The origin of the word Coach

The origin of the word Coach

The origin of the word “Coach” “Coach” can be traced back to the 1550s from the Middle French coche , the German kotsche, and the Hungarian kocsi (which literally translates “carriage of Kocs”, from the name of the village where carriages were made.) The meaning for a coach as an instructor or trainer first came…

How Emotional Agility Can Take Your Coaching To The Next Level – A Q&A session with Carol Courcy, MCC as featured in The Coaching World

How Emotional Agility Can Take Your Coaching To The Next Level – A Q&A session with Carol Courcy, MCC as featured in The Coaching World

Over 20 years ago, this quote inspired Carol Courcy, MCC, to study the ways in which people think and behave in different emotional states. She wondered if she could make it easier for her clients and herself to be in the “right emotion” more often. She discovered how different emotions redirect us to a more…

You Are Always Leading – Excerpt from Stop Controlling, Start Leading by Chris Balsley

You Are Always Leading – Excerpt from Stop Controlling, Start Leading by Chris Balsley

My awareness of leadership began when I was nineteen years old. I was a lost teenager, hanging out with a rough crowd, getting into trouble and barely graduating high school. It was the late Sixties and early Seventies in Boulder, Colorado, during a time of “make love not war,” hippie beads and fingers raised in…