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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

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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 – May 7, 2009

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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.

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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

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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.”

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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 – March 19, 2009

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Editor’s Note: For those feeling a loss of control in their lives because of the changing global environment, The Chronicle is filled with options this week. Is it time to retrain and start a business? One man chose that option, started a coaching business and found the timing was perfect. Not sure WHAT options are available? Career coaches suggest people look ‚Äúinward before looking outward” to explore what kind of work truly inspires them. There are options for networking, choices to make courageous life leaps or guidance toward carefully measured and planned changes. Optimize your self-image, turn your mom-skills into life/work skills, and learn to stop putting limits on yourself. Find options to rethink almost every area of life. Executive coaching classes at Wharton are addressing the significance of an individual’s response to change. Take a moment and look at the all the options for change that coaches offer this week. And for those who are still uneasy, Martha Beck suggests a first step, ‚Äúlearn to trust yourself” with a trusty trust-o-meter.

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Executive/Business Coaching

Coaching Can Break the Glass Ceiling, Study Finds
March 17, 2009 – Institute of Leadership & Management – London, UK
Coaching schemes can help women break through the glass ceiling, according to a new report. However, despite the usefulness of training in helping female workers advance their careers, the study conducted by the Institute of Employment Studies (IES) also found that they are less likely to be offered development opportunities than their male colleagues.
NOTE: The Foundation of Coaching, a former project of The Harnisch Foundation, was a funding partner of this research.

Navigating Life’s Changes
March 16, 2009 – Philadelphia Inquirer – Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shea, 56, teaches management in executive-coaching classes at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. And the way he sees it, the most important thing to manage – whether one is an executive or an individual on the job – is one’s response to change.

Prime Time for Graduates to be Own Bosses
March 15, 2009 – Times Online – UK
He also retrained as an executive and business coach but when he announced his plans to start Capitalise Change, his own executive coaching business, at the beginning of a recession, his friends in banking thought he was mad. ‚ÄúPeople thought I was nuts,” he said, ‚Äúbut it turned out to be perfect timing.”

Productivity Guru Faces Changes of Downturn
March 15, 2009 – The Associated Press
The 64-year-old author started his coaching business more than a decade ago in a cottage behind the house he shares with his wife in Ojai, near Santa Barbara. Allen’s ideas about personal productivity started taking shape in the 1970s as he delved into the personal growth movement sweeping the state. His most recent book, “Making It All Work,” is about applying GTD (getting things done) more deeply to all aspects of life.

Bear Stearns Castoff Takes Leap of Faith
March 13, 2009 – The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
What I would suggest to people, especially people who have been dreaming about doing it but have no point of reference, there are professionals out there who can help you. My wife joined the Essex County Chamber of Commerce and it was through them that we found our business coach. She helped to focus me. Any business coach with a decent reputation will take elements from an accountant, an MBA, a project manager and a teacher. They can tell you what’s a mistake, what’s good and they’ll give you guidance.

Coach Effect Inc. Launches Career Management Solutions for Senior Level Employees
March 13, 2009 – Chief Learning Officer – Oakland, CA, USA
Coach Effect Inc. announces the launch of individualized career management solutions for manager and senior-level job seekers. The solutions address the need to support unemployed individuals, or those who are employed but emotionally disengaged, by providing resume review consultation, interview preparation and accountability groups. Also provided are services for career direction coaching and ‚ÄúBack in Control” coaching programs.

The 10 Biggest Mistakes IT Managers Make
March 12, 2009 – TechRepublic – Louisville, KY, USA
Certain common IT management mistakes can make you less effective, hamper your career advancement, and even jeopardize your job. Executive coach Joey Smith has spent years working with IT management and he put together this list of the mistakes he’s seen most often.

Coaches Help Jobless Baby Boomers Work Out Frustrations, New Careers
March 12, 2009 – Dallas Morning News – Dallas, TX, USA
Career coaches usually put clients through a battery of self-assessment tests to discover their interests, skills and strengths. “You have to know yourself before you can identify the right career,” Harkness said. “I ask my clients to look inward before they look outward.”

Life Coaching

York Life Coaches in Britain’s Next Top Coach Competition
March 16, 2009 The Press – York, North Yorkshire, UK
Three women from York are locked in an online voting battle to be crowned Britain’s Next Top Coach. Each entrant has produced a short video giving their top life coaching tip and members of the public are invited to vote for the contestant they find most inspirational.

A New Kind of Easter Makeover for Ladies: Character Revamp
March 14, 2009 – Examiner.com – USA
As a life coach, I begin a coaching relationship with the belief that my client is creative, resourceful and able to find truth within that reveals who she is and what she wants. I am a safe place for exploration and discovery, and when it is time to move forward, I am a source of encouragement with appropriate support, challenges and accountability.

Life Coach: Take your Books Out of my Backpack
March 12, 2009 – Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
Coaching challenge: If you think of your level of responsibility like a backpack, what is in your backpack? What do you carry around needlessly or carry for someone else? What could be removed? It’s easy to add one more thing into a backpack until the weight of the backpack becomes overwhelming. If you feel irritated or frustrated, it may be time to sort through your backpack to see what needs to be removed.

Layoff Survival: Ways to Keep your Skills Sharp
March 12, 2009 – The Associated Press
Social networking, he said, is a good place to get acquainted with the expanding possibilities online. It’s an area that is easily self-taught, and one that can have numerous applications once you’re back in the workplace. As a bonus, establishing a network of contacts can also help during a job hunt. Pointing to a 24-year-old staffer at his company who has 4,000 “friends” on MySpace and 300 connections on LinkedIn, Straits said, and ‚ÄúHe will never have a problem connecting to a position.”

