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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

Listen to the recording:

Tuesday, July 28th
Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm Eastern Time

Guest: C.J. Hayden, MCC, CPCC
Host: The Coaching Commons
Topic: Finding the Goodness in Business

Imagine a world where business is a force for good. Perhaps more than you think, this is the world we live in right now. All around you, visionary entrepreneurs are launching enterprises that serve a triple bottom line — contributing to people and to the planet, not just to profit. The era of the conscious business has arrived. Are you a part of it?

Did you know…

* Estimates suggest the social entrepreneurship sector employs around 40 million people globally, with 200 million more as volunteers

* 72% of U.S. consumers consider the social responsibility of a business when deciding whether to buy its products and services

* Companies with the best social responsibility ratings consistently out perform others in their class by a ratio of 9 to 1

* Small businesses like yours give more to charity and donate more volunteer hours than their corporate counterparts

In this conversation, we’ll be discussing questions like these:

Is conscious business just a tiny corner of the liberal, progressive world, or is it a growing, worldwide movement?
Can a coach be socially responsible, give back to his/her community, protect the environment, and still earn a good living?
Do your clients care whether you’re socially responsible?
What about the social responsibility of your business clients?
Can they – small businesses and corporations alike – afford to be socially responsible?
Why should they bother? And why should you care if they are?

About C.J.:

You may know C.J. Hayden best from her book and coaching program Get Clients Now!, but C.J.’s private coaching clients are social entrepreneurs, activists, and community leaders. Since 1992, she’s been helping conscious citizens build business ventures to effect social change.

C.J. is the author of three books and over 300 articles on marketing, entrepreneurship, and social action. She has published and taught in more places than she can keep track of, including Choice, Principled Profit, John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, and The Coaches Training Institute. C.J. was a founding director of the first international nonprofit association for coaches, which later merged with the ICF. She currently serves on the leadership teams of the Send Girls to School Project, Social Enterprise Alliance San Francisco chapter, and Global Initiative to Advance Entrepreneurship.

Find out more about C.J. at www.cjhayden.com

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

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Editor’s Note: The rollercoaster global economy means the job market is more competitive. This week’s Chronicle offers a wide variety of coaching counsel addressing leading stressors in the workplace. For the first time, Britain is offering coaching to citizens living in public housing or claiming government benefits in order to help boost their confidence and motivation to find a job. In Ireland, job coaches are offering individuals practical assistance seeking employment and emotional assistance coping with a job loss. One London career coach advises carefully crafting a network of friends, colleagues and family members to increase progress in the job search. Another coach from the US suggests that accepting a pay cut may be the best and only choice for now. So is there a bright note this week? Certainly – Life coaches say add optimism and creativity: organize a to-do list with color or poetry, make a list of 100 (yes 100) things to be grateful for, and take a walk and breathe with nature, enjoying what the Japanese call ‚Äúforest bathing.”

The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, designed to show where and how coaching appears in the popular culture worldwide. It is not intended to be a summary service nor a news roundup, although it may serve that purpose for some readers. The Chronicle is new each Thursday morning. Compiled and edited by Alex Goldsmith and Linda Ballew.

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Executive/Business Coaching

Newly Unemployed? Your Coach Awaits
April 29, 2009, Irish Times – Dublin, Ireland
A new industry is springing up on the back of the thousands of people who have lost their jobs due to the recession. Courses advising people how to find work, how to cope with unemployment, and to how to keep their sanity while on the dole are proving very popular. Two such ‚Äújob coaches”, Clodagh Hughes and Nial O’Reilly, are offering free coaching to unemployed people as their contribution to get the country get back on its feet.

Lost Your Job, Boss? Join the Club
April 29, 2009, Times Online – UK
Thus, it is to support the region’s beleaguered business community that Mr Criddle has launched a kind of executive support package. The Metier passport scheme is a combination of career coaching, psychological support and networking opportunities. At ¬£3,000- ¬£4,000 a year it is not aimed at those on their uppers, but at top-level executives affected by the recession.

