Womens rights

Letters on a variety of coaching-related topics Three cheers for Peninah Thomson’s article in issue 1 of Coaching at Work, analysing the specific coaching needs of executive women spot on in every paragraph! I have consistently found the self image and career...

A room of your own

A series looking at coaching interventions examines the technique Clean Space The tool What is it? Clean Facilitation is a technique that aims to direct the client’s attention to new possibilities in a non-interpretative way. The specified questions and syntax of...

Core competencies

Looks at the International Coach Federation competence of “managing progress and accountability”. Each of the ICF’s core coaching competencies has a job to do; a reason for being there that is designed to support the coach in supporting their client. The importance of...

How to…coach young high-flyers

Targeted coaching may help companies retain their talented young employees and steer them on the path to leadership Inga Pioro YOUNGER PEOPLE are generally overlooked for individual coaching, with organisations preferring to offer them more generic development...

Straight talking man

A manager has yet to use his coaching skills because he feels it’s quicker to tell his staff what to do. How can he break this long-standing habit and allow himself valuable time for coaching? The problem Barry is a manager who is newly trained in coaching. Although...