Hey, Leading Coaches…how do you feel about this press release that came out last week?  What do we think about coaching being linked with a psychiatric hospital, no matter how well respected?  What impact will that have on your marketing efforts? McLEAN HOSPITAL LAUNCHES FIRST INSTITUTE OF COACHING Belmont, MA—With an extraordinary $2 million gift from the Harnisch Foundation, McLean …

The innovative article below was contributed by Leading Coach Andrea Moretti-Adimari from Northern Italy.  Enjoy! Being the Best Jim Collins’ bestseller ‘Good to Great’ makes the point about honesty – if you want to be the best, you can’t hide behind blind spots. Using the book’s metaphor, one of the greatest challenges leaders face is maintaining the “right people in …

I’m delighted to have permission to share with you this engaging piece by one of my mentors on the malady he has dubbed Possibility Deficit Disorder.  It’s a pandemic!  I’d love your thoughts and reactions.  Read on and login to be able to comment below. Possibility Deficit Disorder (PDD) tm by Charles E. Smith and Donald Duprey What is PDD? …

“Social media has reached a tipping point as a way of connecting with others, but it has also transformed the way businesses are run, and even the top-down ethos from which many organizations operate. Marketers no longer “own” brand messages, but are rather building their brand equity through relationship building; they are becoming experts in the art of giving away …

Distraction creates OVERWHELM. It’s a pandemic these days how many of us feel continual overwhelm. I see it in the executives I coach, I see it in leaders everywhere, and I see it in school children. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Focused, Engaged, Present I recently spent time coaching a team of scientists leading a large scale project for …

I’m delighted to have this post contributed by Leading Coach Patsi Krakoff, Psy.D. (aka The Blog Squad) in Ajijic, Mexico, to help us all make the most of that critical web 2.0 marketing strategy: blogging. Find out more about Patsi at www.WritingOnTheWeb.com and if you don’t already have a blog, but want to, she’s a great resource for you! 4 …

Our very own Leading Coach, Toni Reece, has been engaged in a project called The Get Inspired Project.  When she interviewed me for the project, she showed me a whole world I never considered before…that of seeking to inspire, intending to inspire, causing inspiration on purpose…as if you could follow a system or methodology to generate inspired results.  Over the …

If you are a Leading Coach in this community who also happens to be an ICCO member (International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations), there are still a few openings left for the upcoming inaugural ICCO Member Lab, taking place at the beautiful River Walk in San Antonio, Texas.  I’ll be there, and I’d love to connect in person with anyone …

This article can be read in its entirety HERE.  Below are excerpts to stimulate discussion.  I’d love to hear your experience!  Does this corroborate your reality?  Comment below! Tighter training budgets have failed to reduce the use of coaching by employers and could be responsible for an increase in its practice, CIPD research has found. The CIPD’s 2009 Taking the …

Love that we are a community of forward-thinkers!  Here were the questions that came in on the topic of the future of our profession: Part 6:  The Future of Coaching: 1.  As the population ages, and many aging board members leave the boards of non profits, what are we doing to teach younger professionals about participating in such worthy organizations? …