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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The Thinker’s Mindset – Part 7
What are your thoughts about the mindsets we have discussed in this series? We (coach and thinker) are co-travellers, travelling into the unknown together, designing the map as we go, because there is no map for this person’s unique journey. Link to blog here. The aim of coaching is to move the thinker beyond known
The Thinker’s Mindset – Part 6
We coach the person, not the problem (Franklin 2019, Reynolds 2020), meaning we focus on “who” the thinker wishes to be at an identity level, such that they can “do” things that match up to this person they wish to be, coming from a place of grounded beliefs, values and mindsets. To coach the person,
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 One
Having written about the mindsets that a coach must unlearn in order to be an extraordinary coach, I got to wondering about the mindset of a thinker. How might the thinker show up to coaching in a way that would enable them to make the most of the thinking time. Because that’s what coaching is:
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
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
