Published in, and reproduced with permission from, choice, the magazine  of professional coaching www.choice-online.com by Suzi Pomerantz  originally published in June 2010. Is your coaching really consulting? Maybe if it was, you’d be making a six-figure income! Check your contracts, coaches! Does your contract include language referencing the descriptors of a coach as “guide” or “trusted advisor,” or is the …

Published in, and reproduced with permission from, choice, the magazine  of professional coaching www.choice-online.com by Suzi Pomerantz and Steve Gladis originally published in June 2009. Coaching is not about money, yet “money is important, if only for financial reasons,” to quote Woody Allen. Sponsors contact executive coaches when an executive’s behavior begins to interfere with corporate progress, morale or culture. …

Many of us became coaches because we wanted to significantly impact the lives of those around us. We noticed that we were gifted at helping others reach their potential and we made the decision to devote our careers to doing so. In order to create lasting change in a client’s life, we must learn to coach the client not their …

Understanding that the brain's natural tendency to simulate the future is a flawed process can be the first step in helping a client overcome the dissonance created by unrealistic expectations.

Whether our clients say it or not, how they feel about what they bring to us for coaching plays an essential role in the coaching itself.

Context. In October 2007, I was working as a leadership coach for three multinationals, as well as doing the first course of ontological coaching at Newfield (Boulder, Colorado) when an interesting conversation arose between the President of the International Lions Foundation Spain and the breast surgery coordinator of one of Spain’s most important hospitals. In the conversation, the surgeon commented …

I have concluded that the environmental impact of entering a new profession (often relatively quickly) is significant. Becoming a coach means learning a new skillset, studying for qualifications and becoming a business owner, all in one go.

Coaching has allowed me the space to practice self-care. My conversations with my coach, Meredith Betz, allow me precious time to actively and audibly articulate my struggles and sentiments about the path of medical training.

Following are five essays written by students at the Georgetown University School of Medicine who participated in a program called: “A Whole New Doctor.”

My first experience with coaching came weeks before I would strap into the catapult. I was mulling on a list of insecurities and anxieties about stepping into the nuance, uncertainty, and emotional challenges of patient care.