Then you’ve gotta know Jeremy Robinson.  He’s one of a team of authors who wrote the book Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach! Use your knowledge, experience and intuition to help leaders excel, which is featured in the Library of Professional Coaching, where you can access a sample chapter and then click through to buy your own copy.

Jeremy also was a featured Leading Coach on a recent Leading Coaches’ Community Mastermind call, and he share with us 29 points for being an exceptional executive coach.  The first few are posted below, and you can access the rest as well as the recording from that call at the Clubhouse!

Jeremy Robinson’s top ten (well, a few more than ten):

1.   Have a point of view. The coach with a hypothesis about what’s going on his Client’s life is a hundred times more useful than that coach who only asks questions.

2.   Ask good questions. After that, don’t try to ask better questions. Remember better is the enemy of good.

3.   The most wonderful sound of good coaching has a baseline of silence.  Always be prepared to self-regulate and go silent.

4.   Be prepared to punctuate meaningful remarks of your Client and yourself with silence.

5.   Most coaches over talk.

6.   Be clear about who the Client is- is it the person in front of you or the organization?  Clarity about who the Client is makes for the best boundaries in coaching.  Good boundaries make coaching possible.

7.   Never argue with your Client. Never. Instead- influence.

8.   Always have a teachable point of view and always be prepared to have another teachable point of view in your back pocket if the first one flops with your Client.

9.   Speak the language of your Client in terms of her vocabulary. You don’t have to be a content expert in what your Client does, but you do need to know the vocabulary of your Client’s world.

10.                 Great coaching is about going from having a strong sense of self and big presence to no ego and completely merging with the Client- all in a nano-second.

11.                 Coaching is always about getting results. If you’re going for insights vs. results you’re on the wrong train.

12.               Be wary of Clients who are great talkers.  A lot of the talking that Clients do is propaganda. Yada YADA YADA.  So what.

13.                 Always keep your ears and eyes on the Clients’ behavior. How is she behaving? What’s changing or not changing?

Every year, Sherpa conducts an executive coaching survey.  The preliminary report is available at the Library of Professional Coaching, and we’ll post the full report soon!

Leading Coach and author Mike Jaffe,, a 9/11 survivor who worked on the 96th floor of the World Trade Center, arrived 20 minutes late to work that day after deciding to have breakfast with his wife and daughter. This was his personal wakeup call to realize that life is a precious gift and small actions can make a big difference.

He’s going to be the featured leading coach on the next Leading Coaches’ Community Mastermind call coming up on January 25th at 12 noon Eastern.

Mike’s been called the Human Wake Up Call, and has just released his new book, Wake Up! Your Life Is Calling!

You can learn more and sign up for the free call with Mike here!

Or, if you already know you want to join us and don’t need to go watch his video, see his book info, or read his bio…

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT ON THIS CALL! YOU WILL GET THE DIAL IN NUMBER WHEN YOU SIGN UP HERE: http://bit.ly/jLhXw

The following excerpt was from a larger article by my dear friend and colleague, Wendy Capland called The Business Case for Coaching which you can read in full here: http://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/research/the-business-case-for-coaching/

The work of effective coaching within organizations involves unleashing the human spirit and expanding people’s capacity to stretch and grow beyond self-limiting boundaries. Coaching should not start with goal setting and problem solving, but rather with exploring the underlying concepts or mental models that a person relies on for meaning in their personal and professional lives. What assumptions and beliefs determine behavior? The truly effective coach knows that you can’t solve a problem before you know what the problem really is, and you can’t know what the problem really is unless the person you are coaching has permission and authority to speak with candor and forthrightness.

Before focusing on performance issues, a masterful coach guides those involved through the exploration process, helping to identify openings and opportunities where there may have been blind spots and failures. He or she helps clarify what really matters to the person being coached. Together, they seek to align personal and organizational goals. Only then can there be commitment to right action within the context of the organizational culture and business reality.

Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee in their book Primal Leadership (Harvard Business School Press 2002) point out that despite the commonly held belief that every leader needs to be a good coach, they exhibit this style least often. In high-pressure situations, leaders say they “don’t have the time” for coaching. Yet the evidence from the studies is clear. Effective leadership coaching not only develops better leaders; it improves productivity substantially – even exponentially, in some instances.

 

What is relationship marketing? It’s all the actions you take online and offline to nurture the connections you have with your prospects, customers, alliances and partners… even with your so called competitors.You’ve heard of B2B and B2C (business to business, and business to consumer). Mari talks about how it all comes down to P2P: People to People.

