[Note: This essay first appeared in a 2009 issue (No. One) of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations] [Material for this article draws upon David Rock and Linda J. Page, Coaching with the Brain in Mind: Foundations for Practice. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.] Anthony Grant (2003) cites an article by C. B. Gorby published in I …

Today, as a member of a coach membership organization like the International Coach Federation (ICF), you agree to serve under the ICF Ethics Code in order to maintain a credential. 

Unless you’re at your best as a coach, you can’t support your clients effectively. Therefore, understanding the cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects of your own wellness is fundamental in order to be a successful and sustainable support to your clients.

Being genuinely empathetic to the issues the team is grappling with and providing direct yet respectful feedback is as useful with a group as it is in our individual coaching work.

Professional coaching is a relatively young calling. It’s still evolving. Since the early days of what we might refer to as modern coaching, there has been an ongoing dance between the energies of purism and realism. The energy of purism in coaching has been well represented by those dedicated souls who worked long and debated hard to: define what exactly …

The bulk of what a coach does is asking. It’s asking in the service of creating a new awareness.

Since the 1990s, coaching has been a key component of many schools’ faculty-development plans.

Listen in as Leadership, Executive and Mentor Master Coach Dr. Vikki Brock EMBA, MCC, CEC (author of the Sourcebook Of Coaching History)  coaches a real world client in real time. The session not only demonstrates coaching mastery related to competence and intellectual pursuit but also the wisdom and compassion inherent to coaching across all niches. The session is then followed …