Back in my corporate employee experience days, we carried out some research which showed that people prefer to talk to their friends and peers about their career, rather than speaking with their manager. Given that this should be a role that line managers fulfil, we wanted to understand what stopped people from talking with them. What do
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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
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
