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5 Reasons Not to Hire a Coach - wise self improvement | self ...
Planning to hire a coach?
From time to time, managers and advisors consider the option of hiring a performance, business, or referral coach. Unless the conditions are right, an investment in coaching can be a waste of money. So, in this article we will discuss when you should hire a coach?
? When not to hire a coach
1. When the advisor or manager is unclear on what he or she wants to accomplish. Without clear objectives, you can't determine which coach or if coaching process is a good fit. Before considering a performance coach, identify specifically the areas you want to strengthen. Then prioritize those in the order of potential payback.
2. When you are in the middle of an intensive skill-building program from the home, office or other source. You can't effectively execute several initiatives at the same time. Advisors, who are in the first year or two in a new career and involved in an intensive training program, should look first to maximize what is being offered by the program.
3. When you are undergoing significant personal change or trauma. If your family member is facing a serious medical challenge or dealing with an issue like divorce, it is extremely difficult to focus your energies on making habit or systems changes in your business. Implementing change and driving business growth require focus and energy. A performance or business coach is not the right resource during times of personal trauma. At these times, a psychologist or family counselor is a better fit.
4. "To fix your business" or to "fix the advisor". No coach can force an advisor to make changes. No one coaching organization is the 'total' answer. The advisor needs to approach the coach with a sincere desire to improve, a willingness to change, and a commitment to address specific skills or business areas.
5. While looking for a miracle to save a sinking career. Coaches are not miracle workers. Some coaches have strong processes and systems that can upgrade performance. They can teach skills and help develop effective marketing strategies. However, coaches can not save someone who is not a good fit for the business.
? When hiring a coach can be profitable?
1. When you (or your advisor) are clear about the areas you want to strengthen. At this point, you (or the advisor) can better assess which coaching process and organization is a good fit for your needs.
2. When you are ready to make a commitment to upgrade. Timing is a legitimate factor. To get maximum value from a development process, you must be ready to commit time and energy - not just money.
3. When you feel that the coach's process fits how you learn and change. If you are a person who prefers to implement things one-step-at-a-time, do not select a boot camp program where you attend for several days and then you are left on your own to execute. If on-going accountability is helpful to you, select a coaching process with frequent meetings on a regular schedule.
4. When you want specific expertise in a priority skill or business area (e.g. get referrals, increase marketing effectiveness, selling skills or technology)
5. When your skills or results are not improving at the rate you desire.
6. When you feel a need for accountability beyond that available in your organization
7. When you want an independent assessment of your business or skills or feel the need for a different perspective than what is offered internally.
Source: http://wiseselfimprovement.blogspot.com/2012/12/5-reasons-not-to-hire-coach.html
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Pakistan clerics calls for protests against polio worker killings
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An alliance of Pakistani clerics will hold demonstrations across the country against the killings of polio eradication campaign workers, leaders said on Thursday, as the death toll from attacks this week rose to nine.
Tahir Ashrafi, who heads the moderate Pakistan Ulema Council, said that 24,000 mosques associated with his organization would preach against the killings of health workers during Friday prayers.
"Neither Pakistani customs nor Islam would allow or endorse this. Far from doing something wrong, these girls are martyrs for Islam because they were doing a service to humanity and Islam," he said.
Ashrafi's words are a clear signal that some of Pakistan's powerful clergy are willing to challenge violent militants.
Gunmen on motorbikes have killed nine anti-polio campaign workers this week, including a man who died of his wounds on Thursday. Some of the dead were teenage girls.
Following the violence, the United Nations pulled back all staff involved in the vaccination campaign and Pakistani officials suspended it in some parts of the country.
"The killers of these girls are not worthy of being called Muslims or human beings," said Maulana Asadullah Farooq, of the Jamia Manzur Islamia, one of the biggest madrassas, or religious schools, in the city of Lahore.
"We have held special prayers for the martyrs at our mosque and will hold more prayers after Friday prayers tomorrow. We also ask other mosques to come forward and pray for the souls of these brave martyrs."
It is not clear who is behind the killings.
Pakistani Taliban militants have repeatedly threatened anti-polio workers, saying the vaccination drive is a Muslim plot to sterilize Muslims or spy on them. But they have denied responsibility for this week's shootings.
"ESSENTIAL GOODNESS"
Suspicion of the campaign surged last year after revelations that the CIA had used the cover of a fake vaccination campaign to try to gather intelligence on Osama bin Laden before he was killed in his hideout in a Pakistani town.
But many of Pakistan's most important clerics have issued fatwas, or decrees, in support of the polio campaign. Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia encourage vaccinations against polio, which can kill or paralyze within hours of infection.
The disagreement between some clerics and militants may be indicative of a wider drop in support for militancy in Pakistan, said Mansur Khan Mahsud, director of research at the Islamabad-based think-tank the FATA Research Center.
Opinion polls the centre carried out in ethnic Pashtun lands on the Afghan border, known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), showed support for the Taliban dropping from 50 percent 2010 to about 20 percent in May 2012.
Mahsud said many people had welcomed the Taliban because they believed Islamic law would help address corruption and injustice. But as the Taliban began executing and kidnapping people, some turned against them.
In a widely publicized incident in October, Taliban gunman shot a 15-year-old schoolgirl campaigner for girls' education in the head and wounded two of her classmates.
Schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai survived and the wave of condemnation that followed the attack prompted the Taliban to release statements justifying their action.
The killings of the health workers struck a similar nerve, Ashrafi said. The girls got a small stipend for their work but were motivated to try to help children, he said.
"You think they went out to administer the drops despite the threats and risked their lives for 200 rupees ($2) a day? They were there because of their essential goodness," he said.
"Imagine what the families are going through."
(Additional reporting by Katharine Houreld in Islamabad and Mubasher Bukhari in Lahore; Editing by Robert Birsel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-clerics-calls-protests-against-polio-worker-killings-074622265.html
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December 18, 2012
December 18, 2012
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Wall Street advances as budget talks progress
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Stocks climbed on Monday, giving the S&P 500 its best day since November 23, on rising hopes that negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" were making progress and that a deal could be reached in days.?
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 100.38 points, or 0.76 percent, to 13,235.39. The S&P 500 Index?gained 16.81 points, or 1.19 percent, to 1,430.39. The Nasdaq Composite added 39.27 points, or 1.32 percent, to 3,010.60.?
After weeks of stalemate, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met at the White House on Monday, raising hopes that Washington will be able to head off steep tax hikes and spending cuts that threaten the economy.?
All of the S&P 500's 10 sectors were higher, led by financials. The S&P Financial Index gained 1.5 percent, and shares of Bank of America rose 2.6 percent to $10.86 while Citigroup gained 3.1 percent to $38.79.?
Boehner has edged closer to Obama's position by proposing to extend lower tax rates for everyone who earns less than $1 million. Still, his position remains far from that of President Obama.?
"Trumping everything right now are the fiscal cliff talks. It seems like progress is being made. I think it's getting to the nitty gritty, and I think that's what the market is reacting to," said Alan Lancz, president of Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc. in Toledo, Ohio.?
"The bet right now is that something will come by the end of this week."?
Investors worry the U.S. economy could slide into recession if the tax and spending changes are implemented.?
Clearwire agreed to sell the rest of the company to Sprint Nextel for a slightly sweetened $2.2 billion offer just days after minority shareholders criticized the previous bid as too low. Clearwire tumbled 12.8 percent to $2.94, while Sprint was down 0.7 percent to $5.51.?
Apple shares edged up after recent losses, rising 0.6 percent to $512.88. Two firms cut their price targets on the stock Monday.?
The tech giant said it sold more than 2 million of its new iPhone 5 smartphones in China during the three days after its launch there on Friday, but the figures did not ease worries about stiffer competition. Apple shares have tumbled more than 25 percent in about three months.?
Compuware rose 13 percent to $10.78 after hedge fund Elliott Management offered to buy the business software maker for $2.3 billion and S&P Capital IQ raised the target price and moved it to "hold" from "strong sell.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/wall-street-advances-budget-talks-progress-1C7650114
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Swiss opera diva Della Casa dies at 93
GENEVA (AP) ? Swiss-born soprano Lisa Della Casa, a member of the Vienna State Opera whose performances of Mozart and Richard Strauss won her wide acclaim as one of the finest sopranos of her generation, has died at the age of 93.
The Vienna State Opera, where she had given more than 400 performances, said she died on Monday in the northern Swiss town of Muensterlingen.
Salzburg Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler recalled Della Casa's performances as "sublime moments for which she was celebrated by audiences and critics."
Della Casa was born near the Swiss capital Bern in 1919 and later trained in Zurich. She first performed in 1941 in the Swiss town of Solothurn-Biel, in the title role of Madame Butterfly, and went on to perform on many of the world's great opera stages including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House and La Scala.
With her Covent Garden debut as Richard Strauss's Arabella in 1953, she became identified for the role because of her singing and her beauty. That same year she debuted as Countess Almaviva at the Metropolitan in New York in 1953, where she also was a favorite.
After her retirement in 1974, she lived with her husband, Dragan Debeljevic, whom she married in 1949, at their castle on Lake Constance in northern Switzerland.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/swiss-opera-diva-della-casa-dies-93-103025528.html
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Gotye Gushes About Fellow Grammy Nominees Frank Ocean, Taylor Swift
Singer tells MTV News about what makes Frank Ocean 'fantastic' and how he learned of his three Grammy nods.
By Kara Warner
Gotye
Photo: Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1698609/gotye-frank-ocean-taylor-swift-grammy.jhtml
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Elmo actor faces fourth sex abuse claim
Victoria Will / AP
By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY
A fourth man is accusing Kevin Clash, the puppeteer and actor who for many years portrayed "Sesame Street" character Elmo, of sexual abuse.?
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Miami, the accuser -- using the name John Doe -- claims that Clash befriended him in late 1995 or early 1996, when Doe was 16 or 17. In 1996, he says, Clash flew him from Miami to New York at Clash's expense. It was during Doe's stay in New York that the abuse allegedly happened.
In a statement, the victim's attorney Jeff Herman said, ?According to our lawsuit, Kevin Clash knowingly paid to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of satisfying his sexual interests."
Herman also represents two other men who've accused Clash of sexual abuse: second accuser Cecil Singleton and the third accuser, who is also using the name John Doe.
Clash resigned from "Sesame Street" Nov. 10, issuing a statement saying, "I have loved every day of my 28 years working for this exceptional organization. Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work 'Sesame Street' is doing and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately."?
Clash's representatives did not respond to an NBC News request for comment.
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