Launching New Twitter Chat Stream for Coaches #coachchat

Connecting coaching and social media, announcing launch of weekly Twitter #coachchat discussion Regular Twitter users will be aware that several Twitter hashtag chat streams have sprung up, including notably #blogchat about blogging of course, #journchat for journalists and self-explanatory #SmallBizChat. I floated with a few coaches the idea of a #coachchat and have a couple…

Pro Bono Executive Coaching for Nonprofits: The Coach Initiative

The Coach Initiative provides pro bono executive coaching for nonprofit organizations and not-for-profit causes Are you involved with a nonprofit organization or not-for-profit project? Can you see a way in which your organization or project might be helped by some pro bono professional executive coaching, perhaps for a chief executive or administrator? Then this post…

Julia Stewart, Coach and Trainer of Masterful Coaches

Julia Stewart, President, School of Coaching Mastery, Guest on Des Walsh & Friends Show Last week, on my Des Walsh & Friends show on BlogTalkRadio, I had the great pleasure of catching up with an esteemed coaching colleague, Julia Stewart. Julia is a coach, coach trainer, and seminar leader, who uses her creativity and humor…

The Coaching Commons Unleashing Untapped Capacity

I confess to having only just now really focused on the extraordinary development, in just under twelve months, of the Coaching Commons site. The Coaching Commons describes itself as “a non-partisan ‘big tent’ under which coaches can freely create the future together in a non-commercial setting on the world-wide-web”. Writing on the site, philanthropist Ruth…

New Practical Business Program for Coaches

With economies everywhere under challenge, businesses of all kinds are also under challenge to refine and improve what they do and how they do it. Professional coaching businesses are no exception. In fact, there is a good chance that some coaching practices will be suffering a “knock on” effect and seeing their business flow slowing,…