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
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How to Think as a Team
We’ve focused in this series on how to come to coaching as an individual, to do your best thinking. Today, we look at how to come to coaching as a team, so that the team can do its best thinking. You might think that it’s just a case of each individual coming as themselves, being
Coaching is only as powerful as the thinkers themselves
“The most significant variable in coaching is the readiness, willingness, and ability of clients to change in ways that are meaningful to them” (Drake 2023). So coaching is only as powerful as the thinkers themselves! Everything we have seen in the past few blog posts about how you (the Thinker) turn up to coaching is
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
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 3
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
Seven years of business
My business is seven this week. I have been a business owner for seven years! Me! Yes, me! An entrepreneur. A female entrepreneur. I have a thing about proving myself as a female business owner – I don’t know where that came from, but I knew right from the start that I wanted to be
My writing journey
Given my recent award for a series of articles in Coaching at Work (links at the bottom of this post), I thought you might be interested in how I got here. How I got to being an award-winning writer. Gosh, that sounds grand. I need and want to own that – I am an award-winning
The Yin and Yang of (Virtual) Leadership: Deep business acumen and deep personal acumen
Can you be good at business and good at personal relationships at the same time? If you want to be a great (or even a good) leader, this is another Yin and Yang that you need to factor into your way of working. What is business acumen? How would you describe it? Let’s look at
The Yin and Yang of (Virtual Leadership): Self-confidence and confidence in others
As a leader, we need self-confidence. I work with a lot of leaders who lack inner self-confidence, although they put a brave face on it. Some might call it imposter syndrome – thinking you will be found out sooner or later. But much of the time, we are simply facing situations that we have never
The Yin and Yang of (Virtual) Leadership: Unified Team and Diverse Individuals
This yin and yang of leadership calls on you to get better at choosing diverse people for your team when you recruit. There are so many variables to diversity that bring so many unique experiences to decision-making. The more diverse your customer base (or should I say your desired customer base), the more diverse your
The Yin and Yang of (Virtual) Leadership: Hold Accountable and Trust
Your role as a leader is to get work done through others. You can’t do it all yourself, as we discovered in the yin and yang of task and relationship. That means though that you do need to hold them accountable for results. I’ve been coaching one senior legal leader who wanted to figure this
