So on May 12th 2020 right in the middle of ‘Lockdown’, I held what I suspect might be the UK’s first virtual book launch! Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide The launch of my book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide was a chance to share the culmination of several months of my work and my passion
Mentor Coaching
Why become a mentor coach: Extract from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide
This is the final extract from my upcoming book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide. If this piques your interest, you can pre-order here If you are not a coach, I hope you might still be taking this journey with us as you might still learn something about leadership in roundabout ways. My motivation for mentor
Why we need to work with a reflective practitioner: Extract from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide
This is the third extract from my upcoming book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide. If this piques your interest, you can pre-order here If you are not a coach, I hope you might still be taking this journey with us as you might still learn something about leadership in roundabout ways. It is important to
Preparing for Mentor Coaching: Extract from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide
This is the second extract from my upcoming book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide. If this piques your interest, you can pre-order here If you are not a coach, I hope you might still take this journey with us as you might still learn something about leadership in roundabout ways. There are three elements that
Individually tailored, high-impact development: Extract from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting extracts from my upcoming book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide. If this piques your interest, you can pre-order here. If you are not a coach, I hope you might still take this journey with us as you might still learn something about leadership in roundabout ways. I love
In coaching, it’s the little things that make a big difference
As I have been mentor coaching coaches recently (observing their coaching and giving them competency-based feedback), we’ve realised that small changes in language make a big difference to the way a question or an observation is received by the thinker. It might only reach their sub-conscious, but even then, it will get in the way
Mentor coaching – I’ve written a book
Here’s what I learned I’ve written a book this summer. On mentor coaching (where a coach is observed and given feedback against a set of competencies). Mentor coaching is what I am becoming known for. If you want to find out more, you’ll have to wait until April for the final reveal. In the meantime,
Mentor Coaching is for life – not just for a credential
How coaches show up in the room The International Coach Federation is the only professional coaching body that assesses coaches’ actual coaching skills in depth – how you show up in the room. How we show up in the room is way more important than how much we know about the theory of coaching. The
International Coaching Week 2018
Last year in International Coaching Week, I co-created this wonderful animated story about Helen’s journey towards supervision. This year, I am talking at the International Coach Federation UK conference about when to use coach mentoring and when to use supervision. International Coaching Week provides a great opportunity to experience coaching and raise its profile and
New Date: Lock-in for International Coach Federation Accreditation
Find the “loving kick” to accrue your Mentor Coaching hours and complete your paperwork You’ve decided to externally validate your coaching with the International Coach Federation (ICF), but finding the time – and the motivation – has been tough, given your workload. You are ready to spend some good quality time on it, and you
Making blind spots visible through mentor coaching
During an action learning facilitator training day that I ran recently, one of the participants said that she learned about blind spots she had – by practicing in front of others and getting feedback – that had never come out during her supervision of her action learning facilitation. She was an experienced facilitator, and she
Post-supervision Reflections on my coaching
I shared an article with you last week – Stay Sharp, Stay Safe. So in the interests of staying sharp, I took a recording of my coaching to supervision a couple of weeks ago. So enlightening, listening to my coaching through someone else’s ear! You might remember the coaching session in question, as I posted
Coach mentoring, coach supervision – the difference
Are you a coach, wondering whether to look for coach mentoring or coach supervision? What’s the difference between the two? Your time and money are precious, so how do you decide which to invest in? Here’s how I would differentiate between the two: Coach mentoring: Gets you ready for accreditation (the International Coach Federation) mandates 10
