A staff meeting of Barnabases

When I was in Mexico recently, I attended the staff meeting at Comunidad Mosaico, a ministry that works toward transformation among the urban poor. They had a time of worship, and due to my poor Spanish skills, I understood very little that was going on. But I felt...

Coaching on sacred ground

I virtually always find coaching to be meaningful work. But then there are the times when God’s presence is just glaring. I was coaching a leader who was unsure of his agenda for our coaching session. He had just come out of a season of change and transition and it...

Thanks for the advice

My wife Janet does quite a bit of coach mentoring—that’s coaching coaches on their coaching. (How’s that for a mouthful?) The basic idea is that you coaches need a coach themselves—someone to help them continue to grow in their coaching skills. She just got a great...
Bob on YouTube!

Bob on YouTube!

A student taking a film class interviewed me on coaching for 45 minutes, then boiled it down to a 5-minute segment with some really great visual footage as well.  In the segment, I introduce some basic concepts of coaching and thought you might be interested in seeing...

A mentor or a coach?

I taught a webinar recently as part of the missional coach training process. Because this particular webinar had to be pre-recorded—and therefore not as interactive as I usually prefer—I asked for written insights from those who attended. The idea was not for them to...

Why bother with an online coaching tool?

Lately I’ve been spending some time beta-testing a new online coaching tool. When I first started experimenting with online coaching back in the late 90’s I thought it would be helpful, but I had no idea it would be as helpful as it is. The use of an online tool to...