Use Trust-o-Meter to Find Dependable People
March 11, 2009 – CNN – USA
“As soon as you trust yourself,” wrote Goethe, “you will know how to live.” To discern between people who might save your life and those who might ruin it, you must be reliable, honest — in a word, trustworthy — toward yourself. And we do this far less often than most people realize. I’m about to reveal one of my favorite life coaching tricks, which I’ve used on literally thousands of people. In the middle of a speech or coaching session, I’ll suddenly say, “Are you comfortable?” Take the Trust Test.

Niche Coaching

How Business Coaching Can Help Your Firm
March 17, 2009 Kitchen and Bath Design News – Melville, NY, USA
The advent of business coaching services may be the single, most important industry development for independent kitchen/bath dealers to leapfrog ahead in revenue and net profit growth. After all, a business is a tool to get what you want out of life. And in my view, business coaching is the best tool available to date to get what you want out of your business. It bridges the gap between gaining knowledge and taking action on that knowledge.

Wealth Coach Shares her Tips
March 16, 2009 – Florida Today – Melbourne, FL, USA
She also will talk about financial cycles, the economy and different forms of money management, including investing in ourselves. “Women are getting beyond it, but I think our biggest issue is that we put limits on ourselves, and we don’t need to. They’re false limits,” she said. “We aren’t limited beings.”

Style Coach Jandi Girard Shares Clothes Shopping Tips with Sara Perry
March 15, 2009 – The Oregonian – OregonLive.com – Portland, OR, USA
Girard is a trained and certified style coach. An informative, positive and kind style coach whose passion is helping her clients look and feel their best in the clothes they own and the clothes they would like to purchase. Unlike a personal shopper, who is a commissioned salesperson with an inventory to sell, Girard and her team are certified coaches who are working for you.

Asthma “Coaches” Keep Kids Out of the Hospital
March 12, 2009 – Reuters – USA
Community health workers acting as asthma coaches are able to reduce the need for rehospitalization for asthma episodes among children in low-income families, researchers report in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Moms Mean Business: Lori Aleknavicius, Family Coach
March 11, 2009 – MSNBC – USA
Family Matters is a business where I work as a family coach, helping families with specific problems in their home environment. For example, I can work with parents to assist them with transitioning their 5-year-old child to sleeping in his/her own bed instead of sleeping with his/her parents, or to help build relationships and set up household rules for children in newly blended families.

Life Coaching Blogs

Open to a Life Coaching Moment: The Road to Being Fired…. Probation
March 16, 2009 – By Lisa Spahr- A life coach for better living!
This blog is meant to be two-fold in its purpose: (1) warn you that your personality matters and can help or hinder your success and (2) a few tips on what to do if YOU land on probation (at work).

Optimize Your Self-Image: “Spring” into Spring with a Vision Board
March 15, 2009 – By Higher-Self Life Coaching
Vision Boards have been around for years, and the concept was popularized when a book called, ‚ÄúThe Secret,” was published. Vision Boards are very simple, yet extremely powerful. Now, normally I usually explain to all of you my experiences with certain challenges and then I share how I was able to deal with them. However, in this case, I have not yet done a vision board, so I will be creating one at the very same time as all of you

Can Life Coaching Stop Global Warming? Guidance for Those Who Desire a Healthy, Sustainable World
March 12, 2009 – By Health Education
Life coaches can’t stop global warming on their own. Nor can they single-handedly create a world where all have the opportunity for a healthy and enjoyable life, nations are at peace, people of all races and backgrounds enjoy equal rights, humans respect other living beings, and leaders behave ethically. However, if socially and ecologically conscious individuals and organizations take full advantage of what life coaching has to offer, then a vision for a healthy and sustainable world is within our collective reach.

Lifestyle: Living Life Out Loud
March 12, 2009 – By Michael Moniz
These are my 10 tips I suggest for living your life out loud. These should help you get the most of your life and to live in the present. But this is not a complete list, there are many, many more we could add. I know you have tons of ideas how to live your life out loud, please share them in the comments below! Michael Moniz is a life coach focusing on the LGBT community.

Christian-Life-Coaching: A Life, A Testimony
March 12, 2009 – By James Thomas
This video is a little snapshot of my journey. I started as a hard-charging adventurer, outdoorsman, firefighter and emergency medical technician. How did I get from there to a relationship-focused stress management coach? The video below is a short version of a story that is unfolding over a lifetime.
NOTE: Video not reviewed.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Coaching is Top Best Practice for Talent Management
March 17, 2009 – By admin
Bersin and Associates did two years of research and analysis of a million data points and found the top 22 talent management processes that drive the highest business impact. They provide the full list on their website that you can use as a priority list to guide your talent management strategy. The list is great, but I was particularly excited to see the number one for impact is formal or well established coaching programs for employees.

12 Questions That Show Good or Poor Managerial Performance
March 15 – By John Gaynard’s Creativity and Innovation Blog
The 12 questions are presented below in order of importance (the wording has been slightly adapted by me for this exercise). The good or great manager will not necessarily have “yes” answers to every question, but even if there are six or seven his or her performance will be better than average.

