Why Coaching Fails
by Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D.
Like any tool, coaching can be effective.  However, it is a process that is relatively easy to do badly.  Many things can impede its effectiveness. While there are many reasons why coaching can fail in an individual case, there are some broad commonalities that can indicate failure early in the process.  It is important for the stewards of the organization’s resources to understand these major themes and feel comfortable taking steps to address them.

Moments of Insight
from Executive Coach Michael Wolkensperg
Here is a compilation of "Michael Moments" on the difference between leading and managing, getting a handle on prioritization, career advice in 30 seconds, a batting coach for executives, exchanging fear for inspiration, and the sweet spot of corporate success. Important insights - enjoy!

How to Counter Career Derailers and Personal Vulnerabilities
by Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D.
My work in coaching executives has led me to wrestle with uncovering the essential elements for supporting personal change in the business environment.  In the discussion that follows, I will lay out what I have come to believe are the sure-fire steps for achieving significant personal change.

Coaching That Counts
by Estienne de Beer
Coaching is a profound leadership mindset, but you have to believe in it first. Great leaders touch the lives of their followers through coaching.

Seaside Coaching
by Lucille Maddalena, Ed.D.
When you are at a transition point in your life, do you seek the familiarity of your current surroundings, or would it be useful for you to reach out to tap resources and experiences from your own past as well? More importantly, how do you sort through the turmoil that accompanies change to discover your own revelations?

The CEO's Third Eye
by Jerry Stein
Any decision-maker in a leadership role has to have a 'third eye' to be effective when facing critical decisions.

Finding Vision and Courage
by Jerry Stein
What do people need as they face significant challenges or critical periods of growth in their lives? One man's dilemma shows what you need.

Leadership Strategies to Address Today's Most Common Team Building Problems
by Gayle Lantz
Here are some of the most common impediments to team success and ways to overcome them.

Mentoring Programs for Professional Service Firms
by Gayle Lantz
The best relationships have the potential to create value for the employee, the mentor and the firm as a whole.

Executive Coaching: A Leadership Development Tool for Top Performers
by Gayle Lantz
Increasingly, coaching is being sought by some of the most successful executives in their field - those who want to get even better at their business game. So the new thinking is … Got a goal? Get a coach.

Successful Change Starts With a Shift in Perspective
by Steven Bacharach
Sustaining meaningful change is never easy. It takes desire, intention, a clear vision, a good plan and commitment. To change, we must create structure that encourages and supports change, and it begins with an all-important shift in perspective.

Improved Leadership Through Coaching
by Sloan Campbell
Everyone is aware of the connection between Leadership and Coaching in business, but what is often overlooked is the pure strength of this connection.

Choose a Business Coach Carefully to Get the Results You Want
by Jim Jenkins
Coaching has become one of the most effective ways to cultivate the professional and personal skill-sets of teams and individuals. But you must do your homework before choosing a coach. For coaching to work, it’s vital to have a basic understanding of a coaching relationship.

Rapid-fire Inspiration for Leaders - High Impact Teaming
by Cynder Niemela
A high impact team in the making, when a coach is not a coach, and the concept of shared leadership from the author of Leading High Impact Teams.

The Metamorphosis of the Successful Executive - Overcoming Professional Stagnation
by Steven Bacharach
With the right coach and a personal willingness to try new things, to experiment and to make and learn from your mistakes, you can turn achievement and success into something more.

Core Business Team Coaching Skills
by Cynder Niemela
The goal of team coaching is to help a group of people with a common purpose identify and meet business goals and simultaneously enjoy the journey as a team.

Executive Coaching - Unleashing Human Potential
by Kathy Green
My client's interest in becoming a better coach has given me a great gift. He's caused me to think more fully about what I do, and the principles by which I work. The information that follows is some of what I've learned over the last twenty-two years.

Job Security 101 - Five Surefire Ways to Create a Crisis
by Sid Smith
Whether you're an executive in a large corporation, or on your own, it seems that it takes a crisis to get the adrenaline pumping and creative juices flowing. That's why we'll often create a crisis in the midst of calm.

Coaching for Global Effectiveness
by Trevor J. O'Hara
Executives are unprepared for the increasing levels of complexity of doing business globally. This calls for a certain type of coaching that is flexible and tailored to the specific challenges and uncertainties of global business.

The Sink or Swim Approach to Leadership
by Lora J. Adrianse
If your organization is one that values development and promotion from within the ranks, make a commitment today to establish a new process, and most of all provide the support and training to ensure success.

Beyond Trendy: Using a Business Coach to Create a Competitive Edge
by Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D.
Using a coach can be a highly effective way to compensate for the tendency to slip, inexorably, into habitual patterns. A true coach is a thought partner, someone to think with you about how you think as well as how you execute your thoughts.

