Welcome to the Library of Professional Coaching
We are pleased to announce that the Library of Professional Coaching Library (LPC) is now open. We're glad you are here! The LPC is an Internet-based center that provides access to a carefully selected set of resources associated with the field and discipline of professional coaching. In partnership and collaboration with the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, choice Magazine, we are building an online library of professional coaching materials such as a growing pool of articles, research, and white papers, which will serve as the ultimate Internet-based source of information about professional coaching. We strive to be an easily searchable database of trusted, high-caliber content about professional coaching. Pardon our dust and scaffolding as we continue to build and grow this global resource.
During the initial build-out of the library, we will be devoted to those professional coaching services that are utilized in organizations and support the ongoing development of leadership, strategy and human capital in organizations. Future build-outs of the library may focus on personal and life coaching, as well as coaching services that embrace both personal and organizational domains. We welcome your suggestions for improvements and contributions to this resource.
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What is the Library of Professional Coaching?
In partnership and collaboration with the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations and Choice Magazine, we are building an online library of professional coaching materials, which will serve as the ultimate Internet-based source of information about professional coaching. It will be an easily searchable database of trusted, high-caliber content about professional coaching. The first “wing” of the library will be devoted to those professional coaching services that are utilized in organizations and support the ongoing development of leadership, strategy and human capital in organizations. Future wings of the library may focus on personal and life coaching, as well as coaching services that embrace both personal and organizational domains.
Origins of the Professional Coaching Library
The founders identified a common need for a library of resources that will support our shared passion for stewardship of the profession and enable us and our colleagues to discover, learn, explore, and further the profession of coaching. We were aware of a majority of information that was previously inaccessible, either hidden behind private firewalls or otherwise not on the internet. In such an abundance-oriented profession, to see the documentation and research in such scarcity struck us as a profound contradiction. The library is our attempt to bring it all together and make it available to you.
On a local level, coaching associations and schools have pulled together physical libraries of coaching books. These physical libraries tend to be limited because access to anything but life coaching books is hard to come by. The business and corporate research, journals, articles, resources, and books are often inaccessible or unavailable to the general public, despite being in abundance. The Professional Coaching Library is set to change all that.
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