The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, and is updated weekly. Compiled and edited by Ruth Ann Harnisch, Christine Heinrichs, and Linda Ballew.

In this week’s Chronicle: This week’s Chronicle includes items from Ireland, the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Clients include lawyers, retirees, entrepreneurs, athletes, and people with alternative lifestyles. There’s advice on choosing a coach, a career, a communications style, and a urinal. Yes, you read that correctly. Scroll down for that one. And as always, if we missed anything, let us know at info@thefoundationofcoaching.org

Executive Coach Addresses Common Misconceptions
February 26, 2007, CIO (Massachusetts, USA)

Coaching doesn't require rarefied experience or time away from work to have a big impact, she says.

Coaches, Clients Explain How Coaching Works
February 27, 2007, The Tennessean (Tennessee, USA)

Coaches tell what they offer, clients tell how it helped them, and a psychologist weighs in on professional aspects.

Health Coaching Offers New Web Site
February 27, 2007, PR Web (Ohio, USA)

A health care coaching company's new web site for health improvement programs leverages email convenience, anonymity and other factors to deliver an ROI of $5.50 per dollar spent.

Middle East Leadership Training Program Includes Coaching
February 26, 2007, AME Info World News (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

Twelve young professionals are the first graduates of a training program designed to improve public-private collaboration and encourage entrepreneurship.

Joint University-Private Coaching Business Project Helps People Find Purpose
February 23, 2007, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota, USA)

Workshops to help people find fulfillment are aimed at all adults and are especially relevant to those approaching retirement.

Mentoring and Coaching Can Attract and Retain Talented Lawyers
February 19, 2007, The Lawyer (London, UK)

Training can be the competitive edge in-house legal departments need to attract and retain bright young lawyers. Assigning a senior lawyer to mentor and coach a less experienced one benefits both sides: It energizes the senior partner and motivates the younger one.

Career Column Gives Tips for Using a Coach
February 20, 2007 Wall Street Journal (New York, USA)

A career counselor advises on choosing a path and devising strategies, while a coach focuses on a goal or skills, this subscription service columnist says.

Local Little League Teams Up with Life Coaching Group
February 20, 2007, Somerville Journal (Massachusetts, USA)

Changes in board membership shift focus of this 50-year established chapter from winning to life lessons.

Business Coach Offers Positivity Challenge
February 24, 2007, Career Intensity (New York, USA)

His blog outlines a week-long focus on being more positive by limiting time spent on negative thoughts and other suggestions.

Life Coach Blogs Personal Space Meaning in Men's Rooms
February 22, 2007, Embody Life Coaching, (England, UK)

Men communicate status by choice of urinal, and this coach offers a test of the social rules that govern men's room behavior.

Is Coaching Part of Being the Best Boss?
February 22, 2007, lifehack.org Blog (Brisbane, Australia)

This post by a Hawaiian leadership coach gives direction to middle managers to make their role as boss a positive one.

Business Coach Tells Ways to Measure Coaching Success
February 23, 2007, R&R Business Development Blog (California, USA)

By writing out goals the coach has for a particular client, the coach can identify achievements and improve service.
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Stanford Leadership Coach Examines Stereotype Effects
February 23, 2007 Executive Coaching & Change Management Blog (California, USA)

He finds research that negative stereotypes hurt performance as well as feelings.

Life Coach Defines Differences Between Therapy and Coaching

February 19, 2007, Free Articles Zone (England, UK)

He details specifics about therapy and coaching and how they differ.
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Coach Offers Marketing Resources
February 3, 2007, Coach Sappho Blog (Florida, USA)

Her site offers her marketing program for coaches. With an MSW and LCSW-C, she is an experienced health professional who specializes in coaching gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual people.

Everything I've Ever Done That Worked
February 19, 2007, Transitions Life Coaching (England, UK)

A motivational blog includes a recommendation for this book of short inspirational essays.

The Successful Coach: Insider Secrets to Becoming a Top Coach
December 7, 2006, Press World (Pennsylvania, USA)

Terri Levine, Larina Kase, and Joe Vitale
This new book advises executive and life coaches on building successful practices.

Bring U to Life
February 20, 2007, Emediawire (California, USA)

Cindy Silbert
This life coach has launched a web site, to be followed by a book, to support women entrepreneurs in leading personally fulfilling lives while achieving business success.

Business Coaching Firm Offers Services, New Products
February 27, 2007 PR Web (California, USA)

A coaching workbook, on-line assessment tools, and interactive responses to questions have been added to the firm's business and executive coaching services.

Leadership Development Training Includes Coaching to Engage Employees
February 22, 2007, Inside Indiana Business (Indiana, USA)

Engaging employees in the future of the company encourages them to become leaders and increases positive communication and emotional investment.

Coaching Franchise Company Offers Territories
February 25, 2007, 24-7 Press Release (Dublin, Ireland)

Regional licenses are available in the UK and Ireland, with New Zealand set to open for business soon.

Internet Diabetic Coaching Targets Fitness, Nutrition
February 22, 2007, PR Web (New York, USA)

This coaching service works with medical professionals to create individual diet and exercise programs for diabetics and supports them with web seminars and other tools.

Airport Workers Get Health Coaching
February 21, 2007 Primenewswire (California, USA)

To provide lunchtime classes, telephone coaching, and on-line tools to employees.

February 28, 2007
Vikki G. Brock
The literature of coaching began to emerge during 1992 with Sir John Whitmore’s book “Coaching for Performance: A Practical Guide to Growing Your Own Coaching Skills.” The first evidence-based special edition on executive coaching appeared in 1996 in the American Psychological Association’s “Consulting Psychology Journal.” Professional coaching journals began to emerge in the late 1990s at the same time as Fredric Hudson’s “The Handbook of Coaching” and the Executive Coaching Forum’s “Handbook of Executive Coaching.”