The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, and is updated weekly. Compiled and edited by Linda Ballew and Ruth Ann Harnisch.

In this week’s Chronicle: In the news, the death of Pakistan’s World Cup cricket coach earlier this year triggered a worldwide murder investigation. After claiming the cause of death was manual strangulation and interviewing dozens of players and others, police now say the death was due to natural causes. Items this week include the cost-effectiveness of coaching newly-hired business executives, career coaching for young professionals just starting out, and the lifelong advantages of receiving coaching as a teen or young adult.

A leadership coach admits not every client is “coachable,” while some clients get the courage to go forward by looking backward. Meet a CEO who views coaching as his major job responsibility; learn how to work with a new, younger boss, how to get along with difficult people, and how to resolve disagreements. A family management coach organizes households, and dating coaches help singles shed their “dork-ness.”

In the blogs: Live life on purpose, test your life satisfaction, find lists of useful resources, and make your wishes come true in just 100 steps. (their promise, not ours) One business coach offers his opinion on the different ways men and women approach business, another business coach decides most decisions are instinctive. Finally in the blogs, a “blogging coach.” (It had to happen.)

Publicity seekers include coaching webcasts, online radio that mixes music with motivation, a new executive coach training program at a university, and a program to measure your fiscal fitness.

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The Coach “Murder” Story Isn’t Over
June 12, 2007, BBC News (UK)
After overshadowing the World Cup Cricket competition itself, the death of Pakistan’s coach is no longer classified as a murder. This columnist examines the twists and turns in the story that still leaves many questions unanswered.

Include Coaching for Future Business Leaders
June 5, 2007, Business Intelligence Network (Colorado, USA)
Early-stage coaching and mentoring, coupled with frequent feedback for the newly hired leaders, are powerful practices for accelerating progress and can prevent costly mistakes.

Leadership Coach Asks: When Are you Going to Put Yourself First?
June 10, 2007 East Valley Tribune (Arizona, USA)
He explains that not everyone is coachable. He says some individuals really don’t want help.

What Every Single Guy Needs: A Personal Dating Coach
June 12, 2007 OregonLive.com (Oregon, USA)
Guys get help creating online dating profiles, receive flirting lessons and even get help with their “game.” Other services include wardrobe and “bachelor pad” assessment, and even dating coaches working side-by-side with guys on nights out, scouting and/or finding prospects.

Help, Coach! My New Boss is 20 Years Younger Than Me!
June 12, 2007 Personnel Today (UK)
Coach advises: Don’t make any assumptions, keep an open mind, examine personal issues with age, believe that working together will be effective, and focus on making the new relationship successful.

Strategy Coach Says Measure Success Backward
June 10, 2007, STL Today (Missouri, USA)
Instead of focusing on a goal or an ideal you are still short of attaining, this coach says you should turn around and focus on how far you’ve come to get where you are now.

90% of CEO Job: Coaching People
June 7, 2007, CEPro (Massachusetts, USA)
This CEO says it’s about exploring employees’ strengths and weaknesses, revealing their potential, encouraging them to grow into their roles.

Coach Helps Employees Communicate With Difficult Co-Workers
June 7, 2007, Brookline Tab (Massachusetts, USA)
In communicating at work, finding the right words to convey the right message is key for unlocking successful results.

Conflict Coaching Can Help Resolve Disagreements
June 7, 2007, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (New York, USA)
Article explains that “working one-on-one, the coach helps the disputant understand what factors contribute to the conflict and how to invite change in others.”

What is the Right Coach Approach?
June 5, 2007, Legal Sanity Blog (New York, USA)
This blog by a legal coach chats about using a four week coaching approach to take clients to the next level, and links to an American Bar Association Journal profile on the subject.

Career Development Coaching Offered to Young Professionals
June 6, 2007, The Sudbury Town Crier (Massachusetts, USA)
To form a plan, these coaches ask new clients to fast-forward 25 years and describe what they would like their life to be.

Coaching’s New Niche: Family Management
June 6, 2007, The News Journal (Delaware, USA)
Use six steps to make the most of your household time: Have an ongoing supply list that family members add to if they use the last of a product. Take 10 minutes every Sunday night to schedule the coming week. Shop and run errands when others are not. Multi-task while watching TV by folding clothes or brushing the dog. Don’t argue on weeknights. Always run errands with a list.

