The Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching #1: Problem Solving and Decision-Making

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 Bill Bergquist
On December 18, 2024
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Living and Leading in Professional Coaching: A Tribute to John Lazar

We have titled this issue “Living and Leading in Professional Coaching” because John Lazar provided many forms of coaching over more than forty years and often served in a leadership role in coach-related organizations and associations.

Posted by William Bergquist
On August 5, 2024
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Some Memories of Our Friend, John Lazar

The speaker had a dark beard, a big smile, and an easy manner, making his subject of “evaluation in coaching” both approachable and interesting, as they so often would in later years. His name was John Lazar and his talk on coaching and evaluation was one of my introductions to professional coaching. More than 20 […]

Posted by Bill Carrier
On August 3, 2024
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The VUCA-Plus Challenge of COVID-Related Expertise: Dancing on a Moving and Warped Plane

The leaders operating in 21st Century societies often must deal with major challenges associated with the anxiety experienced by members of their society. This anxiety can be induced in many ways—and there are multiple sources of societal anxiety. We often seem to be stranded on a boat that is caught up in the “perfect storm” […]

Posted by William Bergquist
On October 19, 2021
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Enriching the Dialogue: The MAPS of Coaching

A timely analogy, metaphor, parable or simile can be introduced in a coaching session that makes a reformed reality that much more a source of insight, inspiration, guidance and enactment.

Posted by William Bergquist
On March 29, 2021
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The Interdisciplinarity of Professional Coaching: A Whole Person Globalized Imperative

Coaching the whole person requires a “whole coach.” Interdisciplinarity is required—this is part of the job description for a professional coach.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On November 21, 2019
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West Point: Teaching Leadership Through Interdisciplinary Education

n service of further considering the idea of coaching as a multidisciplinary profession, here are some reflections on the components of the courses at West Point that built different perspectives and abilities in my work as a coach.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On November 20, 2019
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Develop a Coaching Culture

With a coaching approach, we stay curious and calm, ask questions and actively listen.

Posted by Margaret Cary
On March 2, 2018
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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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Coaching Questions: Encouraging Divergent (“If”) Thinking

A series of “If” questions are presented that encourage a coaching client to expand their horizon and move in new directions with regard to both their thinking and their actions.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On November 1, 2011
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