Hi.
Welcome to my Projects page where you'll find a collection of
the projects I am working on or have recently completed.
It takes forever to download, but most folks say that it's worth the wait.
Last updated: September 1, 2000

It's hopelessly outdated.  My excuse is that...
I've been working on coachville.com and graduateschoolofcoaching.com since sept 2000.

Tap on a logo for more information on that project (although not all logos are linked...)
I've done most of the logos using PhotoDeluxe, a very basic little graphics program, on my PowerBook.
And some of the newer ones are with Net Studio and PhotoDraw on my Sony PC.
The logos are really simple, but I like them and hope you do, too...

My biggest projects currently are:




CoachVille is a major project: the world's largest coach-related portal.




I am teaching this course this fall and it's also available in January 2001






A series of discussions on, well, the future of coaching!



A series of ezines on virtually every personal and professional topic.





The official ezine of CoachVille.com; weekly





A course I am teaching






500 are done (thanks Karen).  More to come.





NBC watch out!






A class I am teaching in 2001.





A class Dave Buck is teaching in 2001.

I've been really busy creating logos for some
already-existing Coach U Programs,
as part of the upgrade of the Coaching Forms Book

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And I'm finally releasing some programs I've been working on for awhile, like:

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And I've started working on new programs, like:

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And some new certifications, like:

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And some logos for new stuff in the Coaching Forms Book, like:

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And I am working on these new services:

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With the help of several coaching colleagues,
I'll eventually get around to this tape set...

and

Cool, huh?

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And here are some photos for/from the
Joy of Coaching book (due out in November 2001).

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Something quite clever that I'm putting together is called

Should be up by April 2001.

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My geeky (that's a compliment) friends and programmers at Cicada Consulting
set up something VERY cool that I call

It let's coaches create/personalize their own brochures and handouts online!

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I'm completing the compiling of the second edition of the

It's a printed book on all things RV, plus a matching website.
I did some research during my recent Western U.S. camping trip in the summer of 1999.
There are a couple of useful things already viewable the site.

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I am also completing a book for any professional
wanting a full practice.
It's called


Hey, that's an idea!

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I offered vision coaching during June and July 1999
in order to learn more about how to stretch clients.

Details are

. (but the coaching is no longer available.)

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Some other books I am working on (and off; mostly off!) right now include



















Geez, that's a lot of books.  Where's Guinness?

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Another recent successful project was TeleSlim offered by TeleClass.com,
which is a progressive weight-loss and self-care program.
Over 1,000 people registered for the May & June 1999 classes. It's really cool.

I've been teaching classes such as:

 Coach U acquired TeleClass.com from me in January 2000.

Whew, lots of work.

In 1998, I did quite a lot of audiotaping which included a set called

It's a taped collection of about 30 half-hour sessions with a coach and their client,
with me offering in-the-ear coaching to the coach while they are coaching their client.
Talk about just-in-time coaching!
It's a cool project and the tapes are available via

I've got about more tape sets at Coach University's online bookstore.

I'll eventually get around to writing a book called

It contains checklists and other tools that coaches can fax or send to their clients
in order for the client to work on stuff between coaching calls, as needed.
I've got about 150 of the 300 pages done, and these include:
101 Ways to Make a Point
101 Intimacy-Building Questions for Couples
101 Feelings (for diagnostic purposes)
101 Ways to Fill a Professional Practice
101 Elements of a Person
...and 96 more.
This book is really a challenge, so I'm taking it slowly.
I'm thinking of merging it with the Coaching Forms Book.

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Another book that's about half completed is called

These are really cool.
I've organized the 1001 questions into 10 groups of 100 questions.
The book is especially useful for coaches and their clients.

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I recently completed a significant collection of tips, techniques and customized versions of

It is viewable

Related to that are the compilation of
and

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In March 1998, I completed the manuscript for a book published by Scribner called The Portable Coach,
with writer Byron Laursen. It is currently available at bookstores in the US and Canada and via

There is another book of mine (1998) that is selling pretty well (15,000 copies so far),
called Working Wisdom.

