Effective coaches assist their clients by helping them “learn to learn” — the topic of which is themselves and their relationships. Coaching, with its strong affiliation to organisational effectiveness and efficiency, can be mistakenly viewed as a practice that celebrates a narrow and analytical view of rationality. This misunderstanding can be perpetuated by prospective coachee’s who may ‘only’ want to …

  The author during a Marine-led embassy evacuation exercise from the Kuwaiti desert to an awaiting ship in the Persian Gulf. The rise of team-based, collaborative knowledge work in the Post-Digital Age has, in turn, increased the challenges around effective team performance. Today’s teams are frequently global and operate virtually, spanning multiple time zones. Consequently, organizations have increasingly sought team …

“What do you celebrate?” The top five answers I hear from my coaching clients, primarily high-performing business professionals, are “birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, graduations and other special occasions.” “And anything else?” I ask next. This question often elicits a puzzled expression or blank stare. “What about celebrating work accomplishments?” I query. “Do you pause to acknowledge successes of any size, such …

The International Coach Federation (ICF) developed standards to assure that coaching training programs follow guidelines such as providing mentor coaching to participants.

Future-Science Technology is the quantum-field science for the future – a Master Paradigm for humans and Planet Earth. This Master Paradigm is broken down into 25 keys which make up the basic fabric of Future-Science Technology.

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

Whether you’re an executive coach or not, Rosanne Scriffingnano’s paper “Coaching within organisations: examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders’ professional development” (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2011, 20-31) provides some essential considerations about the impact of clients’ goal orientation on their development. Given the prevalence of the goal setting …

by Lynn Grodzki, posted with permission. The Storm Late Sunday afternoon, after two weeks of a record heat wave, we had a violent thunderstorm. The bad news: electricity went out and 400,000 homes and businesses went dark. The good news: once the storm passed, the sun came out and so did the neighborhood. I get so busy with my life, …