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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.

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

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 5, 2009

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Editor’s Note: Losing a job can be scary. Losing a coach to suicide is disturbing. In this week’s Chronicle, coaches in both business and life coaching tackle the times head-on, perhaps helping you and your clients do the same. A life coach in Israel recommends a healthy dose of optimism in the wake of a layoff. A business coach who lost her job was motivated to turn a side business into a full-time pursuit. Jobless and looking for coaching? A career coaching company in New York will donate their services to a handful of unemployed workers. Seattle coaches have a lot of advice for those experiencing a rainy day in the career world – one coach says learning from a dismissal can help find your next job, while another advises a vacation may help you reassess your life – if you can afford it. Here in the Chronicle, you’ll see that coaches are providing encouragement, resources, optimism, and one-foot-in-front-of-the-other steps to help people in crisis. Yet coaches are not immune to crisis in their own lives.

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Executive/Business Coaching

Your Office Coach: Be Professional When Reporting Coworker Conduct
March 3, 2009, The Olympian – Olympia, WA, USA
Management should definitely hear about anything that may affect customer perceptions. However, the problem may not be what you said, but the way you said it.

Man Who Coached Executives for Career Success Found Dead at Country Club
March 3, 2009, Dallas Morning News – Dallas, TX, USA
The death of an executive performance coach whose body was found in a lake at the Stonebriar Country Club golf course in Frisco was ruled a suicide, the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office said today.

Making the Most of Getting Laid Off
March 2, 2009, MyFox Austin – Austin, TX, USA
That side business included public speaking and business coaching. Now it’s become her full time gig. Donna says she wants to inspire self-motivation in others, especially those who have been in her situation.

Coaching in Challenging Times
March 2, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
We can sometimes forget that executive coaching is a young profession. The International Coach Federation, the largest global coaching body, was formed in the US in 1995. What is more, executive coaches have crafted their skills amidst a climate of strong economic growth, full employment and adventurous risk taking.

Creating the Right Context for Success
February 27, 2009, SmartCompany.com.au – Melbourne, Australia
Having been trained initially as a clinical psychologist and then, more recently, specializing as an executive coach, my focus has always been very much on the individual.

‚ÄòAccidental Entrepreneurs’ On the Rise
February 27, 2009, Bizjournals.com – Nashville, TN, USA
‚ÄúThe loyalty is not there ‚Äî things have shifted,” he says. ‚ÄúI see people who have been thinking about starting their own business, have dreamed about it, but are afraid to do it. That’s where the coaching services come in.” The growth in the number of Williamson County entrepreneurs has led the Scarlett Leadership Institute at Belmont to offer its first Entrepreneurship Business Plan Boot Camp in the county.”

Can Coaching Help Your Business?
February 25, 2009, MSNBC – USA
Before you do that, think twice and think hard. Taking development away from your executives may not be the wisest move. 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.

Your Office Coach: HR Manager Shouldn’t Be Playing Cupid
February 24, 2009, San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Your overly chummy HR manager clearly doesn’t understand the boundaries of her role. HR people should not pry into employees’ personal lives, much less encourage romantic encounters.

Life Coaching

In a Recession, Hiring Celebrity-Style Coaching Pays
March 3, 2009, U.S. News & World Report – Washington, DC, USA
Knebel is one of a growing number of professionals hiring coaches to help them achieve their dreams amid the recession. Whether it’s to find a new wardrobe for a job search or to get business advice for a new venture, people often turn to coaches during times of transition.

Coaching ‚ÄòSatisfies’ Local Clients
March 3, 2009, Business Day – Johannesburg, South Africa
The key reason for the growth of the South African coaching market was that the practice had a positive effect on clients, a new global client survey shows.

Laid Off? Optimism Is the Key, Life Coaches Say
March 2, 2009, Jerusalem Post – Israel
Staying positive and focusing on future opportunities are the key to beating the economic downturn, even if you are among the thousands who have recently joined the unemployment line, according to Leora Spitz, a life coach and former president of the International Coaching Federation in Israel.

Interpersonal Edge Learning Something From a Layoff
March 1, 2009, Seattle Times – United States
If your boss suggests room for improvement, you just received valuable free executive coaching. If your boss suggests the possibility you might have been retained without these challenges, you just received a degree from the school of hard knocks. Use this education to get your next job.

Balance Key to a Better Life
February 27, 2009, Canada.com – Don Mills, ON, Canada
Time-hunger is one of the most common complaints life coach Switnicki hears on a regular basis from women who feel their lives are out of control. There is so much to do and so little time. But most women find it hard to let go or to delegate duties to relieve their stress, which in the end could prove to be deadly.

After a Layoff, Is It Time to Take Off?
February 27, 2009, CNN – USA
Some companies in the travel industry are running special discounts or programs for those who have recently lost their jobs. Daphne Domingo, a life coach in Seattle, Washington, said people who’ve been laid off should take vacations so they have time to reassess their lives — but they should gauge the scope of their travel on their savings account.

Making It All About You
February 27, 2009, Forbes – NY, USA
Face it: Entrepreneurs are control freaks. Many want workers who will follow orders and ask few questions. They don’t need dissent, they tell themselves; they need diligence. That attitude can stunt a small company’s growth, warns Dan Murphy, founder of the Growth Coach, a small-business consultancy with 155 franchisees across the U.S.

