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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How to Save Your Job
April 15, 2008, Wall Street Journal - USA
... to be anxious in certain kinds of mergers," says Susan Maloney Meyer, chief executive officer of Arc Leadership, an executive-coaching firm in Chicago. ...

Opinion: Coaching - Is It Worth a Can of Beans?
April 14, 2008, TrainingZone.co.uk - Bristol, UK
... the client to ‘discover’ the measurable value of the coaching will produce not only the will to achieve those future benefits but also a fan for life. ...

Six Ways to Strengthen the Link Between Training and Business ...
April 14, 2008, TrainingZone.co.uk - Bristol, UK
Supplementary training can help trainers develop advanced coaching and facilitation skills. A further critical factor for success that coaches can provide...

Navigating Office Politics
April 14, 2008, Human Resource Executive Online - Horsham, PA, USA
"One reason you see a rise in executive coaching is because organizations are flat, so managers don't have the bandwidth to help employees spend time on ...

Developing Talent? Build on Strengths
April 14, 2008, TrainingZone.co.uk - Bristol, UK
... the single greatest overall business impact is coaching – implementing a process for executive and management coaching throughout the organisation. ...

Caught Between Her Boss and a Client, and Not Sure Why
April 13, 2008, Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN, USA
Send your questions to Liz Reyer, a credentialed coach and president of Reyer Coaching & Consulting in Eagan . She can be reached at liz@deliverchange.com or...

'Coaching Could Be the Catalyst ...'
April 10, 2008, Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg, South Africa
"Coaching is the fastest growing industry in the world," says Bryan Hattingh, CEO of Cyan, a strategic talent management company based in Sandton. ...

Paths to Success
April 10, 2008, Irish Independent - Dublin, Ireland
Although the word itself is not outdated, the skills associated with it are changing rapidly, as John Buckley, executive coach with Momentum Business...

Female Talent: Do We Need Different Strategies?
April 10, 2008, HRZone.co.uk - Bristol, UK
"Women in particular may need coaching about how to reallocate their time to include more reflecting and analysing versus 'doing', as they move from being ...

Executive Training Finds a Powerful Partner - Consciousness Coaching
April 15, 2008, Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town, South Africa
Life coaching as an industry earns over $100 billion a year worldwide. In America, it's the second fastest growth industry after IT. ...

Life Coaching Only Sounds Like a Solution if You Have No Friends
April 13, 2008, Scotsman - United Kingdom
I was offered a free trial with a "life coach" at the weekend. I didn't know I needed one. I didn't even know they existed. ...
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Harness Your Personal Power, Step Three
April 13, 2008, Vanguard - Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
You life coach, Patricia Omoqui, says, “It’s time for practice!” In weeks to come I will continue to provide you with helpful tools, thought-provoking ideas...

Overcoming the Negative Voice in Your Head
April 12, 2008, Vail Daily News - Vail, CO, USA
Sheri Fisher is a Life Coach who lives in Grand Junction with her family. Her practice focuses on personal and professional coaching, consulting and...

Why ‘Weight’ to Set Goals?
April 10, 2008, Grand Junction Free Press - Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Sheri Fisher is a life coach who lives in Grand Junction with her family. Her practice focuses on personal and professional coaching, consulting and...

Pope Benedict XVI Expresses Views on Today's Issues
April 15, 2008, Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Here's a selection of the pontiff's own words, acting as life coach, relationship counselor, current events commentator and judge of morality, according to ...

Waterboarding: Interrogation Technique, Torture, or Team Building Exercise?
April 15, 2008, The Fayetteville Observer – Provo, UT, USA
A supervisor who used waterboarding on an employee to try and rally his sales force to improve its numbers is facing a lawsuit from the employee alleging harmful intent.

Hannover Messe 2008 Goes Back to Basics with the Robotics Academy
April 14, 2008, Machinist.in - Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Automation technology is another keynote theme this year", notes Olaf Katzer, head of advanced technology training at Volkswagen Coaching. ...

Employee to Entrepreneur Series: Shoemaker’s Children
April 10, 2008, Eastside Business Journal - Bellevue, Washington, USA
... all the key management tools that will allow him to grow the business to meet his high expectations. Dad will be coaching and supporting this process. ...

Hone Your Business Skills and Swing into Leadership
April 9, 2008, By Christine
Jacque is a business coach who offers a series of “golf sessions” where she combines golf and business coaching. More particularly Jacque assists business people look at their habits, attitude and vision. The whole concept seems very...

Drama 'Coach' Strives to Teach Life Lessons
April 9, 2008, Greenville News - Greenville, SC, USA
White strives to offer the students life lessons in theater too. "I think a really well-trained theater student will say to any issue, 'Yeah, no problem ...

Are You Happy? If Not, Here are 25 Ways to Get There
April 15, 2008, By David B. Bohl
First, in any discussion of happiness, it would seem appropriate to define what it is. I consider happiness to be a state of mind where one thinks predominantly pleasing thoughts and a state of being where one feels predominantly...

