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 …

Would anyone coaching, as a member in the ICF, tell a client that they had to imitate the existing success models in order to thrive? I would hope not. Would they seek to impose a structure for success they’d seen before, studied or been a part of? In fact, the ICF MCC minimum skill requirements would be expressly against that. …

Recent research reveals that a systematic approach to executive coaching has a double benefit.

Business leaders know that the effectiveness of a business process, whether an internally-facing or client-facing process, can determine the quality of the results we get. But, what about our thinking processes? Those are far more elusive! How do we learn to think more effectively and in turn, discover solutions more readily? As busy leaders in large organizations and small and …

In order to leverage executive coaching and double loop learning, we’ll have to focus on more than just behavior.

In a recent conversation a colleague discussed doing motivational speaking. Then she said, “or maybe it’s inspirational.” That got me thinking about a common dilemma that managers and leaders face, “is it my role to motivate or to inspire?” To me, the two terms are very related but have a definite distinction. Motivation is something that comes from within. As …

This paper gives an overview of the situation of coaching across the globe by presenting the key results of the Frank Bresser Consulting Global Coaching Survey 2008/2009. The project covered 162 countries and, for the first time, systematically examined the situation and development of coaching in the world overall, in each continent, region and country. The first part sets out …

Coaching is one of the most requested professional development methods of corporate leaders. In a 2001 study by the Corporate Leadership Council coaching was the 5th most requested method for development. In a more recent study by Ninth House, 95% of all the Fortune 500 firms that participated in the study utilize external executive coaches as a part of their …