Self-Coaching Strategies and Tools
- Posted by Bill Bergquist
- On March 13, 2025
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The Coach Quad provides a wide range of professional coaching related resources that enable a prospective coaching client to identify the kind of coaching services that are most appropriate given the challenges they are now facing.
The Kind of Challenges Being Faced
An inventory is provided that enables one to assess the relative strength of six different (though related) challenges: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, turbulence and contradiction (VUCA-Plus)
The VUCA-Plus Environmental Inventory
The Kind of Available Professional Coaching Services
There are a wide variety of professional services that a potential client might engage to successfully meet their challenges. A document is provided that identifies, categorizes and briefly describes the major professional coaching strategies.
The Varieties of Professional Coaching
Ways to Coach Oneself Rather Than (Or in Addition to) Working with a Professional Coach
Many coach-based strategies and tools can be used to better inform one’s perspectives or improve one’s performance.
The Coach Quad pulls people together and is filled with coach-relate resources both for those providing professional coaching services and those seeking these services. The Coach Quad offers an inviting space and is a setting for collaboration.
Multiple and unique perspectives and practices are represented on this website.
The Organizational “House of Culture”
The Tin Man: Oiling His Armor and Healing His Heart
Treating the Tin Man: Reich and Feldenkrais
The Coach Quad is rich with insights that relates directly to the many different components of the field and profession of coaching.
Soliciting the Pre-Mortem and Riding the Change Curve
Philosophical Foundations of Coaching: Free or Pre-Determined?
The Coach Quad provides a wide range of professional coaching related resources that enable those providing professional coaching services to identify the type of challenges their current or prospective clients confront and the kind of professional coaching services they might provide to meet these challenges.
The Kind of Challenges that Coaching Clients Bring to Their Sessions
An inventory is provided that enables one to assess the relative strength of six different (though related) challenges: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, turbulence and contradiction (VUCA-Plus)
The VUCA-Plus Environmental Inventory
The Kind of Coaching Services that Can be Offered to Meet a Client’s Challenges
There are a wide variety of professional services that a potential client might engage to successfully meet their challenges. A document is provided that identifies, categorizes and briefly describes the major professional coaching strategies.
The Varieties of Professional Coaching
Quad Publications
Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching #1: Problem Solving and Decision-Making
Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching #2: Reframing
Coach-Related Publications
The Library of Professional Coaching
Professional Coaching Status
The two major domains in which professional coaches operate are: (1) personal/life coaching and (2) organizational/executive coaching. Following are links to two recent essays related to the current status of these two domains.
We offer several introductory essays that offer a brief overview of the many ways in this the domains of professional coaching and health care can effectively intersect.
We offer a series of essays regarding the important, but often elusive or controversial, intersect between professional coaching and spirituality.
Here is link to the introductory essay where links to the other essays can be found: