How do coach supervisors respond to ethical dilemmas and tricky issues? In the last of this two-part series, Jonathan Passmore, Eve Turner and Marta Filipiak conclude their research In the last issue we asked whether coaches and their supervisors could be equally culpable if they unwittingly collude with their clients against the wider interests […]
Millennials will form half of the global workforce by 2020. Understanding how to engage them is a must, but many employers are missing a trick when it comes to doing so through coaching and mentoring, suggests research. Carola Hieker and Harshada Topale report Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and 2000, will form 50% […]
We road test JCA Global’s The Feelings Wheel What is it? As part of its toolkit of resources for accredited practitioners in Emotional Intelligence (EI), people development and business psychology consultancy, JCA Global, part of PSI, a global workplace solutions provider, embraced the theory of emotion experts Robert Plutchik and James Russell to develop […]
Hazel Russo shares how her board game, Lumination™, is being used as a powerful coaching and facilitation tool in organisations Two decades ago I invented a treasure trail in my local woods which invited people to explore a question they had about their lives. Fifty people took part. We divided them into small groups, […]
In this three-part series, Jenny Campbell explores how to coach for resilience. Part 1: The principles of resilience coaching Employees need to be resilient. I’ve always found the insights from the Resilience Engine’s resilience research1 transformative in my leadership coaching. But there’s another side to resilience. Employees are under massive pressure to perform. Many […]
The coaching process is full of paradoxes that have a tendency to act as a divide between camps. But what if we harness the energy of the paradox to better understand tension? Sue Fontannaz and Elaine Cox identify seven team coaching paradoxes Coaching is a complex, multi-faceted process which, although widely used, is often […]
Lis Merrick explores the mentor’s confidence and how to develop it Mentors should feel self-assurance and confidence in their role. However, there is also a balance between healthy confidence as a mentor and those mentors who spend most of the mentoring session talking about themselves. How does low confidence arise? Some mentors feels […]
In this column, we provoke fresh thinking and round up some of the weird, wonderful, quirky, surprising – and shocking – stories out there Schadenfreude based on fear Deep-rooted fears around survival, including concerns about social identity and fairness, can lead us to see others as less than human and experience schadenfreude (joy at […]
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Coaching is the most helpful activity in achieving the goals of change management initiatives, according to research. Addressing leadership style, strengths and blind spots; overcoming resistance; building resilience and change readiness, and finding processes and tools, are the most frequently cited reasons for using coaching activities for change management, according to a survey by the […]