The Art of Resilience in the Global Era
March 14, 2009 – By Anne Egros
Providing training to employees to develop skills and knowledge they need to perform their job is not employee coaching. Coaching is not about giving advices, consulting or giving solutions. Telling employees what to do is not coaching and that is why managers usually cannot coach their employees themselves.

Powerfull Living: Do You Have Courage To Be Authentic?
March 14, 2009 – By lorraine
What’s your definition of authenticity? Does being authentic matter to you? With whom do you feel the most comfortable to be who you are? In what situations do you hide who you are? What is one thing you can do today to bring authenticity into more areas of your life?

Mark Hoaglin’s Small Biz Success Blog: Delegate Don’t Abdicate
March 14, 2009 – By “Coach” Mark Hoaglin
There’s a difference between delegating and abdicating. Abdicating is giving up total control with no future involvement on your part as the owner. I can’t think of any responsibility in a business that would cause an owner to abdicate it. Delegating on the other hand is entrusting someone in your organization with a responsibility that you then hold them accountable for.

Books, Products, & Services

The Not So Famous Julia Roberts Offers Life Coaching
March 13, 2009 – NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) – USA
Julia Roberts can be found at Motherhood to Otherhood.com. She is author of ‚ÄúMotherhood to Otherhood: Step Up to a New You. Use the Lessons Learned as a Mom to Create a New Life.”

Publicity Releases

Noble Manhattan Launches Course In Romanian
March 16, 2009 1888 Press Release (press release) – Alief, TX, USA
(1888PressRelease) March 17, 2009 – Noble Manhattan Coaching are delighted to announce that having been operating in Romania for over one year now they are opening a full-time office in the capital Bucharest. They are now delighted to be offering their full practitioner coach training programme in the Romanian language.

How to Become an Etiquette and Manners Coach and Consultant
March 13, 2009 – NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) – USA
Impression Management, Image and Style and Etiquette and the Business and Social Graces for a total of ten days of personal training with Gloria Starr for an investment of $16,000.US dollars and realize a savings of $1000. In addition to the ten days of training with Ms. Starr, your investment also includes six months of mentoring by phone, fax and email to further enhance your business growth.

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

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Editor’s Note: Cartoonist Bill Watterson is quoted as saying, ‚ÄúI’m not in denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.” Reality can look very different when observed from different perspectives. This week’s Chronicle is about the power of perspective. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has input from life coaches about growing personally during layoffs. A life coach in California says that finding happiness is simply a matter of choice. One doctor sees health coaching as a new way for doctors to avoid dealing with insurance companies and malpractice lawsuits. The owner of a closing design shop wishes she had sought the outside perspective of a small-business coach more frequently. Sometimes changing perspectives can make all the difference. The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, designed to show where and how coaching appears in the popular culture worldwide. It is not intended to be a summary service nor a news roundup, although it may serve that purpose for some readers. The Chronicle is new each Thursday morning. Compiled and edited by Alex Goldsmith and Linda Ballew.

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Executive/Business Coaching

What to Know About Coaching Your Successor
March 10, 2009, BusinessWeek – USA
Preparing your successor can be a leader’s greatest challenge. If you handle it the right way while you are still at an organization, it can mean that your successor enters to applause while you bow out gracefully. So what do you need to know about coaching so you can ensure a smooth transition?

Need to Know: Coach Yourself
March 10, 2009, PersonnelToday.com – UK
Having a coach to help us work through difficult situations or make important changes can be a wonderful thing. However, such resources do not come cheap and not all of us can afford the luxury. Fortunately, we can all have a coach any time at no cost: we can learn to coach ourselves.

Discover Client’s Needs for Productive Sales Call
March 9, 2009, Gary Post Tribune – Gary, IN, USA
My first thought is, another sales call about something I do not need. The first few words turned me off, left me cold and sounded like everyone else. My emotions are stone-cold frozen and quickly spreading throughout my entire office. Brrrrrrr!!!!! Sales Coaching Tip: This is why cold calling is named cold calling, because it creates ice.

Recession-Busting ‚Äî How to Be Part of the Recovery
March 9, 2009, Henley Standard – Henley, UK
Through project teams, the commercial group is addressing subjects such as parking, traffic flow, residents’ amenities and attracting new businesses. Barbara Richardson, chairwoman of the commercial group, has also negotiated a special business coaching offer with the aim of improving the business performance of existing local enterprises.

Needing a Fresh Set of Eyes
March 9, 2009, Crain’s Chicago Business – Chicago, IL, USA
After opening Lakeside Interiors in Wilmette 4¬Ω years ago, Fern Allison met “occasionally” with a small-business coach. In hindsight, she says, she needed more help, especially as the economy worsened.

Boosting Your International Success with Coaching and Mentoring
March 9, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
Why do international lawyers hire coaches or seek mentors? Often, it’s to help them exceed their prior performance. Perhaps they want to develop more clients globally, make partner, get promoted, or become leaders within their law firms or field.

Executive Q&A with Jay McCurry: Corporate Trainer Finds His Niche
March 8, 2009, NewsOK.com – Oklahoma City, OK, USA
McCurry’s corporate training sessions focus on customer service, leadership development, conflict resolution and executive coaching. But that just describes his past three years.

Investing for Success!
March 6, 2009, Online Recruitment – UK
Yet all too often one of the first things to be cut, during periods of change, are the budgets related to managing and developing talent; when in actual fact this should be seen as a time to invest – assuming this investment is in the right place! For example, let’s look at investment in executive coaching and whether it should be for all or just the select few.

