Coaching at a VUCA-Plus Intersection

As a professional coach, we are often in the business of assisting the person or team of people we are coaching in their processing of information. Living and working in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, turbulent and contradictory (VUCA-Plus), it is quite understandable that our coaching clients might want a helping hand […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On May 12, 2025
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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. A specific branch of professional coaching has been identified as “decisional coaching.” This branch exists alongside of what Bergquist and Mura identify as behavioral coaching […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On December 18, 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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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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