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Executive Coaching News Archive05-Sep-2008
Effective leadership succession in family businesses involves careful planning, and considering leadership structure options (PRWeb Aug 26, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1248454.htm Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE: WFT) is one of the world?s largest and most dynamic oilfield service companies. Headquartered in Houston, the company employs more than 33,000 people worldwide, operating in more than 730 locations and in more than 100 countries around the world. Executive coaching is a business strategy that is gaining favor in organizations that give serious attention to developing key talent. Yet there is often skepticism about its usefulness. Two researchers are developing a meaningful way that will measure the value and return-on-investment (ROI) of executive coaching. When chief executives turn for help from an executive coach, they expect to meet in an office, a boardroom or maybe a coffee shop. However, when David Zenner, CEO of the Zenner Group based in Atlanta, meets with his executive coach, a Chair from executive performance company Vistage International, it's not always in such a traditional setting. Eppic Films, Inc. has been retained by Wealth Bridge Connect to produce and direct membership eLearning videos which will be designed to enhance business performance for professionals. Atlanta-based management consulting firm TalentQuest has expanded its presence in the Southeast with the addition of satellite offices in Birmingham and Tampa, Fla. Stogie aficionados can take a smoking tour tonight of three restaurants that will go smoke-free when the city of Wichita's partial ban takes effect Thursday. Businesses must ban smoking or build a separate smoking room if they admit people under 18. ABC Discount Smoke Shop & Fine Cigars has arranged for a party bus to leave Finn's bar, 800 E. First St., at 6 p.m. Monday. It will travel to Old ... Brownstein Group, a Philadelphia, named Erin Allsman public relations director. Allsman had been interim director. The Wistar Institute, a Philadelphia biomedical-research institute, named Staci Vernick Goldberg its new director of communications. She had been director of communications and public relations for the American Association for Cancer Research. NASHVILLE , August 27 / Christian Newswire / -- Oxygen For Leaders, an Executive Coaching and consultancy organization for churches, non-profit organizations and corporations, will sponsor its second leadership development trek to Everest Base Camp beginning Oct. 4. At nearly 18,000 ft. in altitude, Everest Base Camp is the staging area for climbers attempting to summit Mt. Everest, the world's ...
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