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Coaching Versus Consulting: Which Is Right for Your Organization?

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Difference: Defining Coaching and Consulting Defining Coaching and Consulting requires a clear understanding of the roles and purposes they serve within organizations. Coaching is a collaborative process focused on individual development and improvement.

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Spain’s Rosita Longevity, an app that helps seniors be more active, is headed to Florida

TechCrunch

Hearts Radiant , a Spanish startup that’s building a “longevity coach” for seniors — with the goal of extending quality of life through app-based personalized coaching designed to combat and even prevent frailty — has closed a seed round of funding as it gears up to launch in the U.S.,

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

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A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. The cert recognizes candidates’ knowledge of agile principles and skill with agile techniques.

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Wave brings some science and sanity to the business of mental health

TechCrunch

The app is launching to a public test audience early next year, and with a broader launch to a wider group of consumers later in the year. I asked Dr. Adler to give an example of the type of exercises the app would be able to provide. What we’ve done is we designed one that is much more engaging.

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15 ways to grow as an IT leader in 2024

CIO

There are good reasons for that, says Valerie Di Maria, founder and principal of the10company, a strategic consulting firm that specializes in executive coaching. Then she advises practice: Work out stories first with peers or mentors to test whether the stories inspire the desired responses or convey the intended messages.

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Free Agency CEO seems to care more about control than the company, former employees say

TechCrunch

Employees felt subject to consistent pressure and loyalty tests which took time away from their actual jobs, former employees said. One example was employees being given seemingly random projects just to test how hard they could work. The hired coach was not present for this exercise.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

TechCrunch

There are many high-tech exercise programs global companies developed in the motion-based entertainment industry, but most of them require expensive new equipment or a steep learning curve,” said Alex Wu, vice president of Strategy, MarComm and Partnerships at NEX. Anyone can play Active Arcade using their body movement.

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