Many businesses have not fully embraced the power of today’s social technologies due to a number of reasons, including fear of exposure, fear of negative comments and fear of wasting time and resources. In her new book, Mari skillfully walks you through her proven nine-step program for building a large, loyal and profitable network using the social web.

Join the Leading Coaches’ Center Mastermind Community Call with Mari Smith

Tuesday, December 13th (12 noon Eastern/9am Pacific)!

Take a break from the holiday frenzy.  Go ahead and mark your calendar now!  This free call will set you up to win big in the new year.

Join us at the next call as we discuss The New Relationship Marketing (a proven nine-step program for building a sizable, loyal network comprised of quality relationships that garner leads, publicity, sales, and more) by my friend, Mari Smith. If you don’t know Mari, she’s one of the foremost leaders in the social media arena – with particular expertise in Facebook marketing.  In fact, I hired Mari years ago to teach me about a new social network called Facebook that was growing like gangbusters!  I can tell you from experience that she’s the real deal…she actually practices what she teaches and is a delightful, authentic, sparkly gal!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.  Click here to get the dial in number: http://bit.ly/jLhXw

Topic: The New Relationship Marketing: How To Build, A Large, Loyal, Profitable Network Using the Social Web

The Leading Coaches’ Center has regular mastermind community calls and the next one is TOMORROW, Thursday November 10th.

Join us as Jeremy Robinson shows how to Professionalize your Executive Coaching Practice Now! He’ll share 10 ideas -and possibly more- to consider to sharpen your “professional saw” from his perspective as an experienced coach who still wins 70% of beauty contests.  How’s that for an impressive hit ratio?  Come join us for insider tips to up your game.  Jeremy knows the secrets and will be discussing how to hit it out of the park.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.  Click here to get the dial in number: http://bit.ly/jLhXw

Featured Leading Coach, Jeremy Robinson,  will be joining us on 11/10/11 at 12 noon Eastern (9am Pacific).

Jeremy is the author of Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach! You can take a peek inside the book by clicking to the book site, which is featured in the Bookstore section of the Library of Professional Coaching.

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT ON THIS CALL! YOU WILL GET THE DIAL IN NUMBER WHEN YOU SIGN UP HERE: http://bit.ly/jLhXw

You can visit Jeremy’s blog at this link here: www.ceocoachrobinson.com

You may also know Jeremy as the head of the Executive Coach Academy, the mission of which is to bridge understanding gaps between worlds of business and psychology and to create a learning community of emotionally intelligent coach-sages.

He’s also one of the principals at another coach training institution, iCoachNewYork.

He’s an MSW and MCC, and a well-known coach, trainer and supervisor of executive coaches based in New York City.  He was co-creator and co-academic Director of the Wharton Executive Coaching Workshop at the Aresty Institute Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1999, he has been the Dean of Executive Coach Academy.

As a coach and coach trainer, Jeremy has specialized in using an Emotional Intelligence Behavioral model in working with his executive clients, many of whom are at the highest levels of their organizations. He has also focuses on coaching African-American, Latino and LGBT executives towards increasing their organizational influence and visibility. He has presented on executive coaching to the American Psychological Association, the Executive Coaching Summit, the Minority Corporate Counsel Annual Conference, and the International Coach Federation. He is a co-author of the Coaching Development Assessment (CDA), a coach self-development tool. He has a certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, as well as graduate degrees in Social Work and English Literature/Creative Writing.

This has been a very exciting month at the Library of Professional Coaching!

We re-launched our new platform to make the highly vetted collection of coaching-related materials available to you at no cost and in ways that are much easier to navigate, access, and download. (Can I hear an “AMEN”?)

In our first week since the re-launch, we had visitors from 43 countries!

And now, we are DELIGHTED to announce that our newest sponsor is…(…drumroll, please….) the International Coach Federation, the largest existing international association for coaches with over 17,000 global members!  Woohoo!

We are honored and proud to have the ICF stamp of support, and we are rolling around in gratitude for all our generous sponsors and angels, without whom this unique and needed online library resource would not exist!

If you know anyone who serves/supports coaches, trains coaches, creates tools for coaches, or writes books relevant to coaches or their clients, please encourage them to consider sponsoring the Library of Professional Coaching — it will get them unparalleled international exposure and we have many very reasonable options for every budget starting as low as $75.

CALLING ALL AUTHORS: If you have written articles, case studies, tools, essays, dissertations, or research reports relevant to the profession of coaching, please submit them directly to the new site anytime!

