I’m experimenting with some appointment scheduling software for my coaching services and I’ve discovered there is no shortage of contenders. The background is that, for all the years I’ve been coaching, I’ve offered people a no-obligation, complimentary consultation, so they could make an informed judgement about whether my coaching looked right for them. And for…
Coaches and trainers need to recognize that not everyone will respond positively to the prospect of change and some will resist. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is a well worn phrase. And useful in its place. But there are times when, even though something might not be broken, it might have passed its…
One of the most creative people I know, Steve Dalton (@spidie on Twitter), interviewed me recently for Coding by Numbers, a podcast site “by developers for developers”, produced by Steve and his colleague Craig Aspinall (@aspinall) . The site is also described on its Twitter page as a “Geek podcast” . We talked mainly about…
Connecting coaching and social media, announcing launch of weekly Twitter #coachchat discussion Regular Twitter users will be aware that several Twitter hashtag chat streams have sprung up, including notably #blogchat about blogging of course, #journchat for journalists and self-explanatory #SmallBizChat. I floated with a few coaches the idea of a #coachchat and have a couple…
The Coach Initiative provides pro bono executive coaching for nonprofit organizations and not-for-profit causes Are you involved with a nonprofit organization or not-for-profit project? Can you see a way in which your organization or project might be helped by some pro bono professional executive coaching, perhaps for a chief executive or administrator? Then this post…
Dave Buck, coaching maven and Coachville CEO, who is also a soccer coach, has a gift for applying insights and approaches from coaching games in the sporting arena to other areas such as life or business coaching. I admit that there was a time when I thought the idea of applying the principles of coaching…