Based on decades of informal, unverified, and unscientific observation, the checklist for obstacles to Effective Coaching (EF) includes:

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 …

Our first call was held 3-24-2010 and we had 44 people register for the call.  The featured Leading Coach was Charlie Smith, and the conversation was about energy, Noble Purpose, the 6 dialogues, breakthrough innovation, and sustainable transformation among many other topics!   You can listen in here using the player by pressing the ‘play’ triangle below:

Here’s a great new article from Charlie Smith that explains Why Things Work. Charlie’s a genius when it comes to helping leaders navigate innovation breakthroughs, and what organizations are not seeking innovation these days? Here are a few quotes from the article, and I definitely recommend downloading the whole thing: “The world is littered with examples where once promising opportunities …

Guest post contributed by Charlie Smith Thirty years ago if you said “coach” people mostly thought of a handful of sports figures. Today it seems there are millions of coaches — business coaches, executive coaches, life coaches, project coaches, career coaches, coaches’ coaches.  Coaching may be today’s version of the “Philosopher’s Stone” – that magic sought by alchemists in the …