“The 5 Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die”
April 15, 2008, By Tessa
In it Izzo speaks about how the 5 secrets are really “…five true paths to finding meaning in life”. According to him these secrets/paths are: 1. be true to yourself 2. leave no regrets 3. become love 4. live the moment...

Avoid Envy, Focus on Your Journey
April 11, 2008, By lifejourneycoach
Envy is there if you lose focus on your personal journey and begin focusing on someone else’s journey. You want to follow another course because you are driven with an unhealthy desire to be like them. Is there any good in envy? ...

Certified Life Coach Brings Special Coaching Workshops to Jerusalem
April 10, 2008, By Donna
Her name is Galit Lief-Grunblat and she is a certified life coach and assistant of the Coaches Training International (CTI) workshops in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, CTI is the only internationally accredited coaching school, out of thirty...

Coaching Training - Make the Best Even Better
April 14, 2008, By My Self Improvement Topics
Utilizing coaching management sales training offering allows a business owner to create their own corps of trainers. To be successful, a business must have employees with the skills they need and it is to your advantage to see that they...

Corporate Coaching: Honing the New CEO
April 13, 2008, By George Purdy
Chief executive officer coaching is essential during these times when the business world is continuously changing. Current newspapers are full of stories about CEOs who have lost their jobs because of poor performance by their companies...

Sunday Mālama: Internet Privacy and a Release in Talking Story
April 13, 2008, By Rosa Say
I liked the thought that there were those who would invite me into their lives for my aloha conversation; the thought that others would lurk in my life for unknown reasons terrified me. What made me take the plunge was not that I came...

A Masterful Coach Knows to Coach From Your Heart
April 13, 2008, By Administrator
When I first started coaching I had a master list of questions I used to ensure I was in fact asking the right questions. (I share these questions with you in the appendix of Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions...

A Masterful Coach Models What is Possible to Achieve ...
April 12, 2008, By Administrator
When you have the power to make a difference in just one person’s life, you are a leader.

Changing Careers in Mid-Life
April 12, 2008, By Mitchell York
Just read this story in the New York Times about a corporate executive who after 30 years gives it all up to go back to school for a degree in meteorology so he can become a weatherman. He has always had a passion for the nuance of the...

Executive Coaching – Worth the Money?
April 10, 2008, Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York, NY, USA
At what point does it make sense for a small company to turn to executive coaching? In this video, Reporter Paul Lin looks at a Bronx drop-cloth...
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Ask the Coach: Be Passive to Be Aggressive
April 9, 2008, By Kathy Simmons
Every week, NETSHARE hosts Ask the Coach, a phone-in coaching session with leading career management experts. Here is an excerpt from the most recent session with Debbie Ellis, president of Phoenix Career Group…

Excerpt: 'Steering by Starlight'
April 11, 2008, ABC News - USA
Life coach Martha Beck says that doesn't make you lazy, it just means you're just not picking the right resolutions. Beck's new book, "Steering by ...

In the New Book, "109 Ways To Create A Life Worth Living"…
April 11, 2008, PR Web (press release) - Austin, TX, USA
Darryl has been hailed as the "Life Acceleration Expert" and the Procter & Gamble Company has called him the "greatest life coach of all time. ...

Erickson College International Announces Christian Life
April 15, 2008, TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe, GA, USA
The Art and Science of Coaching; A Transformational Christian Program is a unique course designed for professionals, pastoral and lay persons who want to ...

Forum Corp. Bolsters R&D to Fuel Thought Leadership, New Offerings
April 15, 2008, PR Newswire (press release) - Boston, MA, USA
... will extend Forum's reach beyond its traditional learning and training programs and into consulting protocols, assessments, executive coaching tools, ...

Launch of New Professional Coaching Psychology Body
April 14, 2008, PR Web (press release) – London, UK
A new professional body has been launched offering routes to international accreditation as a coaching psychologist. London, UK (PRWEB) April 14...

Ed Gash to Offer Half-Priced Certification in Culture Coaching
April 14, 2008, dBusinessNews Charlotte (press release) - Charlotte, NC, USA
... Inc.(www.calleaglewings.com), has announced that certification in “Culture Coaching,” his new management and leadership training program, ...

New Healthcare Webinar -- Physicians as Partners in Health Coaching
April 10, 2008, PR Web (press release) – Manasquan, NJ, USA
... improving physician health habits before helping patients; using physicians as a referral source to health coaching programs; building the business case...

Award-Winning Business Coach and Marketing Strategy Experts Host
April 9, 2008, Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wein, Austria
Loretta Love Huff, a certified business coach and professional speaker owns a thriving consulting firm, Emerald Harvest Consulting. ...

International Women's Retreat Seeks To Help Women Awaken To Their ...
April 9, 2008, PR Web (press release) – San Diego, CA, USA
Jana is a Master Certified Integrative Life Coach and the creator of the acclaimed International 'A Woman's Journey to Wholeness Retreats™' ...