The ICF issues a press release recently highlighting that more than half of the general population is aware of coaching.

Read the article from Coaching Commons here and access the link therein to read the full press release.

Coaching Exercises

Here's another article recently related to the discussion of whether it's useful to invest in a coaching franchise or not.  The article is written from the client perspective, so this could also be a good perspective for coaches to be aware of.

Read the article here.

Coaching Exercises

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I'm about to go on a skiing holiday in beautiful Queenstown New Zealand and won't be publishing a newsletter next week, so this is the perfect time for me to send out a survey instead and ask for your ideas.

There are just 11 optional questions (only answer what is relevant to you).

The responses will help us to continue to develop tools and resources that you want, including expanding our free section which is already over 95% of the COaching Tools and Resources database.

Here's the survey link:

Here is a wonderful video from TED...please watch to the end to discover the five areas we can all work on individually and as a society to increase wellbeing on the planet!

The other day I received a really lovely call from the local Lions Club chapter asking if I could help financially or otherwise with the upcoming World Festival of Magic...one of their bigger fundraising events to help children in need and to support the work done for children at some local hospitals. 

One of the ways I committed to helping was to promote the Lion's activities via this blog.

I forwarded the announcement this past week about the exciting new step in the Coaching Industry with the launching later this year of Coaching Guidelines.

Since that announcement, I've received lots of emails and phone calls asking "What's going on?", "Why were we not consulted?", "You can't do that!", "What does this mean?" and so on.  Most have been very pleasant conversations.  A few others were quite intense flavoured with some bitterness and fear.

A colleague in Paris reprinted a short exercise about building confidence as a public speaker (or even speaking up in team meetings) I shared recently in a newsletter.  I love the introduction Roberta Hill added to this and thought it worthwhile sharing the whole piece in the blog today.

Read the article here.

Coaching Exercises

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SOMETHING NEW AND INTERESTING

A colleague sent me an interesting article on "The End of Management" (Wall Street Journal) that I thought would be useful to share with you.

Here's the link to "The End of Management".

Here's an excellent short article from Coaching Commons about a very simple coaching framework of discovery, application and integration.

Read the article here.

Coaching Exercises

Here's an excellent short article on what to do BEFORE you start up your new business.

Read the article and tips here.

Coaching Exercises

1.  What do you think of this article?