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The Chronicle of Coaching - News of the Week - May 08 2008

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 […]

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admin | May 9th, 2008 | Continued

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Virtual Dialog for May Book It: words for the soul

Thursday, May 22, 2008
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
About the Call: Coaches Awake! Are you looking for a new idea to solve an old problem? Join Lynn Kindler, as she and Mitch Ditkoff, author of “Awake

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Katherine Gotshall English | May 2nd, 2008 | Continued

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Virtual Dialog for May Burning Up the House!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Noon – 1:00 pm EDT
Call Topic: Burning Up the House!
About the Call: Have you noticed something in the wind? Is it the smoke from the first sparks of Change? Many of us sense that an inflection point is now available for the world, a change in how we humans relate to each […]

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Linda Ballew | May 1st, 2008 | Continued

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After the Fire: Coaching 2.0 – The Rise of the Wisdom Worker

Having reported on the movement to initiate a controlled burn of the Coaching profession in a previous article (“Burning Up the House”), I feel compelled to share a personal vision of the vista that I see through the smoke as the birthing, shaping fire creates a clearing for creative imagination. This is essentially a description […]

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Lable Braun | April 21st, 2008 | Continued

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Burning Up the House

Mark Tuesday, April 8, 2008 on your calendars. It will turn out to have been a very significant day in the history of the Coaching vocation. On that day at CAM (The Conversation Among Masters) in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina a most amazing discussion took place over lunch. CAM had brought together Master Certified Coaches, […]

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Lable Braun | April 20th, 2008 | Continued

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NEW FEATURE: Interviews with Real-World Coaching Researchers: News You Can Use Now!

This month’s inaugural interview is with Laura Crawshaw, Ph.D. on her research work on Coaching Abrasive Executives.
Listen to a 20 minute interview with Laura discussing her study - what interested her in the topic, what she found along the journey, and how it has changed her coaching.

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Francine Campone | April 7th, 2008 | Continued

About this Site

Welcome. What is The Coaching Commons? We launched on January 15, 2008 and we are currently building The Commons to spec, based on your feedback. (Click ‘read more’ to learn about the goals of the early launch phase, how you can help, and why you should care.)
That being said, for now, here is what we conceive The Coaching Commons to be. The original vision, […]

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Edgar Schein: Process Consultant or Coach?

Edgar Schein (born 1928) is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who is credited with inventing the term “corporate culture.” In 1969, Schein wrote Process Consultation which introduced the concept of process consultation that describes one of three roles of the organizational consultant. The process consultation modes contain many of the characteristics of […]

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9May2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued

News You Can Use Now: Presence-Based Coaching

Interviews with Real-World Coaching Researchers - Listen to this month’s interview as Elizabeth Topp, Ph.D. talks about her research in developing a Presence-Based Coaching model.
Listen to a 20 minute interview with Elizabeth to hear what sparked her interest, what she found along her journey and how it has changed her coaching.
Then, you are invited to comment on your thoughts and experiences […]

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9May2008 | Francine Campone | 0 comments | Continued

For Coaches Living in the New York Area: The Gift of Soul: a conversation with Thomas Moore

The Gift of Soul will take place at: Marble Collegiate Church
29th Street/Fifth Avenue
New York City
Saturday, May 10, 2008
11:00 pm to 2:00 pm followed by a tea reception and book signing
from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul,
Soul Mates, Dark Nights of the Soul, and Original Self will be in […]

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8May2008 | Katherine Gotshall English | 3 comments | Continued

Thomas J. Leonard Coached Me To Go With The Obvious

I came to the coaching phenomenon after being a psychologist and executive coach since 1990. I had a private clinical practice since 1980 and added coaching to the mix for a training firm in Ft. Collins, Colorado in 1990 called, The People Business. I coached top-level executives from Hewlett Packard, Kodak, IBM and others about […]

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7May2008 | Dr. Patrick Williams | 1 comment | Continued

Virtual Dialog for May The New Wave of Coaching

Friday, May 9 to 10:00 am EDT
Call Topic: The New Wave of Coaching
About the Call: This virtual dialogue will be hosted by Gordon Clark with guest coach Shirley Anderson. Gordon was one of the first Master Certified Coaches certified by the International Coach Federation. He is a graduate of Yale, a renaissance man with a […]

