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Be A Voice is a special team at the Leading Coaches’ Center. It’s a team we hope you and all members will join. This is where, collectively, we can shape our vision for the coaching profession; distinguish business-oriented coaching from “life coaching”; articulate the values, ethics and aspirations that will guide us as our industry grows; and raise the status of coaching in the business world and those who influence its leaders.

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  • Avatar Image On July 23, 2010 Joyce Odidison said:

    Well hello everyone, how wonderful to be invited to be a voice. Suzie I love this section. As coaches we often work with clients to find their voices and its a nice reminder for ourselves to be a voice. Speaking of clients finding their voices, it is very aparent that in the corporated world many clients belive that to achieve success and move up the ladder they need to be quiet and tow the line. They do this even when it is detrimental to their health. In my session with a young manager today she informed me that she really couldn’t use her voice at work and she found herself either freezing up or chain smoking to deal with the stress this is causing her. She goes from needing very few if any cigarettes at home to a chain smoker at work. I look forward to helping her find her voice and using it appropriately to increase her own success and to create a better work team with her staff.

  • Avatar Image On June 14, 2010 Suzi Pomerantz, Community Instigator & Resident Networking Maven said:

    Thank you, Susan! You know, I WAS seeing a lot of what you describe, but just in the last month it seems the recession is over and the floodgates have opened once again! One residual side effect, though, is that it seems to be taking clients longer than ever to pay their bills. Are you noticing that as well?

  • Avatar Image On June 11, 2010 Susan Symington said:

    Hello folks–just joined the team. Suzi is my model when it comes to networking! Hope to have something to contribute to the conversation. Right now what I’m noticing in my coaching business is that fear is getting in the way of executives making decisions–the economy might not even be affecting their business that much, but there is an atmosphere that seems to depress risk-taking. To some extent, this is showing up in companies’ and government agencies’ willingness to hire coaches, as well. Anyone else seeing this?

  • Avatar Image On May 9, 2010 Tony Mayo said:

    I agree with Priscilla. This is a perennial problem. I wrote about it here: http://tr.im/blindspot

  • Avatar Image On May 8, 2010 Priscilla Nelson said:

    The biggest challenge I see for some of the leaders I coach is letting go. It’s so hard to stop making decisions that others have been hired to make. When a leader is very good at what he/she does then it’s often hard for the team to want to ”step up”. They wonder if they could ever measure up to expectations. Consequently the leader ends up doing more because he/she has not clearly empowered the leaders to stretch into new roles and responsibilities.