Niche Coaching

Use Coaching To Develop Your Lawyers’ Skills And Expand Your Firm’s Potential
March 2, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
Coaching can be used to improve performance in just about every aspect of the practice of law: writing, analysis, oral advocacy, time management, leadership, and business development. Coaching is time- and attention-intensive, but the investment of both rewards the coach and the associate.

Resisting the Hype, Giving Them Hope
February 25, 2009, American Enterprise Institute – Washington, DC, USA
Education reformers are abuzz over school “turnarounds,” a simple idea that has undeniable appeal. School turnarounds offer the opportunity to take familiar educational institutions and improve them through coaching, mentoring, capacity building, best practices, and other existing tools.

Life Coaching Blogs

Don’t Drink the Armageddon Kool-Aid
March 3, 2009, By Kris Carr
When you feel negative or overwhelmed, reach out and do something nice for someone else. Being generous in words and actions creates positive feelings for the doer. I have a life coaching client, who was buying fruit at a fruit stand in NYC and spontaneously paid for an older woman’s apple, who was also waiting.

Acceptance
March 1, 2009, By The Inner Coach
Acceptance is receiving all situations, occurrences and happenings in life as a gift. We are learning through experience which gifts of life we choose to retain and which gifts we choose to let go of.

Cate LaBarre: Life Coaching During Difficult Times
February 28, 2009, By Celina, Feministing
I recently interviewed Cate LaBarre, a life coach based out of Central New York, on her work — especially during these difficult times. I hope her words are helpful.

Presence in Coaching
February 28, 2009, By Vickie Gray
For all kinds of reasons, when I don’t take notes during the session, but instead stay present and aware of my client’s voice, energy and patterns of speech, the outcome is always deeper and more effective. I usually note observations and commitments in my client file when the session is over so I can follow up later.

What’s Innovative in Coaching Models?
February 28, 2009, By Donna Karlin
(This answer comes from Dorothy Siminovitch) What’s ‚Äúinnovative” is one of the perennial questions connected to human creativity, organizational sustainability and workplace optimization. In difficult economic times, ‚Äúwhat’s innovative” may be the question that ignites the kind of thinking and behavior that cuts through what is no longer working and new possibilities that will serve a ‚Äúrenewing” marketplace.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Business Coach Explains to You How to Control Your Business
March 1, 2009, By Casey Gollan
Have you ever noticed that some business owners continually complain about how bad their industry is? Or how bad their customers are? Or how bad their suppliers are, or how bad their staff is?

To Do or Not to Do
February 28, 2009, By Paul Duxbury
When starting a business, there is so much to do. This fact doesn’t change as the business gets older. In fact, there are more things to do to keep the entire operation going. So that your brains don’t get scrambled, learn the value of ‚ÄúTo Do” lists as they pertain to your business.

Why Sign Up for Business Coaching
February 28, 2009, By Business Communication Blog
Business coaching is not solely about fixing broken businesses. Business coaches also work with business owners who are already successful. These business owners sign up for business coaching to help them achieve even greater successes.

How to Coach Your Manager or Client to Make You Successful
February 25, 2009, By Anastasia, Blog@Work
I am convinced that most of us have heard at least couple of times how useful coaching skills would be if applied by a manager. It might be that you have even been sent to be trained in those skills. Have you ever asked yourself why you should actually bother learning and applying those skills?

Books, Products, & Services

New Book Offers Fresh Perspective on How to Stop ‚ÄúDoing the Diet”
February 25, 2009, WSAV-TV – Savannah, GA, USA
As part of her mission to educate women on how to live their best lives possible and achieve a more complete wellness, Deborah Crespo, RD, LD and Nutrition Coach, has created Health and Wellness Style: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Balance, Wellness, and the Enjoyment of Food.

Publicity Releases

Healthyroads Offers Tips to Eat Healthier for Life
March 3, 2009, GlobeNewsWire (press release) – San Diego, CA, USA
Healthyroads offers a wide range of wellness solutions – including award-winning telephone-based health coaching programs for weight management, tobacco cessation, stress management, and healthy living, and products and resources through its integrated Web site, Healthyroads.com(tm).

McCain Supporter Moved by Obama – Offers Unemployed Free Coaching
March 1, 2009, PR.com (press release) – New York, NY, USA
President Obama’s speech made an impact on at least one Chief Executive Officer – Arcella Global’s President & CEO will make available free career coaching to a limited number of unemployed workers – a benefit worth more than $500 per person.

Inforum’s Executive Leadership Course Helps Women Advance Their Careers
February 26, 2009, MarketWatch (press release) – Detroit, MI, USA
ICL Executive Leadership participants complete a 360-degree feedback assessment and three private sessions with an executive coach to create a high-impact personal development and action plan designed to achieve results fast. This unique, hands-on workshop is limited to 30 women.

Wealth Coaching Now at Quantum Leap
February 24, 2009, PR Web (press release) – Charlotte, NC, USA
Every Tuesday evening, Master Wealth Coach Stephanie Slavin presents a 60-minute teleseminar call on how to achieve a life of ‚Äútotal wealth, health and happiness, regardless of what’s going on around you.” Callers dial a phone number in area code 704 to reach a conference call. Or, they can access the seminar via the webcast service that is offered after they register for the call through the website.