according to Kathy Toogood in her paper “Strengthening Coaching: An Exploration of the Mindset of Executive Coaches Using Strengths-Based Coaching” (International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Special Issue No. 6, June 2012, pp. 72-87), the movement towards strengths-based coaching is growing. Read on to find out the why and how of a strengths-based approach to coaching clients. COACHING …

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 …

This article first appeared on Bloomberg Business Week In an edited excerpt from his new book 12 Steps to Power Presence, executive coach John Baldoni writes about what differentiates an “empty suit exec” from one who is a genuine leader. According to executive coach John Baldoni, one of the most popular topics he teaches is leadership presence, which he defines …

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 …

The following poem was created by Susan Symington, an executive coach in the DC area who was inspired to write it during the ICCO Membership Lab meeting in San Antonio last month. She gave me permission to share it with you here…. Why is lost in what Be is lost in do and sometimes in have only by peeling back …

Executive Coaching Firm Announces Results of its Just-Completed Survey on Leadership Leadership Unleashed, a Southern California-based firm that provides individually tailored coaching services to executives and leadership teams worldwide, today announced the findings of its recent survey. While the survey showed leaders understand that good relationships are needed for positive business results, about a third of leaders in a survey …