Leading Boldly: The Coaching Commons 2009
By Linda Ballew

~Happy New Year to all~

Imagine. Clients lining up, taking a ticket, taking a chance, eager to hire YOU.

The Chronicle of Coaching identified a coaching client trend this week. Be sure to click and read about the variety of clients searching for knowledgeable coaches to guide them to rich lives, bigger dreams, financial safety, joyful careers, personal security, and peace of mind. You’ll find this, and more in our weekly roundup of coaching in the media. (In case you wondered, coaching IS in the media, frequently and regularly.)

Many clients stand ready to pay big bucks for sessions with you. Some skeptics aren’t sure about the whole coaching thing yet. And many who want coaching can’t pay you at all.

The Coaching Commons helps connect the dots.

If you are a coach: The Commons needs your LEADERSHIP. We challenge you to bring the coaching experience alive with us at the Commons. Blog about your coaching ideas, skills, questions, expertise, mistakes, talent, research and anything else you can bring to this thrilling moment in history.

The Coaching Commons is independent of coaching schools; the non-partisan “Switzerland” of coaching, so you can freely lead conversations. Host a group coaching call. Or tell us what you learned about coaching while writing your book, what you do to be a more effective coach, what coaching mistakes you avoid. Let’s have a live call for clients and listen to what they have to say about their coaching experience.

If you are a coaching client or potential client: If you are curious about hiring a coach, how can the Coaching Commons help bring coaching to you? What kind of coaching do you need? Tell us and we’ll find a coach to blog or host a live call about your topic.

Boldly lead on…..into this fresh New Year.

To be a CC leader, contact us at team@coachingcommons.org

Linda heads up the 'Breaking News' section of The Coaching Commons and coordinates all mentions of coaching around the world each week for The Chronicle of Coaching.

January Quote: Chapter One, starting the New Year

"For last year's words belong to last year's language.

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning."

~T.S. Eliot, (from "Little Gidding")

Who is T.S. Eliot?

The Foundation of Coaching is Moving to Harvard – soon to be The Institute of Coaching
By Ruth Ann Harnisch

Here We Go!

We did it - together.
 
The trailblazing work that you have been doing under the auspices of The Foundation of Coaching is about to move into a new and exciting stage of growth. You know that we have been negotiating to create an academic home for the research program that was created by Dr. Mary Wayne Bush.
 
Mary Wayne, who imagined the possibilities in 2005, personally recruited a remarkable team comprising the most credible, ethical, philanthropically-minded individuals in coaching research worldwide to help her establish criteria and protocols for grantmaking.
 
She traveled the world, literally, drumming up enthusiasm for coaching-related research.
 
"We have money !" she would announce cheerfully. And now an impressive roster of researchers has some of it, and they are putting that money to work for the benefit of the field of coaching.

Continue reading this article.

Ruth Ann Harnisch is President of The Harnisch Foundation, Since 1998, The Harnisch Foundation has been a catalyst for sustainable social change, funding and implementing innovation in the fields of philanthropy, coaching and journalism.

Join an Uncommon Conversation: Executive Coaching for Results

Monday, January 26
Time:  2:00-3:00pm Eastern Time
Guest:  Brian Underhill, Ph.D.
Host:  The Coaching Commons
Topic:  Executive Coaching for Results

The executive coaching industry has come of age and generated even more questions:

• How do organizations and coaches make the most of this powerful method?
• What is the purpose of coaching?
• Who should get coaching?
• How can you tell coaches apart?
• How are coaching results measured?

Learn from Brian Underhill, author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders (Berrett-Koehler 2007).  Brian draws upon his and his colleagues’ vast experience, best practice knowledge and original rigorous research of the practice of executive coaching in the world’s top organizations.

This inspiring and engaging session is strongly recommended for executive/leadership development, human resources and executive coaches alike.  It is a must for anyone responsible for executive coaching in his or her organization.

To attend this Uncommon Conversation and participate live with questions or examples, REGISTER HERE.

Read more about Brian Underhill.

In Support of the Coaching Community: New Website Outlines Graduate School Coaching Programs
By Larry Starr

To support the coaching community, a website that presents the educational offerings of graduate school coaching programs was designed and populated at www.pennsurveys.org/coaching. 

A coaching program was defined as one housed in a graduate academic institution that met any of the following criteria: degree-based coaching coursework; graduate courses that produced a transcript and certificate; non-degree courses that earned a certificate; or coaching applications. 

The project surveyed six countries and the site now contains 214 graduate institutions distributed as follows:

• 17 are in Australia
• 0 are in New Zealand
• 21 are in Canada
• 52 are in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Scotland
• 124 are in the United States

The site also contains a draft proposed curriculum from which graduate coaching programs may be drawn. The document was written by members of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching a consorting of graduate institutions in the United States and Canada. Identified institutions are encouraged to add details about their programs and leadership. They are also encouraged to comment on the draft proposed curriculum.  
The University of Pennsylvania and Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching will maintain and update the website as new programs are identified and as comments by users become available. Professional societies and other groups will be contacted to request that they link to the website as a resource to the global academic and professional coaching community.
Read more about Larry Starr and this research.  
 
Note: This research was made possible in part with a grant awarded by The Foundation of Coaching, a leader in coaching-related research.

More Coaching Research.
Encouraging Women Into Senior Management Positions: How Coaching Can Help
By Andrea Broughton and Linda Miller

Andrea Broughton and Linda Miller of the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) have just completed an international research project funded by The Foundation of Coaching, examining the factors underlying women’s progress through organisational structures and the reasons why women in senior management positions in the USA and in Europe decide to accept or decline board-level jobs.

Here is what they have to tell you:

We talked to women about the factors that encouraged and/or slowed their career progression, along with the reasons for their decisions regarding whether or not to take up board-level or senior management positions.

We hope that the research will inform the debate in the US and worldwide and illuminate the development of further coaching topics and strategies that might be needed to help greater numbers of women progress into board positions.

In particular, we aimed to answer the following research questions:

• what are the main perceived barriers to moving into corporate board-level management, from the point of view of women managers?
• what types of interventions and coaching are currently offered to women managers to enable them to move into board-level positions,
• what lessons can be learned from the research to enable the coaching offered to women in the future to be improved and/or extended?
• are there any differences or similarities between the situation and approach in the countries examined; and if there are differences, what are the lessons that can be learned and could best practice and coaching guidance be transferred across national boundaries?

Continue reading this article.

The Coaching Commons Wishes You a New Year Filled with Peace and Prosperity.

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