March 6, 2008
The Chronicle of Coaching

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 morning. Compiled and edited by Alex Goldsmith, Linda Ballew, and Ruth Ann Harnisch.

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Executive/Business Coaching
Hidden Costs of Whitehall Coaching
March 4, 2008, Financial Times - London, UK
Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, has had executive coaching, although I am told he does not have a coach “at present”. ...
Career Couch: Still Looking for a Job? It’s Time to Refocus
March 2, 2008, New York Times - United States
”You need to refocus and get outside of your own head,” said Martin Yate, an executive coach in Savannah, Ga., and author of “Knock ’em Dead 2008: The ...
Leading Change is Never Easy
March 2, 2008, Seattle Post Intelligencer – Seattle, WA, USA
The majority of my executive coaching clients reflect that managing change is their most pressing challenge. It's human nature to resist change. ...
Small Businesses Struggle With Dangerous Finances
March 1, 2008, Lock Haven Express - Lock Haven, PA, USA
The Entrepreneur’s Source, a leading coaching and advisory firm, specializes in helping business owners learn what is putting their business at risk, ...
Converts Find Faith in Coaching Gospel
March 1, 2008, Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Twenty-four years ago this month a new phenomenon arrived in Melbourne that revolutionised the manner of business teaching. It was a personal development ...
Boss, It's Time for Some Training
February 29, 2008, Times of India – Bangalore, India
Wipro, for instance, has a strong leadership training and executive coaching programmes in place. Some companies are also asking top-level employees to ...
Delegates Praise Latest Thinking Event on Coaching
February 28, 2008, The Financial - Tbilisi, Georgia
Entitled ‘Executive Coaching – a gamble or a godsend’, the event examined a number of key questions on coaching proposed by the audience including the ...
BMO Gives Women Leg Up
February 27, 2008, Financial Post - Toronto, ON, Canada
Five women will be selected from the applicants to receive six months of one-on-one training with an executive coach from Knightsbridge Human Capital ...
Coaching Leaders: How to Make it Effective
February 27, 2008, PersonnelToday.com - UK
Some experts have identified generic leadership models, whereas others see leadership coaching as bringing out the innate qualities of a potential leader. In the latter camp is Lindsey Masson, director of executive coaching at business school Ashridge. She is interested in an open-minded approach to the ...
Life Coaching
How Should I Deal With My Cheating Boss?
March 4, 2008, Irish Independent - Dublin, Ireland
It may help to talk with a life coach to generate a more objective perspective on your situation. “As I see it, you have two options: 1) to stay with this ...
Turn Down, Tune Out
March 2, 2008, Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Domonique Bertolucci, a Sydney life coach and author of Your Best Life (Hachette Livre), says silent time is important for absolutely everyone to reconnect ...
Climbing Through the Gray Area
February 29, 2008, FOXBusiness - USA
Oh, the people who direct us early in life! Bless them and curse them for their praise and their criticism. Many of us in life coaching have them to thank ...
Reality Show Recap: MCs Hit the Ropes on “The Salt-N-Pepa Show”
February 26, 2008, Rolling Stone - USA
Their maternal life coach guides them through expressing their true feelings about each other and then forgiving until the tears are flowing and somewhere ...
Niche Coaching
Using Coaching to Unlock Creativity
March 4, 2008, PersonnelToday.com - UK
... Management – she sounds a note of caution about its use. "There is no accreditation for practitioners of appreciative inquiry," she says. "So any coach ...
Holistic Health Coaching
March 3, 2008, LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles, CA, USA
You'll learn how to incorporate elements of healthy eating and living such as achieving balance, eating, environment, family and personal relationships, ...
Help Me Make My Garden Grow
March 3, 2008, Detroit Free Press – Detroit, MI, USA
Within days, Gladden, 57, had put a notice on Craigslist and started handing out flyers for her new business, the Garden Coach. For $50 an hour, ...
'Wine Coach': No Need to Fear the Wrath of Grapes
March 3, 2008, Examiner.com - USA
She eventually left her corporate position to become a certified life coach and sommelier. In 2004, she began teaching groups about grape varieties and ...
Interview: Paddy Upton, India’s First Mental Conditioning Coach
March 3, 2008, CricInfo.com - UK
In business top guys have coaches now; executive coaching is the second fastest growing profession in the world where business executives have somebody to ...
Life Coaching Blogs
Happy Families - Life Coaching
March 4, 2008, By admin
What is life coaching? Life coaching is the newest, fastest and most effective way to reassess and rework any area of your life. What a personal trainer does for your body, a life coach does for the rest of your life.
Reconnecting With Your Teenagers
March 3, 2008, By Shelley Stile
You can live a life that truly works and you can achieve peak performance in all areas of your life via Life Coaching. You can not only survive life’s unexpected changes and transitions but also thrive. Powerful change is possible. ...
What is The Difference Between Coaching and Advising and Does It ...
February 29, 2008, By admin
So regardless of whether the issue is career related or personal, a Coach will help you find out what it is you really want out of life and “coach” you to achieve it. Coaching is always about YOU. Coaches are non-judgmental and do not ...
Great Message From My Coach-Matthew Ferry
February 28, 2008, By Tate Siemer
As part of my ongoing business/life coaching that I do with Matthew Ferry's coaching program, I get these daily audio postcards from him that are just a couple minutes of great thinking. I think today's is particularly inspiring. ...
The Body, Mind and Soul Show: What Are You Addicted To?
February 26, 2008, By IngridElfver
The Real Coaching Radio Network is a social broadcasting network putting a new spin on coaching and personal development. It features prominent coaches from around the world in seven different disciplines essential for life balance: ...
