The Coaching Perspective

Want To Know How To Get Published? – Robert Murray

Listen in as we talk with Robert Murray, Founder and President of StyleMatters. Learn how they help provide professional content strategy, book packaging, self-publishing, web design and web marketing services for businesses, academics and publishers. Their services include book development, web site design, search engine optimization, blog and social media management, business plans, book proposal development, financial writing, government proposal writing, book editing, and more.

Whether you seek a ghostwriter, book editor, dissertation editor, proposal writing project manager, or team of book developers, you can count on StyleMatters for truly exceptional products, delivered on time and on point.

Starting Up Your Coaching Practice - Suzanne Hochman

After losing her 15 year career in corporate America due to a sizable lay off, Suzanne built Looking Up Career Consulting and Life Coaching as a means to help people in her community recover from job loss and career transitioning. Having gone through the experience herself, it became evident that people were in need of support and guidance through, what can be considered, the most stressful occurrence in one's life. Suzanne's goal in developing Looking Up is to provide low-cost and philanthropic services to people who would otherwise not have the resources to aid in these very important transitions.perceptions.

What Is Your Reality? Doug Gfeller, MCC

If you don’t know where you are, is it possible to get to where you want to go? We talk a lot these days about virtual reality, meaning a computer-simulated environment that simulates a physical presence. But how focused is your coaching on exploring the client’s perception of reality around the issue you are coaching? Is the issue real or virtual and does it even make a difference? Listen in as Doug Gfeller shares this week’s coaching tips about dealing with reality and mirroring the client’s perceptions.

Meet the Quotable Coach – Barry Demp, MCC

What do you do with your favorite quotes? Listen in as Doug Gfeller talks with Barry Demp about what he has created from his love of collecting quotes. We will also be talking about how Barry customizes his coaching programs for the variety of client groups that he coaches and why he gives away so much material.

Barry has coached more than 1000 individuals, worked with 100’s of companies and trained 60 coaches. In 1999 he became the first International Coach Federation, Master Certified Coach in Michigan. Barry says, “Coaching is who I am, not just what I do for a living”. He spends his time helping individuals and organizations master the leadership, management, communication, and coaching skills needed in today’s competitive and rapidly changing world. Barry has over 29 years of sales and business development experience, including sales and marketing with a Fortune 500 company.

Would you like to have a full coaching practice without doing any selling?

Most coaches love to coach but hate to sell. So we try to trick ourselves by saying we are serving or solving problems; anything but selling. How would you like to have a full coaching practice and never have to do any selling again? Listen in as Doug Gfeller talks with Jay McDowell about his business model at Action Coach, which promises to do just that for you. Jay started his coaching business more than 6 years ago and has become one of the top coaches in Southern California by delivering proven results in every aspect of running a business …including revenue & profit growth, cost management, advertising, and building high performing teams. He brings 30 years of “Corporate America” experience, which he combines with his passion for coaching people.

Where Do Coaches Go For Support? August 2, 2012

Join Doug as he talks with Mike Rafati about the new coaching community that he is creating at www.incrediblecoach.com The Incrediblecoach provides the opportunity to connect with service professionals and solo entrepreneurs effortlessly. You can expand your marketing reach and improve your visibility by sharing your information and promoting your events to the people who are looking for your services. Mike will coach you to clarify your thoughts, design and promote your offerings, and support you with marketing information, services, tools, and resources you need to create and/or expand your business.

Coaching The Management Team July 12, 2012

Listen in as Doug Gfeller, Master Certified Coach, shares with you his process for coaching management teams. This is a process that he has been constantly refining for the last fifteen  years. During that time he has worked with new management teams in start up companies and seasoned teams in established companies. How big the revenues are or how long you have been in business have nothing to do with the effectiveness of your management team. Doug will identify for you the key elements that need to be focused on to achieve breakthrough performance.

CoachingResources, Books & Web Sites! 6/28/12

This is not a book review or a synopsis of the book, Making Yourself Indispensable: The Power of Personal Accountability by Mark Samuel. This book is just to darn good for me to do anything that would encourage you to not read it. Let me make it plain, Go buy this book and read it. Then teach it or discuss it at length with someone else. Then set aside some time to sit quietly and plan how you are going to apply it right now in your life and your business. We can all use this information and thinking in our own lives. If you are a coach you can use this system to help you provide more value to your clients. If you work in HR then this will change the way you approach your next training or planning sessions. And if you are an executive it is the blue print that you have been looking for to pull your management team together and truly achieve breakthrough performance.

Riding the Roller Coaster of Change Without Getting Sick!

Like it or not, we are all dealing with change on a daily basis. How would you like some new tools to help you with change management? How would you like to learn what the best practices are in this area? Listen in as Doug Gfeller talks with Janine McDonald about change management.

Janine McDonald is Founder and CEO of J9 Leading Solutions an organizational consulting services firm that helps organizations create high impact strategies, develop effective leaders and tailor operations to achieve maximum community impact. Janine is an organizational consultant, trainer, and speaker specializing in strategic planning, leadership development, organizational development, employee engagement, and capacity building. Janine is committed to help individuals grow as leaders, teams learn and organizations build capacity.

HR and Social Media: Are You Breaking the Law? 6/14/12

Can you be fired for “facebooking”? Can employers “google” job applicants? Can you take your Twitter account with you when you change jobs? Learn how technology is impacting your right to privacy, employment-at-will, free speech, and venting about your job on the Internet.

Laura Fleming, a shareholder in the Labor & Employment Law Group at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rath, joins Doug to talk about the impact of Social Media on employer and employee rights. Laura earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University. She practiced in Boston and Shanghai prior to moving to Orange County. She is even conversant in Mandarin Chinese.