The Loving Container of Supervision In previous posts, I’ve explored what love looks like in coaching and the constraints that can limit its expression. Now I’d like to turn to two professional structures that profoundly influence our coaching practice: supervision and ethics. These structures can either constrain or enable love’s expression, depending on how we
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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
Ethical Dilemmas for Leaders As Coach: Supervision
Ethical dilemmas are just one of the things you might bring to coaching supervision. We’ve explored just some of the ethical dilemmas that you might face as a leader as coach. Other things might come into play that we haven’t discussed; keep an eye out for those as you are coaching. Something just doesn’t feel
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
Nobody is perfect – not even you
Note to supervisors: if you are expecting your people to be perfect, look in the mirror! Are you perfect? No. Well, nor are they. And your job is to help them to get closer to high performance (notice I don’t say perfection there, as that’s not terribly measurable – let alone achievable). Stop thinking that
The Bat, the Birds and the Beasts
You know, when I looked at a website of all the Aesop’s Fables, I was amazed at how many there are. And there are so many that I never heard in my childhood – like this one today. I don’t know whether you’ll keep commenting on them if I post all of them, but for now,
The Tortoise and the Hare
Here’s another Aesop’s Fable that might give us some pointers about leadership and managing the work of others. Take a read, and then post your comment about what this means for you. The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. “I have never yet been beaten,” said he, “when I put
