EBC Blog: Uncertain Times:  Coaching as a Way Through Guest Blogger:  Laurel A. Coleman, MA, MEd - https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurel-ann-coleman-b0b6aa5b/ We have a situation. These are uncertain times, unprecedented as a matter of fact. Across systems and geographies, there is a search for answers, options, and a way out of the demise created by the pandemic of 2020. Public, private, non-profit organizations, and individuals are seeking options to help allay the fears of the uncertainty. Could evidence based coaching be an option and, if so, how can it help? A Temperature Check Companies as well as communities are having to figure out how to [...]

Evidence Based Coaching (EBC) Thought Leaders Webinar:  Catching the Feeling: The Effects of Individual Emotion on Team Synergy Was held on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 4 – 5pm Pacific Watch the YouTube video at https://youtu.be/oIgh0IFrDm0 Speaker:  Claire Read, CCP, PhD, http://www.ProSocialDynamics.com As organizations move increasingly away from traditional hierarchy and adopt a team orientation, the function of teams is gaining importance at a very rapid rate. For example, the importance of team coaching has come to the forefront in organizational transformation and team coaches are highly sought. The emotional lives of teams, their shared social processes, affect how work gets done. [...]

Education’s New Frontier: A Call to Coaching Excellence Guest Bloggers:  Kathy Norwood, EdD, PCC and Mary Ann Burke, PhD, EdD, MFT For the past two decades we have devoted our research and work to the goal of bridging professional coaching with educational coaching.  Executive and business coaching is widely respected and well-funded. Companies hire the best of the best, most often credentialed coaches, to develop the potential of promising employees. They know that skillful coaching can significantly improve the company’s bottom line. Compared to corporate coaching, educational coaching is still in its infancy in many ways. Current coaching practices are more [...]

[yotuwp type="videos" id="64RKc78h5KY" ] EBC Blog:  Searching for Soul and Finding Self Guest Blogger: Ann L. Clancy, PhD. The Appreciative Coaching approach rests on a key premise: begin where the client is. However, practitioners can only begin where the client is by also discovering where they begin with their own thoughts, beliefs and experience. Early in our careers as coaches, we found a disconnect between what we were actually experiencing with our clients and some of the traditional theories and approaches to change, especially those focused on the problem-solving model and Newtonian mechanistic assumptions about human capacity. Knowing the practitioners’ role to [...]

How to shift your intention and attention By Shirley Engelmeier & Terry Hildebrandt, PhD, MCC, MCEC In a business environment that is increasingly competitive – both in terms of attracting customers and employees – companies are continually looking for a silver bullet to help them consistently attract and retain top talent and lifelong customers. And yet even top companies continue to struggle, some to fall out of sight entirely. Why? While there’s no silver bullet, based on our 18 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies of all types, we believe that there is one common trait found among those [...]

EBC Blog:  Innovations in Leadership Coaching: Research and Practice Guest Blogger:  Francine Campone, EdD, MCC, Principal at F. Campone Coaching & Consulting, francinecampone.com Innovations in Leadership Coaching: Research and Practice offers a multi-disciplinary, scholarly, and post-modern perspective on coaching in the twenty-first century. In this volume, scholar-practitioners present innovative theories, models, and practices in coaching which are aligned with a new generation of coaching that is relational, experiential, reflexive, and dynamic. The chapters in this monograph examine the people and events taking place in a time and place which is characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.  Using evidence from theory [...]

EBC Blog:  Coaching Managers to Lead Virtual Teams and Remote Employees during the COVID-19 Crisis [sharethis-inline-buttons] Guest Blogger: Shari Bowles Gibbons, MBA, MCEC, ACC, Managing Partner at Anderson Lane & Associates, https://www.andersonlaneandassociates.com/about “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” – Betty Davis, All About Eve The COVID-19 pandemic’s short-term and long-term impact on our lives, businesses, and global economy has yet to completely reveal itself. What we do know, is that everyone’s work lives have immediately been impacted, with a good percentage of them suddenly working remotely from home. Under the best of circumstances, working remotely isn’t [...]

Evidence Based Coaching (EBC) Professional Series Webinar:  LinkedIn 2020: What You Need to Know for Your Brand, Your Business, and Your Network. Saturday, April 18, 2020, 9:00am – 10am Pacific Speaker:  Howard Fox, MA, ACC, President of Fox Coaching, Inc. and Producer and Host of the Success InSight Podcast Host:  Terry H. Hildebrandt, PhD, MCC, MCEC – Director of Evidence Based Coaching, Fielding Graduate University LinkedIn is the most essential business-focused global social networking site for you to showcase your brand and find and network with your ideal client. Whatever your niche in coaching, whether you an internal coach, an external [...]

Evidence Based Coaching (EBC) Thought Leaders Webinar:  Non-financial Adjustments in the Retirement Transition Was held on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 4 – 5pm Pacific Watch now on YouTube on https://youtu.be/yJfn4vcTxcU. Speaker:  Pauline Johnson-Zielonka, PhD, Founder of Retirement Life Plan, www.RetirementLifePlan.com Host:  Terry H. Hildebrandt, PhD, MCC, MCEC – Director of Evidence Based Coaching, Fielding Graduate University An estimated 10,000 people are reaching retirement age every day in the US. While it is a positive transition for many, several studies suggest that as many as 1 in 3 individuals struggle with retirement. Pauline’s research focuses on the social and psychological adjustments that [...]