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

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

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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 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.”

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.

Join an Uncommon Conversation with Career Coach Deborah Brown-Volkman
Help Your Clients Find Their Transferable Skills

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

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

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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.

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from April 21st, 2009 – The Perfect Question

Elizabeth Crouch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:00:27 +0000

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Tuesday, April 21
Time: 7:00 – 8:00pm Eastern

Guest: Lable Braun
Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: What is the Perfect Question?

In his recent Coaching Commons article, Les Question Dangereux (Dangerous Questions): “Do I Want What I Want?” Lable refers to the brilliant musical “Camelot,” where the three main characters, King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot suffer the tragic consequences of desperately wanting what they do not really want.

Wanting what they did not really want was the root of these characters’ tragedy. Wanting what we do not really want is the root of all tragedy.

The wish that is granted with disastrous results is a common motif in the traditional stories of humankind. (For a whimsical take on this motif, you might enjoy my story “The Post-Modern Genie.” The Universe is an immense, benevolent Genie. When we ask for something with all our mind, all our heart, all our focus, the Universe will see to it that we get what we wish for. That is why it is crucial that we wish for only what we truly want.

Coaching is the most powerful instrument available today for creating wishes, intention, and focus. The Coach guides the Client in formulating the Quest-ions that will form the template for the Universe’s response to the Client’s wishes. That is an immense, and dangerous, responsibility. Wrong questions will result in the client wanting what they do not really want. Wrong questions can result in tragedy.

In my book, “In Case of Emergency, Ask Questions,” I go back two millennia to find the sources of “The Perfect Question,” the one question that must form the root for any question tree that will result in wanting what we really want. This Perfect Question is an indispensable tool for Coaches as we help our Clients navigate the dangerous terrain of their lives.

Please join Lable for a rich Uncommon Conversation on “The Perfect Question.”

About Lable:

Lable Braun currently pretends to be the Director of Organizational Development for Dialogic. In the past he has also pretended to be a business executive supporting large consulting services organizations. In the more distant past, he has pretended to be a certified Project Management Professional.

Lable is a story-teller, philosophical-mystic, and tarot-reader with a strong pragmatic streak that he has been unsuccessfully trying to deal with for five-and-a-half decades. He just cannot seem to rid himself of the delusion that the Universe ought to make sense.

Lable studied Psychology and Classical Literature at Brooklyn College and has prized his front-row seat to the Human Comedy ever since. He resides in New Jersey with his wonderful wife Virginia and is very proud of the human-beings that his grown daughters Pesi and Leyot have become.

As always, if you can’t attend live, post your thoughts/questions below.

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

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:00:44 +0000

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.

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from April 8th, 2009 – Three Ways to Help You & Your Clients Find Their Great Work!

Elizabeth Crouch — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:42:45 +0000

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Wednesday April 8th

Time: 12 noon – 1pm Eastern Time

Guest: Michael Bungay Stanier
Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: Three Ways to Help You & Your Clients Find Their Great Work!

Coaching has many definitions. One might be: Helping people do more Great Work and less Good Work.

In this practical, interactive and fun teleclass, we’ll cover three exercises you can use immediately with your clients (and on yourself) to help you do more Great Work.

This teleclass is based on Michael Bungay Stanier’s latest book, “Find Your Great Work.” FYGW has been endorsed by such coaching heavy-weights as Marshall Goldsmith, Andrea Lee, Marcia Wieder and seven Past Presidents of the ICF.

David Allen, author of Getting Things Done says: “If I had to pick a person to have dinner with, when I need to be prodded and challenged and inspired to think about the things I really am committed to think about for myself and what I’m doing, I’d pick Michael Bungay Stanier. He has an ability to shake our tree and make us more conscious and responsible about what we know but aren’t willing to admit we know yet. And the best part – he makes it easy and fun.”

More about our Guest:

Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. He is Australian. And Canadian. And British. And has lived and worked in all of these countries, as well as in the United States.

He has spoken at numerous coach conferences, including three ICF Conferences. He has created three viral movies, including The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun, which have been seen by millions of people around the world. He was a Rhodes Scholar and the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year.

