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FEATURE ARTICLE
Creating a COACHING CULTURE - today's most potent organizational change process for creating a "high-performance" culture
By Tom Crane
Coaching Cultures are the future of organizational effectiveness. They represent the accumulation of the advances in organizational effectiveness theory over the last several decades, representing the best practices of organizational change, Executive Coaching, leadership development, team effectiveness, and many other performance enhancing practices such as Emotional Intelligence. Complete Article
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FROM THE WABC PRESIDENT/CEO
What the World Needs Now... (Part 1 of 4)
By Wendy Johnson
"What the world needs now...," a familiar line to a popular song written during the cultural unrest of the 1960s, is the theme of my 2005 President's message. To me, I believe, what the world needs now is ... business coaching. Yes, a bit less poetic than "... love sweet love." But read on... Complete Article |
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COLUMN
The ROI of Business Coaching
By Jack Phillips
As business coaching expenditures increase, clients and executives require increased accountability. Collectively they're asking about the return on investment. Get ahead of the accountability curve! Learn about the four phases of measuring the ROI in business coaching.
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Beyond Business Basics
By Sylva Leduc
Do you use the right tools and technologies for managing, marketing and growing your coaching business? Sylva Leduc, the President of Client Compass software, shares her knowledge and best practices. In this issue, she discusses the "must haves" for running an effective coaching business.
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Assessment Corner
By Roberta Hill
Read why author Roberta Hill, a Mentor and Leadership Coach, confesses to us why she personally is averse to asking for or receiving most feedback. She illustrates how assessments, when used correctly, can be one useful vehicle to providing potentially neutral data and feedback.
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MOVERS AND SHAKERS
An Interview with Kaoru Hosokawa
By Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson, president and CEO of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, discusses business coaching with well-known Japanese business coach Kaoru Hosokawa, president and CEO of Coach-f Co., Ltd.
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SUCCESS STORY
A&S BMW Motorcycles
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Gary B. Henson
Randy Felice, owner of the largest BMW Motorcycle dealership in the world, was struggling with leadership and strategic direction for the business. He turned to Gary Henson, president of BusinessCoach.com, and together they transformed the way A&S BMW serves its customers and employees.
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GET THE EDGE
Blogging For Your Business
By Les Brown
Have you been wondering how to keep in touch with your network? Although "blogging" is not for everyone, it can be a way to quickly deliver value to clients, prospects and colleagues and create a discussion on topics of interest.
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| Coming In Our Next Issue! Feature: Philippe Rosinski, author of Coaching Across Cultures and founder of Rosinski & Company, discusses the need for leveraging cultural diversity in business today. Learn more about Phil at
http://www.philrosinski.com.
Letters to the Editor: Any insights, experiences, or feedback connected to our Premier Issue? Let us know at BCW Editor, and we may include your letter.
Hot Topics: What are business coaches and business leaders thinking about? What are the burning questions and issues?
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| FROM THE EDITOR |
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Normally you'd see just one person represented in this section, but that wouldn't capture the teamwork that it takes to put together a publication like this, especially the Premier Issue. It's been a challenge putting together content that will serve not only the business coaches that our publication will reach, but our clients and business leaders worldwide. The biggest questions on my mind as an editor have
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| DID YOU KNOW? |
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That how your clients' customers (internal or external) feel about them is actually more important than their performance? According to the Gallup organization, determining whether a customer is...
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| HIRING A BUSINESS COACH? |
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One of the first things that people often want to know about business coaching is: "Why work with a business coach? What can a business coach do for me?" Your business coach acts as a...
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| WABC COACHES IN THE NEWS! |
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Want to know what some of our WABC Coaches are up to? Read on!
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| UPCOMING WABC EVENTS, EDUCATION & TRAINING |
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Find out about our WABC Round Tables and Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) Designation Program.
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| WABC'S STRATEGIC ALLIANCES |
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