Your Office Coach: Adjusting to Different Management Styles
April 28, 2009, The Olympian – Olympia, WA, USA
Calmly explain you are worried about morale and feel your new manager could use some coaching. Offer examples of the business problems created by her leadership style. Suggest the HR manager talk with some other employees. Then wait and see what happens.

Career Coach: Go With the Flow and Accept the Pay Cut
April 26, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
Let me be clear: The world has changed. Salaries and benefits packages have fallen and that trend will continue as many companies reduce costs to stay afloat. You must get with the program and change your expectations. This is not the time to get rich, but a time to survive.

Put Me In, Coach
April 23, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Sharon’s journey to becoming an ‚Äúexecutive coach” began at a local church where everyone ‚Äúwould line up outside my door to ask my advice on team development, strategic planning, and how to develop their ministry and staff. I thought it would be really cool to help people bring more of who they are into the workplace, so I talked to people and found out about coaching.”

Coffee Break: Coach Says Entrepreneurship Not a Bad Idea
April 23, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
The economic downturn actually presents entrepreneurs and small-business owners with a variety of advantages like reduced competition and lower leases, according to Nick Cohron, a business and career coach in Summit.

When You’ve Set the Pattern With an Employee, You Have to Be Tough to Change It
April 21, 2009, InfoWorld – San Francisco, CA, USA
At the risk of sounding self-serving, sometimes executives like the ones you describe need someone from the outside to tell them what to do differently. In this case, I’d advise bringing in someone who can provide both strategic consulting and executive coaching: the strategic consulting to help these two understand what they need to do differently from an operational perspective, the executive coaching so that they understand how they need to behave differently to lead a larger organization.

Life Coaching

Life Coach to Help Jobless Londoners
April 27, 2009, This is London – London, England, UK
Unemployed Londoners are to be assigned a free “life coach” to help them find work. In the first scheme of its kind in Britain, people claiming benefits and living in social housing will be offered free therapy courses to improve their confidence and motivation to find a job.

Coaching: The Global Perspective
April 27, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
With a Global Convention on Coaching and key UK coaching bodies signing a ‘statement of shared professional values’, 2008 seemed a ground breaking year for this emerging industry. The convention’s laudable desire was to establish more defined codes of ethics, standards of practice and qualifications within the coaching industry.

Lawrence Life Coach Offers To-Do List Tips
April 27, 2009, Lawrence Journal World – Lawrence, KS, USA
Train yourself to think that every task on your to-do list is something that you personally want to accomplish, rather than something you have to do. If you need to clean the house, don’t dwell on the chore; remember that you want the house to look nice, so that is why you are cleaning it.

Life Coach: Recommended Diet, Lifestyle Changes
April 26, 2009, Lansing State Journal – Lansing, MI, USA
Making diet and lifestyle changes will have long-term benefits on your health and your heart. These recommendations are from the American Heart Association.

6 Networking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
April 23, 2009, HarvardBusiness.org – Cambridge, MA, USA
If you were my coaching client, I would simply say: network, network, network. And yet among my clients, networking is often an underdeveloped skill.

Artists Use Life Coach to Beat Recession
April 23, 2009, Wimbledon Guardian – Cheam, England, UK
Europe’s largest collective of artists, huddled in a small annex of Wimbledon, are enlisting the help of a life coach to stave off the recession.

Niche Coaching

Communication Coach: Slackers Hit Chopping Block First in Lean Times
April 25, 2009, The Star-Ledger – NJ.com – Newark, NJ, USA
The people he wanted to let go were underachievers — people who just weren’t producing or carrying their weight. In fact, there was a list of employees whose names came up over and over again as people who were pulling down the firm.

Media coaching: Do the Hardest Thing First
April 22, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
I was just media coaching a woman who was in a major scuffle with the media due to a very controversial product that her company recently released. We were prepping for another equally controversial product that’s now on the market and she was scared out of her mind. Rightly so.

Life Coaching Blogs

Coaching ‚ÄúSafety Net” Questions – For When Your Mind Goes Blank
April 28, 2009, By Become A Certified Coach
Using a safety net question helps the flow of the coaching conversation, takes the pressure off the coach and puts the focus back where it belongs – on the client (as opposed to on ourselves and ‚ÄúWhat do I say next?”).

