Collaborating for Survival and Success: Organizational Coaching Strategies to Meet Unique Opportunities and Challenges

Organizational boundaries as we knew them in the 20th Century are becoming sources of “troubling ambiguity.” Boundaries that once steadfastly defined economies, societies, industries, companies, and employees are being redrawn, reconceived and redesigned.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On September 15, 2011
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Organizational Coaching and Professional Development: A Valuable Partnership

Training and education have become prominent features in the professional development curricula of many contemporary organizations. In this essay, I briefly identify several of the reasons for this growing interest. I then suggest ways in which training and education are enhanced by several complimentary coaching activities. I identify the nature of and reasons for shifting […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On September 8, 2011
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Coaching in Organizations: A Status Report (Past, Present and Future)

The field of professional coaching has matured during the past decade. Now seems to be an appropriate time to offer a status report concerning the past, present and future of this emerging human service endeavor.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On September 7, 2011
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Managing Life Transitions: A Coaching Tool

We have provided an inventory, a series of coaching questions and some concepts that can be of use when a coach is assisting his/her client in reflecting on past transitions, as well as preparing for future transitions.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 29, 2011
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The Pragmatics of Magic: The Work of Gestalt Coaching

The Gestalt coaching encounter offers a safe arena where vulnerability, strong emotions, and failure can play themselves out in the service of learning and growth.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 29, 2011
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Managing the Caffeine: A Coaching Tool

At 350 mg per day of caffeine, one’s coaching client is likely to experience a diminished capacity to focus on a specific issue for a sustained period of time—the kind of concentration that is needed during a coaching session.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 27, 2011
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The Tale of Three Organizational Cultures, Structures and Processes

How do we lead, consult and coach with in widely differing settings in which organizational culture varies and organizational structures and processes vary so widely?

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 26, 2011
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The Don Quixote Project: New Perspectives on Functional and Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Leaders

Functional organizations are not places of the body and mind. They are places of spirit and soul. There is no such thing as a “secular” organization—for all contemporary models of organizational life are deeply embedded to the framework of ancient religious practices and have been nurtured in the soil of communal life and traditional societies. […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 26, 2011
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Assessment Instruments to be Used in Conjunction with Professional Coaching: A Resource List

The instruments in this document have been presented to illustrate the broad range of resources that are available for instrument-based coaching and to point to several places where an organizational coach might turn when building a library of appropriate instruments for use as a professional coach.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 25, 2011
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Coaching and Neuroscience Research Findings

A series of "animation" questions are posed concern the implications of neuroscience research for the professional of coaching.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 22, 2011
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