Collaborative Working Works
Last weekend I met up with my friend and colleague, Jane Gray. Jane is an optometrist, clinical lead, coach, leadership development facilitator and most importantly she is someone who makes collaborative working work! We had dinner at the beautiful Mallow Restaurant in Borough Market in London. As well as catching up on everything we had […]
Executive Coaching – a Testimonial
It’s always a privilege to work one-to-one with senior leaders who are managing multiple complex issues and leading large organisations. Creating the space in which deep thinking occurs, insights are shared and the other person finds or regains their passion, enthusiasm and power is the most rewarding work. Thank you to Joanne Bennis, Chief Nurse, and […]
The Multi-generational Workforce – review of our Zoom chat
The Multi-generational Workforce Last week we hosted a Zoom Chat about the benefits and challenges of age-diverse teams. Our millennials provided some reverse mentoring on the call and we all learned a bit more about ourselves and the world of work from other perspectives. Here’s some feedback from a couple of participants First up, Chartered […]
Coaching Wednesdays: Readiness for Coaching
An important part of the pre-contracting conversation is to establish whether the potential coachee understands coaching, particularly the non-directive style of coaching and their responsibility for taking actions towards achieving their goals. We include the following in our pre-contracting information sheet to help potential coachees consider whether coaching is the right option for them at […]
Coaching Wednesdays: Coaching Tech – what’s the gen?
We know that there is an undeniable shift in the way that organisations are developing staff and this means inevitably big changes ahead for L&D departments. We hear about moving from a learning culture to a coaching culture with some people asking if L&D departments are under threat entirely? As we move towards a self-directed […]
Coaching Wednesdays: A way of being
Carl Rogers, the eminent American psychologist, is perhaps best known for the person-centred approach, which he applied not only to his therapy work but to education too in the form of student-centred learning. To explore what this means in the context of coaching we need look no further than his practice of holding the […]
Coaching Wednesdays: Self-efficacy
Do you believe in your ability to manage a task successfully, and generally cope with life’s challenges? Self-efficacy, or the beliefs you hold about your capability, has a huge impact on how you think, feel, behave and motivate yourself. High levels of self-efficacy means we are more likely to set goals, demonstrate persistence when […]
Coaching Wednesdays: Coaching on the spot
Many of our clients encourage their team leaders, managers and heads of department to develop a coaching style of management. Typically this focuses on the need to hold back from directing staff members. Let’s face it, it’s so much easier and quicker to simply tell someone what to do. Or another approach often used by managers […]
Coaching Wednesdays: Common Coaching Dilemmas
In this video, Clara the Coach talks us through some of the common coaching dilemmas that coaches-in-training need to manage. https://vimeo.com/217722198
Coaching Wednesdays: Coaching for resilience
What is resilience? Resilience is often described as the ability to bounce back after facing some difficulty. Or getting back up when you fall. Recent research by Lawton Smith (2017) suggests that resilience is actually more than bounce-back from past events. It also includes acceptance about the current reality whilst being able to envision the […]
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