Is It Time for Coaching to Don Some New Clothes?
March 4, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Olivia Stefanino suggests that it’s time for coaches to roll up their sleeves and offer practical help and prove their versatility if they don’t want to lose their shirt in these recessionary times.

Life Coaching

When Layoffs Hit, Look for Ways to Grow, Life Coaches Say
March 9, 2009, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
The Seattle P-I talked with local life coaches in Seattle about how to cope with change and prepare yourself to explore the unknown. Career coaches will tell you how to revamp your r√©sum√© and tap into transferable skills, but life coaches can help revamp attitude and map out a future that heretofore was unforeseeable.

Workshops Offered for Parents and Teens From Local Life Coach
March 6, 2009, Sparks Today – Sparks, NV, USA
Teens have always gravitated towards Life Coach Lesia Knudsen, and parents have always called to ask her for help. The Sparks resident knows she has a special gift and has made her passion for young adults the focal point of communication workshops she conducts for parents and teens.

Why You Should Hire a Life Coach
March 6, 2009, U.S. News & World Report – Washington, DC, USA
While hiring a coach can seem like a wasteful indulgence during a recession, the people I interviewed told me that it was during tough times, or times of transition, that they most valued such targeted mentoring. Still, with the average coach costing around $500 per hour, it doesn’t come cheap.

In This Economy, Ask Yourself the Right Questions
March 6, 2009, Fox Business – USA
While so many people in our nation right now are frantically searching for answers that will keep life as they know it afloat and intact, one man wonders this: Do they even know the question?
Note: Lable Braun has contributed several blog entries to the Coaching Commons.

Life Coaching Blogs

Widows and Dating: The Differences Between Men and Women
March 9, 2009, By Widows Breath Coaching
Men are not like women. They are built differently, they think differently and they act differently. (Thank goodness‚Ä¶who really wants her man to be a woman?) You may think that this is obvious, right? Yet we women often look to our men to react as we ourselves do.

What Is a Health Coach, and Why Are They Paid $121 an Hour?
March 9, 2009, By Kevin Pho MD
Some sites promise $121 an hour (“at least”), without having to leave home, and there are no worries about malpractice. Imagine what those with an actual medical degree can do as a health coach. It’s no wonder why so many physicians are leaving medicine, and finding cash-only alternative medical practices so appealing.

How Are the Guys Doing?
March 9, 2009, By Daisy Swan
I work with a lot of men and have been thinking a lot about what male ‘issues’ vs. female ‘issues’ are. There have been a lot of things written lately about how men have been affected more by the economic downturn than women.

How to Sit Down With the Kids and Tell Them You’re Divorcing
March 9, 2009, By Shannon Cook
There are few conversations a parent dreads more than the one where it is time to explain that mommy and daddy are getting a divorce, and that the picture of their lives as they know it is about to change forever. No parent wants to cause their children pain, and unfortunately there will be hurt, confusion, and anger as a result of announcing this life transition.

Bahamian Coaching
March 7, 2009, By Center for Positive Change
We took a grand tour of the Bahamian flats firsthand, led by one of the most sincere and trusted coaching guides on the planet. His skill, coaching approach, humor, and wisdom were amazing. He taught us how to appreciate life again, and how to sing to the fish, how to use stealthy casts, and how to laugh at ourselves.

Dating or Love – You Choose
March 7, 2009, By Carolin Dahlman, Love Coach
Dating columnist Sam Brett has started a booty school and will offer one-on-one coaching. That’s great. The more people helping others to fall in love the better. I love “competition”. If more people realize that they probably need more than another 10 blind dates to find love, there will be more happy relationships.

Church and Society
March 6, 2009, By Tom Nankervis
Life coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual who wants to make positive life changes. The Rev. Jim Robey, a United Methodist elder endorsed as a life coach, views the process as a way to help a person move into the ‚Äúfullness of life” which Jesus offers.
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Top Ten Things You Would Never Hear a Coach Say
March 5, 2009, By Angie
Coaching is about the client and NOT about the coach, usually. Sometimes a coaching experience might be worth a share if a coachee is stuck – but not usually. It’s all about them – not you.

Would a Writing Coach Help?
March 5, 2009, By Word Grrls Blog
First, a writing coach can help you stay focused and on point with your current project or goal. Next, a writing coach can help you over those rough spots when you’re stuck in a rut or aren’t sure which avenue to take next. In addition, a writing coach is someone who encourages and supports your efforts, yet offers concrete suggestions to assist you in reaching the next level on your creative journey.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Now is a Great Time to Start a Home Based Business
March 9, 2009, By David B. Bohl
I know we are all concerned about economic conditions these days, with massive job layoffs, declining housing markets, and plunging stock prices. Yet, the rise in unemployment has created a great opportunity for those who have entrepreneurial dreams.

Open-Ended Questions – Tools for Engagement
March 9, 2009, By Marcy Nelson-Garrison
What a pleasant surprise to show up at a recent Minnesota Coaches Association meeting and see that my deck of Q? Basics, was part of the program. The presenters greeted attendees at the door with a basket of the open-ended questions and we were each invited to draw a random card.

Business Coaching: Men, Why It’s Time to Look at Women’s Magazines
March 7, 2009, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
Twice in the last week I have received the tip that to improve my ability to write headlines, I should take a look at women’s magazines. Just to be clear, that’s magazines written for women and not the top shelf magazines with photos of naked women.

