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A round up of the latest news and events to happen in the coaching and mentoring community. You can search the Coaching at Work archives by using the search box on the left.
Sure as Shell
Bookmark me Meanwhile, coaching helped Shell boost staff engagement, leading to better safety records, a survey had shown. Shell found those leaders with high levels of
UK organisations want more bang for the same coaching bucks
Bookmark me UK businesses are not cutting their coaching spend but they do want bigger impact, warned Peter Hawkins, honorary president of APECS. “There is a great
Peer practice
Bookmark me The British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology now has 15 peer practice groups. Recent topics included levels of coaching, identifying
Good medicine
Bookmark me The Centre of Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) has been helping pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim after it made redundancies for the first time in
New report debunks non-directive ‘myth’
Bookmark me It is a myth that coaches adopt a purely non-directive approach, says a survey by leadership consultancy 121partners. Only 2 per cent of coaches adopt a non-directive
‘We’re not here to save the banks’
Bookmark me The question of whose and which agenda coaches should focus on hit a nerve at a debate hosted by the EMCC UK. Panellist John Blakey said coaches should consider
Coaching vs therapy – stop looking for boundaries
Bookmark me It’s hard for coaches to harm their clients. We should worry more about what we can learn from therapy, said executive coach Jenny Rogers. “There is lots
Internal NHS coaches reject free supervision
Bookmark me The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHSII) struggled initially to persuade coaches to take up its free coaching supervision offer. Take-up proved
BP chief aided by coaching
Bookmark me BP’s boss apparently received coaching to help him deal with a grilling by angry senators in the US, according to British newspapers, including the Observer
Who is feedback feeding?
Bookmark me Executive coach Stephen Burt urged coaches to think about who feedback is feeding- it needs to be two-way and in both parties’ interests, he said. By