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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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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Poised on the Edge of Order and Chaos

What might we learn from postmodern theorists, observers and critics as well as contemporary physicists and biologists about the nature of change as it is now occurring in 21st Century societies?

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 19, 2011
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Organizational Coaching Programs

In this essay I identify and review a series of appreciative concepts and tools that can open opportunities and reduce threat by making the evaluative process clearer and more supportive when reviewing an organizational coaching program. I will also identify feedback strategies that enable the program evaluation process to be constructive. Effective program evaluation is […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 15, 2011
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Intentional Analysis: A Comprehensive and Appreciative Model for the Evaluation of Organizational Coaching Programs

I propose that evaluations of coaching programs conducted in organizational settings can best be systematically conducted by deploying a process called Intentional Analysis. I further recommend a twelve-step process that enables the leaders and stakeholders of an organization to be thoughtful about the relative importance associated with specific organizational coaching program initiatives—especially as related to other initiatives […]

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On August 15, 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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