On this Website, We Introduce Our Readers
To The Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching

The Coaching Quad:
Facing a Complex, Unpredictable and Turbulent World

Sharing Perspectives and Practices to engage
Unique 21st Century Professional Coaching Challenges Professional Coaching Resources

The Coach Quad: Critical Thinking in a Shifting World

A Digital Space that Provides A Forum for Open Exchange of Ideas Information about Quad Members

Spirituality and Coaching: An Interweaving

Professional Coaching Resources

Library of Professional Coaching

New Perspectives at the Cutting Edge to
Guide Professional Coaching Professional Coaching Resources

The Coaching Quad

Sharing, Appreciating and Engaging Diverse
Coaching Perspectives. Professional Coaching Resources The Coach Quad Coach-Related Education, Training
Publications and Support Professional Coaching Resources Library of Professional Psychology Providing Diverse Perspectives and Practices
At the Cutting Edge of Knowledge Click to obtain information about LPC and Other Quad Members Professional Coaching: A Global Enterprise Find out more about TASE and Other Quad Members The Coach Quad: A Marketplace
Of Ideas Professional Coaching Resources The SOAR Community Network LInk with SOAR Network and Other Quad Members The Coach Quad:
A Way Through the Coaching World Click to find resources helping this journey through the maze Ash Point Publishing:
Disseminating Cutting-Edge Knowledge Link to this and other source of coaching knowledge Click to find out about our collaborating members The Coach Quad:
Promoting Growth and Collaboration New Layer The Adler Graduate Institution:
ICF Certified Coach Training
 Link to information about Adler and Other Quad Members The Quad: A Window To and From
The World of Professional Coaching Click to List of and Links to All Quad Members

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO USE PROESSIONAL COACHING SERVICES

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.

Self-Coaching Strategies and Tools

Managing Life Transitions

Being an Entrepreneur: Multiple Types and Needs

THE COACHING QUAD: A SPECIAL SPACE

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 Foundations of Professional Coaching

The Cutting Edge of Professional Coaching

The Coach Quad is also a setting for the appreciation and honoring of those who have contributed in a significant way to the field of professional coaching.  Over the past decade, awards and commemorations have been an important part of the spirit and commitment of those involved in the Quad.

Honoring Stewards of the Professional Coaching Community

FOR THOSE WHO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL COACHING SERVICES

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

The Library of Professional Psychology

choice Magazine

Ash Point Publishing

PROFESSIONAL COACHING: STATUS AND DIRECTIONS

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.

Status of Personal/Life Coaching

Status of Organizational/Executive Coaching

EMERGING DOMAINS OF PROFESSIONAL COACHING

Professional Coaching in the Domain of Health Care

We offer a brief overview of the many ways in which the domains of professional coaching and health care can effectively intersect. Links are provided in this introductory essay to other Coach Quad essays on health-oriented coaching.

Health-Oriented Coaching and Wellness

Professional Coaching in the Domain of Spirituality

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:

Spirituality and Coaching

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Honoring of Those Serving the Professional Coaching Community

Over the past decade, two honors have been awarded those who have served as stewards in the field of professional coaching and those who have contributed in a significant way to the growth and development of other human service fields as well as the field of professional coaching. Those who have stewarded the field of […]

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Library of Professional Psychology

Library of Professional Coaching