Accentuate the positive

Describes how many managers use coaching to correct team members’ weaknesses, when a more positive approach is the key to engagement and improved performance. Liz Hall Too many managers use coaching to correct their team members’ weaknesses instead of playing to their...

Force for change

Is coaching in danger of repeating mistakes by ignoring lessons learnt in other professions? Michael Carroll The US military has devised two systems to help it learn from experience and avoid reinventing the wheel. One is called the AAR (After Action Review). Before...

The famous five

When coaches become supervisors they have to take on a new identity. Reveals the five levels of change necessary for the transition. Barbara Moyes Do good coaches make good supervisors? Becoming a coaching supervisor is a role transition; what sociologist Erving...