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Coaching to Problems Being Faced and Decisions to be Made

Many of the services being provided by professional coaches (especially executive coaches) focus on the problems being faced by a client and/or on the decisions that a client must make. Along with my colleague, Agnes Mura, I have even identified a specific branch of professional coaching as “decisional coaching.” This branch exists alongside of what […]
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On May 13, 2024
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Problem-Solving: Domains, Causes and Actions

Many of the challenges associated with solving complex issues by a leader and their coach can best be met by acknowledging that there are three domains that dwell within all issues.
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On May 13, 2024
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The Empowerment Pyramid: Building the Capacity for Effective Decision-Making

We have to make a decision. All of the relevant documents are laying on the table in front of us. We have spent several, often-tense, hours trying to get the facts straight and trying to get some alignment regarding our goals and desired outcomes regarding the initiative that sits on the table with the relevant […]
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On May 12, 2024
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Reframing as an Essential Coaching Strategy and Tool

Mendelsohn was walking down a street in Prague. It was 1936. Mendelsohn is Jewish and is accustomed to abuse being showered on him by the many bigots in his city. He confronts a large man who sneers at him and declares: “Swine!” Mendelsohn responds by bowing and stating: “It is an honor to meet you […]
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On May 10, 2024
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Spirituality and Coaching

Until recently there were two “third rails” in the field of professional coaching. These were topics that were never to be addressed during a coaching session—nor mentioned in any dialogue among coaches about the struggles they are having in their work. One of these “third rail” themes is money and finances. This is still a […]
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On November 11, 2023
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A Secularist’s Perspective on Spirituality

I consider my secular status--yet strong interest in spirituality--from three perspectives and relate each perspective to the matter of spirituality and coaching.
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On November 9, 2023
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Book Shelf: Spiritual Evolution

  Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith by George Vaillant 2008, New York: Broadway Books [Review prepared by William Bergquist)   At the start of the 21st Century, two leaders in the field of psychology (Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) proposed that this new century should be one in which the more “positive” aspects […]
  • Posted by William Bergquist
  • On November 9, 2023
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