Articles
The Manager as Coach: Get Curious
By Lisa Kramer
Throughout organizations today, managers are adopting a coaching style of leadership to achieve results from their teams. At the heart of this leadership style is the ability to be genuinely curious -- to listen deeply and to ask powerful questions that stimulate creativity and inspire action. Click here to read more.
Living with Intention in 2008
By Lisa Kramer
It’s hard to believe that another year is coming to an end. As the New Year approaches, it is a perfect time to reflect on your experiences from the past year in preparation for the coming year. What successes have you experienced? What challenges have you overcome? What do you want to create in the coming year? The following exercise will assist you to ‘complete the old’ and ‘create the new’. Click here to read more.
Coaches Help Clients Get a Grip
The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 1, 2002
Weary of pain and depression, some therapists are branching out. They're giving tips on life to the successful. Click here to read more.
The Calling to Be a Coach
By Lisa Kramer
In the fall of 1997 I was sauntering through Borders searching for something but not certain what the 'something' was. I happened upon a copy of New Age Journal and decided to skim through it as I sat and had a cup of coffee. Inside was an article about personal coaching, a relatively new profession that I had never heard of. Click here to read more.
Building on Trust
By Patrick Williams and Lisa Kramer
Couples who are good candidates for relationship coaching want to enhance their relationship by focusing on particular areas such as communication, parenting, romance and sexual intimacy, transitions such as ‘the empty nest’, finances, and work/life balance. Ideally, the relationship has a solid foundation based on love, mutual respect, trust and commitment.
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Truth & Trust: Relationships Along Life’s Journey
By Lisa Kramer
Five coaches examine relationships from different angles. Read Lisa Kramer’s article “Face Off” in Choice magazine.
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Past Newsletters
2007
| February | The Importance of Conflict in Relationships |
| May | Lessons Learned from "Difficult" Clients |
| December | Living with Intention in 2008 |
2006
| Winter | Group Coaching: An Empowerment Model for Clients |
| Spring | Designing the Alliance in Relationship Coaching |
| Summer | Assessing Readiness for Relationship Coaching |
| Fall | Assessing Goodness-of-Fit |
2005
2004
| January | The Conscious Relationship: Coaching with Couples |
| February | Boundaries in Coaching |
| March | Self Management (revisited) |
| Spring | What Is Coaching Mastery™ |
| June | The Change Process and Coaching |
| Summer | The Change Process and Coaching - Part II |
| Fall | Squirrels in Your Attic |
| December | Living with Intention in 2005 |
2003
| January | Self Management Part I |
| February | Self Management Part 2 |
| March | Art of Brainstorming |
| April | Speaking the Truth |
| May | The Intake Session - Designing the Alliance |
| June | Cherishment |
| Summer | Being Present |
| September | Intuition & Empathy in Coaching |
| October | Success Partnership: Take Your Business to the Next Level |
| November | The Process of Transformation for Coach and Client |
| December | Living with Intention in 2004 |
2002
| December | Listening Without Judgment |
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