John Whitmore, in his book Coaching for Performance, said that he had been told what to do as a small boy, then at school, then in the army. “So when I reached a position of authority, what did I do? I told people what to do, because that is what all my role models had
Tag: performance coaching
Safe environment for testing my thinking
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
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
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
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,
