Welcome To The Next Generation Coaching Commons – Sleeker, Faster, Easier
By Linda Ballew

LAUNCHING in 3 – 2 – 1 - The Coaching Commons team is proud to present our readers and subscribers with the next generation of the Coaching Commons, new features include:

Top stories and breaking news from Coach Reporter, Mark Joyella
Quick daily access to international coaching news
Original reporting on timely coaching issues and hot topics from freelance journalists and coaches worldwide
Reader commentary, opinions and dialogue about pertinent issues and hot topics
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Updates on the latest coaching research and how findings help practitioners to build, sustain and improve their businesses
Brief snapshots of coaching history and history-makers

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“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

- Henry Ford                                                     

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From the Headlines: Coaching the Insubordinate General
By Mark Joyella

What does a leader do when a subordinate drifts—or perhaps dives—into insubordination?

The question of insubordination and failure to respect authority—even at the most basic levels of management—brings up a host of questions: does a leader restore authority by firing an insubordinate employee? And how long can a leader wait to act before their own ability to remain in their job becomes compromised?

These questions took center stage at the White House last week, after a Rolling Stone interview with General Stanley McChrystal was published, portraying the General as mocking the leadership of fellow generals, the vice president, and President Obama himself. Read story.

June Coaching Question: From Denise Horn

"If you could look at the bigger picture and there were no obstacles in the way what would your goal look like?”

Read more of our reader list of brilliant coaching questions.(And please submit your own!)

Research Update: "The Integration of Mindfulness Training And Health Coaching" By Kerryn Griffiths

"Building awareness" is a well known process of coaching and "heightened awareness" a common outcome. So it’s not surprising that research is demonstrating the important role that mindfulness can play in coaching and in particular, the process of self-regulation.

COACHING RESEARCH:

In their exploratory study of "The integration of mindfulness training and health coaching" (2008 in Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice , Vol. 1, No.2, pp145-163) Spence, Cavanagh and Grant highlight the impact of mindfulness training used in conjunction with coaching on goal attainment.

In this study, mindfulness training included a training manual and exercises recorded on mp3 that aimed to develop coaches' selective attention, attention switching and sustained attention abilities, as well as meditations focused on breathing, negative thoughts and emotions. Read more.

Coaching History: John Wooden – Greatest Coach of All Time in Any Sport
by By Vikki Brock

This post is reprinted from the April 25, 2008 post:

John Wooden (born October 14, 1910 – died June 4, 2010) was coach of the UCLA Bruins basketball team from 1948 to 1976 and the most winning coach in basketball history. You might ask, what does this have to do with coaching outside of sports? Check out Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and 12 Lessons for Leadership. Both speak to self responsibility and values that are foundational for all coaching.

In October 1987, Werner Erhard hosted a satellite broadcast with famous sports coaches of the time. The discussion purpose was to identify the uniform distinctions of coaching, regardless of the subject being coached. Jim Selman moderated the discussion and documented the outcome in an article called “Coaching and the Art of Mangagement” in 1989. Read more.

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