Actress Celeste Holm famously observed, "We live by encouragement and die without it--slowly, sadly, and angrily." We can influence people's lives in many meaningful ways: as parents, friends, co-workers, or supervisors, but in recent years, professional coaching has proven to be one of the most effective ways to provide the encouragement people are dying (mostly figuratively--but sometimes literally) to receive. Coaching is different from...