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TEAM: Project Team Environmental Analysis
TEAM is a coaching tool that can be used when working with a client who wishes to assess and potentially redesign his or her project team
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The Challenges Facing Contemporary Professional Coaches and Their Clients
Serving as an organizational coach, I met over lunch recently with a client who has just moved into a position of leadership in his high tech corporation. Robert is now Vice President of Human
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The Hero’s Journey: A Case Study
In this essay I explore the potential healing power of mythology and its use as a professional coaching tool. The twelve stages of the “Hero’s Journey”, as set forth by Joseph Campbell, will provide
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Trauma and Professional Coaching: The Use of Emotional Training
While professional coaches are not in the business of providing psychotherapy to men and women suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), they need to know about this challenging condition, given that they are often
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Twenty One Businesses You Can Start in a Refugee Camp
I was listening to a fabulous segment on NPR about how the people in Haiti refugee camps have taken to starting businesses in their tents. Astonishing, isn’t it
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Values, Branding and Positioning for University: Coaching in Technical Sector
Sector: Software Development Assignment: Values, Branding and Positioning for University Spin Out. Period: 2005 Background The Company had recently spun itself out from a major Scottish University research facility. Having successfully utilised its first
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Why Coaching Works
Coaching is one of the most requested professional development methods of corporate leaders. In a 2001 study by the Corporate Leadership Council coaching was the 5th most requested method for development. In a more
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Winning Leadership in Difficult Times: Developing Emotionally Intelligent Leaders
The ability to select, motivate, develop, engage and retain top people is critical to a company’s success. If you want to build a company where people love to work you have to know how
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Working in a Large Public Sector Organization in Scotland
Executive Summary We took on a short 12-week assignment with this Public Sector Organisation in January 2010. The quality of our input resulted in our working with them for virtually 12 months ending in
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Workplace, Executive and Life Coaching: An Annotated Bibliography from the Behavioral Science and Business Literature from 1935 to Jan 2011
This extensive annotated bibliography draws on scholarly papers from the behavioural science literature as presented in PsycINFO, Business Source Premier and Dissertation Abstracts International,
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