The Chronicle of Coaching

Compiled and edited by Ruth Ann Harnisch, Christine Heinrichs, and Linda Ballew.

The Chronicle of Coaching provides a snapshot of what’s happening in the coaching profession, and is updated weekly.

This week’s Chronicle is filled with holiday gift advice and suggestions for a happier New Year.

COACHING NEWS – Current events where coaching is having an impact

From Malaysia Star (Malaysia)
Coaching Statistics Show Progress
A survey shows nearly all clients are pleased by their coaching experience, and a controlled study finds coaching is effective. More statistics in this Asia/Pacific article at
http://tinyurl.com/u5o9x

From Newswire Today (Queensland, Australia)
Australian Coaching Organization Partners with International Coach Federation
ICF Australasia will promote membership in the Australian Life Coaching Society, which connects coaches offering free services with those unable to afford coaching.
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/11647

CULTURE WATCH – Where coaches and coaching are showing up in the popular culture

From The Dallas Morning News (Texas, USA)
Coaches Advise Sensible Decorum for Holiday Office Parties
The office holiday party is an informal professional event that can help or hurt careers. Coaches give suggestions on how to use the setting to advance by making contacts in a social setting and avoiding faux pas.
http://tinyurl.com/yjqlyx
Disclosure: Deborah Brown Volkman, quoted in this article, has been a paid consultant to TFoC.

From Pioneer Press (Minnesota, USA)
Coaches Help Fitness Programs Balance Life
New strategies meet the needs of aging consumers for functional fitness rather than sculpted bodies. Coaches play a role in helping participants balance work and life.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/living/16241273.htm

From Charlotte Observer (North Carolina, USA)
Coach Advises Professionalism in Family Business
A business coach responds to a reader's question about how coaching can resolve workplace issues when some employees are family and some are unrelated.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/16259270.htm

From Malaysia Star (Malaysia)
Coaches Explain Their Work
This informational article gives several coaches an opportunity to tell readers what they are doing. Rapid social changes have undermined traditions, creating conditions that make people turn to professionals to cope with the demands of modern life. Global media spreads the word and fuels interest.
http://tinyurl.com/y65wk4

From Texas Bar Journal (Texas, USA)
Logical Lawyers Turn to Empathetic Coaches
Lawyers often engage a coach for business or career advice, but stay on to resolve personal issues. This article by a law school's dean of career development advises finding a coach who understands the legal world.
http://tinyurl.com/y6x9x

From Detroit Free Press (Michigan, USA)
Coach Gives Business Gift Tips
Charitable donations trump ho-hum food baskets or corporate merchandise, she says. In an age of corporate limitations on gifts to their employees, gifts with social conscience and personal gratitude are most appreciated.
http://tinyurl.com/yyz47p

From Computerworld (Massachusetts, USA)
Life Coach Can Help ADD, Dyslexia Students
Coaching can identify strengths in choosing a career direction for those who suffer from these disorders.
http://tinyurl.com/ygqtvh

From MSNBC (New York, USA)
Give the Gift of Coaching, on Any Budget
The Today show's financial advisor includes expensive and low-cost coaching alternatives on her suggested gifts list.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16184684

From Kalamazoo Gazette (Michigan, USA)
Coaching, Other Experiences, Are Popular Gifts
Gift certificates for consumable services and experiences such as life or dating coaching free the receiver from the consumer mentality. Carefully tailored to the receiver's interests, they are more likely to be used and appreciated.
http://tinyurl.com/y2gwgl

COACH INK – Coaches and coaching getting media attention

From Washington Jewish Week (Maryland, USA)
Teacher-Turned-Coach Helps People Fix Themselves
A regular personality feature column profiles a coach who followed her life path of "unplanned happenstance" to arrive at career, life and personal coaching.
http://tinyurl.com/ymhnbq

From Los Angeles Times (California, USA)
MVP Quarterback Sticks With High School Coach
Super Bowl Patriots' Tom Brady still consults the coach who helped him throw accurate passes. They are both perfectionists, the coach says.
http://tinyurl.com/ydfonc

COLUMNS AND COMMENTARY
Opinions expressed are those of the writers and not The Foundation of Coaching, which does not express editorial opinion.

