By Materese Roche Coaching, as a 21st century phenomenon, is aimed at everything from improving relationships and achieving corporate goals to personal image and spiritual …
Coaching: Bad or Good?
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Coaching is Often Misunderstood
In much of the corporate and business world, coaching is still widely misunderstood. Some think of sports coaching where the coach is telling the athletes …
Executive Coaching
The term âexecutive coachâ implies that the client is an executive. What is an executive? Look it up in a dictionary or in Wikipedia and …
Is a Coach a Subject Matter Expert or a Process Expert?
As a coach, and utilizing your own experience and expertise may enhance your coaching work in the area or areas you with which you are …
Listening as a Coach
The International Coaching Federation, ICF, publishes Core Competencies. One of these is  listening. As a coach, listening is one of the most important tasks for …
Coaching Professionals and ICF
In the last two blog posts the importance of a coaching culture and of coaching skills for leaders clarified the value of coach training for …
Case Study: The Process Example
In this blog series, the case study was set up and is explored in these subsequent posts by considering what happens side-by-side with the Core …
Finding an Internal or External Coach
An internal coach is an employee of the company wherein they provide coaching services to other employees. An external coach is hired as a business …
What types of coaching are there?
Coaching has application in every facet of the working world, family, and in the communities in which people participate. Companies are now developing a âcoaching …
What is the role of a coach?
A coach is a strategy partner.  Exploring strategy is essential for creating the best possibility of a successful outcome. The coach challenges and expands thinking …