Manifesting Evolution in Consciousness: On Self-Compromise
April 27, 2009, By Sherry Bakhtian
Once again love, not having it, not recognizing it, and anything related to it has determined the course of our lives. When a coaching client comes to this point in their session, they are usually ready to acknowledge what exactly it is that they do want in a relationship.

Be Your Own Mentor: The Healing Power of Trees
April 27, 2009, By Karin Marcus
As a Life Coach and Retreat Leader, I have always thought of nature as an essential partner. My preferred method of one on one coaching of “Walk and Talks” is done outdoors.

The 4 Stages of Transition
April 27, 2009, By Shann Vander Leek
My talented and brilliant mentor coach, Deb Martin shared some valuable information with me awhile ago about the 4 stages of transition. This material along with my personal story have become a big part of the focus of my life coaching.

Qualities of a Good Coach
April 25, 2009, By MTI Coaching
It is very easy to advise people. All you need to do is look at his or her situation and come up with suggestions on how you think he or she will be able to improve it. But this is not the essence of coaching; coaching requires a relationship between the coach and the client wherein both are in the same place and move towards the same goal together.

Are You Grateful?
April 24, 2009, By Kelly Thorne
One of my favorite life coaching exercises to do with women is to help them create a list of at least 100 things (yes, I did just say – 100 things on a list) that they’re grateful for in their life.

Using an Online Dating Coach to Find Love, Happiness. and Even Find Your Soulmate
April 22, 2009, By Anything Personal
As an added benefit to the convenience of online dating, clients can also receive the services of an Online Dating Coach or ‚ÄúLove Coach” as we’re sometimes referred to by our clients.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Sales Management: The Role of Coaching
April 27, 2009, By Ian Brodie
And finally, they need to understand not only what’s needed for their team’s roles: but also what is needed to continuously improve their sales management capabilities.

What Do Children Teach Us About Leadership?
April 27, 2009, By Andrew Bryant
Both Tasha and Nathan like to clap for themselves when they do something right and they both beam when Zurina and I give them praise. As a leadership consultant I know how important it is that I continue to praise even moderately good performance as research by Dr Ethna Reid shows that teachers who get the best results, validate regularly.

Did Christopher Columbus Have a Coach?
April 24, 2009, By Tom, SmartCompany.com
I’ve worked for a couple of coaching companies, OneCoach and TEC /Vistage, so I’ve seen how having a business coach in your corner can make a huge difference. I ran a faster marathon (and achieved one of my life goals) because I had a great coach, pushing me further than I might have gone on my own. But here’s the thing: You can actually coach yourself.

Books, Products, & Services

Inspiring Mother’s Day Gift is Full of Heart and Easy on the Wallet
April 26, 2009, PR.com (press release) – San Francisco, CA, USA
The Women Masters Teleseminar Series makes a wonderful and meaningful gift for mothers and daughters alike. Offered free of cost, this program is about sharing the wisdom and insights of our most respected women experts with women (and men) worldwide. Additionally, 10% of proceeds from the upgrade package benefit Women for Women International And Girls, Inc.

Publicity Releases

JavaBlackBelt Adds Coaching to e-Learning in Breakthrough Java Courses
April 19, 2009, Emediawire (press release) – Brussels, Belgium
JavaBlackBelt, a global leader in Java learning and powered by over 50,000 developers in its global community, today announced the immediate availability of coached e-Learning for Java developers in Europe, North America, and India.

The Chronicle of Coaching – News of the Week – April 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.

Are You a Spanish Speaking Coach? Latin America Needs Coaches

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 – April 9, 2009

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Editor’s Note: Work, work, work! Find a better way to deal with workplace issues, get better at the job you have, get a better job, better not settle for just being good at your job, better start a business. Seriously? Coaches from Canada to Hong Kong, from the US to the UK to South Africa are writing, reporting, being interviewed and blogging about the nail-biting, adrenalin-pumping career challenges of 2009. When a coworker receives unfair promotions and favors from management, one business coach recommends bringing it to a boss’ attention in a calm and collected manner. How can a young professional fresh out of college communicate that they’re worth hiring? One executive coach’s book may have some timely answers. Need coaching in a business specialty? This week’s chronicle offers help for a handyman franchise owner, unemployed attorneys, writers, nurses, bloggers and even co-dependent coaches. All work and no play? Of course not. Smile (or laugh) as singer John Mayer plays life coach this week in a post on his Twitter account.

