Events and Coaching Blogs

Julia Menaul’s latest book, Compassionate Coaching in the Corporate World, has been published this week and provides an introduction into compassionate coaching for professionals. Organisational leaders, line managers, HR professionals…

What do you do about “a Plodder”? This is a question asked of me by many a HR Manager over the years. You know the one. They are just about…

Many organisations now appreciate the benefits that training their managers in coaching skills can bring. Some organisations are training their managers purely in skills that they can use day-to-day with…

In Part 1 we discussed how easy it is to get lured into coaching clients that in retrospect is often not a good idea. In Part 2 of Can’t Coach; Won’t Coach we will…

A constant theme in supervision with many coaches is when they bring a tricky client issue or dilemma, that turns out to be linked to how they came to coach…

Many coaching clients want to improve emotional intelligence and/or interpersonal skills as it can be a real deal breaker especially in the world of work. Relationships, whether with colleagues, employees…

As a coach supervisor, I often hear coaches talk about their reasons for becoming a coach as being the desire to help people (to grow, develop, change things). More nefariously this need…

Top 10 Tips for Managers as Coaches Having facilitated a large number of coach training skills programmes this year, I have noticed how similar themes pop up time and again.…

Steps to Success: A strategy for coaches and coach supervisors It becomes obvious why all coaches need supervision if we focus on a process from Transactional Analysis called Discounting. The easiest way to…