Picture Perfect

Imagery is often used in coaching to generate quick solutions but coaches believe it can also be an invaluable tool for deeply transformative change. Includes brief exercises in imagery Eve Turner Imagery, including metaphors, is a normal part of language. Phrases...

Geneva conventions

Switzerland may be multilingual, hierarchical and results-oriented, which can be challenging for coaches, but the coaching profession has huge potential there Angelique Miralles Letter from Switzerland With 21 per cent of the population from overseas, the one common...

Letters

Three letters on issues of coaching Happy Coach – managing I enjoyed the write-up to our Association for Coaching debate (News, vol 2, issue 6, page 8), where Phil Ferrar argued that managers could “only wear the coach’s hat when the sun is shining”, and I put...

A different track

Profile of John McGurk, the CIPD’s new adviser on coaching Sarah-Jane North Train driver to coaching tsar is not the most obvious of career paths, but such has been the journey taken by John McGurk, a new CIPD adviser on learning, training and development. At first...

What’s age got to do with it?

Research states that people’s developmental needs change as they get older and coaches should vary their approach accordingly Bob Garvey Coaches will often hear from clients phrases such as “at my age”, “there must be something more to my life”, “I am being hijacked...