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

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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.”

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

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.

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.