5 Keys to Avoiding Home-based Business Burnout, Part 1

5 Keys To Avoiding Home-based Business Burnout, Part 1
Home based professionals, solopreneurs and small business owners do a unique juggling act. There’s nothing like commuting to the next room, a dress code that includes pajamas, and getting to kids’ concerts and games. But the flexibility of working from home has a front and a back. [...]

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5 Keys to Avoiding Home-based business burnout, Part 2

August 7, 2008 | By admin In Home-Based-Business |
Home based professionals, solopreneurs and small business owners do a unique juggling act. There’s nothing like commuting to the next room, a dress code that includes pajamas, and getting to kids’ concerts and games. But, the flexibility of working from home has a front and a [...]

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The CEO & The Monk, by Catell & Moore

The CEO is Con-Ed’s CEO, Robert B. Catell, who grew the mega giant East Coast energy company to what it is today. The Monk is a former priest, Kenny Moore, who was given the title “ombudsman” to provide, coaching, wisdom, moral support at any and every place it was needed throughout the company. The CEO [...]

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Economic indicators

We’re on the frontier of change. It requires new kinds of cost-benefit ratios:
1. a triple bottom line – people, profit & planet
2. risk assessment that accounts for how personal and universal values align with ultimate outcome
3. better accounting for the fact that resources spent on non-billable hours for coaching and other professional, organizational, and [...]

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Sherpa Study: Coaching best for Leadership Development vs. Problem Solving

From: 2008 Sherpa Coaching Study
www.sherpacoaching.com
“Why Are Executive Coaches Used?
“In the early days of coaching, most efforts
were directed toward problem-solving and
“career saves”. An executive who wasn’t living
up to expectations was the most likely to
receive coaching. This created a stigma, in
certain circles, about coaching: “There must be
something wrong, or you wouldn’t need a
coach.”
There’s now [...]

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Sherpa Study: Coaching pays

Sherpa Executive Coaching Survey, 2008 says:
“The amount of money spent on coaching is significant, and it’s growing. In increasing numbers, coaches and HR professionals say coaches are engaged for “people who need leadership development”. So, we have a growing industry, a shift toward coaching for every emerging leader, and nobody seems to be tracking [...]

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MetrixGlobal: Coaching yields 689% return on invesment

Abundance grows at the rate we develop.
Successful people know that if the quality of their deliberations are good, the outcome of those deliberations are likely to be sound. That’s why movers and shakers hire coaches. One of my European clients has her own coaching firm that specializes in Fortune 500 companies. She partnered with [...]

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The Yin & Yang of Success

The Yin and Yang of Success
Success is no longer defined in financial terms alone. It’s beginning to be understood as an alignment between life and livelihood, between monetary gain and an abundance of joy, vitality and good relationships. While it’s undoubtedly important to reach professional benchmarks and organizational goals, there’s a softer, more difficult to [...]

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