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Executive/Business Coaching

Business Coaches Help Owners, Bosses, Employees Succeed
April 6, 2009, The Tennessean – Nashville, TN, USA
When Hadley Hurford Jr. decided his home repair company needed to grow, he didn’t add an extra handyman to his staff. Instead, Hurford hired a business coach. With the help of Hendersonville-based coach Mike Hedge, Hurford plotted how his Mr. Handyman franchise could grow from $600,000 in annual revenues to $2 million and from employing four handymen to as many as 20.

High Spirits + Energy = Better Job Search
April 3, 2009, The Complete Lawyer – Atlanta, GA, USA
In my previous article I shared ten tips for tending to your career in a down economy. As we continue to struggle through these uncertain times, I’d like to focus on the last point I raised‚Äîthe importance of staying positive.

Career Coach in Demand
April 2, 2009, Agoura Hills Acorn – CA, USA
Tough times call for action. In today’s job market, potential employees must give themselves every edge they can. Dr. Ian Rosen of Applied Development Solutions in Oak Park is a career coach who prefers to focus on the present and future rather than the past, and on identifying and working toward overcoming barriers to a person’s career success.

Do You Want to Make a Life or Make a Living?
April 2, 2009, National Post – Toronto, ON, Canada
The silent killer for the inner spirit is being a slave to obligations, while not feeding our inner purpose. While answering the call to duty for family, boss and company may be laudable, continual neglect of our own inner development and spirit will produce resentment, anger, regret, boredom and apathy. And then you can serve no-one honestly. As a professional executive coach, I have worked with hundreds of people in all walks of life and careers, with a focus on these questions: “what should I do with my life?” and “what should I do for a living?”

Life Coaching

How Successful Executives Can Up Their Game Plan
April 7, 2009, Dispatch Online – South Africa
At that point in their career, with all eyes on them, there is added pressure on executives to excel. This is when they might want to up their game plan and develop their skills to make them even more valuable to their employer. This is where Carita McCallum comes in. McCallum is a life coach who helps successful executives to achieve their goals in life.

How Coaching Can Change Your Life for the Better
April 7, 2009, Glasgow Daily Record – Glasgow, Scotland, UK
For many of us, these turbulent times have meant having to make some big decisions about our future. Most of us do our best to muddle through by ourselves, taking advice only from those closest to us. But more and more people are turning to professional life coaches for help as they reach a crossroads.

The Co-Dependent Coach
April 6, 2009, TrainingZone.co.uk – Bristol, UK
Is your client starting to depend on you for solutions? The issue of dependency is one of the moral dilemmas of coaching. Particularly in today’s difficult market, if you’ve promoted yourself successfully, passed through the vetting stage and contracted with a coachee, it can be tempting to continue with this person, rather than having to go through the whole rigmarole again with someone else. It may be easier, but it’s unethical, if you’re prolonging the relationship for your benefit not the client’s.

John Mayer, Life Coach
April 3, 2009, OK! Magazine – New York, NY, USA
Though it was only a week ago that John Mayer declared that writing on micro-blogging site Twitter.com is “inherently silly and inherently dumb,” that didn’t stop Jennifer Aniston’s on-off-on-off boy-toy from waxing a bit philosophical on his Twitter page recently.

Friendship Leads to New Business
April 3, 2009, Aberdeen Press and Journal – Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
‚ÄúWe’d both often found ourselves offering our confidential advice and reassurance to others, and then receiving a lot of positive feedback from those we supported,” said Ally. And now – nine years after first forging their friendship at Aberdeen University – the two women are harnessing their natural skills with Stepping Stones Life Coaching.

