Executive and Leadership Coaching – what next?
Executive and leadership coaching is a big business with an estimated value of $2billion globally and it is continuing to grow rapidly. Research…
Responsiveness and response-ability
A friend of mine was recently negotiating flexible working hours in a new senior leadership position. While we were sharing…
Advanced coaching skills: Part 6 – Changing the world, one person at a time
Arguably, this is the most controversial coaching blog that I have yet written… The potential controversy lies in the fundamental…
Advanced coaching skills: Part 5 – Coaching for diversity
How do we, as coaches, approach diversity? I’m sure that many of us hold a firm belief that this is…
Advanced coaching skills: Part 4 – Ability to pay attention to the full data
Virtually all coach training emphasises – with good reason – the importance of listening skills. Paying attention to what’s being…
Advanced Coaching Skills: Part three – Paying attention to the wider system
Recently, I’ve read a 20-year-old book with the catchy title: We’ve had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy, and the World’s Getting…
Advanced Coaching Skills: Part Two – Ability to step in an out of empathy
Much is written about these days (and not a moment too soon!) about empathy and compassion, and their place in…
Advanced Coaching Skills: Part One – Ability to critique…. everything
The most transformational coaching workshop I’ve ever attended started with the facilitator (Sir John Whitmore) writing these words on the…
Growing my coaching practice
“Write a blog on the Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching?” was the request. “I’ve just written about 12,000 words for my…
Fundamentals of Coaching
Coaching has become increasingly used within organisations to provide a learning experience for leaders and managers where complexity and change…
Coaching Fundamentals Part Nine: Boundaries
Boundaries. One of the first words you hear in coach training, usually accompanied with an overlapping Venn diagram consisting of…
Coaching Fundamentals Part Three: Feedback
If – to use the metaphor from Part Two of Coaching Fundamentals – “coaching is a relationship between two people, in the…