You Can Coach: A Practical Guide to Coaching in Everyday Life

Actress Celeste Holm famously observed, "We live by encouragement and die without it—slowly, sadly, and angrily." We can influence people's lives in many meaningful ways: as parents, friends, co-workers, or supervisors, but in recent years, professional coaching has proven to be one of the most effective ways to provide the encouragement people are dying (mostly figuratively—but sometimes literally) to receive.
Coaching is different from counseling and mentoring. Its purpose is three-fold:

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