Julia Stewart Coaching Has Moved

We've consolodated our blogs and moved them to the School of Coaching Mastery site. Several new posts are waiting for you now. In fact, there's a lot more going on there. If you've subscribed to us in the past and liked what you read, then you'll probably want to change your subscription to the Coaching Blog. 

Google Crashes: The Day the Web Stood Still

 Okay, I'm not proud of the fact that I Google search while I eat breakfast on a Saturday morning. Actually, I was reading the NY Times online when I came across a great quote by Pat Quinn, the new Governor of Illinois: "You want to know my philosophy? One day a peacock. The next day a feather duster." Naturally, I wanted to tweet it and then well, one thing led to another...

Today Google is the feather duster. Every site you search on Google this morning comes with a scary warning: "This site may harm your computer." Nobody would visit a site with that kind of a warning from Google! I suspected something was really off, so I searched a couple of other sites, including mighty Google, itself. Guess what? Google's site may harm your computer also!

I tweeted about it and got lots of feedback. Yes, everybody's getting the same message. Is Google broken or has it been hacked?

Is this the cyber version of the movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still"?

It would be a fun adventure if the message wasn't coming up for my sites as well. We can all watch our statistics hit the toilet today!

Anyhow, I want you to know that I visited my site www.SchoolofCoachingMastery.com and it didn't hurt my computer. Plus, our tuition reduction ends at midnight, tonight. 

Copyright, Julia Stewart, 2009

How are Coaches Responding to the Major Problems of the World?

A few days ago, I asked the Ad Hoc Committee at School of Coaching Mastery, If You Had Only 4 Years to Save the World, How Would You Coach Differently?

Read entire article at the Coaching Blog.

If You Had Only 4 Years to Save the World, How Would You Coach Differently?

If you had only 4 years to save the world, how would you coach differently?

I’ve been asking myself this lately. Why? Well, apparently some very smart people think we really DO only have four years. So I’m passing this question on to coaches with a sense of urgency.

If the window of opportunity to save the world from disaster is only 4 years, what does that mean for coaches? What would you do differently? What ARE you doing differently?

Okay, you’ve probably read, heard or watched movies about 2012 predictions. Some come from ancient wisdom traditions. But did you know that leading scientists agree that we have reached the tipping point with the environment and that we must take drastic action now? And that mass starvation, drought, killer hurricanes and tornadoes, massive wild fires and “500 year floods” are just the early warning signs.

Trust me, I’m not going into a panic over this, but I’m also not foolish enough to pretend it isn’t calling to me. But exactly HOW are coaches being called? What unique gifts do we have to offer? What will it take to mobilize us?

I’m asking, because these questions impact the choices that I make for School of Coaching Mastery.

As you probably know, I believe coaching has emerged at this time for good reason. That we’ve here to help facilitate a transformation among humans. Did the time line just get a whole lot shorter?

If so, then how can SCM turn out coaches who are ready to have the necessary transformative conversations with people who need to change – and do it a LOT more quickly?

Your thoughts, please: As a talented coach and a responsible human being, what and how would you change what you do as a coach, if you had only 4 years to help save the world? What and how would you change if you were a coaching school?

Please post your comments below.

Should Coaching be Free?

Notice how certain memes seem to be on everyone's mind at the same time? Makes you wonder. I read the Wired article on Chris Anderson's book FREE! last night and in my inbox this morning was TrendWatch's Free Love article. None of the ideas in either article were really new to me, but they did spark several new inspirations, so that's pretty cool.

Learned a couple of new words: Freevertising and Freeconomics (not the book, the phenomenon)

Basic idea: Business is quickly moving toward $0.00 for everything. Great news for consumers, eh? So how do you make any money?

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Should You Become a Coach In an Economic Downturn?

Is it or isn't it? A recession, I mean? How many thousands of hours of airtime have "pundits" used up analyzing our economy and still we don't know if it's the Big R or not?

All that professional fretting can sure make a new business person nervous! And those of us who've been at it for a while are concerned, too. On the other hand, any time there is a shake up of any sort, new opportunities pop up. The fun of being in business is watching the landscape change and noticing the next big windows of opportunity before everyone else does.

A freaky economy brings plenty of opportunity. So call me perverse, but I'm having fun ;-)

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Is the Window of Opportunity Closing on Your Dream of Coach Certification?

Today I got a call from a coach I knew years ago. He was trying to access the IAC website to finish their online certification test on the old Proficiencies before it’s taken down on January 1st and wondered if he still had time to get certified.

Yes, there’s still time – three days... Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

Coaching Groundwork

Where do you go if you're curious about coaching? If you want to find out what coaching skills are about? If you want to discover if coaching is the profession for you? I designed Coaching Groundwork for people like you... 

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Going Back in Time and Striking Gold

While researching "distinctions", an important coaching tool, for a recent class at the School of Coaching Mastery, I decided to go back in time and find the original Thomas Leonard Distinctionary. Most people don't know this version exists or think that it's gone, but there's a nifty little web archive known as... Read entire article at the Coaching Blog.

School of Coaching Mastery

Okay, there it is. The new School of Coaching Mastery logo. Putting it out here on my blog is an announcement of sorts. SCM has been a kind of brain child for several months. Maybe longer. I think it was gestating for a couple of years, while I was saying, "I don't want to start another coaching school, there are too many out there, already."

I didn't choose SCM though, it chose me... Read entire blog post at the Coaching Blog.