See you at the Library!

Woohoo!  Break out the champagne! It’s re-launch time!

We are super-excited to share with you the wonderful news regarding the Library of Professional Coaching. Thanks to the contributions of our angels and sponsors, we just re-launched and are now celebrating the new platform that is sleek, streamlined, organized, easier to access, easy on the eyes, and best of all no charge for you to use! Visit now and tell all your friends! LibraryofProfessionalCoaching.com

We have new categories and subcategories to explore, and you can more easily download as well as submit articles and book chapters. You can also become a sponsor to take advantage of the great SEO exposure (the site gets 1,000 – 5,000 organic search hits per day). There are currently over 150 articles loaded and we have more rolling in each day, so check back often!

Visit now and tell all your friends! LibraryofProfessionalCoaching.com

Call for Case Studies!

If you have written and own the copyright to any case studies related to coaching in any of the sectors listed on the new site, please submit your articles HERE as soon as possible!

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We are coming to the end of the first of three weeks of Summit sessions and the reaction from the Business and Executive Coaches from 46 countries in attendance has been immense. We have only had 5 of the 28 sessions so far, yet coaches are already saying the return they have gained has far outweighed the investment of money and more importantly time.

Just a small selection of the initial comments include:

“OUTSTANDING! Best hour I have spent in a long time. Very energized and thinking BIG!
Jim Riviello, Philadelphia

“Very impressed with the session from Michael Port. The information was practical and most of all do-able. If this is the beginning of the summit, then we are in for a great & productive learning curve. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.”
Sandy Fuller, Brisbane

“Incredible presentation by a marketing Master. Values driven relationship building with the highest integrity focused on the client. In deepest gratitude for your being fully expressed approach.”
Dr. Maynard Brusman, California

“Michael’s session was great! It was pacey and packed with useful strategies and pointers. I felt very energised at the end and full of ideas about what I need to do to next. The time flew by without me even noticing it”.
Jeanette Schulte, Berlin

“A really worthwhile interactive session, with Marshall on excellent form.”
Tony Whittle, Buckinghamshire

“Michael is a talented and outstanding presenter with style , solid and pragmatic substance in his contents. There were many takeaways….although my time was 5am in the morning it has been worth it”
Lydia Goh – Executive Coach, Singapore

“The first session was excellent! Great information….”
Denver Hudson, Indiana

“The presentation was excellent, chuck full of valuable information”
CB Bowman, New Jersey

“Really great talk- he covered a lot in such a short amount of time”
Katherine Tulpa, London

“A really good seminar Ben and Marshall was such a lovely man to listen to. Well worth the time and lots of great resources.”
Laura Murphy, Sussex

“I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the “Coaching for Behavioral Change” webinar. Marshall Goldsmith was inspirational. He is clearly very knowledgable. I enjoyed hearing about all the examples from his coaching experience. The tools and applications he shared were practical and effective.”
Gail Basaraba, Calgary

Now, if you haven’t signed up just yet, it’s still not too late to join the sessions and not miss out on the huge value to be gained. The five live sessions you have missed are available as recordings to watch online and also to download so you can catch up in your own time and ensure you don’t miss anything.

To sign up for a ticket is very straightforward and you will gain instant access. Simply click now this link: http://www.bit.ly/summitsignup

I will be speaking on a panel with other esteemed colleagues about Modern Leadership on Thursday of next week.

Rock on!

I thought you would appreciate a quick heads up that there are only 10 days left to take advantage of the ‘Earlybird’ pricing being offered for a full pass to the World Business and Executive Coach Summit.

This will give you a full $300 off the full Summit price of $597, increasing the huge value to be gained from this groundbreaking event even further.

Whether you are looking to increase the number of high value coaching leads you generate, improve the conversion of these leads to client, increase the length of time you retain these clients for or increase the level and quality of your coaching provision this is THE event to attend.

For peace of mind all tickets are fully guaranteed, meaning you can attend for the first 7 days and if not completely happy with the value you have received you can gain a full refund, with no questions asked and no hard feelings AND you can keep the registration bonuses valued at over $2000.

The Summit kicks off on July 28 2011, however, if you are unable to attend any sessions through prior commitments you can catch up on all that you miss through not only online recordings but also through being able to download each and every session.

To sign up for this year’s must attend online event for Business and Executive Coaches for just $297 simply CLICK HERE:

If you have any questions at all regarding The Summit please email ben@wbecs.com and your questions will be attended to immediately.