Round-up of stories from the Coaching at Work: Beyond Frontiers conference:
Should coaches sniff cognitive enhancers before sessions?
Cognitive-enhancing pills and a spray of bonding hormone oxytocin could be just what the modern coach needs, a neuroscientist has suggested. CLICK HERE
Goal-setting findings should silence critics
Findings from neuroscience showing the importance of goal-setting should flatten opponents of the GROW model once and for all, suggested cognitive neuroscientist Geoff Bird. CLICK HERE
A whole person focus is ‘ultimate’ means to better performance
To perform or fail; to be a hero or a zero? We live in a culture of opposites: strengths or weaknesses, work or life, talent or effort, but in coaching it is never one or the other, argued Alex Linley, co-founder of CAPP. Linley drew on positive psychology and strengths-based coaching to argue that a focus on the whole person is the ultimate route to performance improvement.CLICK HERE
Lets get more flexible
Where, if at all, are the boundaries between coaching and therapy/counselling? Is there a third way? These were some of the questions raised at the Beyond Frontiers debate. Liz Hall chaired the event The line between coaching and therapy/counselling is getting fuzzier. A ‘third way’ of coaching has emerged that draws on psychological approaches, but there is no one way – each coach has their own approach. CLICK HERE
Kaleidoscope tackles cultural complexity
In a global market with a mobile middle class and the emergence of global ‘nomads’, an understanding of culture is essential for coaches working with clients in leadership positions, argued Jenny Plaister-Ten. CLICK HERE
AWP creates coaching by stealth
Many deem top-level support essential if change programmes are to stick, but for Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) NHS Trust, not having the board on board proved an advantage. A community of solution-focused (SF) managers and leaders has been created by stealth at AWP in the past three years. CLICK HERE