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The Benefits of Coaching as posted in the CCCBI "Voice"

With the economy continuing on its bumpy ride, and right-sizing initiatives becoming standard, the case for professional coaching has never been stronger. Just as a sports coach inspires athletes to greatness, a skilled coach can support an individual, a team of individuals or an organization in the attainment of their personal or professional goals.

So what exactly is coaching? Let me paraphrase the International Coaching Federation (ICF) definition.
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7/13/2010 11:22 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
How to Start a Movement - Lives On and On
As many of you do, I belong to several groups in the social networking sites. Through one of them, this link was shared with me. But even before that, I became aware of TED through two different sources.

Fritz Petree is a fellow ChangeWorker who was directing me on some of the upgrades in our software managment system in early 2009.   During our delightful conversation, we side-tracked and he gave me some great website links - TED being one of them.

Later that year, while I was ...
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7/6/2010 4:20 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Ever Consistent Change: A Leader's Friend or Foe?

When the concept of change is broached by any individual, they are forced to embrace the notion that things will be different. How different they become can provide needed relief to individuals and organizations or it can, as it often has, wreak havoc.

Thus it is that we face change every day in our lives. Some choices that are made will withstand transitions; other choices that are made will maintain familiarity. It is the nature by which we ...
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7/6/2010 3:48 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
No Excuses for High Expectations
With time, women gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out to the rest of our bodies. So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured,educated and happy.
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6/4/2010 10:22 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Becoming Engaged
How long do we have? How long do we have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is always temporary
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3/10/2010 10:24 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Why and How I Use LinkedIn
Using any of the social networking tools can be overwhelming. Initial questions come to mind: What am I doing here? How come people say this is so great? What's so great about it? There are so many people here - how do I get their attention? Who is an expert? How have they achieved that status?
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1/1/2010 8:43 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Becoming More Productive through Online Collaboration
No one seems to have enough time to get things done. Goals, programs, products, services, customers, relationship farming, tending the herd, goals and family. Every minute of every day brings new demands on what little time we have to pay attention to them.
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10/15/2009 3:50 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
How do you accommodate your solitary fantasy?
What does it look like? What does it taste like? Sound like? Feel like? Do you focus on your dream where everything falls into order and you
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10/15/2009 3:44 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
On Tasting Adversity
The taste of adversity to some is an unwelcome taste. It is viewed as bitter, harsh, distressful or just plain stressful.
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6/11/2009 12:55 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Genuine Listening
Genuine listening comprises an intricate balance of art and skill. It is learned. It does not come naturally.
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5/8/2009 10:08 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
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