10 Questions to Find Out if You Suck at Wealth Management
March 4, 2009, By John Mckee
Many leaders are dissatisfied with their personal life and financial situation. In this blog, leadership coach John M McKee suggests managing each of the three key life elements to ensure satisfaction over the long haul.

Books, Products, & Services

Choose Joy: You Have the Power to Improve Your Life, Says Author
March 4, 2009, Daily Breeze – Torrance, CA, USA
It is perhaps appropriately ironic that the day I was scheduled to interview Michelle DeAngelis about her book, “Get a Life That Doesn’t Suck: 10 Surefire Ways to Live Life and Love the Ride,” I got into a car accident. What better way to brush off life’s little accidents than with the help of a life coach who, naturally, specializes in dispelling dissatisfaction?

Publicity Releases

Margaret Lynch, Success Coach and Author, to Guest of ‚ÄúBare Naked With Nora Klaver”
March 10, 2009, PR Urgent – Oak Park, IL, USA
‚ÄúBare Naked with Nora Klaver”, Voiceamerica’s popular internet radio program, welcomes author Margaret Lynch to the March 12th episode. Lynch is a Success Coach, an Emotional Freedom Technique Expert and an author who has written a series of books called the ‚ÄúSecret of Intentional Wealth”.

La Dolce Vita Retreats. Empowering Women to Live the Life They Envision
March 9, 2009, BigNews.biz (press release) – Irvine, CA, USA
The long-time dream of mompreneur and professional Life Coach, Janice Briggs, created the company to help provide women with international travel opportunities that combine experiential learning and creative self-expression to enhance the mind, body and spirit.

Got Coaching? Try Coaching for Commitment – Rare Author-Led Public Workshop Scheduled
March 7, 2009, PR.com (press release) – Pueblo West, CO, USA
Coe and Zehnder are best known for their work as executive coaches, keynote speakers and master facilitators. They work with clients internationally to help them improve their leadership quotient, management and coaching skills, employee engagement and retention, team effectiveness, operations and ultimately the bottom line.

American Health Announces New Disease Management and Lifestyle/Wellness Programs
March 5, 2009, Marketwire – Worthington, OH, USA
Program highlights include disease management and lifestyle coaching; interactive online tools; at-home and onsite biometric testing; onsite and online educational programs; and disease-specific equipment, such as glucose meters, weight scales, and blood pressure cuffs, which are equipped to send electronic readings to American Health’s Nurse Coaches.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – February 26, 2009

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Editor’s Note: In this week’s Chronicle, coaches and clients worldwide are navigating through workplace changes. A coaching practice in Canada is healing relationships at work and at home, while businesses in India are seeking the assistance of executive coaches more than ever. Career coaches are working with clients to help give them confidence as they interview for new jobs. A business coach traveled to New Zealand and presented a seminar to encourage a group of business owners. Want to be your own boss? The New York Times outlines the reality of self-employment for those considering opening their own companies. These are challenging times, but is it all bad news? NAAAAY! Coaches are using horses, in an equine-assisted program to help clients grow personally and professionally. This week, gallop on.

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Executive/Business Coaching

Still in Demand, Slowdown Spur for Executive Coaching
February 24, 2009, Livemint – Delhi, India
Coaches help senior executives deal with the changed scenario, innovate and take rational and often tough decisions on issues such as downsizing and cost-cutting.

Workplace Coach: Interview 101
February 22, 2009, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
As a career coach, I help prepare clients to ace their job interviews. (I also coach hiring managers on how to conduct interviews on the flip side). Sadly, many people are ill-prepared for their most important opportunities. Interviews are anxious situations. You need to know how to sell yourself, clarify why they should hire you and answer tough questions.

Smoothing the Way to Self-Employment
February 21, 2009, New York Times – USA
Yet some self-employed professionals say independence is worth that challenge. ‚ÄúIt is an enormous change,” said Gary Rich, a former human resources executive and founder of Rich Leadership, an executive coaching firm. ‚ÄúAll of the structure in your world goes away,” along with features like a tech help desk, he said.

Home and Workplace Relationship Coaching
February 20, 2009, Brampton News – Brampton, ON, Canada
This is an eclectic practice of cognitive behavioral therapy, storytelling, creative process, and coaching developed over a 20-year career practicing within local child & family mental health organizations.

Executive Coach Speaks to Female Engineers
February 20, 2009, Daily Journal – Clemson, SC, USA
Camille Capretta Hess of Clemson, a nationally known executive coach, spoke on career development, goal setting and planning for a life-satisfying career to a group of professional women engineers and the women students in engineering at Clemson University Wednesday.

Choosing the Right Internet Marketing Coach
February 20, 2009, Gather.com – Boston, MA, USA
Business coaching, like all coaching, is all about caring for others. It’s about caring for your teammates and offering the tools and resources that they need in order to succeed. Like other coaches, success coaches can be very effective.

Alumna Wins Dissertation Award
February 20, 2009, TC Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
“I think for everyone who writes a dissertation, you really are in a state of panic for most of it,” said Ciporen, who has an executive coaching and consulting practice and is also part of the new Columbia Coaching Certification Program (CCCP). “Does anyone care? Does any of it make any sense? Will it ever be done?”

Coaching Questions: Ask the Right Questions…
February 19, 2009, PersonnelToday.com – UK
Using carefully selected questions can be an effective way to structure coaching sessions. One of the great myths about coaching is that it can be conducted around a fixed set of questions.

