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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life Coaching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Niche Coaching

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

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

Life Coaching Blogs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

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

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

Books, Products, & Services

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

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

Publicity Releases

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

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

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

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – February 19, 2009

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Editor’s Note: An old German proverb says ‚ÄúCharity sees the need, not the cause.” This week’s chronicle is about coaches recognizing the need. The New York Times reviews a new TV show designed to coach others on their love life. A UK life coach tries to help a reality TV star battle cancer, while another coach helps herself by writing a thank you letter to her heart. With layoffs looming large in the United States, an office coach tries to help a doctor regain his old job. Single and looking for love? One coach recommends learning to love yourself. This week, recognize the need, then give or find help.

Coaching Clients: Tell Us about Your Coaching Experience

Executive/Business Coaching

Closing the Gap
February 17, 2009, Business Standard – Mumbai, India
One executive described how his company had narrowed the offering of corporate university ‚Äúcourses” and increased the coaching, training and developmental assignments tied directly to the daily work of the employee.

Laid Off, Left Behind or Looking?
February 15, 2009, Gazette Online – Solon, IA, USA
Lisa Van Allen, owner of Van Allen & Associates Personal and Business Coaching, says grieving the loss of a job is a natural reaction. “Allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling and give yourself time to go through the stages of grief that we associate with dying,” Van Allen said. “There certainly is a loss. You can’t repress these emotions because it’s not healthy.

Workplace Coach: In Tough Times, Lead — and Listen
February 15, 2009, Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
As an executive coach, I always have my eye out for leadership “best practice” examples. The news often draws attention to the bad examples (such as the recent million-dollar office renovations and bonuses being awarded during Wall Street’s meltdown and subsequent government bailout). I want to share some positive examples from recent local news (and one from afar) that I believe we can learn from.

Office Coach: Fired Doctor Should Give Bosses an Injection of Enthusiasm
February 12, 2009, Arizona Daily Star – Tucson, AZ, USA
Describe your plans for the future and ask them to reconsider your termination. If an immediate reversal seems unlikely, see if they will give you an additional six months to prove yourself. At that point, they can review their decision again.

Life Coaching

Life Coach: Skin Care
February 16, 2009, Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Our panel of experts answers your questions on everything from skin care to school bullies and how to encourage parrots to talk.

A Little Direction
February 16, 2009, MassLive.com – Springfield, MA, USA
True Directions covers the gamut of career development issues: the company offers coaching and consulting to help professionals balance creative risk-taking and working towards the bottom line.

Weatherly Woman Aims to Help People as Life Coach
February 15, 2009, Citizen’s Voice – USA
At her most recent gathering, Colangelo hosted her first workshop in a series for women at the Dragonfly Cafe in Hazleton. Throughout the spring, summer, and fall, Colangelo plans to have more workshops. The goal of the workshops is to create a group of women in the Hazleton area who support and mentor one another about careers, major decisions and just daily life.

Charles Darwin, His Name is My Name Too
February 13, 2009, Dallas Observer – Dallas, TX, USA
I’ve been real thoughtful about my career choice — not because of my name, but because of who I am. The dynamics of natural selection play into that to the extent to that those whom I coach both formally through my practice and informally through my family could make choices that would have a negative impact on their lives.

Ten Questions: Personal Life Coach Kelly Thacker
February 12, 2009, Edinburgh Evening News – Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
(An interview with Kelly Thacker.) She is 28 and lives in Duddingston. She is a personal life coach and owner of Lust for Life Coaching.

Bournemouth Life Coach Helping Jade Goody Fight Cancer
February 10, 2009, Bournemouth Daily Echo – England, UK
A happiness and confidence coach from West Parley has been offering words of support to reality television star Jade Goody, who is battling cancer.

Life Coach: Releasing Worry
February 11, 2009, Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
Tyler began our session with, ‚ÄúToday we got news that one of the industry leaders in a similar market went out of business. The economy is changing and if you don’t change, you lose. I’m worried I might lose my job.”

Get “Unstuck” In Your Career and Personal Life
February 10, 2009, Park Record – Park City, UT, USA
Successful people have that desire to be wise stewards of their time, energy and resources in achieving great things. Unfortunately, we’re not all Great Gatsby’s. That’s why life coach Terry Sidford would like to help.

Love Yourself This Valentine’s
February 2009, Red Bluff Daily News – Red Bluff, CA, USA
There is no greater love that you can give than to genuinely love yourself. When you truly love yourself, all good things come your way. It is through developing the habit of self-love that you come to expect only the best for yourself and draw that to you.

