Are boundary definitions preventing coach therapists from offering their clients the best possible interventions? Kate McGuire reports Why do we do what we do as coaches and therapists? What is the best way of doing our work to achieve our purpose? What enables us and what gets in the way? At the AICTP conference […]
The largest ever UK study of barriers to team engagement challenges conventional thinking about the way engagement is measured and suggests that teams are often nowhere near as engaged as their organisations think they are. The joint Engage for Success/Ashridge Executive Education/Oracle study shows that only a quarter of UK teams are giving their best […]
We need to devote more time in psychology to exploring the light side of human nature, say researchers. The dark side of human nature, encapsulated in the ‘Dark Triad’ of traits – Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism – has been more heavily researched in psychology than the other extreme, and a team led by US psychologist […]
To many, the loss of David Gray feels both personal and professional. He was a great colleague who worked to get the best out of you in joint projects and brought immense humanity to the relationship, writes David Lane. I worked with David Gray on projects including the Global Coaching Convention (GCC) in Dublin and […]
An earthquake in England led Neil Scotton to think about climate change – and an earth-shattering conclusion about our profession and planet Earth It was with great fear of a backlash that in late February I posted on LinkedIn the article which appears in an edited version below. What happened next was extraordinary. Have […]
How should we coach when we find ourselves with shared experiences or mirroring behaviour? Can we maintain our connected separateness? Lindsay Wittenberg I’ve been thinking about how I bring myself to my client encounters, and factors that influence this. I’m reflecting on what’s emerging around ‘converging’ and ‘parallel’. Some years ago I coached a […]
Penny Mallinson and Sue Coyne LID Publishing 978 19125 5519 2 5 out of 5 stars When a curve ball in life hits you, you either fold or grow. The authors both had life hit them full force unexpectedly, but it became a huge growth opportunity. Their quest to find happiness and a way […]
Karen Dean and Sam Humphrey Routledge 978 11383 7010 4 5 out of 5 stars If like me, you don’t feel you need yet another coaching book, then may I politely ask that you nevertheless consider this little one? It has completely new stuff you won’t find anywhere else. I had just finished on the […]
Questions ultimately speak louder than qualifications say Thomas Chalmers and Russell Borland, our latest hosts in the business of coaching column When Russell and I were introduced to one another, it transpired that we were each coaching in the financial services sector, mostly in London, although we both live in central Scotland. Same sector, […]
Georgina Woudstra seeks to stimulate thinking around team coaching. Guest writer, Declan Woods, examines moving from non-cooperation to collaboration In this issue I’ve invited Declan Woods to share his ideas on team collaboration, in particular what he calls ‘team glue’, a dimension from Middle Circle® for Teams (Coaching at Work, vol 13, issue 5), […]