What I learned from the International Coaching Supervision conference: Supervision (and leadership development) for the 21st century
Thanks to Michael Cavanagh for an engaging and provocative presentation on supervision for the 21st century. This also applies to…
What I learned from the International Coaching Supervision conference: Ethics
This one day conference was jam-packed with great content...but so jam-packed that I didn't have a chance to process what…
What are you learning from your coaching supervision, or supervision of your supervision?
Do you have coaching supervision? Or if you are a coach supervisor, supervision of your supervision? It's becoming far more…
International Coaching Week
Next week is International Coaching Week. In honour of that, I'd like to re-share some of the posts I've written…
Trail blazing for the future
In my last post, Trail blazing in situ, I wrote about my aha moment that my passion for coaching and my job…
Trail blazing in situ
My brain (and probably my heart) has been working on overdrive, since I wrote my post about being a revolutionary,…
On being a revolutionary
I've been pondering something, ever since I wrote the post about the hopeless returns on leadership development. I've been wondering…
The added value of three way contracting in coaching
I used to think it was enough to have a contract directly with my coachee. But I have come to…
Hopeless returns on investment from leadership development
I've long said that "training" events where big names and gurus talk to 200 leaders at a time about leadership are…
The David Brent Effect: managers think they are better than they are
I read this article this week, and it reminded me why asking for feedback is so important, to give us a…
Get the monkey off your back
I want to offer you a challenge…to change one small supervisory habit. You may have read my post about keystone…
Building Collaboration Muscle
We all know that it takes frequent and consistent effort to build our body’s muscles. It’s the same with habits. …
Reflections on coach supervision
I recently started a new period of study, learning how to be a coach supervisor. having received coaching supervision in…
Feisty Feedback
Hop on over to 3dCoaching, where I have written a guest blog this week about Feisty Feedback. It's getting some great feedback!
Keystone Habits for supervisors?
Charles Duhigg, in his book The Power of Habit, writes about keystone habits....those habits that have a ripple effect into…
Lost in Translation
Sometimes we lose ourselves in translation. I’m thinking particularly about when we move from being an individual contributor to a…


