The publication Coaching-At-Work, edited by Liz Hall, often has juicy tidbits about the world of coaching across the pond…our colleagues in the UK and Europe may be interested in these news items: Accreditation review The Coaching Roundtable, formed of professional coaching bodies in the UK, has completed its review of accreditation across the bodies. It now plans to send its …

Steven Johnson is an author and speaker and I just love this rendering of his talk on innovation.  (Thanks, Maryl, for sending it to me!) Check out this 4-minute video, and I recommend watching it on your full screen, because it moves fast and there’s alot to take in as Steven describes how slow hunches become breakthroughs! Perfect stuff for …

I am pleased to share some exciting news with you. The McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte is proud to announce the first Master of Science in Executive Coaching (MSEC) in North America. This is a big step for coaching and for Queens. We will launch the Class of 2013 in May 2011. The MSEC program is …

Some people just can’t help making a profound difference in the world.  Toni is one of those people! She is pure engagement, and you will appreciate her spark of entrepreneurial energy. She’s the founder of The PEOPLE Model, and The PEOPLE Academy, Inc. She founded The Get Inspired Project and co-founded The Coaches’ Concierge in addition to working for 26+  …

An interview with Charlie Smith, PhD. by IdeaConnection‘s Vern Burkhardt. Excerpt below, read full interview HERE. “Inevitably organizations with the most available energy will prevail. This refers to energy, aliveness, and vitality. Energy is equivalent to the power to act, which in turn determines success.” Charles E. Smith Vern Burkhardt (VB): In Navigating From The Future you talk about “sustainable …

Leading coaches Charles E. Smith, PhD., and Suzi Pomerantz posted an article called Success in Today’s Economy Requires Executives to Take Responsibility for Two Worlds and we’d love your input! The basic premise is that particularly in companies or agencies implementing technology-based projects, leaders must recognize and attend to the duality of the two worlds required for business success in …

Val Williams, MCC, is a leading executive coach and author.  Check out her perspective on The Impostor Syndrome! Posted with permission During a recent coaching session with an executive leader, I heard something that many leaders struggle with at one time or another in their careers. My client said to me, “I’m afraid that any day someone is going to …

Coaching Research in Practice – Group Coaching – Are you really doing it? Posted with permission from ReciproCoach. While the title of this month’s Coaching Research in Practice, From GROW to GROUP: theoretical issues and a practical model for group coaching in organisations, suggests that its biggest contribution is a new acronym based model for group coaching, even more useful …

Sustainable Transformation calls for returning to a zero point; returning to a possibility. It’s pure invention. Sustainable Transformation is a misnomer as it’s generally used. You’re not really sustaining something. In order for transformation to happen, you have to become present or “real,” in the strongest possible sense, to what is now going on and to the inhibiting influences of …

by Lynn Grodzki, posted with permission. The Storm Late Sunday afternoon, after two weeks of a record heat wave, we had a violent thunderstorm. The bad news: electricity went out and 400,000 homes and businesses went dark. The good news: once the storm passed, the sun came out and so did the neighborhood. I get so busy with my life, …