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The average professional in corporate America spends at least 45 hours a week at work, often more. That’s a huge chunk of waking time to be “living” at the office. It’s no surprise to see office walls and shelves brimming with personal artifacts: an award from an industry association, knick-knacks from last year’s conference, and [...]

Coaching is a process of conversations that help people leverage their own potential and unpack all the information they can use to meet a challenge. The process helps them: articulate a clear goal, identify options for action, and follow through to an improved outcome. IDEO, a Palo Alto-based industrial design firm known for its trademarked [...]

Robert C. Gallagher, businessman and former director of the Green Bay Packers, was right when he made this quip about change being unavoidable. In the face of the inevitable, we need to confront change and embrace it to make it work to our advantage. This is where the rubber meets the road. In business, coaching [...]

Coaching happens in the moment, and being present is critical to being effective. Managers who use coaching methods in working with their people understand the importance of fixing their concentration on the other person/coachee. Being present—working in the here and now—means getting rid of both external and internal interference. Ringing phones, unexpected intruders, clouds floating [...]

Spread the word…coaching! Even though business and career coaching have received lots of recent attention in the press and in the workplace, many business professionals are still unaware of how it works. As a consequence, coaching isn’t always factored as a potential response to meeting business challenges, even though it can have huge impact for [...]