How to Set and Attain Goals for Success
by Karim A. Jaude
Here are the most powerful ideas I have ever used in setting and reaching my goals.

Managing Performance Every Day
by Lora J. Adrianse
If your company is one that says, "Our employees are our greatest assets", now is the time to walk the talk. By providing ongoing coaching, you'll be managing performance every day. And most of all, your employees will feel like they are your greatest assets.

Your Performing Edge: Top 10 Tips
by JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Ph.D.
Gain new motivation and confidence to break through mental barriers, create a healthy, balanced lifestyle both athletically and personally and unleash the power of your mind, body, and spirit.

Language for Success: Creative Affirmations
by JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Ph.D.
Words can have tremendous power over our minds and subsequently our athletic performance. Each of us is constantly engaging in our own internal thought processing. Use affirmations if you want to create real changes in the way you train and compete.

Walking Your Talk - The Coach's Role in Maintaining Integrity
by Cynder Niemela
Part of a coach's duty is to see that team leaders hold themselves to the highest standards of character.

Performance Enhancing Attitudes: Lessons from Elite Athletes
by Nina Ham
In the world of sports, three clichés come up frequently that refer to self-regulation in an athlete, mind-sets that contribute as much as actual talent to his/her success, and the team's success. Each one has provocative implications for us in the business world.

Discovery Questions – The Right Questions Empower Your Team
by Cynder Niemela
I've noticed that the most successful leaders invariably ask the best questions. Their style of inquiry brings out the best in their team. The goal is not to correct, but to evoke clearer thinking and new solutions.

Team Effectiveness Coaching: An Innovative Approach for Supporting Teams in Complex Systems
by Steve Goldberg
The Team Effectiveness Coaching Service was created to assist Product Development Teams in enhancing their effectiveness through real time, practical, action learning that generates immediate and cumulative results.

Shared Leadership – In High Impact Teams Everyone is a Leader
by Cynder Niemela
Far from diminishing the leader's influence on the team, distributing responsibility highlights the leader's significance, while bringing out the best in others.

Rapid-fire Inspiration - Boundaries: Being Clear About the Role of the Coach
by Cynder Niemela
A team coach has a unique role on a team and it is distinct from the team leader's and the team members'. A coach whose boundaries become blurred runs the risk of diluting her power and therefore her ability to serve the team. In high impact teams, the coach's boundaries are crisply defined and immovable.

Coaching for Success
by Brian Ward
Coaching is a collaborative attempt to build the capacity of the person being coached. This always involves personal and organizational change, and helping the person being coached to manage the transition between old and new is the coach's primary role.

It's NOT Just a Good Idea - It's the Law!
by Stephanie Cirihal
Do you know people who always seem to get what they want? They are golden – almost everything goes right for them? To coin a phrase from the ads – “Maybe she’s born with it – maybe it’s Maybelline.” It is possible that they were born under a lucky star, but it is more likely that they are using their strong intentions to get what they want.

The Secret Weapon to Modifying Behavior
by Stephanie Cirihal
Have you ever tried to change someone else's behavior, or even your own, with no success? Are you evaluating the behavior from a cause and effect viewpoint?

Trained, but Chained
by Stephanie Cirihal
A survey in one corporate setting shows what is holding managers back in becoming better coaches to their employees. The managers themselves offer creative ideas for enhancing people development.

Changing, Learning, Coaching, Improving
by Rick Sidorowicz
A few 'take-aways' from Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Organization and Team Transformation and Coaching for High Performance with Dr. Peter Jensen and Jim Clemmer.

Executive Coaching Credentials Vary: Due Diligence is a Must
by Freda Turner
So many individuals call themselves a coach today that anyone interested in hiring a coach must be cautious. These tips will help in selecting a key business resource.

Business/Executive Coaching Is Emerging But All That Glitters is Not Gold!
by Freda Turner
Business coaching can be a valuable investment when contracting with professionals who have coach-specific training, experience and verifiable results.

Coaching Self Directed Action for Great Performance!
by Rick Sidorowicz
Focus individuals on great performance, transfer ownership to those who do the work,  coach the development of individual capability and competence, and learn faster.

Business Has a Management Bench-Strength Problem
by George Stiles
Increasingly, companies are turning to Executive Coaching as the solution to their management development woes.

Coaching To Prepare A Senior Executive For the "Top Job"
by Rink DeWitt and George Stiles
The prospective CEO needs a little ‘organization’ help to make a successful transition.

Coaching
by Rick Sidorowicz
I’m supposed to be a coach - but what am I supposed to do? Leadership is learning!

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