American Business Guru Tom Peters Offers Hope To Kiwi Companies during Visit
February 19, 2009, Voxy – Wellington, New Zealand
One of the world’s top business gurus is giving advice to Kiwi business owners as part of his visit this month – and he says New Zealand’s unique situation and strengths indicates the light at the end of the tunnel will be visible sooner rather than later in this country. Mr. Peters was brought to New Zealand as a guest of leading business coaching company Results.com, and addressed a group of 300 top businesspeople at a full-day seminar on 19 February.

Your Office Coach: Take Boss’ Office Romance Concerns to Upper Management or HR
February 17, 2009, Press of Atlantic City – Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Boss-employee romances always create problems. Talking directly with the participants is pointless, since people in the throes of lust are seldom rational. And when one of them is your boss, there’s a risk of retribution.

Can Coaching Help Your Business?
February 2009, Alibaba News Channel – New York, NY, USA
Leading in difficult times is a special skill, and a key leader can benefit from executive one-on-one coaching that teaches him how to navigate the storm.

Life Coaching

Mother of All Battles for Life Balance
February 22, 2009, Times Online – UK
Conran remains optimistic. ‚ÄúThe key to personal work-life balance is time management and realistic expectations, plus life coaching and mentoring,” she said. In her Superwoman days she would have described them as ‚Äúself-improvement courses”.

‚ÄòSweet Life’ Provides Networking for Women
February 19, 2009, Concordian – Moorhead, MN, USA
Bock uses over 15 years of experience in Corporate America to enhance her expertise in communication, media relations, executive coaching, training and development. Bock holds certifications in life coaching, Job Relations Training, Bob Proctor’s Life Success Consulting¬Æ, and Accelerated Innovation training and coaching from SolutionPeople in Chicago.

Interview with Life Coach Sheri Kaye Hoff, Author of ‚ÄúKeys to Living Joyfully”
February 18, 2009, Blogcritics.org – Aurora, OH, USA
Sheri eventually did find joy and decided to help others by becoming a life coach and opening her own practice. It was then she decided to write a book to help others who are looking for joy and happiness, yet they don’t know where to turn to find it.

Life Coach Reveals ‚ÄòPlatinum Rule’
February 18, 2009, RU Daily Targum – New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Ever wonder why some acquaintances turn into friends, while others just become vague memories? Dave Yunghan, a trainer at consulting firm Team Builders Plus, discussed interpersonal relationships yesterday at ‚ÄúImproving Interpersonal Relations: Why We Click with Some and Clank with Others,” sponsored by the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

Everything You Need to Know About Hiring a Career Coach
February 17, 2009, NetworkWorld.com – Southborough, MA, USA
Career coaches and the clients who use them say coaches can give job seekers a competitive edge in a number of ways: They can help job seekers develop unique personal brands that will differentiate them in a crowded market.

Your Practice Becomes You
February 17, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
As I do my coaching, I focus on the life story of each of my clients in an effort to learn about the past practices that have shaped them. I especially want to know about the practices that have sustained them, and what sustains them now that they are in the midst of their transition, or hoped-for transition.

Niche Coaching

Therapy Heals With Horses
February 23, 2009, Post-Bulletin – Rochester, MN, USA
Equine assisted coaching (EAC) is an educational therapy in which horses and coaches work together with clients to guide the client’s personal and professional growth and development.

Home Sellers Often Call in a Staging Coach to Boost Appeal
February 20, 2009, 77 Square – Madison, WI, USA
With real estate agent sales of homes in Dane County down 21 percent in 2008 over the previous year, pressure on sellers to increase their home’s charm quotient is mounting. Many are turning to professional “home stagers” who come in, size up the place and make the fixes.

When You Need a Career Coach
February 18, 2009, FierceCIO – Washington, DC, USA
Career coaches can help job seekers distinguish themselves in a crowded market. They can help them mine the hidden job market and help job seekers articulate their strengths and passions.

Life Coaching Blogs

Beyond The Madding Crowd: So Maureen, Just What Do You Do?
February 23, 2009, By Maureen York
My business card currently states my job title as: ‚ÄúLifestyle and Raw Food Coach” However, even looking at this, I can now see that there is some room for confusion. So what do I do? And what is ‚ÄúThe Breathing Space” all about?

How to Get On the Right Track
February 22, 2009, By Tom Volkar
Life coaching clients often come looking for the cure to perfectionism, procrastination and distraction. If you’re over-thinking a fearful future, you’re clearly avoiding the now.

Why a Coach Gets Coaching
February 20, 2009, By Em
In my coaching training, they taught that every coach should have a coach. They gave several reasons, and I’m sure I nodded as they spoke. In the years since then, I have engaged various coaches.

Christian Life Coaches Listen and Love
February 19, 2009, By Linda Hedberg
Following luncheon and program, I enjoyed a rich discussion with two fellow small business owners and service providers – a financial planner and an interpreter for the hearing impaired. As we discussed the impact of the economy on business and on our clients, the financial planner said she was running out of new ways to speak words of encouragement to her clients.

Conquer Your Fears of Public Speaking
February 19, 2009, By Tim Brownson
It’s more than a little weird when you think people are less scared of death than they are public speaking. Maybe if all the surveys had been conducted with groups of Lemmings and/or Trappist Monks that would be logical, but I’m presuming they weren’t, so it isn’t.