Blog Interview with Author Highlights Six Passages to a Life on Purpose
June 12, 2007, Escape from the Cubicle Nation (Arizona, USA)
People start “living on purpose” when they know where they are now, where they want to go and what obstacles might interfere.

Business Coaching Versus Business Development Programs
June 9, 2007, Leadership Turn (UK)
Business development programs are often too general, not personalized, says this coach. Coaching helps individuals gain insight into their motives, interests, concerns, and the challenges they face in their leadership roles.

Rate Your Life Satisfaction: Take This Coach’s Pizza Test
June 9, 2007, The Resonant Life (Canada)
Each pizza slice represents “slices of life,” such as relationships, family/friends, career, money, health, physical environment, fun/recreation and personal growth. Slices are rated from one to ten and assess life balance and satisfaction.

Blog Offers Links to Various Coaching Resources
June 9, 2007, Acting4Life Blog (Ireland, UK)
Readers curious about coaching will find a wealth of information on various coaching concepts at this site.

According to Life Coach, Wishes Are a Mere 100 Steps Away
June 9, 2007, Embody Blog (England, UK)
First, imagine the wish comes true. Then, break the wish-come-true into 100 small steps. Next, perform the steps, one by one, until the wish comes true.

Ready to Blog? Here’s Your Blogging Coach
June 8, 2007, My Blog Coach (North Carolina, USA)
Learn what system to use, how to name a blog, how often to write one, and how to get readers and comments. She also shares the wisdom of other expert bloggers.

Get Coaching While You’re Young – Reap Lifelong Benefits
June 7, 2007, The Coach Connection Blog (Florida, USA)
With life coaching, young people can connect to their inner selves much earlier in life, take control of personal, family and work lives, and create conditions favorable for success, enjoyment and fulfillment.

New Blog for Coaches Begins in July
June 7, 2007, Khrishna De Blog (Dublin, Ireland)
This blog will offer articles submitted by readers as a resource for coaches who want to enhance their professional effectiveness.

New Board Chair Finds Executive Coaching Strategies Valuable
June 6, 2007, World Business, (London, UK)
Using a business coaching philosophy, this non-executive board chair found these coaching strategies critical to lead board members under challenging conditions.

Blogger Explores Life Coaching
June 5, 2007, Electric Venom Blog (Kansas, USA)
Attorney turned stay-at-home-mom blogs about this thing called life coaching.

Coach Says, In Business, Men Are Dreamers, Women are Pragmatic
June 5, 2007, Business Performance Coaching Blog (Alberta, Canada)
This business performance coach says men think more about lifestyle control and options when building a business and women approach it with a clear focused vision of the results they want.

Business Coach Believes All Decisions are Instinctive
June 5, 2007, The Leadership Blog (USA)
This article discusses the concepts of gut instinct and business intelligence in making productive decisions.

Web cast: Coaching for Success
June 11, 2007, Earthtimes.org (USA)
Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith will discuss how to use proven coaching techniques for behavioral change.

Online Music with Motivation Will Energize Listeners
June 9, 2007, The Open Press (USA)
New daily online broadcast will offer video, audio, and articles from some of the top inspirational speakers, coaches and trainers in North America. Fuel Radio has streaming radio, music, interviews, and inspirational audio clips twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

University of Georgia Will Offer Executive Coaching
June 6, 2007, Cincinnati Business Courier, (Ohio, USA)
The school joins Penn State University and Texas Christian University, offering the 60-hour Executive Coaching Certification Program.

Are You Financially Fit?
June 5, 2007, PR Web (Washington, USA)
This program measures financial fitness with a five-step score card that helps families find protection and prosperity.

By Vikki G. Brock

The roots of coaching from the decade of 1960s include the founding of Esalen in California to explore human potential and Findhorn in the UK to explore spirituality. This was the period of the counterculture and the Beatles, whose music brought Eastern philosophy to the masses. The New Age Movement melded spiritual traditions and alternative medicine from the East and West.

Linda Goodman published her astrology books and Weight Watchers was founded. This decade ushered in an expansion of human consciousness and community. Personal success literature published during this period included Maxwell Maltz’s “Cybernetics,” Jose Silva’s “Silva Mind Control,” Thomas Harris’s “I’m OK, You’re OK,” and John Gardner’s “Self Renewal.”

The first large group awareness training called “Mind Dynamics” was launched by Alexander Everett. Next week we will look at the roots of business coaching from the decade of the 1960s.