Michael can be found here:

=> *Find Your Great Work* – his latest book – available in January.
http://www.FindYourGreatWork.com

=> For organizations wanting more Great Work and less Good Work:
http://www.BoxOfCrayons.biz

=> For inspiring and powerful keynotes and workshops:
http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/professional-keynote-speaker.php

=> For The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun:
http://www.PossibilityVirus.com

As always, please post your thoughts/questions below.

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from March 30th, 2009 – Expressive Arts Coaching with Organizations

Elizabeth Crouch — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:48:42 +0000

Listen to the recording below:

Monday, March 30th
Time: 2pm eastern

Guest: Tamara Herl

Topic: Expressive Arts Coaching with Organizations

What is Expressive Arts Coaching?
How can it be used with organizations?
Why is this work important at this point in the evolution of our planet?

In the course of working for 20 years as an art therapist, Life Coach Tamara Herl realized what a powerful tool Expressive Arts can be in helping individuals awaken. Several years ago she felt called to bring this same awakening process into organizations–both to broaden the impact of her work, and to expedite a shift in organizational consciousness.

During our conversation, Tamara will lead participants through an expressive arts coaching experience and initiate a dialogue about how expressive arts coaching can impact the well being of organizations.

Tamara Herl is a Life Coach who helps clients search within themselves to find answers to their life and career challenges. With a gentle manner and deep wisdom, Tamara facilitates individual coaching, group coaching, and experiential retreats that help people and organizations expand their consciousness by connecting with their creativity.

For more information about Tamara: http://www.tamaraherl.com

As always, please post your thoughts/questions below.

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from March 23rd, 2009 – Executive Coaching for Results, part 3

Elizabeth Crouch — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:36:38 +0000

Listen to the recording below:

Monday, March 23rd
Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern Time

Guest: Brian Underhill, Ph.D.

Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: How Corporations Source and Screen Executive Coaches:
War stories from the trenches

Link to Brian’s slides: www.coach-source.com/Uncommon3.ppt

Brian Underhill has spent 12 years screening executive coaches worldwide and has the scars to prove it! Hear the “behind the scenes” stories in building a pool of over 700 coaches in 37 countries to serve multi-national corporations’ executive coaching requests.

The executive coaching industry has come of age and generated even more questions. In Brian’s first two sessions, he explored this with the following questions:

How do organizations and coaches make the most of this powerful method?
What is the purpose of coaching?
Who should get coaching?
How can you tell coaches apart?
What is the impact of coaching?
How do coaches, leaders, organizations and the C-level leadership assess the impact of coaching?

Next big questions:

How do corporations find and screen coaches?
How are results measured?
How do you and your clients quantify and qualify your coaching results?

Please join us at the Coaching Commons for a robust, interactive discussion with Brian Underhill, author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett-Koehler 2007). Brian draws upon his and his colleagues’ vast experience, best practice knowledge and original rigorous research of the practice of executive coaching in the world’s top organizations.

This Uncommon Conversation is designed for your active participation. This highly inspiring and engaging session is strongly recommended for executive/leadership development, human resources and executive coaches alike. It is a must for anyone responsible for executive coaching in his or her organization.

More about Brian Underhill’s rich experience and background:

Brian O. Underhill, Ph.D. is an industry-recognized expert in the design and management of worldwide executive coaching implementations. His executive coaching work has successfully focused on helping clients achieve positive, measurable, long-term change in leadership behavior. He has also helped pioneer the use of ‚Äúmini-surveys”, unique measurement tool to help impact behavioral change over time. Brian is the Founder of CoachSource and the Alexcel Group.

He is the author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett Koehler: 2007). His most recent article on Agilent Technologies’ coaching program appears in Coaching For Leadership, Second Edition (Pfeiffer: 2006) and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change (Pfeiffer: 2005). He has been a speaker at The Conference Board, Linkage, ASTD New York and LA, HRPS New York, PCMA and other industry events.

