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I Need a Coach

Most of have counseled an employee at one time or another.  In the industrial workplace, a person being counseled or coached typically failed to meet expectations and received specific guidance on what needed to be improved.  Most employees wanted to … Continue reading

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The Uber Coach: The Mentor

Before concluding our discussion of coaching, I want to turn to the super coach or mentor.  So many successful people point to an older peer who took the time to mentor them during their career.  For many of us, there … Continue reading

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Coaching and the Fan: What Happens when Challenges Arise?

Coaching is big business no matter what industry we are talking about.  It seems that each year the compensation of sports coaches go up while the tolerance for losing goes down.  Compensation varies by sport and league, but most professional … Continue reading

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Successful Coaching: Controlling Chaos

Several years ago one of my children started playing organized sports again. She had played for a number of years when she was very young and enjoyed it until she encountered a coach that was demanding and relatively short on … Continue reading

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We All Need a Coach: The Coaching Revolution

Coaching has been a buzz word since the 1990s in almost every industry.  Coaching in its most simple form goes back to the earliest human settlements.  In order to perpetuate the community, older group members would teach younger members how … Continue reading

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