Editor’s choice of latest articles
FIRST PERSON: NATIONAL GRID CASE STUDY
Coaching is boosting performance and employee engagement at National Grid. Craig Rollason reports My first awareness of coaching was some 20 years ago, when my employer at that time introduced “coaching for excellence”, a two-day course based on the GROW model run by...
VIRTUAL REALITY
Adapt to our digital world… or it’s the end for traditional coaches and mentors By Andrew Jackson, Tammy Tawadros and David Tinker The digitalisation of our culture and our psyches provides new challenges for coaches and mentors, who must re-think traditional...
RISING FORTUNES
China’s coaching market is becoming increasingly sophisticated and competitive, writes Wang Fangqing, in Shanghai Professional coaching in China is starting to move into the mainstream, with the intervention increasingly welcomed into businesses, whether...
ROI: A WASTE OF OUR TIME?
ROI in executive coaching? For the sake of our profession, let’s stop using it, says Willem Jan Hofmans There is a lack of empirical evidence that coaching delivers the desired results, according to much of the academic literature, prompting me to focus my research...
TOOLBOX: ROADTEST – LET’S GET YOU MOTIVATED
This issue we roadtest the profiling tool, Motivational Maps By Carole Gaskell What is it? Motivational Maps® is a profiling tool based on more than 10 years’ research by motivational expert, James Sale. It enables people to understand what motivates them, measuring...
TRIED AND TESTED: BUILDING A STRONG COACHING STRATEGY
Jenny Bird and Sarah Gornall share their tried and tested framework for successful corporate contracting of coaching It’s clear that many organisations have coaching interventions underway without a coherent framework of standards and delivery. We know (and you...