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.

In this week’s Chronicle: Will they call in the coach? With the popular team manager’s job in jeopardy, the bench coach for the New York Yankees was widely rumored to be the leading candidate for the job. A proposal to require U.S. colleges to interview minority candidates for head football coaching jobs is panned by the same coaches it aims to help. If employees have financial problems, they might be distracted at work, might be absent, might steal. A coach offers free financial training videos to help. One life coach finds out that her son thinks her job is to relax and chat on the phone. After watching a documentary on the BBC featuring coaching, a blogger bemoans the coaches who seem to be more focused on selling their e-book than helping their clients. And we also include an article that encourages coaches to create those e-books, because some feel that creating new products gives coaches credibility. Soul coaching gets some media attention in Canada. A business coach examines the value of the 80/20 rule in running a business.
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Coach’s Promotion Would Come At Beloved Manager’s Expense
October 19, 2007, Courant.com, (Connecticut, USA)
After his team was eliminated from the playoffs leading up to the World Series, New York Yankee manager Joe Torre’s job was on the line. Most likely to replace him: the team’s bench coach.

Coaches Help Figure Skater Find Competitive Edge
October 9, 2007, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Minnesota, USA)
After a disappointing performance in the U.S. Championships in 2006, his coaches sent him on a journey of self-discovery, helping him recover in time to compete in 2008.

Performance Coach Hosts Workshop in Kuala Lumpur
October 9, 2007, The Star (Kuala Lumpur)
The workshop aims to improve the participants’ self-awareness, self-esteem, and personal excellence.

Business Coach: Businesses Benefit Using the 80/20 Rule
October 10, 2007, The Nova Scotia Business Journal (Nova Scotia, Canada)
The 80/20 rule states that 80% of a business’ revenue comes from 20% of its customers, 80% of its productivity from 20% of its employees, etc.

Coaching Pioneer Lectures at Leadership Festival in Korea
October 10, 2007, Digital Chosun Ilbo (Korea)
Sir John Whitmore brings his business coaching wisdom to show how coaching enhances business performance.

Life Coach: The “Invisible Mom” Unwittingly Teaches Her Children To Be Ungrateful
October 9, 2007, Seacoast Online (New Hampshire, USA)
Moms should teach their families to acknowledge their efforts with gratitude instead of being contently unappreciated. This helps children learn to respect others and to notice the contributions of others with thanks.

Some Minority College Football Coaches Against Proposed Diversity Rule
October 10, 2007, Sporting News (USA)
The proposed rule requires schools looking for a new head coach to interview minority candidates, but black coaches don’t want to be interviewed merely to satisfy a requirement. It wastes their time and reflects badly upon them when they are frequently interviewed but seldom hired.

A Brief Guide to Soul Coaching
October 13, 2007, The Nanaimo News Bulletin (British Columbia, Canada)
Soul coaching’s purpose is to determine the client’s innermost desires.

Coach Speaks at Human Resources Management Conference
October 12, 2007, Society for Guman Resource Management (USA)
During the session, attendees practiced peer coaching.

Article Spotlights Life Coach’s Work
October 10, 2007, Deseret Morning News (Utah, USA)
Her life’s passion is to help stop divorce.

Life Coach Helps People Deal With Stress and Change
October 10, 2007, Des Moines Register (Iowa, USA)
She previously worked as a social worker before a life coach helped her think more positively.

Coach: For Perspective On Your Job, Ask Your Child To Describe It
October 15, 2007, Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Living Blog
Coach’s son thinks she relaxes and chats all day. She suggests you ask your child to tell you what they think you do, and you might see your job in a whole new way.

Keep your Head in the (Business) Game
October 14, 2007, Start-Up Business Blog
Stop worrying about last month, or anxiously projecting this month. Do the best you can possibly do today.

Blogger Offers his Definition of Life and Business Coaching
October 14, 2007, evne.net (Net Free Articles for Blogs)
Author describes life and business coaching as he sees it.

Money Coach: Your Employees Have Money Troubles? You Do Too.
October 12, 2007, The Money Blog
It’s estimated that one out of three employees in the U.S. suffers from financial stress, which affects business productivity dramatically. This blog links to free financial education videos which companies can use to help teach their employees how to avoid financial trouble.

Internet Business Coach Lists Five Useful Internet Marketing Tools
October 12, 2007, Internet Business Coaching by Terry Dean Blog (USA)
Search tools, Google how-to instructions, keyword strategies are explained.

Life Coach or Huckster? Helping Clients or Selling An E-Book? Asks Blogger
October 9, 2007, ECademy Blog
After watching a BBC documentary on coaching and observing the flood of questionably qualified people calling themselves coaches, he asks coaches whether they’re out to help others or themselves.

Break Your Habits, Even Good Ones, To Shake Up Your Life, Says Executive Coach
October 10, 2007, Coach Training Alliance Blog (USA)
He finds that asking extroverts to act introverted for a day, or asking active people to be sedentary for a day, or otherwise deliberately altering a routine, people learn to make conscious decisions instead of cruising mindlessly through life.

Coaches Profit By Creating New Products, Says Life Coaching Institute
October 9, 2007, Live to Coach Blog
Products increase credibility, make a coach less time reliant, and expand the coach’s audience.

The Birthing of a God Idea
October 15, 2007, PRWeb (USA)
By Eric Swenson
“How big would you dream if you knew that you couldn’t fail God?” asks the author.

Wellness Coaching Website Adds Blog
October 10, 2007, PR Web (California, USA)
The blog was created because of strong demand from entrepreneurs for health information.

By Vikki G. Brock
In 1997 Steve Lanning of Maryland, USA, and Hal Wright of Illinois, USA, founded the National Association of Business Coaches (NABC) as a for-profit Association for business coaches. On May 31, 2002 Wendy Johnson from Canada purchased NABC and renamed it the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC). Today WABC serves and develops the US, Canadian and overseas business coaching markets. Source: www.wabccoaches.com