Are You a Superwoman?
February 17, 2009, By DearSugar
Being able to say no isn’t always easy, especially when you don’t want to disappoint your family and friends. But putting yourself behind your loved ones could end up taking a huge toll on your spirit. Life coach and author, Cheryl Richardson, brought five important life lessons to Good Morning America today in an effort to help all the “superwomen” out there say no.

Who Uses Coaches and Why?
February 17, 2009, By Vickie Gray
The majority of coaching clients have acquired an advanced level of education (a post graduate degree such as a master’s degree or Ph.D.). The duration for the average coaching relationship for survey participants was 12.8 months.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

How a Coach Can Fast-Track Your Business
February 24, 2009, By Anna Johnson
I’m a big believer in the value of coaching. Whether formal or informal, having someone to give you objective guidance can be just the thing to fast-track your business.

Anger Management Education: Human Resources and Corporations Embrace Executive Coaching/Anger Management for their Employees
February 23, 2009, By Ari Novick, Ph.D.
Executive Coaching/Anger Management is both a cost savings to companies seeking to minimize the probability of an employee behaving inappropriately as well as an intervention used after an incident has occurred.

The One Thing You Need to Close the Deal on Change
February 23, 2009, By Clemens Rettich
Change is an abstract idea until it is made real in three ways: what you are committing to must appear on your schedule, have a line in your budget, and be supported by a coaching relationship. I have seen no evidence that it is possible to successfully conclude a change process without commitment through these three constants.

Executive Coaching Services – What Do They Provide
February 22, 2009, By Golf Review
Executive coaching is not a new concept. For many decades now, leaders of various companies have been coaching their team members for better performance. However, it is only recently that companies have started hiring people from outside the company to coach their employees.

Achieving Success in Your Scrapbook Business
February 22, 2009, By Paul Duxbury, Success Coach
A successful scrapbook business has many parts but it always begins with the understanding of why you do it. As an entrepreneur you should also understand the people you serve, their struggles, and the difference that your business will bring to their lives.

Books, Products, & Services

Coaching Yourself to Leadership
February 20, 2009, By Leadership Management
Let a highly successful business coach transform your work life, ‚ÄúCoaching Yourself to Leadership: 5 Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader.” by Ginny O’Brien. ‚ÄúWhat 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?”

Publicity Releases

‘Getting Loaded’ Author and Financial Coach Peter Bielagus to Speak February 26
February 24, 2009, UST Bulletin Today – St. Paul, MN, USA
Peter Bielagus, sometimes called “young America’s financial coach,” will give a talk, titled “More Money With Peter Bielagus,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in the auditorium of O’Shaughnessy Educational Center on the St. Paul campus of the University of St. Thomas.

Zakar Magazine, The Life-Coaching Magazine for Real Women
February 2009, BlackNews.com (press release) – Atlanta, GA, USA
ZAKAR introduces to women its exclusive Z-Coaches, who team up with them to bring a sense of balance and hope for empowered living. Because of the publication’s convenient digest size, women will literally be able to carry their coaches and life empowerment around with them in their purses and planners!

U Smile Radio Show Features Interview with The Nurturer’s Coach Hueina Su
February 2009, PR-USA.net (press release) – Varna, Bulgaria
The Nurturer’s Coach (TM) Hueina Su was interviewed by Lesly Federici at the U Smile Radio Show’s latest segment. Su is a renowned expert in work-life balance, stress management and intensive self-care helping people restore the missing peace and inner balance in their stressful lives.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – August 21, 2008

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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. 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

Helping Technoprenuers to Think Differently
August 19, 2008, Malaysia Star – Malaysia
Out of this research, a plan was developed to conduct a Business Coaching Workshop to help technoprenuers see the broader side of technoprenuership…

Executive Coaches Aren’t Only for Execs
August 17, 2008, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – Rochester, NY, USA
But having an executive coach may not be for everyone. Or, more accurately, the time may not be right for everyone. In order for executive coaching to work…

This Column Will Change Your Life
August 16, 2008, guardian.co.uk – UK
(Meetings) ‚Äö√Ñ√∫They move,‚Äö√Ñ√π in the words of the career coach Dale Dauten, “at the pace of the slowest mind in the room, so that all but one participant will be bored…
Note: Dave Barry’s quote may be offensive to some.

Can Managers Become Coaches?
August 13, 2008, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Coaching takes time. Managers are performance oriented. They have been charged with getting results. Often the employee’s potential problem to be addressed…

Analysis: The Jerk Isn’t Gonna Change
August 12, 2008, BusinessWeek – USA
“She was aware that he was behaving inappropriately, and she didn’t take it personally,” says Phyllis Rosen, a Manhattan career and executive coach…
Note: Video not reviewed.

Life Coaching

How to Look Well, Feel Well and Live Well
August 19, 2008, Belfast Telegraph – United Kingdom
Their TV series, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫A Life Coach Less Ordinary 2,‚Äö√Ñ√π currently showing on UKTV Style, proves they are an irrepressible team.

Workplace Coach: What Not to Do During a Job Interview — Part 2
August 17, 2008, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
A job interview can be a golden opportunity to move up in your career or improve your life. It’s prudent, therefore, to do everything you can to increase your odds of landing a desirable position.

