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NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #13 & #14: Andrea J. Lee & Angela Spaxman
Table of contents for NCC Coaching Trends 2009
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #1: Ernest F. Oriente
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #2: Kathy Mallary
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #3: Biana Babinsky
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #4: Alun Richards
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #5: Natalie Tucker Miller
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 Interview #6: Christian Mickelsen
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 Interview #7: Julia Stewart
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #8: Don H. Morris
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #9: Barry Zweibel
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #10: Roberta Hill
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #11: Des Walsh
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #12: Diane Krause-Stetson
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #13 & #14: Andrea J. Lee & Angela Spaxman
- NCC Coaching Trends 2009 #15: Marion Franklin
NCC Coaching Trends 2009 Interview No. 13: Andrea J. Lee
Andre a J. Lee, of AndreaJLee.com, is a leading figure in the coaching community from Canada. Andrea has been involved with the New Coach Connection since its founding by Candye Hinton in 2001. I was especially delighted to talk to Andrea, because she was my first guest in my first teleclass series back in November 2004.
Andrea exudes undying confidence in and loyalty to the coaching community. She compares the growth of coaching to bamboo, which grows for a long time completely underground, with no visible signs of green.Andrea says if the burgeoning profession of coaching were her client, she would hold a space for it to grow and champion it. The very word she uses, burgeoning, expresses her hope and trust that coaching will grow up just as it should, even if we cannot at present predict what it will look like in ten years, let alone fifty.
I don’t want to say more–just listen to this call!
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NCC Coaching Trends 2009 Interview No. 14: Angela Spaxman
Angela Spaxman is a successful career and executive coach. Currently she is serving as President of the International Association of coaching. This was our first opportunity to talk to each other live, although we have had some email correspondence. Angela was a natural to talk to about the current state of coaching in the world, since she has contact with amazing coaches from many different countries in her work with the IAC. Angela was born in England, grew up in Canada, and has lived in Hong Kong for twelve years. Truly cosmopolitan!
You can learn more about Angela at her blog, Loving Work and Leading.
Angela was the picture of quiet assurance. She has a deep knowledge of and love for coaching. As with Andrea’s call, I don’t want to say a lot about it here. Just listen to it for yourself. 
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Your host for the NCC Coaching Trends 2009 series is Don H. Morris. Don is a life and relationship coach in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also the list manager for the New Coach Connection discussion list hosted on Yahoo Groups. Learn more at DonHMorris.com. The series is drawing to a close soon. Next week watch for the interview with NCC’s own Marion Franklin, MS, MCC.
I want to say that I agree with Andrea’s comment that it is possible for coaches to bring their values into their coaching. I’ve been thinking about this myself since Lable Braun brought it up at CAM 2008 and posted it on the Coaching Commons as part of “Burning Down the House.”
I would say it is something for masterful coaches to consider, because for beginners, putting attention on your values could take away from giving the client enough space. But when masterful coaches honour and express their own values I think they do a service to humanity by moving us forward faster.
Coaches can express their values in the way they run their businesses, who they choose as their clients, what they choose to share with their clients and in their own style of living their lives.
Our values are big enough that they do not have to interfere with our clients. For example, I have a strong value about leadership. I think that those of us who have the capability and resources to lead, should practice leadership. (By ’should’, I just mean that there is value in doing this. By ‘leadership’, I mean collectively creating a desired future.) Not all of my clients want to be leaders, but as I support them in expressing their best selves, I trust that I am also building their leadership capability for the long run. Patience is key as we express our values!
Thanks so much Don for leading us to this opportunity to discuss and to Andrea for raising a provocative issue that moves us forward in our thinking. (I can also express my values by appreciating them when I see them.)
Cheers,
Angela