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The Foundations of Coaching -

Coaching has its foundations in sports coaching, counseling, behavioral sciences, consulting, and more. These five authors explore the beginnings and rise of this discipline. Anyone who coaches should read these articles, and may want to share some of them with clients as well. 

  • Coaching: A Map of the Territory - Jordan Goldrich provides a scouting report of methods, schools, and philosophies in the field.

  • Roots of Executive Coaching - Dan Kennedy explains how sports coaching evolved into executive coaching.

  • Where Does Executive Coaching Come From? - Robert Witherspoon reviews the theoretical roots of his coaching.

  • Roots of Personal Coaching - Rich Fettke identifies five factors that made coaching an "overnight success" (after 20 years).

  • Personal Coaching’s Evolution From Therapy – Dr. Patrick Williams explains how coaching evolved from three streams of work and how it differs from therapy.

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Coaching Tools -

In this issue, you’ll find six articles that provide a wealth of tools you will use again and again in your coaching. The authors are seasoned and successful coaches who share the learnings of years of experience. What gets in the way of developing new habits? What are some specific skills the best coaches use well? What are the steps in coaching emotional intelligence? They’re all here.  

 

  • Coach Your Clients to Create Powerful Habits - Michele Christiansen and Steve Shull describe an effective framework. For helping coaches and consultants develop the skill of habit building, both for themselves and for their clients.

  • Fourteen Tools of a Master Coach - Brad Swift Here are a group of tools you can use to help your clients build a masterful life.

  • Emotional Intelligence: Coaching For Empathy - Dr. Patsi Krakoff explains that emotional intelligence, especially empathy, can only be learned experientially — a perfect fit for the professional coach.

  • Blending Coaching and Consulting for Real Value - Cheryl Belles’ experience suggests that the most effective coaches and consultants create value for their clients by using a blend of these two skill sets.

  • Be Your Own Coach - Paul Kwiesinski suggests constructing a review sheet to help yourself be more effective, or perhaps build one for your clients.

  • Time For a Rite of Passage? - Debra Hansen offers some ideas for marking those important transitions.                 (Click Here to order) 

 

Life Planning -

This issue is our largest collection in Years.  It will be useful to the coach, consultant, trainer or individual engaging in life planning.  There is a collection of exercises for your planning sessions, suggestions for important techniques you can use or adapt, a list of ways to help others reach their potential, and several articles on aspect of goal setting as well.  It can change your life or your client's.

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  • Exercises for Life Planning - Paula Griffin presents a hefty collection of exercises to help you plan your life or
    develop life planning workshops.

 

  • Plan Your Board of Directors - Lois Zachary shows you how to use a personal board of directors as a mentor group.  

  • Finding Values From The Body - Julie Schwartz points out that one way to find out what you really value is to look at your body.

  • Give Yourself a New Label - Want a new identity?  Rita Bailey shows you how to use this powerful technique.

  • Where Has The Passion Gone? - Something missing?  Lindsay Colitses suggest that you may not have to change everything.

  • Helping Others Unleash Potential - Kevin Eikenberry offers thirteen things you can do to help others get where they want to go.

  • Setting Intentions: A New Paradigm for Goal Setting - David Breslow has some ideas for setting goals that have power, and some pitfalls to avoid.

  • Three Questions to Improve Your Goal Setting - Beth Hand offers suggestions that will make and goal setting process more powerful.

  • Life Get Blurry - Six things Ken Gosnell says we do to get in our own way.

  • Reversing Time: A Planning Exercise - Steve Randall offers a new perspective on setting goals.

The full topic catalogue includes:

Coaching Topics

Marketing

Consulting Topics

Non-Profit Consulting

Leadership

Organizational Change

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