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TOPICS
1. Ambulance Service Needs Organizational Development Expertise
2. One of the Best Coaching Newsletters Seeks Articles
3. Violation of Commercial Harvesting Policy Leads to Revised Listings
4. What's New from the Coaching Literature
AMBULANCE SERVICE SEEKS ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE
Many of the coaches listed in the Peer Resources' Coaching Directory are actively involved in organization development (OD). The connection between OD and coaching is both historical and practical and Peer Resources continually seeks out potential opportunities for coaches listed in our Directory.
When we discovered a request for proposals (RFP) seeking an individual or firm that could provide the myriad of activities associated with organizational development, including coaching, facilitating, managing change, developing core competencies, designing leadership succession strategies, training, building performance plans, and creating employee orientation plans, we thought this would be of interest to those coaches who are experienced in these areas.
The deadline for submission of completed proposals is June 16, 2003. The RFP details the requirements and the necessary experience. Although this RFP has been issued by a provincial ambulance service, experience with health services or emergency medical services are both desirable, but not mandatory. To save Coaching Directory member time, Peer Resources has made the RFP available for download at http://www.peer.ca/coaching.html.
Peer Resources is not involved in applying for or evaluating applications. However, if you do download this document, please let us know that you were interested (even if you choose not to apply or complete the application) so that we can determine whether this type of service is of value. (Send an email to Rey Carr.)
ONE OF THE BEST COACHING NEWSLETTERS SEEKS ARTICLES
Newsletters are rapidly becoming a key tool for coaches to keep clients informed, generate interest in their services, and network with other coaches. Peer Resources lists more than 100 free coach newsletters in the Coaching Directory and that number is probably only a fraction of all that are available.
Some coaching newsletters, however, go way beyond marketing their own services and products. One of the best of these free, online periodicals is Tomorrow's Life Coach, edited by Annette Miller of LifeSync Coaching for the Institute for Life Coach Training. Each issue examines a particular topic, usually at a depth that is rarely equaled in other monthly publications, and provides links to supporting resources. A recent issue, for example, had a lengthy review of the DISC assessment system that was highly educational and professionally written. (Back issues are available on their website - www.lifecoachtraining.com.)
The editor of Tomorrow's Life Coach has put out a call for articles about generating passive revenue such as books, courses, teleclasses, screen savers, pre-packaged programs, and assessments, etc. (deadline June 30) and adding speaking to your coaching services with an emphasis on how to improve, common mistakes, and creating opportunities (deadline July 30).
If you have ideas that will fit the current call for articles or have an idea for a future issue, contact Annette Miller (annette@lifesync.com). A set of guidelines is also available from Annette.
VIOLATION OF COMMERCIAL HARVESTING POLICY LEADS TO REVISED LISTINGS
It finally happened. A few days ago all the Canadian coaches (and maybe others) listed in the Peer Resources' Coaching Directory received an unsolicited, commercial email concerning an assessment tool. An individual "harvested" the email addresses from our Directory despite an explicit statement that such lifting of addresses for purposes other than working with a coach was strictly prohibited.
Some coaches may have appreciated receiving the details about this tool and maybe wanted to learn more. However, this type of harvesting practice is inappropriate, unprofessional and violated our policy. An apology was obtained from the sender, but it was minimized within an additional commercial message.
Although no decision has been made yet as to whether Peer Resources will initiate an objective review of the tool itself, we have decided to make revisions to the listings in the Coach Directory to prevent the easy harvesting of email addresses. Email addresses will now only be accessible by selecting a hotlink that says: "Email contact." In other words, your actual email address will no longer be displayed and instead, a visitor will select the "Email Contact" link and their own email program will create a new message form. This new system will also prevent computerized ("spiders") from harvesting the email as well.
Because this hotlink system requires an individually-entered change in HTML code, it will take a while before all the email addresses in the Directory will be changed to protect listed coaches from having their addresses harvested for commercial purposes.
If you are interested in how to do this on your own web site, we can tell you how. If you have been contacted for commercial (not coaching) purposes as a result of your listing on our site, please let us know.
WHAT'S NEW FROM COACHING LITERATURE
Peer Resources continually scans the professional and popular published literature to find articles of interest to coaches. A recent addition to the searchable, <www.peer.ca/SearchB.html>annotated bibliography includes:
Giglio, L., Diamante, T., and Urban, J.M. (1998). Coaching a leader: Leveraging change at the top. Journal of Management Development, 17, 2, 93-105.