Brian’s Partial Client List includes: Agilent Technologies, Allstate, AT&T, Babycenter.com, Biosense Webster, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), Callaway Golf, Dell, Federal Aviation Administration, James Hardie, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, KPMG, Labatt Breweries, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, LifeScan, Lucent Technologies, McNeil Consumer Products, MGM/Mirage, Motorola, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Tribune Company, Unum Provident Corporation and Warner Lambert.

Some of Brian’s non-profit pro-bono work has benefited the Drucker Foundation, the Josephson Institute of Ethics, St. Vincent de Paul Village, Union Rescue Mission and UCLA School of Public Health.
He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (Los Angeles) and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern California. Brian is certified in the Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Process.

Brian lives near Silicon Valley in Northern California. You can reach him here:
(408) 779-9059
brian@coach-source.com
www.coach-source.com

As always, please post your thoughts/questions below.

Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from March 12th, 2009 – The Magic of Mastermind

Elizabeth Crouch — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:42:14 +0000

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Thursday, March 12th
Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm Eastern Time

Guests: Nancy Gerber, PCC and Nancy Spivey
Host: The Coaching Commons

Topic: The Magic of Mastermind ~ Building Communities of Entrepreneurs who Energize, Support and Propel Each Other to Prosper!

Why is it that some business owners seem to thrive no matter what the economy is doing?

Studies show that, in this kind of shifting economic climate, those who collaborate are stronger and will have a greater chance of remaining successful.

There’s a sure fire, proven strategy that that taps into the power of collaboration and supercharges it. This tactic has been used successfully by the savviest entrepreneurs for nearly 300 years!

It’s been used to create powerful business collaborations – relationships that, in our new economic reality, will help you hang in and take the best actions to keep on succeeding.

This strategy is an ‚Äúopen secret” among those top earning and most successful business leaders that we all admire and try to emulate.

It’s called a Mastermind Group!

Consistent collaboration with accomplished allies is a time tested and powerful strategy guaranteed to help you reach and exceed your goals. Be creative, be bold, be encouraging, be delighted while you develop your wonderful ideas with respectful feedback from your powerful allies in a mastermind group.

Let’s discover and talk about the ‘nuts and bolts’ of Masterminding!

More about our guests:

Nancy Gerber, PCC
It’s no small wonder Nancy Gerber is known as the ‚ÄúConnection Magician.” From solopreneurs to CEO’s, high tech consultants to artists, chiropractors to community organizations, she has a knack for empowering her clients to discover their authentic selves, build robust relationships and bond with their larger community.

Her on-line community, Marketing Mambo.com, ‚ÄúThe Dance of Connection That Creates Lifetime Customers – One Step At a Time”, was created for unconventional entrepreneurs who want to find and keep their best customers without losing their souls.

A Professional Certified Coach since 1999, Nancy is an internationally published writer and Certified Teleconference Leader who has facilitated hundreds of learning programs over the phone for thousands of people all over the world. She is also a popular speaker who has given presentations on three continents.

With over 35 years of experience as a coach, consultant and educator, from her background and training in Psychology to her work with some of today’s most high profile marketing and business experts, this lady is all about connection.

Nancy Spivey
People call Nancy Spivey ‚ÄúThe Real Deal”. An insightful visionary, Nancy has the rare ability to implement practical practices that help her clients turn their intentions into action.

The CEO and founder of Atlanta-based Transformation Consultants, Inc., Nancy is genetically wired to hold the reins. From parents to grandparents to cousins, all are successful entrepreneurs. At age 14, when her business owner Uncle handed her a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, it set in motion an already determined young woman. From her first glass etching business at 19 to a highly successful coaching and training company, Nancy discovered early on that change is inevitable but transformation is a choice.

‚ÄúIt’s not about what happens to you. It’s what you do about what happens to you that is life altering,” Nancy says. Whether it’s facing your fears or driving your ideas to the finish line, Nancy’s balance of knowing her clients ‚Äúessence” and putting into motion deliberate, laser beam-like plans for action make this ‚ÄúReal Deal” woman a sought after speaker, coach and consultant.