President Barack Obama is Our First Life Coach
February 2009, BlackNews.com – Columbus, OH, USA
Barack Obama is the first person of color to be elected President of the United States of America. He is also one of the youngest, least partisan and most technologically savvy, and in my opinion he’s the first president to life coach the country.

Niche Coaching

Peer-to-Peer Coaching Provides Cost-Effective Aid to Firms, Associates
February 11, 2009, The American Lawyer – USA
Individual coaching can enhance the performance of a law firm and its top performers; however, the cost of providing it to every attorney in a law firm is prohibitive. Yet, coaching improves individual career development, accelerates culture change, improves organizational effectiveness and enhances personal productivity.

Offering a Helping Hand in Building a Love Life
February 9, 2009, New York Times – United States
With the aid of Fran Greene, identified as a ‚Äúflirting, dating and relationship coach,” he proceeds to try to turn Ms. Walker into a bar slut. They drill her in various flirting techniques popular in pickup joints: the hair toss; the sending of drinks to men spied across the room; a suggestive handshake that ought to require a masseuse’s license to administer.

Life Coaching Blogs

Hostility Kills
February 15, 2009, By Coaching Parents
Most of us don’t really know what our hearts do. We also don’t know what hostility is, much less how the two interact and influence our health. Such ignorance can prove fatal.

A Letter to My Heart
February 13, 2009, By Life Coaching for Women
As I wrote this post, I thought how strongly this letter drives home the importance of listening to your heart to create the life you desire. It is impossible to be fully comfortable in your own skin if you tune out what your heart is saying‚Ä¶ so start tuning in today.

Happily Ever After?
February 13, 2009, By Karin Manske, Life Coach
One of my friends got married. After having being single for 20 something years she got married at age 68 and she was glowing and radiant with love and excitement.

The Holistic Nature of Coaching and Being Coached
February 13, 2009, By Susan
The student said that she’d heard a lot about the high-quality ways of living that many coaches had carved out for themselves. She wanted to know if that was the “real deal,” or just a legend floating around the virtual halls of Coach U.

Interviews in Creativity: Jennifer Lee
February 12, 2009, By LifeDev
Today’s interview is with life coach Jennifer Lee. When did you decide to do creative work professionally? JL: I’ve always been creative and crafty. During my corporate career, I used my spare time to sell some book arts and explore how to better integrate creativity with coaching.

Here is Why I’d Be a Good Life Coach
February 10, 2009, By Brad Flory
Declining fortunes of the newspaper industry force a man in my position to make a fallback plan for a new career. I want to be a life coach. Life coaching is a wide-open market not even listed in the Jackson phone book between “Lie Detection” and “Lift Gates.”

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Business Coaching: Coaches Are Not Just For Sports
February 17, 2009, By Gabriel Adams
A business coach is used to help a person make their business process more successful. Do not confuse a business coach with a consultant, because a consultant is usually brought in for advice on a single project, or a few similar projects.

Executive Coaching Can Help You Greatly
February 17, 2009, By Bartt Iccles
These four themes cry for personal attention of an experienced business coach. When a company hires a business coach, he has the opportunity to step back and look at things from a different angle.

Harvard Business Review on Executive Coaching
February 16, 2009, By Ed Batista
Harvard Business Review’s Diane Coutu and Carol Kauffman surveyed 140 executive coaches (including Rebecca Zucker, who gave me some great advice when I made my own transition into coaching), and they’ve generated a set of resources from the data that both coaches and clients will find useful.

The CIO’s Coach: It’s No Longer Business As Usual
February 16, 2009, By Kim Batson
With these unchartered and rapidly changing times, the global economic collapse and huge numbers of layoffs at all levels and industries, it takes a radically new mindset to gainfully and quickly secure your next position.

What are the Benefits of Coaching to the Organization?
February 15, 2009, By Maria
One constant in coaching is that it is focused purely on enabling people to consistently improve their performance. It creates the opportunity for each client to bring more of their potential into reality for the benefit of both the individual and the organization.

Publicity Releases

How to Attract Your Ideal Client
February 14, 2009, RisMedia.com (press release) – Norwalk, CT, USA
Have you clearly defined the qualities of your ideal clients? In coaching people for the last 30 years, I have found that most people are fuzzy when it comes to knowing who they really most desire to work with.

Small Business Coaching Trio Unveils MarketingActionClub.com
February 13, 2009, Newswire Today (press release) – Leawood, KS, USA
The site includes free marketing articles, marketing resources, a marketing blog, free marketing video tips, and much more for anyone wishing to join the membership side of the site. Members gain full access to a complete, step-by-step marketing course, a members’ only forum, monthly marketing teleclasses and live coaching calls, as well as a marketing resource library.

