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: Informational articles continue to explain coaching to the public, and two prominent coaches are in the spotlight. Coaching is applied to travel agencies and career planning. Middle managers can lead from below, and coaching can help those at the top avoid pitfalls. A day spa and a tae kwon do school are incorporating life coaching into their programs. Coaching as a profession gets attention: franchises, training to meet increased demand, new products and a hypnotherapy certification. Bloggers take ideas from industry to improve life, make time management suggestions and seek the healing power of love. Coaching marks the passing of Laura Wentworth.

And as always, if we missed anything, let us know at info@thefoundationofcoaching.org

Coach Cites Business Consultants on Leading From Below
March 3, 2007, Wall Street Journal (New York, USA)
A Wall Street Journal article by two global management consulting executives inspires a coach's blog,http://tinyurl.com/2q2m9b. The article offers specific suggestions for increasing leadership below top management.

Malaysian CEOs Lack Emotional Intelligence, Coaching
March 5, 2007, Business Times (Malaysia)
A study shows Malaysian CEOs are as driven and intelligent as their counterparts in other countries, but they are the worst in the world at coaching and nurturing their employees.

Basketball Coach Is Motivational Leader
March 1, 2007, Sales and Marketing Management (USA)
Rick Pitino's experience coaching Generation Y men and shaping them into a team puts him in demand as a motivational speaker in the off season, and he has written two books.

Tae Kwon Do School Combines Life Coaching with Kicking
February 27, 2007, Burbank Leader (California, USA)
Kids and adults get life coaching along with their workouts at this holistic program that focuses on fitness and well-being.

West Yorkshire Coach Describes Her Work
March 2, 2007, Brighouse Today (England, UK)
Focusing on helping clients live up to their full potential, she has worked with professionals and executives from her home-based practice for 12 years.

Charlie Rose Interviews Tony Robbins
July 19, 2000, Charlie Rose (New York, NY)
The famous coach and motivational speaker discusses his life and ideas for an hour with this famous interviewer.
Note: Even though this interview was featured on a current blog site, it was conducted in 2000.

Coaching Can Lead To Path Through Career Maze
March 4, 2007, Brazen Careerist (Massachusetts, USA)
This finance columnist gives suggestions for managing the career change that has become a workplace constant, such as simultaneously managing multiple career paths. She includes links to further information.

Life Coach Blogs Time Management Tips
March 2, 2007, Modern Life Survival Guide (Utah, USA)
She offers seven suggestions for taking control of overwhelming schedules, such as turning down requests and building time into the day by over-estimating the time activities will require.

Jewish Life Coach Calls for Proactive Love
March 1, 2007, The Jerusalem Post, (Jerusalem, Israel)
He tells a story of concentration camp children who lined up for hugs before food to illustrate his point that we must first love others to live a life of love.

Coach Finds Feedback Helps Moderate Narcissistic Behavior
February 28, 2007, Executive Coaching & Change Management (California, USA)
He finds that narcissistic leaders need specific, actionable feedback to avoid becoming unrealistic dreamers while capitalizing on their strengths of seeing the Big Picture and being willing to take risks to get the job done.

Business Coach Shows Ways to Change Thinking
February 26, 2007, Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina, USA)
Her system helps clients overcome limiting thoughts, beliefs and convictions.

Ideas that Work for Industry Can Work for Coaching
February 26, 2007, Embody Life Coaching Blog (England, UK)
This coach adapts ideas that are used to increase efficiency in the aerospace industry to make life changes.

Online Coaching Program Applies High Tech to Career Advancement
February 28, 2007 PR Newswire (Massachusetts, USA)
The program offers tools to create a personal marketing portfolio, resumes, and personal Web sites.

Coach Training Offered to Meet Demand for Coaches
March 1, 2007, UKPRwire (England, UK)
This English institute has courses in psychology, psychotherapy and counseling as well as coaching to meet the need for help with remedial career and development issues, career advancement and coping with change.

Center Offers HypnoCoaching Certification
March 2, 2007, PR Web (California, USA)
The four-day training program scheduled for March and April adds hypnotherapy to coaching. Organizers say the combination helps clients transform their lives using their values and priorities.

March 7, 2007
Vikki G. Brock
Laura Whitworth was involved in coaching from the very beginning, when her friend Thomas Leonard invited her to a pilot for a Life-Planning Workshop in 1988. Coach Training Institute was birthed in 1992 when Laura and Henry Kimsey-House did their first workshop. From the beginning Laura was interested in professionalizing coaching and in 1994 was instrumental in the start-up of the Professional and Personal Coaches Association (PPCA), which later combined with the International Coach Federation, (ICF) and in 1998, the first Executive Coaching Summit.

Laura co-authored Co-Active Coaching, published in 1998, which is a standard for professional coaches. In 2000, the Co-Active Coaching Training program was delivered in a Federal Prison in Colorado to a group of inmates who were working with Youth at Risk, and this project became known as Laura’s “Bigger Game.”

Coaching lost one of its pioneers when Laura Whitworth passed away February 28, 2007.
Please feel free to visit Laura's blog: http://laurawhitworth.blogspot.com