Life as Lottery: Regret
What about the men and women we coach? What role does regret, the avoidance of regret, and post-regret decisions and actions play in their lives and work?
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On September 12, 2017
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Coaching to the Head Winds and Tail Winds
An insightful metaphor regarding the extent to which we focus on the tail winds that move us forward toward desired goals and the head winds that push against us and slow down or hinder our accomplishment of desired goals.
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On June 26, 2017
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The Terrain of Organizational and Executive Coaching
In the eighth issue of this digital magazine we focused on Personal and Life Coaching – the one-on-one coaching that so clearly defined the field during its earliest years (in the 1970s and 1980s) and that still is the major player in the arena of professional coaching. In this issue, we turn to a parallel […]
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On January 27, 2017
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Psychological Contract or Covenant: The Coaching Challenges
I summarize Schein’s concept of psychological contract, relate it to workplace motivation, and introduce psychological covenant as an even deeper aspect of a client’s lingering concern about the worth assigned to her work and the way in which she justifies her commitment to long hours of labor in her organization.
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On July 1, 2016
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A Developmental Perspective in Coaching
The author and other members of the Hudson Institute are able to appreciate the diversity and richness of multidimensional roots and the value of a broad pool of theoretical orientations informing this burgeoning field of coaching
- Posted by Pamela McLean
- On June 24, 2016
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The Terrain of Personal and Life Coaching
This is the first of two connected issues on coaching. We have written about the “terrain” of coaching and the various charted and uncharted parts of our profession, encouraging continued exploration and explanation of the whole and the pieces (like effective contracting, establishing trust, methods and perspectives, how to measure outcomes or starting points). There’s […]
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On June 23, 2016
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Ten Trends in Personal/Life Coaching
Rather than reflecting on where the state of personal and life coaching are right now, we are looking at trending that has been done over the past five years and projecting these trends forward.
- Posted by David Skibbins
- On June 9, 2016
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Staying Alive In Complex Challenges Of Leadership And Organizations
Organizations, human systems are complex. Each part impacts others; all parts are in equilibrium with each other, and each and every one is impacted when you intervene in one.
- Posted by Dost Can Deniz
- On May 9, 2016
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Coaching and the Sociology of Knowledge
This issue of The Future of Coaching focuses on a somewhat elusive but critical theme operating in our world: the institutionalization of knowledge. Building on concepts coming from the sub-discipline called “the sociology of knowledge”, our theme this quarter concerns ways in which knowledge is framed in the various societies in our contemporary coaching world […]
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On April 6, 2016
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The Book Shelf: Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge
Do we, in some way, become part of the reinforcing "group" for the powerful and influential leaders with whom we work? How do we remain "objective" in our perspectives regarding the world of our clients?
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On March 11, 2016
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