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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…

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…

Helping organisations to buy in to new behaviours and transformational change Neuropsychology is a relatively new term and marries some of the traditional theoretical frameworks from psychology with underpinning neuroscience that…

Demonstrating Good Training ROI Here at Spark Coaching and Training we’ve been in the field of training and development a long time and pride ourselves on providing training solutions that deliver…

The Four Pillars The model outlines the main elements of effective interaction with others, provides a diagnostic tool to allow participants to establish how they respond to people and situations,…

Selecting the Appropriate Coaching Style All too often we assign a task to someone and the job does not quite get done well enough. Why is this? One of the…

The Golden Thread of Intelligent Emotions Many coaches feel frustrated sometimes when they are asked to perform miracles in a few short coaching sessions. Being able to help a coachee, not…