From Bradenton Herald (Florida, USA)
Newspaper Launches Regular Coaching Column
A life coach advises readers on formulating New Year's Resolutions in her first bi-weekly column.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/living/health/16241456.htm

From CEOConsultant.com (California, USA)
Critical Business Success Team Includes Coach
This business and marketing strategist puts a coach on the team, along with a visionary thinker and a detail-oriented operations manager, a financial guru, and a computer doctor.
http://tinyurl.com/ycxnb9

From Coach Training Alliance (Colorado, USA)
Eight Secrets of a Thriving Coaching Business
Life and business coach's blog gives pointers on starting a coaching business.
http://tinyurl.com/y46jwq

From International Lawyer Coach (Texas, USA)
Lawyer/Coach Gives Year-End Tips to Evaluate Career, Life
This blog entry gives lawyers a list of questions to help them take stock of their careers and personal lives. Other entries cover professional, business and personal coaching as it pertains to the legal profession.
http://tinyurl.com/tek7z

BOOKS and PRODUCTS
Books and products are listed for your information. The Foundation of Coaching does not review or recommend books or products

From PR Web (Washington State, USA)
The Turn-Key Office System for Financial Reps
Andrea Bullard
This executive coach's system on book and CD organizes staff and tracks paperwork to create a "systems dependent" business and a "paper-free desk"
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb491614.htm

From Fictionwise.com (USA)
Start Late, Finish Rich
David Bach
A money coach sets out plans to build retirement finances.
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook28569.htm

From Newark Star Ledger (New Jersey, USA)
Managers Get Coaching Advice in New Business Books
Find opportunities to coach employees, one book counsels. Another targets attitude and a third give self-marketing pointers.
http://tinyurl.com/wohl6

From Emediawire (Colorado, USA)
5 Essentials for a Winning Life
Chris Carmichael
An integrated and balanced approach to release the champion within and create lasting change.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/12/emw490326.htm

From Research and Markets (Dublin, Ireland)
Coaching at Work: Powering your Team with Awareness, Responsibility and Trust
Matt Somers
This business coach's book helps managers become better coaches.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c46917

PUBLICITY RELEASES – Information from commercial sources

From Response Source (London, UK)
Take Two Tips and Face the New Year
A British coaching association offers a list of suggestions for bouncing back from the post-holiday slump.
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=28773&hilite

From PR Newswire (California, USA)
On-Line Service Connects Clients with Coaches
The service lists over 30,000 experts, including career and life coaches, for live chat, e-mail or telephone consultations 24/7. The service verifies credentials and screens professional counselors and provides a user rating system.
http://tinyurl.com/w2dds

From Business Wire (Virginia, USA)
Coaching Agency Lists Ten Reasons Resolutions Fail
Based on their coaches' collective wisdom and experience, the agency released the top ten New Year's Resolution killers.
http://tinyurl.com/ya4uoj

From Yahoo! News (New Jersey, USA)
Health Insurance Adds Care Coaching
New Jersey's largest health insurer has teamed up with a health management company to add health coaching for seven chronic diseases. The company cited fewer unplanned calls and doctor visits resulting from better patient education and support.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061212/phtu014.html?.v=81

From the Coaching Archives: Interesting historical facts from the evolution of coaching
Offered by Vikki G. Brock

Pioneers in Coaching: In the United Kingdom in 1979, David Megginson and Tom Boydell published a booklet titled “A Manager’s Guide to Coaching.” A quote stated that “One of the skills of a good coach is that his ideas become merged with the ideas of those he is coaching.” Another way of saying this is that a coach is never the same after he/she has worked with a client.

From The Foundation of Coaching

Help Wanted: History and Archive Advisory Panel members
Do you have a passion for the history of coaching? The History and Archive Division of The Foundation of Coaching is looking for enthusiastic, curious, detail-oriented seekers of the past. There are no restrictions as to your field of coaching, your culture, or your home country. You’ll help us write the history of coaching, in collaboration with Vikki G. Brock, author of “Who’s Who in Coaching: Who Shaped it, Who’s Shaping It.”

If you have a bit of archeologist in you, come help us dig up the past!

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