Cultivating Coachability is available to purchase NOW (scroll down for all of the locations where you can pick up your copy). I’ve had a busy two weeks with three book launches and publication day. It already has its first 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 reviews from people who read it pre-editing. And on publication day, I put in an
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The Big Day is coming: October 28th is publication day!
Due to some last-minute technical issues with the printers, the publication date for “Cultivating Coachability: How to leverage coaching readiness so thinkers can optimise value” has been moved to October 28th. But don’t let that dampen your enthusiasm – it’s just a little more time to build anticipation! If you haven’t already pre-ordered, now’s the
Personal Development Part Seven: Writing
Do you write? It might be jottings or articles or blogs or LinkedIn posts or books. Whatever it may be, how do you feel about it supporting your personal development, perhaps alongside your professional development? I’ve never been much of a diary writer except when I went travelling. I haven’t journaled much until recently either.
Personal Development Part Two: Therapy
“Learning can sometimes feel illusive, but comes in little epiphanies. Is that an oxymoron I wonder?” This is a note I made for myself after a Gestalt therapy session. I’m feeling something profound shifting in me, but I’m not trying to change. The little epiphanies are not actions. They are realisations. About who I am
Why am I writing this book?
This post is an extract from my Autumn release book about Coachability (title still TBD). It will give you a hint of what awaits you! I’m driven to innovate, to think afresh, to be a bit edgy and provocative. You might experience that provocation as you read this book. At the same time, I have
My purpose as a master coach, master mentor coach, coach supervisor and human
This post is an extract from my Autumn release book about Coachability (title still TBD). It will give you a hint of what awaits you! I’m here to make (organisational) life more human, one thinker or team at a time. I want to contribute to a world that fights less and loves more. You may
Intentional Learning
How intentional are you about how you learn? We can learn from the everyday of course – if we put our minds to it. Learning isn’t restricted to a classroom (face-to-face or virtual). You may have come across the 70-20-10 model of learning (Jos Arets, Charles Jennings, Vivian Heijnen), a special mix of 70% learning
My Coaching Journey
I am often asked about my journey into coaching. To save me repeating myself, but also to give myself a bit of reflective space to think about it, I thought I might capture that journey here for you. Maybe you are interested, maybe not. Maybe there is something for you to learn from this, maybe
Coaching in Education: Unlocking the Potential and the Power of Learning
May I introduce you to Leonie Hurrell, who works as a coach in the education sector. You’ll notice how similar the coaching issues are that arise in this industry; some of the systemic issues around lack of resources, lack of time etc are also similar to other industries. This highlights how important it is to
Supporting Midlife Women in the Public Sector
I’d like to introduce you today to Sarah Clein and her blog post that outlines her experience of working with mid-career women in the public sector. This is one of our series on coaching in different industries. I hope you are enjoying the different lenses through which my guest bloggers are seeing the power of
Coaching and Innovative Thinking in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Today I’d like to introduce Alun Bedding, who has worked in pharma for many years, now as a coach. His post forms part of our series on the systemic impact of coaching across industries. When I started in the Pharmaceutical Industry over 30 years ago, I had no idea what coaching was. It was attached
Coaching in Healthcare has a Positive Impact
This is the second post in a series about the systemic impact of coaching in different industries. This week, I’d like to welcome Helen O’Grady, outlining coaching in healthcare. I was touched as I read it, considering the huge difficulties faced by our healthcare professionals. Before I became a coach, I was a paediatric nurse for 15
How do you show up to coaching?
It struck me, as I finished off the series about mastery in thinking, that it might be useful to provide you with a questionnaire to help you to decide how you show up to coaching and whether you could get more from coaching if you were to show up differently. So this questionnaire – for
Mastery in Change
Last time, we looked at how to master your thinking – how to think deeply and through different lenses. But in coaching, we don’t think for its own sake. We think for the sake of making decisions and doing things differently. My definition of coaching is “a joint endeavour to discover new thinking that energises
Mastery of Thinking
Since I became a Master Certified Coach a few weeks back, I have mastery on the brain. But not mastery for coaches, mastery for thinkers. How can you, as the thinker, master your thinking? William Buist writes about Intentional Mastery. He suggests that: Mastery is enhancing and honing your wisdom. It’s about who you are
The antidote to derailers in coaching
The Art of Possibility is one of my favourite books….as much for the title as for the content. Coaching is all about possibilities. Looking for new ways of doing and being. But in order to find those new ways of doing and being, you need to believe in the art of the possible. I’m not
