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:In a week that pounded the public with tragedy, coaches raised their voices. The Rutgers women's basketball coach distinguished herself and her team leadership responding to Don Imus' comments and the Duke Lacrosse coach whose players were cleared of criminal charges reflected on those events.

Coaches are being called upon to help youthful offenders straighten up and help addicts stay clean and sober. They are supporting people with ADHD in making lasting changes, helping people lose weight and keep it off. Success stories give examples of how coaching made a difference and women get coaching to make the decision about having children.

Celebrities coach American Idol contestants and a religious campaign includes coaching to bring meaning to members. In the business world, a health insurance company acquired a health coaching company. Retiring executives get coaching to apply their experience in different ways, businesses find coaching pays off financially and coaches help executives manage the technology tools of the trade to get more payoff.

Coaches blog advice for self-improvement, from positive thinking and speaking to ways to release passion, find joy and adapt management style to the situation. They offer steps to self-management and visualizing success. Coaches offer their services in cross-cultural business and working to find synergy instead of balance. A coach addresses a marketing organization on corporate branding, a coach who touched many lives is honored and another uses Legos to get everyone playing together in the office. For Mother's Day, a coach launches mothers' groups for personal renewal and releases her book on the subject.

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

Former Duke Coach Comments on Dismissed Accusations
April 11, 2007, Denver Post (Colorado, USA)
Mike Pressler reflects on the fallout from rape charges against Duke players, dropped this past week. He was forced out of his job there and now coaches lacrosse at a smaller school in Rhode Island.

Imus Is One More Challenge in Rutgers' Coach's Career
April 10, 2007, CNN (New Jersey, USA)
She places his insults in the context of the team's success in a come-from-behind year.

Personality Development Coach Influenced Many
April 12, 2007, Gujarat Global.com (Gujarat, India)
In his 40-plus-year career, he taught more than 20,000 students. At age 69, he still consults through a management association.

Celebrities Coach American Idol Contestants
April 12, 2007, The Post Chronicle (California, USA)
Martina McBride, whose songs are frequently chosen as signature songs by contestants, will be the guest coach for the April 18 show.

Recovery Coaches, Sober Companions Prop Up Recovering Addicts
April 15, 2007, The New York Times (New York, USA)
They provide the personal attention addicts making the transition home after discharge from rehab need to stay sober.

Kids or No Kids: Life Coach Specializes in Prospective Moms
April 14, 2007, The Times (England, UK)
Women with successful careers seek coaching as they struggle against their biological clocks with the decision to have children.

e-Trainer Coaches Executives on Technology
April 13, 2007, Sydney Morning Herald (New South Wales, Australia)
He helps executives learn how to use technology tools to reduce e-mail clutter and be more efficient.

Weight Loss Coach Leads by Example
April 12, 2007, WAVY-TV10 (Virginia, USA)
After losing 115 pounds and keeping it off for four years, she coaches others to weight loss, has a Web site and is writing an e-book.

Local Church Offers Life Coaching in 40-Day Campaign
April 12, 2007, Coatesville Ledger (Pennsylvania, USA)
The global campaign, April 27 – May 27, will focus on helping participants of 30,000 churches discover their purpose in life. Other activities at this church, including worship services, special focus groups for men, teens, and seniors and a community Easter Egg Hunt are setup to inspire, educate and offer practical tools for individuals to use in their quest for meaning and purpose.

Life Coaching Brings Insights of Athletic Coaching to Life
April 10, 2007, TheStreet.com (New York, USA)
Success stories give individual examples of how life coaching transformed lives. One negotiated better working conditions and compensation and another embarked on a different career entirely.

Coaching Helps Turn Career into Calling
April 10, 2007, The New York Times (New York, USA)
Professional services help retiring executives develop a Life Portfolio to apply their talents and experience to new challenges in the nonprofit world, personal development and other occupations.

Coaching Builds Lasting Benefits for People with ADHD
April 10, 2007, Northwest Herald (Illinois, USA)
It doesn't replace medication for those who need it, but helps them cope with daily life.

Get a Coach and Play a Bigger Game in Life
April 10, 2007, TheStreet.com (New York, USA)
Why investing in a personal coach can have a monetary payoff: better pay, new career, sharper negotiating skills.

