The Chronicle of Coaching

Compiled and edited by Ruth Ann Harnisch, Christine Heinrichs, and Linda Ballew.

The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, and is updated weekly.

This week’s Chronicle shows how coaching is associated with creating resolutions, planning for long term results, and gaining success in the New Year. Happy 2007, everyone!

COACHING NEWS – Current events where coaching is having an impact

From Business Week (USA)
Coaching Firm Advises: Turn Older Employees into Mentors
Baby Boomers staying on the job longer mean more age diversity in the workplace. An executive coaching company reports six out of ten companies use older workers as mentors for younger ones. After-work social functions also help improve relations.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8M8QCQ01.htm

CULTURE WATCH – Where coaches and coaching are showing up in the popular culture

From Financial Express (Bombay, India)
CEOs in India Embrace Coaching
Corporate leaders who were reluctant to accept coaching for fear of giving the impression that they were less than perfect are now turning to coaches because of pressure to deliver results the market demands.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=150337

From Business Book Summaries (USA)
Business Coach Lists Seven Networking Mistakes
Networking can build critical business relationships. This Midwest coach who specializes in strategic planning shares the most common mistakes she has seen business owners, executives and sales people make at networking events.
http://www.bizsum.com/blog/?p=292

From Melbourne Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)
Coach Advises Resolution Success Strategies
You’re more likely to succeed in making life changes if you achieve goals step-by-step instead of trying to do it all at once, says this life and business coach. Over the years she
has observed Australians' priorities shift from business success and possessions to family life and balance.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20988464-2862,00.html

From United Press International (Washington State, USA)
Pointers on Finding a Health Coach
This healthy-eating coach advises on what to look for: credentials, agreement on goals and a philosophy that you can live with.
http://tinyurl.com/yl73b9

From The Scotsman (Scotland, UK)
Five Coaches Advise on Resolutions for Lasting Change
This reporter focused on different areas with each coach: inner confidence, bad habits, love and relationships, work, and friendships.
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1914912006

From Providence Business News (Rhode Island, USA)
Small Company Can Benefit from HR Coaching
Hiring a coach to support human resources staff in finding solutions to problems and creating proactive policies can pay off for both employer and employees.
http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/124559

From New York Post (New York, USA)
Rock Star Life Coach Helps Overwrought Clients Chill Out
The newspaper columnist tries life coaching to reduce her Type A need to organize. She's impressed by her chic coach's suggestions for a simpler, calmer life.
http://tinyurl.com/yebd5o

From Miami Herald (Florida, USA)
Love-Life Coaches Advise Reporter to Disclose
As she combs dating sites for a boyfriend by Valentine's Day and material for a newspaper story, this reporter consults two love-life coaches on whether she should tell her dates they may end up in newsprint.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/16342334.htm

From The New York Times (New York, USA)
Diabetes Coaching Improves Health, Cuts Insurance and Medical Costs
Companies and municipalities that require coaching for diabetics cut costs because patients are healthier and need less care. This article profiles Asheville, N.C.'s program.
http://tinyurl.com/w2kew

COACH INK – Coaches and coaching getting media attention

From ABC News (New York, USA)
Cheryl Richardson Gives Personal Inventory Checklist on GMA
Viewers of ABC Television's Good Morning America got her advice on gathering documentation to remind you of the events of the past year, writing them up as news stories, extracting lessons learned and targeting success.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/PersonalBest/story?id=2754464

COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY
Opinions expressed are those of the writers and not The Foundation of Coaching, which does not express editorial opinion.

From Brooksgroup Blogs (USA)
Coach Blogs How to Save the Sale When Your Demo Fails
Demonstrations of large industrial equipment for customers sometimes demonstrate mechanical breakdowns. Using those occasions to show how the company's repair and parts departments' respond can leverage the failure into a service demonstration and help close the sale.
http://www.brooksgroup.com/blog/2006/12/29/do-you-have-a-contingency-

From Ten Ways to Change Your Life (Ontario, Canada)
Self-Care Coach Blogs Sleep Tips
Music, progressive relaxation, imagery and a hot scented bath with a cup of chamomile tea are on the list of this coach, who is also a music therapist.
http://10way.blogspot.com/2006/12/10-ways-to-get-good-nights-sleep.html#link2345

PUBLICITY RELEASES – Information from commercial sources

From Business Opportunities Weblog Network (California, USA)
Coach Company Offers Accredited Training
This Canada-based company will give its franchisees a training program accredited by the International Coach Federation.
http://tinyurl.com/y6jddg

From PR Web (Washington, DC, USA)
Coaches Offer Booklet of Career Tips
Two executive coaches collaborate on a 16-page booklet listing 133 ways to accelerate your career.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb494184.htm

From the Coaching Archives: Historical facts from the evolution of coaching
By Vikki G. Brock

When did the word “coach” come into use? In their 1989 article “Coaching and the Art of Management,” Jim Selman and Robert Evered tell us that the word “coach” was first used to refer to a person in the 1840s. It was at Oxford University, where the word “coach” was used colloquially to refer to a private tutor, not associated with the University, who prepared a student for an examination. Where did that word come from? The very first use of the word “coach” in the English language occurred in the 1500s to refer to a particular kind of carriage. (It still does.) Hence the root meaning of the verb “to coach” is to convey a valued person from where he or she was to where he or she wanted to be. (Evered & Selman, 1989)

From The Foundation of Coaching

Help Wanted: History and Archive Advisory Panel members
Do you have a passion for the history of coaching? The History and Archive Division of The Foundation of Coaching is looking for enthusiastic, curious, detail-oriented seekers of the past. There are no restrictions as to your field of coaching, your culture, or your home country. You’ll help us write the history of coaching, in collaboration with Vikki G. Brock, author of “Who’s Who in Coaching: Who Shaped it, Who’s Shaping It.”

If you have a bit of archeologist in you, come help us dig up the past!

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