NOTE: Audio not reviewed
Executive/Business Coaching Blogs
Listen
March 3, 2008, By charrise
... and be committed to walking away from every conversation with a confirmed, clear idea of what was said. Be a solution and realize that 50% of the effectiveness of every communication you have is your responsibility.
The More You Know, The More Valuable You Are
March 1, 2008, By Kelly
I’m a business coach. I spend time each week on the telephone coaching and teaching others on their path to knowing more about internet marketing, the internet, blogging, podcasting, etc. I love knowing that I am a short cut to knowledge ...
Recommended Business Coaching Books
February 29, 2008, By Mark McGuinness
To round off my Introduction to Business Coaching series I’ve added a page to the sidebar on Recommended Business Coaching Books. These are the books I regularly recommend to managers looking to develop their coaching skills. ...
Top Ten Reasons Managers Won't Lead From a Position of Responsibility
February 29, 2008, By Epic Living
FIRST, HERE'S TO ALL THE MANAGERS WHO LEAD FROM RESPONSIBILITY AND THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN THE ART. THESE PEOPLE PROVIDE HOPE. Now for problem in need of fixing. In my post on What Management Doesn't Get: Leadership Implies ...
Stress And Coaching
February 29, 2008, By Anne Rose
You know the situation - you're feeling positive and go into a meeting with someone who is obviously stressed This stress impacts not just one person, but everyone in the room It disrupts the flow of the meeting and the eventual outcome ...
Interpersonal Power
February 28, 2008, By Ed Batista
Recent reflections on the dimensions of cultural difference, specifically the concept of "power distance," have led me to think further about the nature of power and how it's expressed interpersonally. ...
Women and Coaching
February 27, 2008, By admin
Peter Jones of DTE Risk and Financial Management says, “The average mother works around 91 hours a week when taking into account cooking, cleaning, shopping, ironing and general childcare duties”. Personally I am exhausted just hearing ...
That 10% Part
February 27, 2008, By Epic Living
In my last post I outlined the importance of embracing the 90/10 rule. Today I have something to share from my own experience relating to the 10% part of the rule. You can definitely apply this to your career and many other areas of ...
Books and Products
Required Reading: Your Employees Matter, Too
March 1, 2008, Destination CRM - New York, NY, USA
The new edition also includes a revamped Coach's Toolkit, with a CD containing real-life coaching dialogues and forms ensuring you can use these strategies ...
Gary Klein on the Elements of Intention
March 1, 2008, By Ed Batista
Our colleagues aren't mind-readers, but in “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions,” Gary Klein notes that we have to act as though they were on a regular basis: Whenever we make a request--ask for an errand or give a command--we ...
'Beyond Survival': Author Reveals Seven Principles for Creating ...
February 28, 2008, Earthtimes – Avon, CT, USA
"We have become so focused on the world around us, we have forgotten the answers are within us," Stansfield, a life coach and founder of the Center for Life ...
Publicity Releases
Calling All Global Visionaries...
March 4, 2008, Market Wire (press release) – San Francisco, CA, USA
Sue will be answering questions about executive coaching and facilitating a discussion about what it means to be a global visionary. ...
According to New York-Based Leadership Coach Emily Neustadt ...
March 4, 2008, PR-Inside.com (press release) – New York, NY, USA
... Leadership Coach, Strategist and Organizational Development Consultant, has helped implement leading-edge mentoring and executive leadership programs ...
Leading Coach Training Company Launches "inviteCHANGE" Brand
March 3, 2008, Market Wire (press release) – Edmonds, WA, USA
With combined experience in executive leadership, organizational development, human relations, spiritual evolution and personal transformation, ...
The Ten Deadly Mistakes Entrepreneurs and Solo Professionals Make
March 3, 2008, WebWire (press release) - Atlanta, GA, USA
As president of Steve Scott Coaching and Consulting, Steve understands how these individuals feel and has made great strides in business and life coaching ...
Business - Dr. Kevin Fleming Joins Ken Blanchard and Stephen Covey ...
February 29, 2008, Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
He is a trained neuropsychologist-turned-executive coach and has been a cited expert in the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. ...
The Waterfall Experience
February 29, 2008, Response Source (press release) - London, UK
Leading Executive Life Coach, Glenn Moore’s latest Waterfall Experience Event in 27th - 30th April 2008, is now booking. Designed and facilitated by Glenn, ...
Unique Life Coaching Company INS-EYE-T Launches in Toronto
February 28, 2008, Newswire Today (press release) - London, UK
... "it is the only company in Toronto that organizes group courses teaching the Law of Attraction, as well as provides individual life coaching services. ...
Career Podcast: How to Become a Leading Job Candidate - Acing the ...
February 27, 2008, The Open Press (press release) - USA
Beth Ross is a certified Executive Career Coach, maintaining a private coaching practice and working with clients in the areas of Career Transition Services ...
Country-Wide Crusade Challenges Perceptions of Women in Business
February 27, 2008, PR.com (press release) – Calgary, Canada
In partnership with Staples Business Depot, Crawford will travel and hold coaching sessions in the Roaring Women Coaching Coach; a 33-foot long bus; ...
Harvard Business School's 2+2 Admissions Application Now Available
February 27, 2008, Market Wire (press release) – Boston, MA, USA
HBS 2+2 admits will have a dedicated career coach and access to strategic career coaching advice through the self-assessment on-line tool ...
The Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council to Present ...
February 27, 2008, StreetInsider.com (subscription) – Atlanta, GA, USA
RSM McGladrey's WorkLife Coach-on-Call gives all employees, anywhere in the country and at any level, free access to confidential work life coaching ...