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
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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
Derailers in Coaching – Part 2
As we ponder derailers further, let’s turn our attention to something called Thinking Traps. These are ways of thinking that can keep us trapped in unhelpful patterns. You may not be aware that you fall into one or more of these traps, but working with a coach (or therapist, depending on what you are working
Derailers in Coaching – Part 1
I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of the derailment of career trajectories and what might cause it. It first came to my attention when I worked in leadership development and I discovered the research by the Center for Creative Leadership which found five derailers that get in the way of leaders’ continued success: Difficulty adapting to change (the most
The Thinker’s Mindset – Part 4
The thinker is “creative, resourceful and whole” (Whitworth et al, 1998) and the coach’s job is to strengthen their thinking muscles, not do the thinking for them. The coach’s responsibility is for the process, the thinker’s responsibility is for the outcomes. You may not believe in your capacity to think when you enter into a
The Thinker’s Mindset – Part 3
Curiosity is for the benefit of the thinker’s new thinking, not the coach’s understanding. When your coach asks you a question, there is no “one right answer” and nor should they be asking you questions that fill them in on the detail [see previous blog]. They are asking you for your own benefit, to get
Paradoxes in Coaching – Part 5
Life and work are full of paradoxes, opposites, polarities, dichotomies, oxymorons, contradictions. So too is coaching. I noticed several as I was writing my book, The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking and Break Through to Coaching Mastery. So to give you a sneak peek at the content of the book, I thought I would share
Paradoxes in Coaching – Part 4
Life and work are full of paradoxes, opposites, polarities, dichotomies, oxymorons, contradictions. So too is coaching. I noticed several as I was writing my book, The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking and Break Through to Coaching Mastery. So to give you a sneak peek at the content of the book, I thought I would share
Paradoxes in Coaching – Part 2
Life and work are full of paradoxes, opposites, polarities, dichotomies, oxymorons, contradictions. So too is coaching. I noticed several as I was writing my book, The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking and Break Through to Coaching Mastery. So to give you a sneak peek at the content of the book, I thought I would share
Paradoxes in Coaching Part 1
Life and work are full of paradoxes, opposites, polarities, dichotomies, oxymorons, contradictions. So too is coaching. I noticed several as I was writing my book, The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking and Break Through to Coaching Mastery. So to give you a sneak peak at the content of the book, I thought I would share
DO judge a book by it’s cover
Coming up with a book cover that will grab your potential audience’s attention is not an easy task. But I really enjoyed the process for my upcoming book, The Transformational Coach: free your thinking and break through to coaching mastery. I’m working with a publisher called Right Book Press and they have the most phenomenal
UnLearning to Coach
In the film The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda, one of the greatest Jedi Masters from a galaxy far, far away, is Luke Skywalker’s teacher. He has many words of wisdom for the young Luke as he learns the ways of the Force. The pair are in a swamp, with Luke learning to use the Force