Youthful Offenders Can Be Sentenced to Life Coaching
April 10, 2007, CCNMatthews (Ontario, Canada)
A community foundation has committed $20,000 to a program that will allow judges to refer disengaged young people in conflict with the law to coaching. The program's goal is for them to learn how to grow as individuals, take personal responsibility for their actions, work well with others, make well-thought-out decisions, develop healthy levels of self-esteem and achieve their goals in life.

Visualize and Affirm Your Desired Outcomes: A Step-by-Step Guide
April 12, 2007, Intensive Care for the Nurturer's Soul (New Jersey, USA)
This life coach expands on an earlier blog of her five simple secrets for success with an article by Jack Canfield on visualization.

Find Joy in the Now
April 13, 2007, Positive Psychology Coaching (New York, USA)
Goals are important but shouldn't obscure being happy in life now, this coach blogs.

Coach's Questions Target Passion to Release Enthusiasm
April 13, 2007, Milwaukee Small Business Times (Wisconsin, USA)
Ponder powerful questions to determine what makes you feel really alive and tap into it to bring enthusiasm to your life.

Life Coach Blogs 12 Rules for Self-Management
April 11, 2007, Talking Story (Hawaii, USA)
The disciplines of great management and great leadership provide tenets by which to live our lives.

Life Coach Posts Articles on Words, Thoughts
April 10, 2007, MrGoodMan.com (USA)
He posts articles by other writers on his site, one describing how words have power for good and ill, and the other on how energizing questions encourage success.

Leadership Coach Advises: Effective Leaders Adapt to Situations
April 11, 2007, Coaching Tips (Michigan, USA)
Leadership that responds to situations appropriately, hovering or withdrawing as needed, is more effective than applying a set of management techniques to every situation.

Control Your Thoughts to Succeed, Life Coach Blogs
April 10, 2007, MrGoodMan.com (Gold Coast, Australia)
Ask yourself Energizing Questions that are open-ended and focus on where you are heading, the 'what' and the 'how' to enjoy more success, says this article written by another coach.

Business Coach Teaches Life-Business Synergy
April, 2007 Ten3 Business e-Coach (USA)
He offers mini-courses and other resources based on four perspectives: Financial, customer, internal business process and learning, innovation and growth.

Coach Sets Mother's Day Launch for Groups, Book
April 15, 2007, PR Web (Texas, USA)
She started Personal Renewal Groups after the birth of her son to find balance in her life. In the four years since, she has started groups for mothers across the country.

Coach Uses Legos in Business Coaching
April 12, 2007, NewsReleaseWire.com (Vermont, USA)
Serious Play, a concept developed by a company in the Lego toy group, gets employees playing with Legos in workplace situations to level the playing field and effect change.

Career Coach to Speak on Branding, Career Acceleration
April 13, 2007, PR Web (Arizona, USA)
This coaching company president will address the American Marketing Association's Leadership Conference April 20 in Chicago.

Health Insurance Company Buys Health Coaching Company
April 11, 2007, Business Wire (Ohio, USA)
The company, a subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance, concluded a year of negotiations to buy a company that provides online and self-management lifestyle services.

Cross-Cultural Coaching Available for Executives, Family Members
April 10, 2007, Broadcast Newsroom (California, USA)
A Korean business leader offers her services to help businesses succeed in Asian markets.

The A List: 9 Guiding Principles for Healthy Eating and Positive Living
Roslyn Franken
April 10, 2007, Victoria Times Colonist (British Columbia, Canada)
From her work as a life coach, Franken developed the principles: ambition, attitude, attainability, awareness, activity, assessment, accountability, appreciation and acceptance.

By Vikki G. Brock

Thoughts on the formation of coaching in Europe,
A conversation with Sir John Whitmore

“If we look at coaching’s spread into Europe, I think coaching really started in England quite a lot before anywhere else. This was because we had Inner Game colleagues who went and spread it out to other parts of England and it mushroomed. The whole Inner Game was based in the U.K. although we ran the ski school in France and Switzerland, the clients all came from England. And England was a little further ahead in terms of the humanistic therapy than it was on the continent. This is due in part because we had the same language as Americans and coaching got to England first.”
Sir John Whitmore