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:: Once again scandal tops the global coaching news, with teachers in Uganda jailed for charging to “coach” students on material they should have taught in class. From New Zealand, advice from a coach on how to manage a micromanaging boss. Two highly publicized suicides in Australia prompt sports coaches to learn about mental illness. The niche of maternity coaching surfaces in England and Scotland, as coaches help executives succeed as mothers and professionals. Businesses in Macedonia receive online coaching. In India, coaches help managers create socially responsible companies, and demand for academic coaches booms in helping people prepare for entrance exams.

In the U.S., business coaching helps senior executives look for new jobs, helps others cope with retirement, advises executives on becoming trustworthy, and a new book selects nuggets of advice from retirees.

Golfer Phil Mickelson has improved under the coaching of Butch Harmon, winning a tournament.

Nurse-coaches support cancer patients in a new program. There’s Christian coaching, a free teleseminar for work-at-home moms, ten ways to improve your environment and ten favorite self-improvement books. One blogger summarizes two approaches to coaching. Another blogging coach explains why he turns down requests for free coaching.

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

Teachers Arrested in Uganda for 'Coaching'
May 13, 2007, AllAfrica.com (Kampala, Uganda)
They are accused of deliberately omitting part of the curriculum and then charging fees for supplemental courses taught during school vacations, known locally as coaching. Parents respond that their children need to be enrolled in extra programs to be competitive.

New Coach, New Swing, Puts Mickelson First
May 14, 2007, The Morning Call (Pennsylvania, USA)
Top golfer Phil Mickelson's improved game, after three weeks with coach Butch Harmon, rattled his opponents at Sunday's The Players Championship and gave him the win.

Coaching Can Give Perspective on Life's Frustrations
May 14, 2007, The Shreveport Times (Louisiana, USA)
Small frustrations, aggravated by impersonal bureaucracies and high levels of demands, can result in constant daily stress. One coach has a new book on the subject, "Outsmart Your Brain."

Maternity Coaches Help Senior Professionals Succeed at the Office
May 13, 2007, The Sunday Times (England, UK)
The cost of losing senior women far exceeds that of coaching them to make a successful transition back to work after having a baby. Women should have a performance review before going on leave and stay in touch with work while they are at home.

Life Coaching Helps Laid-Off, Burnt-Out Employees
May 14, 2007, San Gabriel Valley Tribune (California, USA)
Managers are stretched too thin to have time to mentor employees, and an outsider is sometimes more suitable anyway.

Coach Gives Management Pointers on Engaging Employees in Change
May 13, 2007, Newsday (New York, USA)
Workers can get burnt out on change. Management can encourage them to get on board by explaining the full picture, delegating communications to corporate opinion leaders, managing resistance positively, soliciting and respecting employee input and sharing stories from their own professional lives.

Coaching Helps Businesses Do Well By Doing Good
May 13, 2007, The Financial Express (Bombay, India)
Top team coaching can encourage projects of social responsibility such as enhancing fair trade, organic farming, good labor and quality standards and the environment. Such activity can make brand ambassadors of the company's customers, employees and shareholders and improve the bottom line.

Coaching Helps a Growing Number of Executives Target New Jobs
May 13, 2007, The New York Times (New York, USA)
Executives looking for new jobs in the six-figure range prefer coaching to executive search firms for guidance, from resume writing to personal inventories, videotaped interview rehearsals, negotiating strategies and general career advice.

USAID Brings Online Business Coaching to Macedonia
May 11, 2007, Makfax (Skopije, Macedonia)
The program offers business incubation, using established businesses or centers to support new businesses. The goal of helping them identify new international markets and gain new clients is to create jobs.

Retirement Coaching Supports Both Company and Employee
May 11, 2007, Milwaukee Small Business Times (Wisconsin, USA)
Businesses can retain experienced employees and build loyalty by creating programs that provide flexible, phased retirement programs.

Sports Coaches Get Pointers to Recognize Depression
May 11, 2007, The Border Mail (New South Wales, Australia)
In the wake of two suicides, this coach-the-coach program aims to increase awareness of mental illness in players.

Entrance Exam Coaching Expands to Meet Demand
May 11, 2007, The Economic Times (Haryana, India)
Coaching companies in upwardly-mobile India are expanding, both to smaller cities and internationally, to reach students who want to score well on the Common Admission Test, considered the toughest exam in the country. The centers also offer coaching for other competitive exams such as TOEFL, GRE and GMAT.

Executive Coach's Pointers on How to Manage a Micromanager
May 9, 2007, The New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
A command and control style is usually fueled by insecurity, so reassure your micromanaging boss by determining what is important to him and work with him to achieve it, being proactive in finding out what makes him feel secure and giving it to him, showing progress on priority projects and other supportive tactics.