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6May2008 | Katherine Gotshall English | 10 comments | Continued

Research Project: Executive Coaching Readiness Inventory

Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to ask for your help with a research project involving an Executive Coaching Readiness Inventory. A colleague (Melinda Harper) of mine at Queens University of Charlotte and I developed an inventory and thought we had a sample population secured for the validation testing. The pilot study went very well and the […]

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5May2008 | John Bennett | 0 comments | Continued

1979 Book - Coaching: A Management Skill for Improving Individual Performance

The author, Arthur Deegan, had been delivering workshops on this topic for ten years before he wrote this book. Even in 1979, Deegan was talking about “the situation of many organizations - the rapid overall growth necessitating unusually rapid movement of key personnel from one position to another with the feeling that all of them […]

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5May2008 | Vikki Brock | 1 comment | Continued

Collaborate With HR or Bypass Them Altogether?

One of my biggest challenges when coaching within an organization is to develop a collaborative relationship and get buy-in with the HR department. HR professionals have morphed into the nuts and bolts of staffing, however some have no idea what coaching is, never mind support it. Not only that, in a number of cases, as the HR staff think […]

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2May2008 | Donna Karlin | 3 comments | Continued

Napoleon Hill - Pioneer Motivational Coach

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883-November 8, 1970) was the American author of Think and Grow Rich (1937), one of the earliest and best selling personal-success books of all time. Chapters in this book include: imagination, organized planning, persistence, power of a mastermind group, and the sixth sense as the door to wisdom.
Though it wasn’t called […]

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2May2008 | Vikki Brock | 3 comments | Continued

Reach and Richness: Is Coaching Scaleable?

In the early days of the dot com boom, companies went up a steep learning curve of expanding reach (touching as many targets as possible) and richness (providing an experience that cultivates repeat business).
Coaching is facing the same scale dilemma: how to expand access to coaching (reach) while providing a rich coaching experience? Since most […]

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29Apr2008 | CBraddick | 0 comments | Continued

“Shadowing” as a Form of Coaching

I have been working this week with a colleague to plan an engagement with Technical Leaders who need coaching on improving their abilities to manage matrix relationships in their project teams. This is my ideal model – I can actually do leadership training, and then supplement it by “shadowing” them in their real environment.
By watching a […]

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28Apr2008 | cphillips | 4 comments | Continued

1981 Book - Effective Coaching: A Psychological Approach

In my pursuit of coaching books written in the 1970s and 1980s, I came across this book and ordered it used from Amazon. Imagine my surprise when I opened the book and saw it was written for sports coaches by sports psychologists. The authors state that coaching know-how includes “three interrelated components: knowledge, competencies or […]

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28Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued

Virtual Dialog for May Parallel Tracks? Comparing the Development of Coaches and Psychotherapists

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
11:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern Time Zone
Call Topic: Parallel Tracks? Comparing the development of coaches and psychotherapists

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26Apr2008 | Linda Ballew | 1 comment | Continued

John Wooden - Greatest Coach of All Time in Any Sport

John Wooden (born October 14, 1910) 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(www.coachjohnwooden.com/puramidpdf.pdf). Both speak to self […]

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25Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 3 comments | Continued

Uh-Oh, Your Ego is Showing

How do you keep your ego in check during coaching sessions?
No one can be so neutral, eh? How do you not rush-think-ahead and automatically devise what’s best for your client, even as your client is still talking in earnest about their goals and challenges? Your ego wants to be a great coach. Your ego wants to have all the right […]

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23Apr2008 | Linda Ballew | 5 comments | Continued

1979 Book - A Manager’s Guide to Coaching

David Megginson and Tom Boydell wrote this booklet for coaches for managers and trainers of managers in the United Kingdom. In this, they defined coaching as: “a process in which a manager, through direct discussion and guided activity, helps a colleague to learn to solve a problem, or to do a task better than would […]

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21Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 1 comment | Continued

Can a leopard change its spots? Coaching the bullies!

As I was reading this article at http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=181593, I thought of the extraordinary work that many of you are doing with ‘children’, teens and young adults. There is much research, many tomes written about relational aggression, bullying, the misdirected/misguided use of language and physical aggression. We all know that these unsavory behaviors can, and do, start early […]

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19Apr2008 | Elizabeth Crouch | 1 comment | Continued