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: Coaching news from Singapore, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, and American Idol, along with advice for executives, singles, military spouses, retirees, patients, and teens. One coach aspires to scale Mt. Everest while another offers life coaching on a holistic trip to Scotland.

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

Coaching Helps Japanese Women Advance
March 13, 2007, The Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
Ambitious Japanese women find coaching helps them overcome traditional business roles as followers.

Diana Ross Coaches American Idol Contestants
March 12, 2007, Fox News (New York, USA)
She will work with them on songs from the Supremes March 12 and perform on the program March 13.

Coaches Can Polish Online Dating Profiles
March 11, 2007, The New York Times (New York, USA)
Dating coaches help clients improve online image, select dates, begin relationships.

A Coach May Be the Answer to Conflict Resolution, Lawyer Says
March 9, 2007, Mondaq News Alerts (London, UK)
This detailed overview of managing conflict resolution in the workplace includes a checklist for holding a face-to-face meeting. Hiring a coach can resolve conflict and improve management's conflict resolution skills.

IBM Offers Financial Coaching as It Restructures Retirement Plans
March 9, 2007, Lexington Herald Leader (Kentucky, USA)
Group seminars and individual coaching aim to inform employee decision making as the company moves from a pension fund to employee 401(k) plan contributions.

Life Coaching Presentation Offers Free Demonstrations
March 8, 2007, The Time of Northwest Indiana (Indiana, USA)
Three life coaches will demonstrate a 12-minute coaching session to show how their services can identify a problem and find a solution, and each attendee will get 30 minutes of coaching free.

Coaches Give Advice on Getting More Done at Work
May 2006 PROFIT (Ontario, Canada)
This overview of improving work productivity includes advice on prioritizing, getting more accomplished at meetings, improving memory, multitasking and physical fitness.

Center Offers Free Coaching for Cancer Patients and Their Families
March 5, 2007, The Courier Times (Illinois, USA)
The life coach, who has her own practice in integrative coaching, bases her guidance on supporting cancer patients and helping them move forward in their vision.

Life and Creativity Coach Posts Steps to 'Graduation'
March 12, 2007, QuinnCreative (Virginia, USA)
This coach says the aim of coaching is for the client to "graduate" by reaching goals.

Leadership Coach Mandates Clients Use 'Daily 5 Minutes' System
March 11, 2007, Talking Story (Hawaii, USA)
The practice of spending five minutes each day with an employee to improve managers' listening skills improves overall workplace communications and relations.

Disclosure: Dr. Patrick Williams, founder of the Institute, is the Foundation of Coaching's first Global Visionary Fellow in 2006.

Coach's Blog Gives Pointers for Self-Coaching
March 8, 2007, A Daring Adventure (Florida, USA)
Knowing your values and viewing your situation from other perspectives, are two of the five suggestions in this post, with the second five to follow later.

Business Coach Is Inspired by Basketball Coach's Book
March 8, 2007, The Common Sense Guy (Colorado, USA)
Each essay in this collection focuses on a word or phrase that has special meaning for the author, a renowned college basketball coach.

Seven Points in Life Coaching Manifesto
March 7, 2007, Life Coaches Blog (Singapore)
Points include believing in people and acquiring skills for effective coaching.

Motherhood Coach Advises on How to Find Balance
March 7, 2007, Wahara.com (Singapore)
Take time to define balance, determine what matters, take care of yourself and create a support network, advises a life coach on this site that offers four blogs.

Your Words Have Power, Says Business Coach
March 7, 2007, The Remote Control CEO (Alberta, Canada)
What you say influences how others perceive you and what you can achieve, he says, so he suggests some changes, such as eliminating the words 'spend,' 'impossible,' 'bad' and also any conditional phrases.

Site Collects Blogs for Powerful Living
March 6, 2007, Verve Coaching (Massachusetts, USA)
The site invites submissions and organizes them weekly by subject area, such as communications skills, joyous living, life lessons and personal development.

Sounds of Coaching
March 12, 2007, AddPR.com (Pennsylvania, USA)
Terri Levine
Weekly podcast aimed at coaches to help develop business.

Fearless Audio CD
March 12, 2007, PRLog.Org (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lorraine Cohen
This CD offers help in solving procrastination problems by addressing the underlying fears that make people put things off.

The Power of Ren: China's Coaching Phenomenon
March 12, 2007, The Malaysia Star (Jaya, Malaysia)
Eva Wong and Lawrence Leung
Their approach combines Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, to produce a people-oriented approach to problem-solving and personal development.

Executive Coach Offers Free Trial to Students, Parents
March 12, 2007, Business Portal 24 (California, USA)
A 45-day program to reduce stress, clarify goals, and adjust to college life.

Pros and Cons of Internal, External Executive Coaching
March 9, 2007 Training Press Releases (England, UK)
Internal coaches understand the corporate history and culture, and an internal coaching strategy indicates supportive management. Advantages of external coaches include objectivity and confidentiality, according to this coaching firm.

Private University Adds Seminars in Leadership Coaching
March 8, 2007, Oak Brook Business Ledger (Illinois, USA)
The 2 ½-hour seminars are continuing education for business professionals on subjects such as collaboration, judgment and delegation, staying positive, conflict management and building teamwork and are open to the public.

Scotland Tour Package Includes Life Coaching
March 8, 2007, TravelBite.co.uk (London, UK)
Participants get a day and a half of life coaching on the five-day tour, as well as shamanic fire walking, Edinburgh, Loch Ness, the Isle of Skye and Eilean Donan castle. Life coaching is also included in a separate weekend tour.

Life Coach/Adventurer to Climb Everest
March 6, 2007 Everest News (Nepal)
This Newfoundland, Canada coach, who holds a Ph.D. in Outdoor Education and a master's degree in Adventure-based Counseling, believes that we all long for a balanced, engaged and creative life.

Master Coaches to Convene
March 7, 2007, Business Wire (California, USA)
The event, April 29-May 3 in Monterey, California, brings experienced coaches together for professional development through conversations that tap into their experience.
Disclosure: Participant Patrick Williams is the Foundation of Coaching's 2006 Global Visionary Fellow.

Free Career Coaching for Military Spouses
March 7, 2007, Business Wire (Missouri, USA)
A Defense Department contract with a global career firm now provides telephone coaching through the Military Spouse Career Center.

Andrew Weil Begins Satellite Radio Call-In Program
March 6, 2007, Business Wire (New York, USA)
The new show, inviting questions from listeners on alternative healthcare and life coaching, starts April 11. It is part of a new hour-long series of weekday programming launching March 12.

March 14, 2007 - by Vikki G. Brock
Until the early 2000s, much of coaching’s knowledge base was produced by private coach training organizations and individual practitioners. Since then there has been a growing movement toward evidence-based coaching and a scholarly-practitioner foundation for the profession. As Ronald M. Cervero (1992) notes, the university-based model of research and training within most professions unites “the production of knowledge and the production of practitioners” into the same structure.