What’s stopping us from coaching?
There are many advantages to both coach and coachee of the manager being more coach-like (that is, asking open questions,…
Unleash the independent critical thinking of your team members through coaching
John Whitmore, in his book Coaching for Performance, said that he had been told what to do as a small…
Accountability
Colin Brett and Philip Brew at Coaching Development write: “As a coach, you can offer your coachee the opportunity to…
Safe environment for testing my thinking
Today’s guest post is from Barbara Harvey. It’s great to see how she’s developed her own coaching style, based on…
On Being Coached
This week’s guest blog comes from Nadine Crowe. She writes… When I joined my company four years ago as an…
Be Mine This Christmas–help make it number 1!
With a little luck, I might be singing on a hit record this Christmas! I have high hopes for Jason…
Say nothing
This week’s guest blog post is from Jane Sandwith, Development Director of 3D Coaching, and is about silence as a…
Coaching as a Force Multiplier?
Today’s post is a guest post from George Burton. George writes: I’ve had to come to terms with the fact…
Performance Coaching and Career Coaching
In companies, I’d suggest that there are two forms of (real) coaching. Why do I add real in parentheses? Because…
My coaching story
I thought I might take a step back today and share my coaching story, so that you get a feel…
Emotional Intelligence and the Integrated Adult
I’ve been thinking a lot about strokes lately (can you tell??) and there are a couple in particular that are…
The Stroke Economy
Your role as a supervisor is to give strokes as you manage your people’s performance. (And when I talk about…
Integrated Adult
I’ve been reading through my notes from my Transactional Analysis 101 course, to develop my own understanding of how I…
Being an adult
So I’ve shared the first draft of the conversation starters, and I mentioned yesterday that we are going to add…
Change of plan
Victoria made a great point yesterday in her comment about sharing the questions with a supervisee before the meeting, so…
Next 3 Conversation Starters
I’ve been out of the office these past couple of days; Monday was a bank holiday for us in the…
