What Does Coaching Excellence Mean to You?

ACE is ramping up with some cool developments for October. We plan our site launch and first live event in NYC next month. We're making the case for coaching excellence. For me,

Excellence = Success.

Maybe it's not quite that simple, but when you take all the skills a successful coach has, from coaching skills to marketing skills, you find that the more excellent the skills, the more success the coach is likely to enjoy.

Yes, I know, even a mediocre coach with great marketing skills can be successful. But an excellent coach with great marketing skills will trump the mediocre coach in the long haul...Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

Now What?

On August 28th, I posted an optimistic message about the opportunities that are opening up as a result of the chaos at CoachVille. I'm able to be optimistic, because I accepted months ago that CoachVille might very well go belly up. ("I feel so much better, now that I've given up hope!") When unrealistic hope is gone, we can focus on what reality really can bring us!

Now that it seems to be happening, I have good days and I have sad days. (And sometimes I have pissed-off days!) I can imagine how it feels to people who are just beginning to realize what's happening. Fear, outrage, confusion, etc., are swirling about the coaching community.

This past week, as I watched the mass evacuation of New Orleans, that beautiful city where CV had its last annual conference, I couldn't help thinking of how ironic it is that CV seems to be drowning and people are escaping from it, too. It sure puts into perspective how small a problem CV is. We certainly haven't lost everything the way the citizens of NOLA have.

Never-the-less, I think it's time for Confabers to talk. So that's our subject in the Confab later today.

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