Business Coaching

Business coaching
Personal coaching

• If you take care of yourself - you have more to give back
• If you take care of your staff - they give more back to you

I coach creative professionals and others on the staff of small to mid-sized businesses that align with my experience. Specialty areas include personal and economic empowerment, confidence building, leadership development, stress and time management, visioning and interpersonal communication.

My coaching focus in the workplace is communication in its broadest sense.

Why communication?
Because improved communication
= better relationships
= greater worker satisfaction + increased staff loyalty
= reduced staff turnover + improved productivity
= bigger return on investment

Everybody wins!

My background includes editor, writer and/or manager-coach positions at:

• Diablo - The Magazine of the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) - editor in chief
• Cosmopolitan Magazine (South Africa) - Bureau Chief, Writer and Editor of Cosmo Man
• The Oakland Tribune (San Francisco Bay Area) - Copy Editor
• Appellation - Wine Country Living (Napa, California) - Special Features Editor
• Get Up & Go! - An Age Wave "boomers" publication - Northern California Editor
• The Sunday Tribune (South Africa) - Newsroom Writer/photographer, Editor - Sunday Magazine
• KwaZulu-Natal Indaba Foundation (South Africa) - Director of Communications
• Bechtel Corporation (San Francisco) - Editor Bechtel Briefs, Corporate Communications
• A post-graduate psychology degree and a post-graduate higher education (counseling) diploma from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
• I trained and certified as a professional and personal coactive coach through the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael and have coached clients in California, Europe and South Africa.

• To quote a former boss on the secret of his unique talent, eliciting the best from each person on his team: "I have told people who are put in positions of authority that they have to decide at the outset what their standards are... and then stick to these guidelines as far as possible. Speak to people so they also know where you stand. Be prepared to listen and change your mind if you are wrong. Be reasonable. A boss has great power to make people either happy, fulfilled or frustrated and angry." -- John MacLennan, former news editor, Sunday Tribune.

The benefit of business coaching is being confirmed in survey after survey, which is why so many successful executives and managers now work with a coach.

See benefits of business coaching and "how to" advice on choosing a coach:
www.womentodaymagazine.com/money/buybeware.html

Article: "Career Coaches Help People See Themselves From Co-Workers' Perspectives" by Amy Joyce, Washington Post.

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela.