All entries in Making a Difference
By Ellen Neiley Ritter, Ph.D., BCC
Nine months ago, Pat Williams and I received emails from an inmate in a federal prison who was reading Becoming A Professional Life Coach and wanted to bring coaching to the prisons. Since ILCT's mission is to not only provide the best coach training to
By: Kimberly Gleason
Does the knowledge of coaching translate to the doing of coaching in the workplace? Not necessarily. And sadly, not often. Last month I talked about research studies showing that knowledge in coaching skills and processes typically doesn’t lead to managers and other
By: Kimberly Gleason
Many organizations hire coaches to work with their leaders. They want their leaders to be motivated, results-oriented, productive, and successful. In fact, they want their leaders trained in how to coach their team members. However, coaching individual leaders (or
By: Kimberly Gleason
I’m betting you’re no different than my kid.
“Why do I have to clean the living room?” she whines.
I roll my eyes, making a grand sweeping gesture toward the chaos—books littered across the floor, legos crammed in the sides of the couch, a nice splat on the carpet
By: Pam Bradley, Ed.D
As a school principal, my job is to grow my staff members, not just teach students. After being assigned to a middle school which was placed on the “naughty list” requiring specific school improvement, I realized the first thing I had to do was develop the potential
By: Patrick Williams, EdD, MCC
The universe of those who study leadership and coaching contain virtually limitless points of light published as an answer to this question. Many experts proclaim that leadership is solely an issue of inner conviction. In other words, you must find the
“Human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.”
Malcolm Gladwell
John Maxwell and Bill Hybels defined leadership with a single simple sentence. “Leadership is Influence.” Any time you or I influence a friend, spouse, children, or co-workers in
