Personal Mantras and the Secrets of Adulthood
Today’s post comes from Nancy Beyer. Her personal mantras have been learnt over years, and through thick and thin. What…
Creating Insight
Creating insight for yourself and others is the main function of a supervisor. Discuss! I read an interesting article on…
A poem about listening
Please, just listen. When I ask you to listen to me, and you start giving advice, you have not done…
Great questions
One of the major elements of coaching is asking questions, such that the other person can come to their own…
What’s the difference between good coaching and GREAT coaching
I went to a presentation by the Center for Creative Leadership about creating coaching cultures recently. I came away with…
How Does Coaching Fit into Awakened Enterprise™?
Today’s guest post is from Patrick Ryan, leadership trainer and master coach. This is a great summary about why we…
Busting the myths about coaching
I am often asked to recommend a coach to help someone to "fix" a weakness, such as not working constructively…
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…
