Life Coaching Success Ideas

A Research Paper By Florence Schelling, High-Performance and Development Coach, SWITZERLAND High Performing Athletes Journey at the Ochsner Hockey Academy Franco Collenberg is a former professional ice hockey player and is now a certified brain trainer, integral, mental, and fitness coach. He developed the Academy M.A.P. model for athletes in ice hockey. The model is based on the fact that athletes are much more than robots in equipment. The Academy M.A.P. takes care of the person in the equipment: with all daily development issues, personality and mentality, performance and lifestyle, goals and dreams. But also with any blockages, hurdles, and problems. And lastly, it keeps in mind the complex environment and the expectations in which the athletes operate. For the last two years, Franco worked at the Ochsner Hockey Academy, where there are yearly over 2’200 ice hockey players participating at different hockey camps throughout the off-season. The hockey camps are packed with diffe...

A Research Paper By Florence Schelling, High-Performance and Development Coach, SWITZERLAND High Performing Athletes Journey at the Ochsner Hockey Academy Franco Collenberg is a former professional ice hockey player and is now a certified brain trainer, integral, mental, and fitness coach. He developed the Academy M.A.P. model for athletes in ice hockey. The model is based on the fact that athletes are much more than robots in equipment. The Academy M.A.P. takes care of the person in the equipment: with all daily development issues, personality and mentality, performance and lifestyle, goals and dreams. But also with any blockages, hurdles, and problems. And lastly, it keeps in mind the complex environment and the expectations in which the athletes operate. For the last two years, Franco worked at the Ochsner Hockey Academy, where there are yearly over 2’200 ice hockey players participating at different hockey camps throughout the off-season. The hockey camps are packed with diffe...

Over the last several years, I've been very fortunate to instruct leadership classes onsite at one of Southern California's major defence contractors. Like any defence organization, the constant security of their facilities, knowledge, and expertise is of critical concern to both them and the government. As such, the security folks at the facility are continually in search of effective ways to remind employees of the everyday importance of security procedures. I've seen many efforts in the past to remind employees to stay vigilant about security…some of which sent a memorable message, and some which did not. Yet, the best example of an effective message came just last week. I was walking into the room where I normally teach and was struck by a sign outside the wall. The large sign posed a simple question to the passerby: “What's the worst thing that could happen if you ignore security procedures?” Below the question was a large picture of a flag-draped coffin. Informin...

Over the last several years, I've been very fortunate to instruct leadership classes onsite at one of Southern California's major defence contractors. Like any defence organization, the constant security of their facilities, knowledge, and expertise is of critical concern to both them and the government. As such, the security folks at the facility are continually in search of effective ways to remind employees of the everyday importance of security procedures. I've seen many efforts in the past to remind employees to stay vigilant about security…some of which sent a memorable message, and some which did not. Yet, the best example of an effective message came just last week. I was walking into the room where I normally teach and was struck by a sign outside the wall. The large sign posed a simple question to the passerby: “What's the worst thing that could happen if you ignore security procedures?” Below the question was a large picture of a flag-draped coffin. Informin...

A Coaching Model Created by Rachel Bloom (Performance Development Coach, AUSTRALIA) I recently participated in visualization with my own coach and whilst at the time it happened to not correlate with this paper, her summary to me of what I built in the visualization was very “practical” by way of my description and participation. After this, my current consulting business tagline is “Practical People Solutions”. When I give my elevator speech about the type of organizational development consulting I deliver, it involves the word “practical” in the definition. Practical feels comfortable to me.  It’s useful. It’s functional with no frills or can have frills and still be functional. Practical can be textbook, theory related, corporate jargon, programs, structures, and solutions yet presented in a way in which it resonates with the audience. This could be complex wording or simple jargon.  Either or any which way, it needs to be use...

A Coaching Model Created by Rachel Bloom (Performance Development Coach, AUSTRALIA) I recently participated in visualization with my own coach and whilst at the time it happened to not correlate with this paper, her summary to me of what I built in the visualization was very “practical” by way of my description and participation. After this, my current consulting business tagline is “Practical People Solutions”. When I give my elevator speech about the type of organizational development consulting I deliver, it involves the word “practical” in the definition. Practical feels comfortable to me.  It’s useful. It’s functional with no frills or can have frills and still be functional. Practical can be textbook, theory related, corporate jargon, programs, structures, and solutions yet presented in a way in which it resonates with the audience. This could be complex wording or simple jargon.  Either or any which way, it needs to be use...

Research Paper By Eva Gysling (Executive and Business Coach, SWITZERLAND) Introduction: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change. — Charles Darwin Today, we live in a VUCA world [1] where the demands on leaders are wider. “It discusses systemic failures and behavioral failures, which are characteristic of organizational failure.” VUCA stands for V olatility, U ncertainty, C omplexity, and A mbiguity [2] . This describes how unpredictable the world has become and thus requires responses from all of us to remain successful as a society. In their book “Power Up: Transforming Organizations Through Shared Leadership “[3] , David Bradford and Allan Cohen distinguish between heroic and post-heroic leadership. In their book “Leadership Agility”, Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs take up the concepts of Bradford and Cohen and introduce five levels of leadership (Expert, Achiever...