Life Coaches Named for April 23 Mini-Retreat
April 2, 2009, The Coloradoan – Fort Collins, CO, USA
Many of us wonder if we are on the “right” path. Especially during tumultuous times like these, we consider making changes in our personal or professional life. We wonder if we are headed in the right direction, what else might be out there for us, and how we can explore options and find answers. Joan King and her cadre of professional coaches can help!
Each of these coaches has been personally selected by Dr. King, and each has built a distinguished career helping others. Each has the education, experience, insight and training to help you transform your personal and professional life.

Life Coach: It’s the Only Job for Me
April 1, 2009, Grand Junction Free Press – Grand Junction, CO, USA
Coaching challenge: The next time you are frustrated with someone, ask yourself these questions: What is my part in this situation? What options do I have? How can I manage my feelings through this situation? The person you have the most influence over is you, which is a great place to start.

Faydra Rector-Sargent: People Change as They Grow
April 2009, Red Bluff Daily News – Red Bluff, CA, USA
People are always changing and evolving. If you put all of your investment in assuming how they will respond to life, you may not get much of a return. What’s more, if your assumptions are always negative or cynical, you may be in for an even bigger surprise.

Chiswick Life Coach Says ‘Eureka Moment is Incredible’
March 31, 2009, Hounslow Guardian – UK
He said: “It’s incredibly simple but so effective.”The job satisfaction has been incredible – seeing that eureka moment when people recognise the problem that has been stopping them.”

Find a New Job in Retirement
March 31, 2009, Examiner.com – USA
Life coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Transition coaches are the latest expression of personal coaching and usually help people retire. They use exercises, readings and other methods to help clients identify their goals and strategies to meet them.

Niche Coaching

SCORE ‚ÄòSpeed Coaching’ Event April 30
April 3, 2009, New Hampshire Business Review – Manchester, NH, USA
Small-business owners who are seeking good business advice – and fast — should consider attending the Small Business Speed Coaching event on April 30 in Concord, NH.

Life Coaching Blogs

Secrets to Getting the Top Salary of a Life Coach: Business Coaching Certification the Coaching Schools Don’t Understand
April 6, 2009, By Jeffrey T. Sooey
There is one secret technique to getting top salary of a life coach that isn’t based upon the ability to psychoanalyze your client, or have some great ‚Äòintuition’. You can’t learn this skill with some business coaching certification, nor can you produce great results without it (unless you get top salary of a life coach simply because you are a guru already).

Writing Instructor vs. Writing Coach – Which Do You Really Need?
April 6, 2009, By Suzanne Lieurance
But generally, a writing coach works with a person (or persons) who knows the mechanics of the type of writing he wants to write, but he has trouble staying on track. The writing coach’s client needs help with specific strategies to develop a focus for his writing (and perhaps even for his writing career) and then comes to the coach seeking additional help maintaining that focus.

6 Things I Secretly Hope are Included in Life Coaching
April 5, 2009, By I Hate My Message Board
On Tuesday I have my first session with Tim Brownson! It was tremendously generous of him to agree to coach me and based on what I’ve read from other bloggers he’s coached, it’s going to be a very valuable experience. Now, I know a bit of what to expect based on these blogs, especially Jay Frawley’s Inner Noodle series, but there were a few things that weren’t mentioned that I secretly hope are included.

You’re Just a Dreamer
April 4, 2009, By Blessed With Full Hands
One of the things I do “on the side” is life coaching. I do it more as a ministry and I do not actively advertise. My full time job of being a mom to three boys does not allow me to do it any more than a little. But, when I meet with a life coaching client, I love it.

Sadness = An Opportunity to Create
April 4, 2009, By Creativity Coach Sherrie
Don’t take this the wrong way, and certainly don’t let sadness rule your life, but don’t rule it out either! If you don’t sort through the feelings of pain, they’re just going to linger and may even get worse.

Luv Coach Q&A: Frustrated with Marriage
April 2, 2009, By Rebecca Brody
You may feel like life is suffocating and you may feel trapped, but neither one of those is true. You have given up the position of financial provider for your family, and in the process, it seems that you have forgotten that you are the provider of everything else.

