The Early Renaissance

Hello, I am Roach the Coach and I am your guide through the Coaching Chronicles. There are 4,500 species of us cockroaches so we are well placed, across the globe, and across time, to tell you about coaching… Galileo is one of the most formative ancestors of coaching....

Research matters

I see where you’re coming from Should you trust your intuition? Watch out, say Lis Merrick, senior lecturer at Sheffield Business School and Paul Stokes, deputy director of the Coaching & Mentoring Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University At the last European...

Mentoring

TAKE THE HARD WORK OUT OF IT Lis Merrick and Paul Stokes In the seventh in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we look at the role of the mentoring co-ordinator and the types of support available. This issue: programme facilitation tools Make sure you employ a...

REVIEWS

Book Title The Emotional Intelligence Pocketbook Author Margaret Chapman Publisher Management Pocketbooks ISBN 978 19066 1042 5 Usefulness 5/5 This little pocket book, now in its second edition, has managed to pull together all the information, tips and strategies...

What you’re saying online

How do you know coaching works? posted by Kevin Watson. Karen Castellon (US) says: “When the client responds to: ‘What have you gotten out of this coaching?’ It is the client’s perspective that counts.” Araya Khestong (Netherlands) says: “Whatever [my clients] want to...