Life Coach Can Intercede in Parenting Dilemmas
May 8, 2007, The Scotsman (Scotland, UK)
Mothers are likely to appreciate the value of a coach's detached point of view in resolving parenting issues, "to focus on what they want to achieve, to look at the changes in life as exciting challenges and to plan for them positively, rather than being overwhelmed by them."

Providers Can Start Coaching Their Own Employees to Wellness
May 14, 2007, World Health Care Blog (Washington DC, USA)
Health care providers can achieve wealth through wellness and use their example to reach customers.

Executive Coach Blogs Overview of Coaching
May 14, 2007, TrainingZone.co.uk (England, UK)
He summarizes life, business and executive coaching and discusses the differences between conventional and transformational approaches.

Build Trust to Build Your Career, Executive Coach Advises
May 13, 2007, Seattle Post Intelligencer (Washington State, USA)
A coach takes on readers' questions in a new weekly column in the business section. The first column deals with building trust by delivering on expectations, being genuine, being clear, listening, avoiding gossip, giving credit to others and being honest and transparent.

Executive and Political Leadership Coach Blogs Suggestions for Spring Cleaning for the Mind
May 11, 2007, A Better Perspective (Ontario, Canada)
Ideas that worked 10 or 20 years ago may have outlived their usefulness. She advises readers to overcome the inner conflict that accompanies new ideas to replace aspects of your 'personal operating system.'

Coach Blogs Ten Best Self-Development Books
May 11, 2007, A Daring Adventure (Florida, USA)
This year's take on the top ten he recommends range from John Elliot's "Maverick Mindset" to Tony Robbins' "Awaken the Giant Within."

Team Coach Can Help Overcome Competitive Distrust
May 13, 2007, The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina, USA)
This coach recommends the new president managing a global executive team get a team coach to build trust and lead the team to cohesive performance.

Coach's MAD Days Create 90-Day Business Goals
May 10, 2007, YourHub.com (Colorado, USA)
The short-term goals developed on Massive Action Days help move the business toward its long-term goals.

Executive Coach's Ten Ways to Improve Your Environment
May 10, 2007, The Coach Virtual Assistant (Pennsylvania, USA)
Start with a behavioral assessment to help reveal your type, then add color, music, accessories, relationships and other synergies to surround yourself with an environment that nurtures creativity.

How to Love Your Retirement
Barbara Waxman
May 13, 2007, Salt Lake Tribune (Utah, USA)
Waxman, a certified executive and transition coach for adults, compiled information from interviews with thousands of retirees who shared their experiences in planning this phase in their lives.

Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum
Dan Coughlin
May 14, 2007, PR Web (Missouri, USA)
This executive coach draws on his experience for lessons to enhance personal effectiveness, leadership, teamwork, innovation, strategy, branding and execution.

Character Makeover: 40 Days with a Life Coach to Create the Best You
Katie Brazelton and Shelley Leith
May 12, 2007, Pathway to Purpose Ministry (California, USA)
Christian life coach Brazelton profiles eight of her clients and maps out a character makeover. Available in December.

Success Coach Offers Week of Free Coaching
May 9, 2007, PR Web (Texas, USA)
For an hour and a half each day May 29 through June 1, she has lined up four additional coaches to share their insights with participants over the telephone.

Life Coach Offers Teleseminar for Work-at-Home Moms
May 9, 2007, AddPR.com (Wisconsin, USA)
The two-hour event, May 16 at noon Central time, will focus on the importance of creating personal and professional support and includes a directory of resources for women in business.

Christian Coach Offers Training Course
May 10, 2007, TransWorldNews (Florida, USA)
Christians Forward, a two-day seminar, June 8 & 9, in Tampa, will cover coaching basics from a Biblical perspective.

Pennsylvania Business Coaching Franchise Wins Award
May 9, 2007, Central Penn Business Journal (Pennsylvania, USA)
The Lancaster/Harrisburg franchise was cited as number one of 340 North American ActionCOACH franchises and the state as the number one region.

Nurse-Coaches Support Cancer Patients
May 8, 2007, Business Wire (Ohio, USA)
The new oncology program provides personalized attention for pain management therapy, fatigue solutions, medication compliance, emotional support and diet to help patients live fuller, more productive lives. In turn, this reduces the costs incurred by companies from cancer-related lost productivity and absences.

By Vikki G. Brock

The roots of coaching from the decade of the 1940s are slim, with Fritz Perls coining the term “Gestalt Therapy”. In the 1950s Carl Rogers’ presented client-centered therapy and Abraham Maslow created his hierarchy of needs. In the 1950s personal success literature continued to be published with Earl Nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret,” Norman Vincent Peale’s “Power of Positive Thinking,” Joseph Campbell’s “A Hero with a Thousand Faces,” and L. Ron Hubbards’s “Scientology.” Some of these publications are not without controversy to this day. Transcendental meditation appeared during this time as well, as executive counseling books and R.H.R. International counseling executives hired industrial psychologists.