Posts by Carol Ross
1,600 Coaches in One Room
I’m off to the annual International Coach Federation conference. The conference is sold out with 1,600 coaches attending. It’s a chance for people who have seen each other on-line or in teleclasses to meet in the flesh. I keep wondering if there’s a joke about what happens when you get 1,600 coaches in one room.…
Read MoreA Different Kind of Musical Experience
Last night, I attended the debut of the Baroque Orchestra of Colorado. You may have remembered from a previous post, this is culmination of a 10 year dream for my friend and coaching client, Frank Nowell. Several things struck me about the performance last night: As the artistic director of the orchestra, Frank made some…
Read MorePeople Who Make a Difference
Just found out about a research project on ordinary people who make a difference in the lives of others. Sponsored by an organization that does training on Emotional Intelligence, here’s how one of the researchers talks about the project: "In the past few years I have been frustrated by my own inability to make the…
Read MoreVisiting Foreign Lands
I found a blog about creative collaboration, one of my favorite topics. The blogger, Denzil Meyers, has a foot in the theatre world and a foot in the coaching world. His clients are ad agencies teams and other partnerships whose success depends on being creative together. I especially enjoyed a post entitled When In Doubt,…
Read MoreWhen Dreams DON’T Come True
The wonderful thing about blogs is that as a writer, I finally have a place to publish my short musings, those fragments of thoughts that haven’t amounted to much except another short word file on my laptop. So here’s one that I just remembered I wrote, over a year ago. The memory of this musing…
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