The Foundation of Coaching awards $90,000 in grants for coaching research.

Is the emerging field of executive coaching having a measurable effect on women in senior management positions? Is executive coaching making an impact on the global corporate environment? Is executive coaching an academic discipline?

These questions and others will be addressed by The Foundation of Coaching’s 2007 research grant award recipients. This year’s award recipients were announced this month and include Andrea Broughton and Linda Miller from The Institute for Employment Studies, United Kingdom; Larry Starr and Lew Stern from the Graduate School Alliance of Executive Coaching (GSAEC), USA; Esra Ozkan, from the Ecole Normale Superieure in France.

“The Foundation of Coaching Research Grant awards were created to promote coaching-related research that will contribute to the development of a body of knowledge for the field,” said Dr. Mary Wayne Bush, Director of the Foundation of Coaching Research Division. “The Foundation of Coaching supports a broad research agenda, including explorations of how, when, where and why coaching works; what the dynamics are between coach and client; what approaches, theories, models and assumptions inform coaching as a practice and as a profession; and how coaching is similar to and distinct from other practices and disciplines.”

More about the Foundation of Coaching.

Electric Kites offers “ReCHARGE” life coaching workshops.

Electric Kites, a Los Angeles-based life and success coaching company, (www.electrickites.com) is offering its ReCHARGE Workshop this year in both one and two day formats.

The ReCHARGE Workshop encourages personal and professional growth through life and success coaching. “We developed the ReCHARGE workshop because we believe so strongly in the freedom and power available when seeing one’s life for what it is,” said Melissa McFarlane, CPCC and co-founder of Electric Kites.

The workshop, offered each year, employs a “coach-as-optician” technique that dramatically alters self-vision, allowing the participant to truly and wholly see their lives. “We create our lives based on our thinking,” said Melissa McFarlane. “If our thinking is warped—not a true rendering of our real life—then our lives will follow a circuitous course as well. When this happens to my clients, they’re frustrated no matter how hard they’ve worked to bring it into focus,” she stated.

The ReCHARGE Workshop is also designed to help participants clarify and activate their goals, while learning new ways to be both happier and more successful.

For more information about the workshops, click here.

Life coach refers clients to “clutter control” specialist.

In a recent article for Fox-Business, life coach Nancy Colasurdo, talks about the help clients can get from “clutter control” expert, Mary Carlomagno.

Says Colasurdo:

If I have a client who needs hands-on help with physical space organization, I prefer to refer him or her to someone who will address the core problem rather than help tidy up and then go home. Carlomagno’s approach is very much aligned with my own when dealing with people’s excesses. Getting to the root of the problem is essential to long-term success. Her current New Year’s Resolution Package even includes unlimited email support after the initial purging and sorting is done.

Colasurdo and Carlomagno share similar philosophies: “If you can’t see the floor, you don’t know where you’re going. You want a clear path.”

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