, 2009, By Ken Nowack
What Evidence Do We Have that Coaching Works? From the survey of 100 respondents who received coaching, Manchester Consulting estimated that coaching resulted in an average return of 5.7 times the initial investment. Furthermore, coaching contributed to a perception of increased productivity for 53 percent of respondents and improved quality of work for 48 percent of the respondents. Of those receiving coaching, 61% reported a significant increase in their level overall level of work and job satisfaction.

Books, Products, & Services

Coaching Yourself to Leadership
March 27, 2009, By Ginny O’Brien
What would happen if a respected business coach gave you a new model for leadership that could help you achieve the happiness, productivity and fulfillment at work you so desire? It would change your life. That’s exactly what author Ginny O’Brien has done.

Publicity Releases

Executive Coaching Helps De-Stress Leaders, Builds Employee Stability
March 31, 2009, PR Newswire (press release) – Rockville, MD, USA
At a time of economic uncertainty, executive coaching helps companies survive and thrive, says executive coach Laurie Hackett-Maddalena. As business executives nervously figure out how to survive as they await a rebound, many are faced with tough decisions regarding overhead and expense reduction.

OSO Restaurant Presents Dinner With Renowned Life Coach Monica Bennett
March 31, 2009, Hamptons.com – Southampton, NY, USA
OSO Restaurant at The Southampton Inn continues its popular mid-winter series featuring Hamptons luminaries in an elegant evening of gourmet dining and sparkling and informative conversation with the people who make The Hamptons what they are with renowned life coach Monica Bennett.