She has helped thousands of clients from such diverse categories as Real Estate, Staffing, Sales and Marketing and Technology transform their lives and business through an innate ability to cut through the chaff and get down to what matters.

You can learn more about our guests here:
www.TheMagicofMastermind.com
theNancys@theMagicofMastermind.com

As always, please post your thoughts/questions below.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – February 12, 2009

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:00:53 +0000

Editor’s Note: Breakthroughs, large and small, have allowed us to advance as human beings. This week’s Chronicle theme is finding the single breakthrough that leads to personal progress. One ‚ÄòSupergirl’ had a major breakthrough when she realized the price of being ‚Äòperfect’, a cost women across the United States are paying. A Miami firm helps women recover from a life of poverty. One UK life coach helps a whole town deal with a fitness problem, while another coach thinks that viewing life as a movie can help give a client new perspective and direction. This week, identify barriers and find a way to break through!

Join the Coaching Commons on February 18th for an Uncommon Conversation
with Brian Underhill, author of Executive Coaching for Results:
The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders

Executive/Business Coaching

Opinion: What Are Your Clients Teaching You?
February 10, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
One of the characteristics that sets great coaches apart from their more average colleagues is an attitude of open-mindedness, curiosity and a willingness for self-examination. And one the quickest places to discover more about you, your attitudes and your hidden strategies is to look at the kind of clients you tend to attract.

Coaching the Top Team: Time for the Team Talk
February 9, 2009, PersonnelToday.com – UK
The problem with a downturn is that leaders can have a tendency to wade through difficult times alone, while their peers and direct reports keep quiet for fear of losing their jobs. Hence the need for coaching arises, with its promise of creating communicative and cohesive teams.

3 Issues Remain Key to Growing a Business
February 9, 2009, Gary Post Tribune – Gary, IN, USA
Take-action business coaching tip: Review these three issues and determine if they are important today or will be important tomorrow. Establish goals to ensure that your actions will secure you a competitive advantage.

Sisters Team Up to Coach CEOs, Corporate Leaders
February 8, 2009, Charleston Gazette – WV, USA
A coach says, ‘What do you think is wrong in your department? What do you think you could do more effectively?’” “It’s hard to define executive coaching,”…

Managing Fear in Your Business
February 4, 2009, BusinessZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Challenging times bring uncertainty into our lives. We all have to manage our reaction to this and this means moving beyond our fears. Successful organizations will be the ones that have authentic leaders setting the right example for those around them.

Life Coaching

Stressed Out! The Life of a ‚ÄòSupergirl’
February 10, 2009, MSNBC – USA
Says Cathy Wasserman, a Brooklyn-based life and career coach: “This is something that I see in my practice as a psychotherapist and career and executive coach every day, but in the last three to five years, I’ve seen a significant deepening in this trend.

Life Coach: Recovering From Knee Surgery
February 9, 2009, Telegraph.co.uk – UK
Our panel of experts answers your questions on everything from recovering from knee surgery to stopping your cats from straying too far.

Coaching Questions: Question Time
February 9, 2009, PersonnelToday.com – UK
Questions are at the heart of coaching. What makes a good one? Renewed interest in the effect questions have on the brain has brought to light their importance in coaching dialogue.

Motivational Coach Teaches Unemployed How to Say, ‘I Will Find Work’
February 8, 2009, Baltimore Sun – United States
One by one, the 30 strangers will go around the room sharing how they wound up here – out of a job and on unemployment benefits. First, Rufus Miller breaks the ice with a motivational speaker’s zeal, smiling tightly as if to convey empathy but determination, too. “It’s great to meet you here, though it’s unfortunate that you’re unemployed,” he says. “But this is the beginning of other things, do you agree?”

How to Tell Your Kids You Lost Your Job
February 6, 2009, CBS News – New York, NY, USA
Laura Berman Fortgang, career and life coach and author of “Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction,” shared the dos and don’ts of how and when you should tell your kids that you’ve lost your job with Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.

