John Agno CEC, CBC

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John Agno Quick Facts

Main Areas: Leadership development, executive coaching and business coaching.
Best Sellers: Coached to Success --- a year of daily desktop coaching insights. ISBN: 0975856103
Career Focus: I exist to serve by professionally questioning conventional wisdom.
Affiliation: President and CEO of Signature, Inc.and founder of the 1,300 member Coach to Coach Network

John Agno is a seasoned corporate executive, entrepreneur, author and management consultant who today coaches senior executives and business owners to reach decision-making clarity by exploring unintended consequences of their future actions in a safe and confidential environment. John helps you see things you are missing, affirms whatever progress you have made, tests your perceptions and lets you know how you are doing. His developmental coaching is personal training that helps you focus your natural abilities in the right direction. The coaching allows your inner-potential to erupt outward through effective leadership; to develop commitment within organizations and in a world of "free agents" and "volunteer" talent.

Coaching is a powerful tool and one that should be used to help guide, direct and nourish people to become better performers. In today's environment of changing technology and evolving organizations, coaching can have a strategic impact. It provides continuous learning and develops people to meet current and future needs. Coaching is an investment that you make in developing your key resource, people, for the long-term benefit of the organization.

So what is professional coaching and how does it differ from consulting? Download and listen to this MP3 recording of a recent interview of Coach Agno for the answer to that question: http://view.vzaar.com/845767/download

Coach Agno is a frequent keynote speaker on the importance of leadership and facilitates leadership development seminars at corporate and association events.

Credentials:

Coach Agno holds the designation of Certified Executive Coach (CEC) by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (the highest designation available to business coaches) and is a Certified Business Coach (CBC) by the International Consortia of Business Coaches.

He is a past member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), a founding member of CoachVille and founder of the Coach to Coach Network, a virtual community of over 1,300 personal and business coaches from around the world. He works with coaches, executives, professionals and management teams to help them flourish in their professional and personal lives.

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from John Agno

My Personal Coach

The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy. They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.

Coaches are like editors, another slippery invention. Consider Maxwell Perkins, the great Scribner’s editor, who found, nurtured, and published such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. “Perkins has the intangible faculty of giving you confidence in yourself and the book you are writing,” one of his writers said in a New Yorker Profile from 1944. “He never tells you what to do,” another writer said. “Instead, he suggests to you, in an extraordinarily inarticulate fashion, what you want to do yourself.”

The coaching model is different from the traditional conception of pedagogy, where there’s a presumption that, after a certain point, the student no longer needs instruction. You graduate. You’re done. You can go the rest of the way yourself.

Coaching considers the teaching model naïve about our human capacity for self-perfection. It holds that, no matter how well prepared people are in their formative years, few can achieve and maintain their best performance on their own.

So what is professional coaching and how does it differ from consulting?

Download and listen to this MP3 recording of a recent interview of Coach Agno for the answer to that question.