The Coaching Tool Box:12 Steps to Emotionally Intelligent Healthcare

Patients’ emotions influence their quality and value ratings as well as what they tell their friends. High-emotion healthcare includes services related to major life events, some of which are at the top of the Holmes and Rahe scale of stressful life events that can contribute to illness. Fine-tuning the way healthcare services are delivered can make a big difference […]

Posted by Margaret Cary
On August 24, 2018
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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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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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Interpersonal Needs and Coaching Questions

A set of coaching questions are presented that focus on the needs manifest by the men and women who come to us as clients, seeking to better understand and hopefully improve the interpersonal challenges they face in their organizations

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On October 14, 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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Life Shields: A Coaching Tool

Variations of this tool have been available for many years—ever since the concept of life planning was first introduced into organizational consulting work. It remains one of the most useful tools that can be used by a professional coach who is working with her client in the exploration and clarification of life and career values […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 20, 2011
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Managing the Stress

How might a coach assist her client in identifying and even seeking to avoid or reduce the impact of these stress ruts? Five tactics and four coaching strategies are suggested.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 15, 2011
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