Robertson Lowstuter Expands Executive Coaching Team
February 10, 2009, Marketwire (press release) – Chicago, IL, USA
Privately held Robertson Lowstuter, a leader in coaching, developing, and transitioning executives, is pleased to announce that Stephen Axel, Pat Mater, and Barbara Hancock Annin have been added to its executive coaching team.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – January 8, 2009

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Editor’s Note: From grim to hopeful. In this week’s news, coaches are speaking out to offer hope and help to clients anxious about their businesses and their lives. A business coach in Long Island outlines a plan for the city’s businesses to stay afloat in 2009, and a life coach is asked for advice for a Michigan City. Life coaches in Florida have seen their business improve in a down economy, a sign that people are eager for guidance. Denver-based Mission Wear is coaching former convicts and prostitutes to turn cloth and thread into grocery bags while they turn their lives around. Business coaches have advice for setting and achieving big goals for more success in 2009. For the first week of 2009, hope is the keyword.

The Foundation of Coaching is Moving to the Next Level
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Executive/Business Coaching

(Governor-Elect) Markell to Focus on Quality of Life to Promote Business Growth
January 5, 2009, Brandywine East Community News ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Hockessin, DE, USA
More than 200 Delaware small businesses went bankrupt in 2005, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Kleszics belongs to a business coaching group and said its members gave him the confidence to move into a larger location on Lancaster Pike in 2005. He is hopeful the Markell administration will be good for small businesses because of the governor-elect’s business experience with Nextel and the fact that he is a Democrat.

Become a Meeting Master
January 5, 2009, ITWorld Canada – Scarborough, ON, Canada
Prioritization is also key, said Karen Denega, founder of Toronto-based executive coaching firm Cobalt Blue Consulting. ‚Äö√Ñ√∫Determine what meetings come first based on deadlines,‚Äö√Ñ√π she said. ‚Äö√Ñ√∫A meeting should be held when it is determined that face-to-face is the best way to convey the information, and you don’t want that to-ing and fro-ing of information.‚Äö√Ñ√π

Long Island Businesses Plan for 2009
January 5, 2009, Newsday – Long Island, NY, USA
Andrea Feinberg, a business coach in Port Jefferson Station, said that once business owners got over the “panic” of facing such difficult economic times, they started to “take a look at the new realities of our economy to find the opportunities,” asking, “What elements of my business proposition are still viable, and how do I reinterpret those in the new economy?” For the coming year, she said, her clients are looking to develop new niches and strategic alliances, as well as less expensive products and services….

Will You Ask for Help in the Recession or Go It Alone?
January 5, 2009, Henley Standard – Henley, UK
All those companies which will survive and will actually thrive in this recession, will do so with help ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ sustained investment in business coaching.

An Arsenal of Engaging Stories Can Bring More Clients
January 3, 2009, The Tennessean – Nashville, TN, USA
Are they a prospective client for executive coaching? Now, I have choices. I might say: “I am a speaker who helps audiences discover their authenticity, which I define as finding the very best of who they are.”

The Imposters: When Business Leaders Fear They’ll Be Found Out
January 2, 2009, U.S. News & World Report – Washington, DC, USA
After years of coaching executives and managers, I’ve concluded that these self-declared impostors make up a sizable portion of the average business meeting. These are not real impostors who are hiding their incompetence. These are talented people who think they are unqualified. In some cases, they’ve spent decades denying their worth.

No Worker Should Tolerate Personal Criticism
January 2, 2009, Salt Lake Tribune – United States
Criticism at work is part of any job, but when personal attacks are part of the package, then it’s a “double whammy,” says Sharon Melnick a New York-based psychologist and executive coach.

Business Coaches Say They’re ‘A Necessity’ In This Economy
December 31, 2008, Atlanta Journal Constitution – GA, USA
But Hanville and others in his field have a unique vantage point on the economy. They’re the coaches other small business owners hire to help them learn ways to become more efficient and to weather ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ or even prosper from ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ a scary economy.

Life Coaching

‘Life Coaching’ a Good Effort
January 5, 2009, Journal-Advocate – Sterling, CO, USA
The major component of the program is the volunteers who serve as the life coaches. They are former inmates who have completed their prison or jail terms and will share their life experiences and what has helped them to return to a correct path. Through their guidance and counseling, it is hoped the clients will develop healthy relationships and a support system.