Life Coach: Finding Time for You
August 14, 2008, Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
This coaching exercise was taken from Joan Anderson’s ‚Äö√Ñ√∫A Weekend to Change Your Life‚Äö√Ñ√π CD series. Sheri Fisher is a life coach who lives in Grand Junction with…

Niche Coaching

They Lost and Won
August 17, 2008, Marion Star – Marion, OH, USA
We teach about nutrition along with healthy weight management. We personally coach each participant to customize their plan and get the best results for…

Find Me a Money Coach… Quick!
August 14, 2008, WalletPop – VA, USA
But unlike the ease with which I found a home organization coach, a life coach, a cooking coach and a wardrobe coach, I kept coming up empty on the personal…

Acing Your Application
August 13, 2008, Forbes – NY, USA
“In fact, colleges are proud to say, ‘We rejected a thousand students who had perfect scores’,” says Bev Taylor of the admissions coaching firm the Ivy…

‚Äö√Ñ√∫Smoking Gun‚Äö√Ñ√π Goes on Tour
August 13, 2008, Nafferton Today – Driffield, England, UK
In ‚Äö√Ñ√∫Smoking Gun: Cover Her Feet,‚Äö√Ñ√π Bobby is an ordinary middle age man. His wife bought him life coaching sessions for his birthday to help him become more interesting…

Life Coaching Blogs

Do I Need a Personal Coach?
August 18, 2008, By Darlene Siddons
A wellness coach is your ally, partner, and at times, your conscience and accountability on your way to reaching the personal goals you’ve had for a long time, but have usually done little about. A coach is a partner who can support…

The Benefits Of An Online Life Coach
August 18, 2008, By admin
However, a new development in the coaching industry is the rise of online coaching, via email or instant messaging. So what are the benefits of an online life coach, and which kind of coaching would be best for you?

Weight a Minute! Getting a Life Coach
August 18, 2008, By Families.com
I’ve frequently heard of celebrities and other rich-type people hiring personal trainers, personal stylists, personal dressers, personal assistants-all these persons who personally see to their every need. In some ways, that sounds…

Make Something Happen ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Win Gold – Hire a Coach
August 17, 2008, By Edge of Your Greatness
Whether a sport, career, family, personal challenge or any dream or desire you may have, I would like you to consider that by investing in a coach, you can place support for your dream, wish or objective front and center…

Positive Psychology and Life Coaching
August 16, 2008, By dougnau
I’ve written several times throughout this website on the differences and commonalities of life coaching and psychology. When I wrote my first article on the topic, I approached my writing given the classic use of psychology…

Michael Phelps has Goals, Do You?
August 15, 2008, By Justin Lukasavige
Apparently Michael has been setting goals for years, but the only other person in the world that has ever seen his goals sheet is his personal coach. In Michael’s words, the two most powerful things in his life that have propelled him…

10 Top Tips on How to Build Your Self-Esteem
August 14, 2008, By Dan O’Neil
A life coach for example will help you to break it down into easy steps which don’t seem so daunting. It is also helpful to speak to someone who won’t judge you or say something like, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫You should be happier in yourself‚Äö√Ñ√π or something…

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Dysfunctional Management: When Management Doesn’t Manage
August 19, 2008, By Paul Simister, Your Profit Coach
I’ve seen dysfunctional management a few times and it’s never a pretty sight. The senior managers run around like headless chickens coming up with initiative after initiative while team members stand around in confusion…

How Can Small Business Coaching Boost Your Business?
August 18, 2008, By Perfect Domain
As a small business owner you have more difficulties in getting the work done and are always crippled by the lack of experts in various fields. A business coach can put an end to all your miseries concerning expert and sound advice…

Leadership ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Who’s Driving Your Business?
August 18, 2008, By Ralph Berge, Business Coach
When business performance needs to be improved, it is wise to start the improvement process by first exploring the source of the business leadership. From our coaching experience we have found many instances, when a business is not…

Improve Your Chances with Your USP
August 18, 2008, By admin
Good luck with these exercises and do not forget that you are unique. Use your Unique Selling Proposition (your USP) and improve your chances.

When Marketing Your Coaching Business Becomes Fun
August 17, 2008, By miley
Most coaches have a naturally enterprising spirit. In fact, many have endlessly creative ideas. What seems to be lacking for most coaches is FOCUS…

Measuring Your Way To Successful Outcomes
August 12, 2008, By Ella Briggs
If you have been following and/or embracing the industry trend for performance measurement these days, then you may be familiar with the studies that have already been conducted on the effectiveness of training with and without coaching…

Books & Products

New Book ‚Äö√Ñ√∫Corporate to Kindergarten‚Äö√Ñ√π From Award-Winning Corporate Executive Adds Fresh Twist …
August 13, 2008, PR Web (press release) ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Charlotte, NC, USA
Glover launched the motivational speaking and leadership coaching firm Rai Glover Consulting in April 2008. The business offers motivational speaking and…

Publicity Releases

Executive Coaching/Anger Management for Physicians
August 18, 2008, By George Anderson
The Anderson & Anderson¬¨√Ü Executive Coaching/Anger Management program is listed in the Directory of Physician Assessment And Remedial Education Programs, and Federation of State Medical Boards. No other anger management provider is…

New Research Reveals Increased Credibility and Positive Returns for Executive Coaching
August 14, 2008, CNW Telbec (press release) ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ New York, NY, USA
More than ever, organizations are using executive coaching to enhance performance across the enterprise by grooming high potential employees…

The Six Secrets that Executive Coaching Can Learn From the World
August 12, 2008, Business Intelligence Middle East (press release) – United Arab Emirates
The findings come from a recent 121partners seminar where over 20 HR professionals and the 121partners leadership team, including an Olympic sports coach, …