Today’s guest post is from Barbara Harvey. It’s great to see how she’s developed her own coaching style, based on an experience of being coached herself. Barbara writes: My first experience of coaching came when I found myself, at very short notice and unexpectedly, rubbing the jet lag from my eyes in a hotel in
Developing People Is our Business
On Being Coached
This week’s guest blog comes from Nadine Crowe. She writes… When I joined my company four years ago as an experienced hire, I was given a list of available Career Counsellors in my Workgroup. I asked my then line manager if she knew anyone on the list and she recommended a name. My Career Counsellor
Say nothing
This week’s guest blog post is from Jane Sandwith, Development Director of 3D Coaching, and is about silence as a way of showing you are present. Jane writes: Catharsis, when someone leaps to a new understanding, happens when they are paying attention to what is going on ‘inside’ them, not when they are paying attention
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 that there will always be more work than there is time available. To cope with ever-increasing workload, I tried to get smarter and more efficient in my work, but every hour saved was filled with
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 there are so many things that people call coaching, which really are not coaching. Such as mentoring, which is about giving advice based on experience. Coaching is not advice. So what is it? It’s
My coaching story
I thought I might take a step back today and share my coaching story, so that you get a feel for why I rate coaching so highly above other learning options. It was 12 years ago that I started to read about the power of coaching compared to training. Research shows that
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 on my mind at the moment. One was a positive piece of feedback from Bob (for those of you new to this blog, Bob is my boss); and one was a constructive piece of feedback
The Stroke Economy
Your role as a supervisor is to give strokes as you manage your people’s performance. (And when I talk about managing performance, I am not just talking about the once/twice a year performance appraisals – I’m talking about the daily interactions that increase performance). It’s about giving people attention, whether that’s through praise, recognition, thanks,
Integrated Adult
I’ve been reading through my notes from my Transactional Analysis 101 course, to develop my own understanding of how I can get the right balance between Parent, Adult and Child behaviors. Seems like it might be useful for me to share it with you guys too. So here goes, let me try to translate it
Being an adult
So I’ve shared the first draft of the conversation starters, and I mentioned yesterday that we are going to add a different layer to them that enables the supervisee to come to the conversation fully prepared, in adult mode. I’ve mentioned this adult thing a few times lately, so let me explain more.
Change of plan
Victoria made a great point yesterday in her comment about sharing the questions with a supervisee before the meeting, so they could have a chance to reflect. And a couple of other comments from a couple of weeks back have struck a chord with me too…Manufreey said that telling the truth, the whole truth and
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 UK, and Tuesday was my birthday, and I never work on my birthday. Thanks for all your best wishes – the power of social media strikes again. Let let me know what you think of
Hurricanes, earthquakes and conversation starters
I heard this morning that the East coast of the US is about to be battered by Hurricane Irene. So our lousy weather here pales into insignificance. Keep safe if you are in that area (though why you would be reading my blog right now instead of battening down the hatches, I don’t know!). My
Focus on the positive
It’s dreadful weather here in the New Forest. So bad that I feel my Seasonal Affective Disorder starting early this year. I don’t get it as badly as some people, but I know it when I feel it now, and I know what to do about it. So my lightbox is on, my dynamis flower
Update on Conversation Starters App
I got lots of feedback from our internal people about the conversation starters app. I’ve sifted through all the great feedback and have updated the picture. I’d like to share that again so you can see the next iteration. One thing to bear in mind is that these are just the titles of the conversations,
Supervisor Apps
Another request…if you use a Smartphone, have you come across any apps on the market already that have been developed to help supervisors to do a better job of developing their people? I am a new i-Phone owner and I don’t quite know where to start in researching this – there are so many apps
