Insight On Coaching

Have you ever asked yourself the question “Am I living up to my full potential as a human being?” We all have a vision in our mind of the kind of person we want to be. How close do you come to expressing that inner vision in your life? Tom and Zenobia will explore how life coaches help their clients achieve clarity on their inner self and how to connect that self to the real world through every day actions.

Tom, Zenobia, and their guests provide tips and tricks in selecting a coach, discuss common pitfalls to avoid, and help make sense of how to price and structure an engagement with a professional coach.

Tom and Zenobia facilitate conversations with leaders who have successfully implemented coaching programs within Fortune 500 organizations.

Tom and co-host Zenobia highlight excerpts from an interview with Marshall Goldsmith, named one of 50 thinkers and business leaders who have most influenced the field of management over the last four decades by the American Management Association, and Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girls Scouts of America and recipient of the Presidential Award of Freedom in 1998.

How are men and women different in the workplace? Do professional coaches treat male and female clients differently? Should male and female clients be treated differently? Tom and Robin explore whether gender plays a part in the coaching process, and discuss how these differences can impact the overall coaching experience.

Increasingly, people are working with companies and partner organizations across the globe to deliver products and services to their customers. To work effectively cross-culturally, many individuals are leveraging the experience of cultural coaches. Tom and Robin ask a panel of experts to discuss how cultural coaching can help people adapt to cultures, customs, and environments outside their sphere of understanding.

Today’s workplace contains a variety of people from different generations, including Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Millennials. Each generation has its own unique perspective. Tom and Robin explore how professional coaches specializing in generational differences, preferences, and styles can help individuals work more effectively with members of each generation in their organization.

Tom and Robin discuss how some coaches with previous lives in business development roles are working with Account Managers and other sales people to improve their sales strategies, meet customer needs, utilize a referral process, and build a long term relationship with their customers. How do these specialized coaches create sales superstars? Tom and Robin explore the strategies sales coaches use to bring their clients to a new level of sales performance, and show there’s more than one way to make a sale.

Most people have heard of career counselors, but what is a career coach? Tune in as Tom and Robin investigate career coaching, discuss how it is different from career counseling, and identify how a career coach can help individuals establish their career goals and create an overall long term career development plan.

Tom and Robin explore a number of unique approaches that professional coaches are using to help individuals listen to their bodies and bring them into greater harmony with both themselves and others. Through a diverse panel of experts, Tom and Robin delve into the role of religion, spirituality, meditation, and other more secular approaches that some coaches use to help people understand the messages their body is sending.

Tom and Robin explore the complex world of Life Coaching. Using a diverse panel of experts, Tom and Robin explore how professional coaches are helping people in their professional and personal lives by focusing on stress management, overall better health and nutrition, and work/life balance. Joining them for the discussion are Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and CEO of The Institute for Life Coaching Training One; John Spencer Ellis is the founder of the Spencer Institute for Life Coaching and NESTA; and Carol Adamski, M.A. Principal of Alive, Centered & in Action.

Find out how coaching can help both new and established managers improve their leadership abilities, make informed business decisions, manage projects and their time efficiently, and improve communication throughout their organization? Tom and Robin highlight the differences between Management Coaching and Executive Coaching. Joining them for this discussion are Brian Underhill, Senior consultant and coach with CoachSource; Josh Ehrlich, President of Educational Services & Senior Vice President and Assessment and Executive Development Counseling with BeamPines; and Ken Manning, PhD, Executive Coach and Licensed Psychologist with Prescient Leaders.

“Executive Coaching” has become a catchphrase that many people use when talking about Professional Coaching. But what is Executive Coaching? Tom & Robin explore how Professional Coaching is used to grow an organization’s leaders. Joining Tom and Robin for this discussion are Alyssa Freas, Founder and CEO of Executive Coaching Network, Inc; Anna Marie Valerio, Ph.D., President of Executive Leadership Strategies, LLC; and Lyne Desormeaux, clinical psychologist and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.

How is Professional Coaching different than traditional therapy? Tom, Robin and their guests discusses the similarities and differences between coaching and therapy, and explain the situations in which coaching can be most effective. Joining Tom and Robin for this discussion are Jennifer Corbin, President of CoachInc.Com; Ken Weingardt, Ph.D., Associate Director for the Program Evaluation and Resource Center; and Leigh Priebe Kearney, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, BeamPines.

What is Professional Coaching? Why are an increasing number of Fortune 500 companies embracing Professional Coaching as a critical component of their career development process? Why are more and more managers – and their employees - asking for coaching? Tom and Robin explore these questions in this introductory show, providing an overview of the Professional Coaching field.