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Coaching Energy Management to Maximize Marriage by Jeff and Jill Williams

Do you realize that the best aphrodisiacs in the world are free? As Marriage Coaches we regularly prescribe them for couples struggling with emotional and physical intimacy. What are they?
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Missionary Debriefing – Part IV by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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Missionary Debriefing – Part III by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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Coaching Tips: Coaching a Client in their Second Language by Tina Stoltzfus-Horst

Because the missions world is changing, those of us who coach missionaries are increasingly coaching clients from countries other than our own.  Cross cultural coaching is complex and takes skill and experience; working with clients…
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Missionary Debriefing – Part II by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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Marriage Coaching Tips: Three Essential Questions to Ask Couples by Jeff and Jill Williams

You’ve completed your introduction and orientation session with a couple. The couple to be coached is satisfied with their understanding of the process, and they think it might be helpful. Now What? It is essential to get answers to three questions as soon as possible...
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Missionary Debriefing – Part I by Tim Olson

This series of four articles is based on a Mission Coaches Network teleconference with guest speaker Ruth Maxwell. Ruth is a career missionary with SIM and has served in Liberia, Kenya, Canada, and presently, in…
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How to Navigate Danger Zones in Executive Coaching by Anita Stadler, PhD

Executive coaches must be skilled at navigating potential danger zones in order to deliver successful coaching in the eyes of all stakeholders.
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You Tube for You

[The articles I post on the Coaching Center are drawn from recent issues of Christian Coaching Magazine, www.christiancoachingmag.com, and represent a wide array of leaders and coaches as the authors. Thanks for reading! -Jerome Daley, Publisher] YouTube for You? by…
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Coaching Mission Marriages: What We’ve Learned by Jeff and Jill Williams

Bert and Cindy met at a U.S. seminary.  After a whirlwind courtship, often conducted by telephone and Skype between his Midwest U.S. hometown and her South American home country, the couple married and moved to…
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Executive Coaching Practices in Action by Tracy O’Neill

Most of the coaching research found today is based on executive coaching. This article summarizes five studies on executive coaching. Many include perspectives from both the coach and the client.
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Coaching Church Planters: What Does it Take? by Bob Logan

I’ve been coaching church planters for over twenty years now. Church planters are a unique breed, often presenting distinctive challenges to their coaches. I know this because I’ve also been—and currently am—a church planter. I know firsthand how challenging we can be, and I also know what we need from our coaches.

Our international qualitative research project shows the outcomes of what good coaching accomplishes. We have isolated the competencies and microskills a coach needs to accomplish those outcomes. But one question I’m often asked is this: To coach a church planter effectively, what else is needed besides the basics of being a good coach?
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Coaching Men to Reconcile Marriage Separation – Part II: Challenges and Effective Strategies by Jeff Williams

Rich was separated from his wife Sharon for sixteen months, from 2003 until 2005. Today he coaches men to reconcile their marriage. “I encourage men to seek God, hold out for hope, and always remember that if they make changes in themselves that it has to result in changes in the relationship.
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Coaching Tips: Needs of Longterm Missionaries Part 1

Last year many of us at CMI had the privilege of providing coaching to a group of longterm career missionaries who had never received coaching before.  A couple coaches, after working with their new clients…
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Giving the Gift of Responsibility this Christmas Part 1 by Gregory Bland

Giving the Gift of Responsibility this Christmas Part 1 by Gregory Bland "Dad, I was thinking that I'd like to make some money for Christmas gifts this year," my 10 year old daughter stated one day…
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