The Coach Connection Blog

Humorous Life Coaching Videos, TV Programs, Blogs, and Articles

Bill Dueease — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:56:12 -0400

Humorous videos, articles, TV show episodes, and blogs are being published about life coaching.

Organizations do not measure the impact of their coaching investments

Bill Dueease — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0400

“The American Management Association (AMA) commissioned the Institute for Corporate Productivity to conduct a study entitled “Coaching-A Global Study of Successful Practices-Current Trends and Future Possibilities 2008-2018”

How to prevent coaching relationships from ending before the goals (successes) are achieved.

Bill Dueease — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0400

This is the second comparison of the findings of this independent study with the methods practiced by TCC for over 7 years that further validates that TCC’s very unique method of connecting TCC clients with their best-matched coaches provides the most successful process for coaching clients to achieve their coachable goals

Global Study of Successful Coaching Practices Confirms TCC has been doing it right

Bill Dueease — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:18:14 -0400

The Study entitled “Coaching-A Global Study of Successful Practices-Current Trends and Future Possibilities 2008-2018” substantiates that TCC’s very unique method of connecting TCC clients with their best-matched coaches provides the most successful process for coaching clients to achieve their coachable goals.

Get Your Highest Return (ROI) for Your Investments During Bad Times

Bill Dueease — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0400

The recent poor economic conditions have changed the landscape for where people would consider investing their money to receive secure, continuous, and profitable returns on their investment dollars.

Life Coaching has gone to the Dogs!

Bill Dueease — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:52:27 -0400

Oprah Winfrey calls famed dog trainer Tamar Geller, "life coach for dogs" Tamar prefers the term "well-mannered" to "obedient" and "coaching" to "training." Geller has helped stars including Oprah Winfrey teach manners to their four-legged family members.

Why there is so much confusion about Life Coaching

Bill Dueease — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:53:17 -0400

The struggle by coaches to market their coaching services has become a very competitive and misleading process. There are over ...

Response to "The Tyranny of Flawlessness" by Nancy Rommelmann

Bill Dueease — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:50:30 -0400

Nancy Rommelmann in her April 9, 2008 blog entitlied "The Tyranny of Flawlessness" claimed that the rise in ...

Response to The Daily Show’s Expose on Life Coaching

Bill Dueease — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:24:15 -0500

The Daily Show did a satire on life coaching that aired on March 21, 2006. It was funny in most ...

Life Coaching Has Arrived!

Bill Dueease — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:14:03 -0500

Jay Leno told a life coach joke on his March 21, 2006 show Jay Leno: According to "Jane" magazine, the ...

Starting Over Confuses Viewers About True Life Coaching

Christy — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:05:52 -0500

The daytime television program called Starting Over has been on the air for about three years now. Starting Over is a scripted, Hollywood, dramatized entertainment TV show. It features women with many different life problems, who have been sequestered in a house under controlled conditions. The show produces good theater and entertaining drama as these women are followed around 24/7 with cameras recording their struggles to overcome their problems. The show provides at least two people they call “Life Coaches” and at least one consulting psychologist to help these women overcome their problems. The show will also provide other resources including makeup artists, hair stylists, and even Jenny Craig to help these women improve their appearance and lose weight, as part of their path to overcome their problems.

Using Certification to Pick Your Coach is Not Enough!

Bill Dueease — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:56:55 -0500

Today I am posting a question from a prospective client in the “research phase” of hiring a coach and my subsequent response. Dear Coach Connection, I am still discussing different coaching options but wanted to know whether it would be possible based on our phone call for you to line me up with three different coaches who are ICF certified? Let me know what you think. Thanks! Steve

Response to Wall Street Journal Article by Jared Sandberg

Bill Dueease — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:31:22 -0400

This is my response to a Wall Street Journal Article by Jared Sandberg entitled “Some Office Coaches Whitewash Miseries with Sunny Platitudes.” The web address of the original article: Some Office Coaches Whitewash Miseries with Sunny Platitudes The above captioned article was recently published in The Wall Street Journal and has been the buzz of the coaching community. I felt that the article was very indicative of the overall confusion regarding the life coaching process, and warranted a full response. In essence, I felt it was a very good article that inaccurately, yet understandably, misdirected its criticism towards life coaching. The entire article and my responses are shown below.