With competition for coaching assignments ever fiercer, is it time to develop your ability to coach internationally? You’ll need a certain mindset and the willingness and ability to embrace difference. Seasoned traveller and international coach Michael Millward explains About 25 years ago, I was working in a rapidly expanding telecommunications equipment manufacturer as an HR […]
Coaching at Work road tests We-Q, a measure of a team’s collective IQ by Liz Hall What is it? We-Q is the measure of a team’s collaborative intelligence – the ability to fulfil their purpose and thrive. We’ve all experienced the paradox of brilliant people stuck in the mud of dysfunctional team dynamics. Team […]
Elaine Patterson from The Coaching Supervision Academy introduces ‘The 7Cs’, a lens for coaching and coaching supervision which shows how we can bring more of our innate human qualities to our work to free others to do the same, gaining new insights and fresh perspectives Our work as coaches and coach supervisors is people work. […]
There are several reasons why formal mentoring programmes don’t succeed. Lis Merrick explains how you can avoid the common pitfalls Why do mentoring programmes fail? Here are my top nine problems to watch out for when designing and running a programme. Poor planning Ensure the programme is linked to the organisation’s strategic HR or […]
In this two-part series, Carol Whitaker, Michelle Lucas and Tammy Turner share insights around contracting from their just-published book. Part One: spotting the signs that re-contracting might be needed As coaches and mentors, we can often find ourselves stumbling across a situation we hadn’t foreseen. No matter how well we agree the way we want […]
How can coaching assist women towards authenticity? Sally A Jackson and Judie Gannon report In 1929, Virginia Woolf said, “It is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally, this is so. Yet it is the masculine values that prevail” (p74). Citing […]
In this column, we provoke fresh thinking and round up some of the weird, wonderful, quirky, surprising – and shocking – stories out there Let’s play happy families Our early environment has a long-standing impact on our self-esteem, finds research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Ulrich Orth at the University of […]
A host of movers and shakers received accolades for their contributions to the coaching profession, at this year’s Coaching at Work Awards. The award results were announced by editor Liz Hall at a ceremony at the end of the annual Coaching at Work conference in London on 4 July, which was then followed by a reception sponsored by […]
This year’s Coaching at Work annual conference has the theme of creativity and innovation, which are much needed in our profession and in these challenging times. The conference brings together stimulating, respected and world-class speakers including Ernesto Spinelli, Louise Buckle, Maria Symeon, Lis Merrick, Thrive Partners, Rachel Ellison MBE, Louise Sheppard, Graham Lee, […]
Graham Lee and Louise Sheppard talk to Coaching at Work’s Liz Hall about the importance of supervision being supervisee-led Louise Sheppard’s research on supervisee-led supervision, featured in Coaching at Work magazine, has been creating waves, and her series of articles on this has seen her shortlisted for a Coaching at Work award – results will […]