Helping the Body, Mind and Spirit
February 6, 2009, Connellsville Daily Courier – Connellsville, PA, USA
“The biggest difference between coaching and counseling is that I don’t work with someone who has mental challenges or mental illnesses,” Harkcom said. “Also, a coach doesn’t tell a client what to do. We believe they have the answer inside of them and we just help them find those answers.”

Helping Hand: Business of Life Coaching is About Helping Clients Reach their Personal Goals, Make Decisions and Find Solutions to Problems
February 6, 2009, LubbockOnline.com – Lubbock, TX, USA
Coaches help athletes train and condition to reach their goals, be they individual or team goals. Life coaches apply the same logic to helping individuals reach personal goals.

TV Life Coach Bids to Get Town Fit
February 5, 2009, Shropshire Star – Telford, England, UK
Television life coach Pete Cohen is spearheading a move to get a Shropshire market town fit. The GMTV star was in Ellesmere this week helping to recruit…

Life Coach: Keeping Your Pitcher Full
February 5, 2009, Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
Jan dove into our coaching session by talking about how busy she had been lately. Being a stay-at-home mom, there weren’t slow times or busy seasons as may be the case in a business office. Every day was just as busy as the day before.

Marketing Guru Says Make Yourself into a Brand to Succeed
February 5, 2009, Sun-Sentinel.com – Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Miller, 58, had been going back to school to become a life coach. She has since received her certification through International Coach Academy and is…

Help to Put Life Back in Balance
February 4, 2009, Where I Live – News Community Media – Metro, Australia
The workshops combine life coaching with meditation and relaxation exercises to tackle stress management and increase personal wellness and satisfaction.

Miami Women’s Shelter Blooms in Crime-Ridden Area
February 3, 2009, The Associated Press
At any given time there are up to 50 residents and 16 infants at the shelter, which puts a heavy emphasis on using art to help women recast their lives. The women receive life coaching, day care assistance and prenatal care. They can attend daily meditation and classes in art, creative writing, jewelry making, cooking and yoga.

For Super Bowl XLIII MVP Holmes, a Quiet Celebration
February 3, 2009, USA Today – USA
Said (Super Bowl winning) Coach Mike Tomlin: “That’s the business of coaching, really. When you work the way we work with these players, you’re a life coach in a lot of ways. …”

Niche Coaching

Caregiver Coach: Dementia Doesn’t Mean an End to a Rich Life
February 3, 2009, Sierra Vista Herald – Sierra Vista, AZ, USA
Having Alzheimer’s in no way takes you off the sacred journey of life. It might get you off kitchen duties. It takes you out of the driving seat of life and your car, but in no way does it make your daily journey irrelevant, useless or empty.

Study Evaluates Effectiveness of Coaching for ADHD Students
February 2009, ADDitude – New York, NY, USA
The Edge Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides personal coaching for students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), announced a $1 million research study to determine the effectiveness of personal coaching on the academic and social performance of students with ADHD.
NOTE: The Edge Foundation received a partial grant for this research from The Foundation of Coaching, a project of the Harnisch Foundation.

Life Coaching Blogs

What Kind of Movie is Your Life?
February 9, 2009, By Jack Ito, Relationship Coach
Now, suppose that your life is a movie that other people somewhere (another dimension?) are watching. Is it a good movie in which people can empathize with you, see that you are solving your problems, taking corrective action even when it is risky, and getting some resolution in your life?

Depressed Over an Impending Divorce? 5 Natural Treatments
February 9, 2009, By Shannon Cook, Personal Coach
The premise of her book is: Before you can have, you must do; before you can do, you must think; before you can think, you must be. Examining in retrospect the process that enabled her to manifest major life changes within a short time span, Nina has added a few simple steps to this premise and packaged it in delightfully simple language.

