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Coaching studies often arise from coaching practice. This page of interviews offers some insight into what the coach researcher asked about and what was learned to inform coaching practice. If you’re interested in reading more coaching studies (in addition to the links provided with each interview), please visit The Research Repository at The Foundation of Coaching, soon to be The Institute of Coaching.
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Enjoy and thanks for listening!
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Advancing the Field of Coaching: Master’s Degree in Executive Coaching, McColl School of Business
Dr. John Bennett considers it a dream come true--the creation of a master's degree program in executive coaching at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte.
"You talk about the excitement of doing this, it’s absolutely incredibly exciting. It’s one of those dreams that I’ve had for a ... Read More
November 12, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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Your Coach As The Key To Landing A New Job–Or, That New Career
If coaching had a big-budget advertising and promotional campaign, what might the selling point be? Coaching works? Coaching changes lives? Coaching delivers?
How about this: have a coach, land that great new job.
Coach Caroline Dowd-Higgins believes it makes sense for executives to put their coach on their resume as proudly as ... Read More
October 8, 2010 | Mark Joyella | No Comments »
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CoachReporter Podcast: Kirk Akahoshi, “Quarterlife Crisis Coach”
Quarterlife crisis—just like the midlife crisis, only a few decades earlier, and without the new clothes or German sportscar.
While many coaches may not have even pondered the concept, it’s one life coach Kirk Akahoshi has built his business around—helping 20 and 30-somethings who feel lost, lacking passion and confused about ... Read More
August 11, 2010 | Mark Joyella | No Comments »
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How the “Coach Approach” Has Taken Root in Christian Ministries
Linda Miller moves in two similar, but distinctly different worlds: coaching executives at some of the world's top companies, and coaching ministers through her work at Coach Approach Ministries, founded in 2001 as a means of "bringing professional coaching to churches." And Miller says Christian coaching has become big business.
"It ... Read More
May 21, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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Executive Coaching Family CEOs: Mom and Dad
Perhaps there's no other company in the world that puts out a product as important as the family. And like the best corporations, some coaches believe the best families know the power of good coaching. "Being a parent is the most sacred work we do," says Gloria DeGaetano, a parent ... Read More
May 14, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 3 Comments »
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Coaching Olympians and CEOs
This week, the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team made Olympic history, winning a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Games. The team broke a nearly 90 year streak without winning a single medal--and this year, they've won two. "There's a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction," said Tom Steitz, a ... Read More
February 26, 2010 | Mark Joyella | No Comments »
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Coaching Gay Men in the Workplace
Mark Strong says his life changed five years ago, when he hired a coach. "I had found some real success, but it wasn't until I hired my own life coach in 2005 that I started to truly cross off every item on my 'Wish List,'" he said.
Strong was so impressed ... Read More
January 8, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 2 Comments »
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Starting the New Year with a “Daily Whip”
If you're looking for a gentle soul to take you by the hand and lead you softly into the world of coaching, Erika Lyremark would not be the woman for the job.
Lyremark--a former exotic dancer--calls herself a "professional ass kicker," and that's exactly how she approaches her coaching. "I teach ... Read More
January 1, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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Listen to an Uncommon Conversation: What is a Mastermind Group?
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 ... Read More
November 11, 2009 | Elizabeth Crouch | 4 Comments »
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Max Leone: Coaching with Passion!
Coach Max Leone loves working with clients on their passion. After all, he's living his own. Leone, an Italian, relocated to Ireland as he pursued his dream of coaching in English.
Leone specializes in "helping people discover and express strategically their unique talents and to bring them into the job they ... Read More
November 10, 2009 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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