Growth Indicator

David Clutterbuck and David Megginson’s emerging concept of Coach Maturity offers a refreshing and insightful lens on coach development. Rachel Ellison interviews Professor Clutterbuck on the model, and invites perspectives from coaches and buyers of coaching A...

Terms of Engagement

Happy, engaged employees are the golden grail for managers, yet it is also true that staff join companies, but leave their bosses. By evolving a coaching conversation, such as OSCAR, companies could reverse the drain, says Jenny Rogers. Imagine there is to be a...

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

Start small, keep it simple, harvest the learning for the organisation, and offer extensive support to internal coaches,advises Sue Mortlock as she reflects on her seven years leading the UK’s National Health Service’s (NHS) national coaching initiative   I spoke...

Exchange Students

People on the edges of society usually assume higher education is out of their reach, but Goldsmiths College’s Open Book Scheme is challenging that – and coaching is helping make a difference. Marcus Morgan investigates When Michele Grant came across a project...

Nobody’s perfect

Why do we strive for perfection? Is it even achievable? Better to master a task through practice, says Anne Lueneburger, than to chase the uncertain promise of perfectionism, whose only outcome is likely to be emotional distress, even burnout. Perfectionism is based...