Assessments don’t offer the Truth; rather, they offer the client (and coach) a lens through which to view the measured area of interest.

n service of further considering the idea of coaching as a multidisciplinary profession, here are some reflections on the components of the courses at West Point that built different perspectives and abilities in my work as a coach.

While having good judgment is essential to being a physician, being judgmental is actually detrimental both to good judgment and to the physician’s care.

In this issue, we create a Coaching tool chest—a perennially open issue of coaching tools, approaches, perspectives, questions, etc.

When clients know what they’ve done,  they can more easily see what needs to be done next—which is the basis of the conversation about renewing a coaching engagement.

During the 1970s, Paul Simon wrote a song about the “bridge over troubled waters.” There are obviously many kinds of troubled waters in our world today—some swirling around in our personal lives and others swirling around in the organizations where we work. Some of us help our coaching clients address the personal turbulence, while others of us help clients address …

This is the first of two connected issues on coaching.  We have written about the “terrain” of coaching and the various charted and uncharted parts of our profession, encouraging continued exploration and explanation of the whole and the pieces (like effective contracting, establishing trust, methods and perspectives, how to measure outcomes or starting points). There’s another way we sometimes segment …

The book we offer in this quarter’s Bookshelf is the strongest and most comprehensive take on ROI in coaching we’ve seen, from the application to the theory.

In this issue of The Future of Coaching, we look at coaching in the professions

In this first of two issues on the systematic effort to document coaching, we’ll address research in and about coaching both historically and conceptually.