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Challenges

If you can’t see what’s missing you get stuck with it

by Charles E Smith, PhD
“Coachability” is the willingness to be coached, to listen, to respect instruction and act on it.   Coaching — another set of eyes — lets you see what’s missing, which, if you act on it, could make a big difference.
These days, a lot of people know that coaching is a good idea.  [...]

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Coaching Agenda Debate

Let’s weigh in on a great coaching agenda debate…whose agenda is it anyway?  Below is the write-up from the Coaching-At-Work e-newsletter out of the UK, which does a great job of introducing the issue.  What are your thoughts?  Make sure you are logged in to be able to have a comment box to reply.
“Should we [...]

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How Do You Hire A Coach of Excellence?

Leading Coaches Sheila Maher and Suzi Pomerantz have been brainstorming about what advice we’d give to those executives in organizations who have the job of hiring executive coaches.  We’ve put together a rating scale and we’d love your feedback and input, from your own experience, about the hiring of “individual coaches of excellence”, whether they [...]

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Workplace Survivors: In Their Own Voice

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My colleague and friend, Jeremy Nash, wrote a powerful paper on the first-hand reactions of those who have survived workplace cut-backs in light of the recent economic influences. Jeremy  has been researching workplace survivors, interviewed them, and wrote the attached paper.
I think it’s an important contribution to the articles I’ve seen out there.
As a reader, [...]

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