‘Someday Coach’ Helps Make Goals a Reality
January 3, 2009, Tampa Tribune – Tampa, FL, USA
Kukuda has been a certified personal trainer for 15 years and created her own 11-week nutrition program, Weigh-To-Go Solutions, which can help people adopt better eating habits. She also teaches circuit training classes and has a walking club.

Keeping On the Right Path in 2009
January 2, 2009, Washington Examiner – Washington, DC, USA
A movie, flowers or other small treat will positively reinforce goals, said life coach Aurelia Williams of Real Life Coaching in Washington.

Troubled Economy Brings Rise in Business to Life Coaches
January 2, 2009, Central Florida News 13 – Orlando, FL, USA
The bad economy is translating into big business for one local company. Creating Your Masterpiece is defying odds in these tough times. In the recent months, (life coaching) business has actually quadrupled.

Life Coaches Help Some Reach New Year’s Goals
January 2, 20009, WISC – Madison, WI, USA
“If they’re ready to make a change, then I ask them to build from their strengths, (and) also to have a compelling vision or sense of direction in life,” said Don Mendenhall, with DeForest-based Emergence Life Coaching. “It’s about finding the professional support on the specific issue that’s really bothering you, staying active and involved, and live by your best principles.”

Life Coach Makes Suggestions to Change Saginaw
December 31, 2008, The Saginaw News – MLive.com – Saginaw, MI, USA
The Saginaw News approached life coach Mari A. Broman of LaSalle to see what advice she would offer our region for 2009. For starters, she said, we need to expect and believe that good things will happen. “If you just keep seeing hopelessness, there is no hope,” she said. “It’s called learned helplessness.‚Äö√Ñ√π

Niche Coaching

Work-Based Wellness and Diet Coaching Line Up With Employee Resolutions
January 5, 2009, Talent Management – Oakland, CA, USA
Workplace Options said, according to recent studies, pairing personalized coaching with employee wellness initiatives leads to higher success rates. Workplace Options’ Advantage Live Well integrates coaching with other tools, such as online interactive programs, to help employees achieve their health and wellness goals.

A Better Life in the Bag
January 4, 2009, Denver Post – Denver, CO, USA
Mission Wear has been around for several years, coaching a handful of women ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ former convicts, former prostitutes and others who’ve known hard times ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ to sew functional (grocery) bags.

Life Coaching Blogs

My Resolutions
January 5, 2009, By Tara
I write resolutions down, tell supportive people like yourself, my husband and my life coach about them. I’m going to set smaller steps that lead to the big goals in mind. I’m going to allow myself set backs and mistakes and reduce the guilt I feel when it happens.

Hard Times Require Focus!
December 30, 2008, By Exit Real Estate 540
Coaching today is used to support top producers, not just underachievers. Think about it; even Tiger Woods has a personal coach. Coaching can provide professionals with focus that is unavailable from other forms of support in their business. Personal coaching should be designed to coach the total person.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Quit Working So Hard
January 5, 2009, By Terry Dean
What’s the solution? The first step is to recognize this problem. I do much better when I’m concentrating on it. Set up short ‚Äö√Ñ√∫project‚Äö√Ñ√π sessions. You need to complete A within the next 30 minutes. Then take a 5 minute break.

Goal Setting
January 5, 2009, By Internet Marketing Coaching
In most New Year’s Resolution posts I have read, it is here that they list down some examples of areas of your life you might like to change. I personally believe that is counter-productive. I believe for a New Years Resolution to be really powerful, to get results, to be your guiding light you must follow this Step by Step Guide to Goal Setting.

Excellent Customer Service Is Even More Important in Tough Times
January 2, 2009, By Paul Simister
My Business Coaching Blog came a long way in 2008 but one of my regrets is that I did not focus enough on bringing you articles about creating excellent customer service. All my ideas for increasing your sales to and through your existing customers rely on you delivering the excellent customer service your customers can depend on and confidently build into their own business strategies.

Books, Products, & Services

Must-Read Career Book for Life After College: @ the Entry Level
January 4, 2009, By Jenny Blake
As I work on writing my own book with tips and exercises for Life After College (major dream goal from the life checklist), I re-read my list of 10 Books that Changed My Life from earlier this year, and realized I’m missing one – BIG TIME.

Publicity Releases

AdviCoach Business Coaching Franchise Listed as Top 500 Franchises
January 4, 2009, Franchise Wire (press release) ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Southbury, CT, USA
In its three years of servicing the business community in North America with Business Coaching services, the AdviCoach franchise has been listed for two consecutive years in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 500 Franchises. AdviCoach has also been honored in recent years in Franchise Market Magazine as one of the top 100 new franchises.