Should She Quit or Forgive Her Boss?
February 6, 2009, By Matthew Ferry
Jan is upset! She is an executive for a big time home builder and she’s about to walk out! Her boss, a long time client of mine, is not playing by her rules! In her mind, ‚ÄúHe’s undermining me and ruining my reputation.” Listen to this life coaching call as I walk her through taking responsibility and getting her power back. Then read her email below.
Note: Audio not reviewed

Taking a Monkey Census: The Coach Approach
February 5, 2009, By Bob Dale
I watch the ‚ÄúCoach-Client-Solution triangle” in my coaching conversations. I intend to establish a strong Coach-Client relationship. And, I deliberately try to clarify the Coach-Solution issue. I have direct access to and some accountability for those two sides of the triangle.

Getting Started as a Coach: Getting to a Student-Centered Coaching Focus
February 5, 2009, By Diane Sweeney
The challenge is that many times teachers request a teacher-centered focus for coaching. In these cases, it is up to the coach to help the teacher take a step back to discover their goals for students. The following conversation is an example of how I help teachers shift the focus towards a more explicit goal for students.

Road Map for Life
February 4, 2009, By Gina Baksa
The million-dollar question: how can you reach your destination, if you don’t know where you’re going? Having direction doesn’t mean you can’t change your destination whenever you want. Or revise your goals. Allow yourself to be flexible.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Sometimes, the Best Coaching is ‚ÄúStop!”
February 6, 2009, By mayogenuine
An executive coach once asked me, ‚ÄúIs it ever appropriate to interrupt while your client is speaking?” My response is, ‚ÄúYes,” for the following reasons‚Ä¶

Coping With the Stress of It All
February 6, 2009, By Tim Sharp
At the same time, however, there’s also no doubt that my training in clinical psychology as well as executive coaching and positive psychology have equipped me with the knowledge and skills to help people deal with these difficulties, and it’s this experience and these skills that I’d like to share with you today.

Trust Your Own Judgment
February 5, 2009, By Rich Levin
I asked if it worked for them. If it did, I said to keep doing it and offered some ideas on doing it better. If it didn’t, I asked what they would do differently and between us we figured it out. I call those “coaching moments” in front of the group. It’s just what we do in our small group coaching sessions.

The Top Ten Marketing Mistakes Small Businesses Make
February 5, 2009, By Becki Noles
Marketing is critical to the success of every business. Unfortunately, many businesses discount the effect it can have, and they forgo marketing because they believe they can’t afford it or simply don’t have the time or energy to create a plan.

Roles of Executive Coach and Career Coach
February 3, 2009, By Boss Advice
One of the chief questions that arise in the executive community is whether you require an executive coach or not. Coaching is a procedure which involves learning, transforming and growing into a new individual. It is the nucleus of executive development. It is an implicit prerequisite of any person who desires to progress.

NCC Coaching Trends 2009 Interview No. 8: Don H. Morris
February 1, 2009, By New Coach Connection Blog
Although, as previous guests in this series have said, the coaching industry is alive and well, in my opinion the profession of coaching is in its infancy. Coaching lacks a theoretical framework, a professional association that is independent and has the means and the clout to sanction members who violate the ethical code and standards of practice‚Ä¶.
Editor’s Note: Audios not reviewed

Business Coaching Statistics: Gaining a Competitive Edge during a Recession
February 2009, By Lyn Troyer
The study revealed that those who were coached had a positive change in personal work habits. This is instrumental to changing your business during a recession. Here are some of the statistics this study shows us about business coaching…

Books, Products, & Services

Life Coach Offers Free eBook
February 9, 2009, Eastside Business Journal – Bellevue, WA, USA
Nina Durfee, ACC is a certified professional coach, meditation instructor, writer, and founder of LifeSculpt. For a limited time, she offers her eBook for free: Full Bloom – 7 Practical Steps to Get What You Want +1 to Grow On.

Publicity Releases

E-Source Business Coach to Help Entrepreneurs Sustain Through …
February 9, 2009, Franchising.com (press release) – Windham, ME, USA
Dante Vespignani brings over 20 years experience in business operations and management to help aspiring and existing entrepreneurs sail through this turbulent economy and prepare them to soar once the clouds clear. Vespignani, former franchise operations director for over 800 Arby’s Restaurants, has been extensively trained as an E-Source Business Coach‚Ä¶