A report from Gallup on the American workforce says that today’s employees expect coaching, and employers that don’t offer coaching may lose talented workers. On top of that, the largest group of employees in the workforce—millennials—value personal growth over pay. Employers cannot ignore coaching. But how can employers offer coaching to their employees? According to [...]

The year after I graduated from college I went to live in China for a year to teach English and study Mandarin Chinese. This may seem odd considering I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. As a language major at my college, I was encouraged to take a year of another language so [...]

In our own version of "MythBusters," we would like to debunk some of the common misconceptions about professional coaching. It used to be that sports coaches were the only kind of coaches around, but a new kind of coach is permeating life and work. But that doesn't mean people understand what today's coaching is all [...]

I love roller coasters! Seriously, I really love them. It brings out the kid in me. I am that guy when you go to the theme park I just want to keep riding them over and over again. My friends still make fun of me because, after a few rides they are like: “Yeah, I [...]

Before I knew what coaching was, this is what I thought coaching was: you paid a coach to tell you how great you were and how everything would work out, if you just believed in yourself. I thought a coach's job was to put a plastic sheen on life while quoting optimistic one-liners embroidered on [...]

My family recently moved. We have been living in a state of limbo the past months as we have been packing, moving all our items into the moving truck (my back still hurts), and now we are unpacking and getting settled into our new home. Don’t get me wrong, we are very excited and very [...]

I never set out to start a company. A few years back, I felt a shift was coming in my career. I decided I couldn’t keep on doing what I was doing, so I entered a period of discovery that involved coaching. The exploration actually led me to professional coaching and Human Resources (HR) as [...]

At the recent PCCI Family Retreat at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, I got into a conversation with another coach who had stopped her coach training. I asked her about what happened and she told me that she stopped because she found the ICF Core Competencies to be too restrictive and she didn’t feel [...]

Employee engagement is a hot topic in organizations because of the value that engagement brings to everyone. At my workplace, we just completed our third engagement survey, which we do periodically. We took the first one in December 2016 as the baseline, then started implementing a six-part employee engagement program. Then we measured our progress [...]

What an incredible experience at the recent PCCI Family Retreat at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina. My cup runneth over after hearing such wonderful talks and connecting face to face with all of my Christian coaching friends who I have connected with only virtually before. If you did not have the chance to experience [...]