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: Headlines around the world announced the death of a World Cup cricket coach whose job may have cost him his life. Will governments set standards for coaches? The debate is on in Israel. Coaching niches featured this week include working mothers, small business leaders, accountants, spiritual seekers, seniors, public speakers, and football coaches. Feature stories tell about the real-life coach behind a major motion picture in current release, share insights from a prominent coach, and take a fresh look at the current state of coaching. Also, notes on high tech and low tech products to supplement coaching, coaching as a prize, and something we haven't seen before: a satiric website mocking coaches as fixers - The 1st U.S. Airborne Life Coaching Division.

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

Proposed Licensing Law Would Include Coaches
March 25, 2007, Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv, Israel)
The law, which passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset, would set professional standards and requirements for business consultants, coaches and others engaged in financial or economic evaluation and advising.

Pakistan’s World Cup Cricket Coach Murdered in Jamaica
March 24, 2007, The Guardian (England, UK)
He was strangled and his death is being investigated by a team headed by a Scotland Yard detective. The Pakistani team was staying at a Kingston hotel during its participation in World Cup competition, from which it was eliminated the previous day after an unexpected defeat by Ireland.

Coach, Change Thyself
March 26, 2007, Chicago Tribune (Illinois, USA)
The business columnist examines Marshall Goldsmith's techniques, as applied to executives and to his own behavior at home and at work.

Columnist Examines Current Coaching Landscape
March 26, 2007, Newsday (New York USA)
This overview article assesses coaching's growing acceptance in business, personal and other areas of life.
Disclosure: Representatives of The Foundation of Coaching are quoted.

TV Series Character Has a Coach
Fridays, 9 p.m., Fox Television
In a recent episode of "The Wedding Bells," a comedy-drama based on a family wedding planning business, one character announced she is "working with her life coach to become a more sympathetic character.”.

Spiritual Coaches Guide Clients to Divine Answers
March 24, 2007, The New York Times (New York, USA)
They focus on inner guidance and reconnecting to the heart to find what will make the client's "divine spirit sing."

Accounting Firm Offers Coaching
March 22, 2007, The Wichita Eagle (Kansas, USA)
New employees get a 'Buddy' to become acclimated and a coach to help them with career development.

The Real Coach Behind the Hollywood Version
March 22, 2007, Associated Press (Pennsylvania, USA)
What’s true and what was glamorized for the movie? The swimming coach who created a team for disadvantaged Philadelphia youth tells his story and how it differs from the film “Pride,” now in theaters.

Coach Advises Seniors on Life Satisfaction
March 22, 2007, The Newtown Bee (Connecticut, USA)
She presents her ideas to promote the richness of life with seniors who share their experiences.

Satirical Site Takes on Life Coaching
March 21, 2007, NewsBiscuit (England, UK)
What better way to help the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Send in the Life Coaches!

High Tech Creates Electronic Coaching
March 26, 2007, These Days (Antwerp, Belgium)
The blogger on this Belgian advertising and marketing company's site praises the advantages of Nike running shoes, which can connect with iPods to give individual coaching and provide interaction with other runners.

Overcome Chaos in Life and Work with a Coach
March 26, 2007, Albuquerque Tribune (New Mexico, USA)
Taking action with professional help can replace broken resolutions with lasting change.

Public Speaking Blog Shares Resources
March 25, 2007, Pivotal Public Speaking (Queensland, Australia)
This public speaking coach's blog includes quotations, book reviews, and advice on polishing presentations.

Coaching Generates Self-Fulfilling Optimism
March 25, 2007, GUBU (Meath, Ireland)
Setting and achieving goals fuels a positive outlook, despite studies that show pessimists see the world more accurately.

Contest Offers "Dream Team" of Coaches and Mentors to Winner
March 23, 2007, Rapport Intl (Massachusetts, USA)
One of the finalists in a "business makeover" contest hopes to win the package that includes coaching from a variety of experts, financing, business software and training, technology packages and more.

MBA-type Education for Football Coaches?
March 25, 2007, The Age (Victoria, Australia)
A former coach explains why most head coaches are not prepared for their jobs as well as they could be and should be. He proposes formal training to include decision-making skills, personnel management, dealing with media, and running the business.

Life Coach Blogs Seven Habits of Smiley Spiritual People
March 22, 2007, Embody (England, UK)
Habit Four is to focus attention in the present where you can experience happiness, confidence, wisdom, love, peace and be fully alive. Habit Five explores issues of control, when to relinquish it and when to exercise it.

Cognitive Coaching Center Opens in Sweden
March 27, 2007, Emediawire (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Individual, group and organizational services are offered to address issues such as stress, performance and procrastination, and coach training is available.

Tenth Annual Global Women's Forum Set in Oslo, Norway
March, 2007, Aviva (Berlin, Germany)
The three-day September event for professional and senior executive women offers 24 workshops, networking events and private coaching sessions. Scholarships are available.

Coaching Included in Services for Mothers in Business
March 27, 2007, The WestEnder (Queensland, Australia
Two mothers, one a coach, advise entrepreneurial women on career-motherhood balance. A marketing workshop is offered in April.

Wellness Coaching Helps the Bottom Line
March 25, 2007, PRLog.Org (South Carolina, USA)
Programs that promote happier relationships at home result in employees who are more productive, effective and positive at work, this relationship coach says.

Enrollment Open for Executive Leadership Program
March 23, 2007, Earthtimes.org (Massachusetts, USA)
Five-day Babson College program teaches executives to articulate ideas, win critical support, and motivate colleagues to take action.
Disclosure: One of the leaders of this course, Professor James M. Hunt, serves as a volunteer on the Foundation of Coaching Research Advisory Panel.

Coach Offers Free Conscious Living Poster
March 22, 2007, YourHub.com (Colorado, USA)
The poster gives a thought for each letter of the alphabet and can be accessed from a link provided on request.

Life Coach Leads Vision Quests
March 22, 2007, American Digital Networks (California, USA)
Spending three days and nights alone in nature can bring inner balance , help reduce stress, and allow participants to focus on the their goals and the meaning of life.

Coach Offers Small Business Group Coaching
March 22, 2007, AddPR.com (North Carolina, USA)
Twenty steps to help entrepreneurs get set up and avoid mistakes; course begins with free introductory class.

By Vikki G. Brock

The American Psychological Association (APA) Division 13, Society of Consulting Psychology, published three special issues of their Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research in Spring 1996, Fall, 2001 and Winter 2005. These issues focused on executive coaching as an emerging competency in the practice of consultation where “traditional organization development methods, adult education, management training, industrial-organizational psychology and generic consultation skills are being blended together to define a sub-discipline.” (Kilburg, 1996, p. 59)