You can order it from amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com,
or pick it up at Waldenbooks, Office Depot or B.Dalton.

It's worth a visit to the website. Just click on the above animated gif.

I was a weekly columnist for

(London) for a while, but the weekly column is now being written by another coach from Coach University.
It was an honor to write it, but I'm not one for a weekly deadline. But it was fun and boy did my ego get big!

And, I'm about 50 chapters into my upcoming book called
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In the Fall of 1997, I led a 13-week training for 275 coaches called

which was also extremely well received.

The CRS generates about $1 million per year in new coaching revenue
for students and graduates of Coach University.

I also helped to design the new

In 1996, I sold my small Internet Presence Provider Service called Web On Call
to my colleague Marty Crouch who's a web wizard.

The key to WebOnCall (now called WebValance.com) is that Marty offers interactive websites
(ordering forms, surveys, assessment tests, etc.)

Marty Crouch and I worked on something called

which is a way for folks to take online tests and get scored immediately.

Related to that is the still-in-alpha

which will be a way for coaches to keep track of the clients and their progress...
sort of a like a web-based ACT program, customized to meet the need of coaches.

Also, in alpha, but progressing slowly is the project to develop 1,000

which are a 2-page summary of what to look/listen for, and include coaching strategies.

I also created a site where coaches and other experts
can list their TeleClasses for free, called

TeleUniversity has really worked well and I am very pleased with it.
It was purchased by Coach University in the Fall of 1997 and it merged with TeleClass.com in April 1999.

I began working on

in 1988,
which offers a 2-year training program for professionals
who wish to become personal or business coaches.
Nearly 5,000 students and graduates already.  Wow.

I sold Coach U to Sandy Vilas in the summer of 1996.

From Feb-June 1997, I was in London, England,
opening up the International side of Coach U.
A full page story in The Times sure helped!
Coach U is currently in 37 countries.
Coach U has also established local chapters worldwide as well,
about 125 at this point.

I helped to create Coach University's
designation and examination.
 

In 1994, I founded/funded the

which now has nearly 3,000 members.

A book that I'm especially proud of is called .

The Distinctionary has recently become a co-creative project thanks to the efforts of  who turned it into a Website that anyone can add their ideas to existing distinctions or even add their own.

Along that same line, I have enjoyed another co-created project called the

where I and other writers have packaged information,
advice and wisdom in the format of easy-to-find-and-use Top 10 Lists.
The 1000+ lists have been accessed over 1,000,000 times and
50,000 people a day receive an email broadcast containing one of the Top 10 Lists or other nugget from Coach University.
Coach University purchased this site and contents in September 1997.

Other books that I've written and illustrated include the ,,,

and the 1000-page collection of the 36 Module Workbooks of the Coach Training Program.

I used to lead live workshops, such as the

, and the , but I mostly lead TeleClasses now -- too much anxiety leading live workshops, and heck, I'm retired, so why push it?!

In early 1996, the media discovered Coach University and I got to be
on the major TV networks and large daily newspapers, Donahue and
received coverage in a number of other countries.
It was fun, but I'm over it!

Over 250 stories worldwide were published from February 1996 to December 1999.
Wow. And, they continue!

You can get samples of these via autoresponder at articles@coachu.com.

I like to create visual stuff when I have a moment,
like advertisements for the coaching process like these
and

and lots of logos like this one:

and

And, I've eventually get around to several more interesting projects.
One is the , where students play around
with the notion of memes (which are like genes, but actually are ideas that replicate and mutate on their own);
the other is the , where anyone can find out every aspect of themselves and their business.

Kinda like a self-assessment, self-discovery and problem-sourcing Website.

Both of these projects are the next generation of my work.

Thanks for stopping by.

Warmest,

Thomas
 

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