Executive/Business Coaching Blogs

Business Coaching – A Growing Trend
April 6, 2009, By Organic Blueprints
One of the biggest trends in the business world is to seek Business Coaching. Retaining a Business Coach doesn’t mean your business is failing or that you necessarily have a problem to solve. Instead, Business Coaching is often used by business owners to create a collaborative opportunity to review ideas and create structure for improving their businesses, management style and professional skills.

Business Coaching in Challenging Times
April 6, 2009, By Carole Davidson
It has become apparent that not only is the global economy in crisis but
those in leadership positions have been exposed and shown an inadequacy
of coping techniques.

Dealing with Favoritism at Work: Golden Boy/Girl Syndrome
April 4, 2009, By Powerful Mind Coaching
I call it ‚ÄúGolden Boy/Girl Syndrome”: Someone you work with in your office has been singled out by your boss as exceptional and deserving of special consideration and, perhaps, additional perks and compensation you and your co-workers do not receive. As totally and incredibly aggravating as the Golden Boy/Girl Syndrome is, and justifiably so, your primary job is to take care of yourself and your own career.

8 Questions with Tim Besse Co-Founder of Glassdoor.com
April 3, 2009, By Seattle Interview Coach
Q: When I think about Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter, its users have come up with creative ways to use the core software. Has the Glassdoor community created anything unique with functionality or data?
A: Our mission is to become the world’s most trusted source for helping people make informed decisions about their work. We really are unique in the type of content that’s available and the functionality of the site, which we designed to help people engage with one another to improve discussions in and around the workplace.

‚ÄúWork On Your Business, Not In It.” Huh?
April 2, 2009, By Angus Gordon
If you’ve never heard the motto ‚ÄúWork on your business, not in it”, then you probably haven’t spent much time hanging around business coaches, or fans of the various iterations of Michael Gerber’s E Myth. If you own a business, you shouldn’t be spending your time doing the day-to-day things that keep the business ticking over (“working in your business”). Instead, you should hire, outsource or automate these tasks, and concentrate instead on the ‚Äúbig picture” strategic tasks that will make your business bigger, more scalable, more efficient, more saleable down the track, and so on (“working on your business”).

Books, Products, & Services

New Book Helps Up-and-Coming Professionals Discovers the Keys to Workplace Success
April 6, 2009, Emediawire (press release) – Nashville, TN, USA
As the state of the economy declines and unemployment rates skyrocket, recent college graduates and young professionals, managers, and leaders need tools to help them become strong contenders in a competitive job market. Executive Coach and Leadership Development Executive, Charles I. Story, uncovers key tactics to career success and more in his debut book release, “Success in Your Pocket or Purse: Its More Than Who You Know”.

Publicity Releases

2009 Coaching Roundtable Series Kicks Off in Hong Kong with Coaching Executive Women
April 7, 2009, NewsReleaseWire.com – Hong Kong, China
As women executives expand their roles in the business world, they continue to encounter specific challenges as their careers develop. Human Factor International created the Coaching Executive Women program to address issues facing women executives and to provide an opportunity for networking and learning with key thought leaders and senior business executives.

New Coaching Program Helps Charge Nurses Develop Leadership Skills
April 4, 2009, PR Web (press release) – Lenexa, KS, USA
As the frontline leaders on a hospital unit, charge nurses make a tremendous impact on financial outcomes. B. E. Smith has a unique leadership development program that sends a tenured nurse executive coach into the work environment to teach charge nurses the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving healthcare climate.

Nearly 600 Entrepreneurs Gathered at InfusionCon 2009
April 2009, PR-USA.net (press release) – Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Infusionsoft also unveiled the new Double Your Sales Coaching Program exclusively to event attendees. The business coaching program was officially announced today and is open to all entrepreneurs, regardless of whether or not they use Infusionsoft’s technology.

Executive Coaching Helps De-Stress Leaders, Builds Employee Stability
March 31, 2009, PRNewswire (press release) – Rockville, MD, USA
At a time of economic uncertainty, executive coaching helps companies survive and thrive, says executive coach Laurie Hackett-Maddalena.

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 – 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.

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 – 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.

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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.