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    Power Tool: Staying Stuck in UAC’s vs Working Through UAC’s

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    By: Nicki McClusky

    Life Coach, USA

    As we know, coaching is all about change, growth, desired life design, building prospering businesses and creating joyful, spirit-filled lives. Sometimes we work with ease (or effort) to shift mindsets in order to live our life purpose(s), live from our values, and let our spirits soar. However, none of this is possible if we continually experience forces within that render us unable to manifest the change we say we want. Sometimes we cannot understand why we produce results in our lives that we say we absolutely do not want yet seem powerless to change. We, of course, are far from powerless. And yet we need the beacon or lighthouse of awareness to shine fully and illuminate that which trips us up. We open ourselves to inner inquiry, devoted to finding and seeing whatever it is that produces results we do not want and keeps us stuck. The place to look is within. That which we accept automatically and unconsciously will become a habitually acted-out commitment. Especially when we accept that which may be untrue (or may not have to be), we’re probably functioning in an area that needs both truth and light for accurate seeing. With clarity comes the possibility of profound change.
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    Research Paper: Relevance of Harrison Assessments in Executive Coaching

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    By: R. Satish Chandra

    Executive Coach, INDIA

    Introduction  Executive coaching is designed to help facilitate professional and personal development to the point of individual growth and improved performance. Coaches need to have a strong understanding of individual differences in a work place as well as the ability to adapt their coaching style or strategies.
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    Coaching Model: 7-step CONNECT

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    By: Darren Chong

    Intercultural Coach, POLAND

    Coaching is a relatively new field and many clients have no knowledge about coaching. By explaining to a client what coaching is all about and my qualification as an accredited coach by International Coach Federation (ICF) helps to convince a client the skill I posses to be an effective coach and how the concept of coaching operates within a professional framework.
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    Power Tool: Compassion Vs. Judgment

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    By:  Erick Albarracin

    Coaches employ power tools to empower clients with their personal transformation to achieve change. A power tool entails the presentation and explanation of two opposite perspectives within the coaching process. The presentation and explanation of one perspective increases the client’s keenness to pursue change while the second perspective decreases the client’s willingness to achieve change. Examples of coaching power tools are lightness versus significance, clarity versus obscurity, trust versus doubt, commitment versus trying, action versus delay, and respect versus invalidation. However, the focus of this power tool is compassion versus judgment.
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    Power Tool: Flexibility Vs. Rigidity

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    By: Jeanne A. Heinzer

    Career and Executive Coaching, SWITZERLAND

    ‘Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.” Anthony Lawlor ‘Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.’ Zig Ziglar Rigidity is one of the things that can easily get in the way of our personal and professional success. When and why do we cultivate that attitude?
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    Power Tool: Looking Inward Vs. Outward

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    By: Aurora Heinemann

    Yoga and Wellness/Pet Loss, UNITED STATES

    Many of us spend our day to day moments in the pursuit of happiness, like a prized a treasure at the end of the rainbow. What will make me happy? Maybe I need a new car. That will make me happy. I am so unhappy in my relationship. Maybe I need a new partner. Mine doesn’t make me happy anymore. Why can’t I just feel happy? I can’t find anything that makes me happy!! What is wrong with me? We look to the outward world in search of the answer.
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    Research Paper: Can women have it all?

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    By: Lisa Sennhauser-Kelly

    Coaching professionals and executives, SWITZERLAND

    Anne-Marie Slaughter maintains in her article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” published in The Atlantic Monthly that women can’t have it all. Slaughter writes that the ability to control her own schedule is what prompted her to leave the State Department and return to her full time job at Princeton University. A response by Madeleine M. Kumin “Why Men Can’t Have it all” agrees with many of the findings and points out that because of the failings of ability to provide affordable quality childcare, men can’t have it all either. Lisa Sennhauser-Kelly wanted to explore this further. What do we mean by having it all? Are men having more than women? Where are we on the gender balance at work and in the family? What do working mothers and fathers really think? What are the opportunities and consequences for coaching?
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    Research Paper: Change, Whose Job Is It?

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    research-papersBy: Anand Bhaskar

    Executive Coach, INDIA

    Ever since I joined the industry 22 years ago, I often learnt from my mentors & coaches that change is the only constant. Be adaptable, flexible and willing to learn if you wish to succeed in the corporate world. As a young professional, I obediently listened to them and remembered the gospel of my seniors. You can see, I still remember it.
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    Coaching Models: The Benning Performance Coaching Model

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    By: Michelle Benning

    Performance Coach, UNITED STATES

    When attempting to analyze performance, with the help of the client and by asking powerful questions, the coach determines the Current State (where is the person now, what is their current level of performance). To determine the Gap – the coach needs to find out what the issue is that needs to be addressed.