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Technology developed for the coaching market needs to support, rather than drive, the coaching agenda while at the same time, coaches need to better understand technology and new types of data, according to participants in a multiple stakeholder debate on disruptive technology. Coaching think-tank, the Future of Coaching Collaboration (FCC), held its first roundtable on […]
People who like the ‘big picture’ and prefer to live their lives in a spontaneous way are more likely to thrive as a freelancer, according to research presented at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology’s (BPS DOP) annual conference in January. Researcher John Hackston collected data from an online survey of 1,308 freelancers […]
People who are ‘always on’ technologically tend to be more engaged at work, but also report more stress and a poorer work-life balance, according to research presented at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology’s (BPS DOP) annual conference in January. Organisations with cultures that encourage staff to resist the pressure to be always […]
IES launches wellbeing ROI tool The Institute for Employment Studies has created a tool calculating the return on investment (ROI) of employee assistance programmes, to help employers take an evidence-based approach to their workforce health efforts. The tool, created on behalf of the UK Employee Assistance Professionals Association, responds to a lack of evidence for […]
Ireland’s national police service, the Gardaí, is to invest around €110,000 in executive coaching for 70 senior rank members to build organisational leadership capabilities within An Garda Síochána (Gardaí), according to published tender documents reported on in the Irish Independent. Coaching would be provided by the successful executive coaching enterprise to newly promoted chief superintendents, […]
A successful pilot mentoring initiative for the black and minority ethnic (BAME) community is to be rolled out nationwide and extended to non-BAME youth claimants who might also benefit. The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘mentoring circles’ will be rolled out from next month (April) across the Jobcentre Plus network. Last year around 500 […]
Millennials are seeking multi-disciplined, diverse careers centring on learning and self-improvement. Motivations for accepting jobs differ between generations – 88% of over-55s cite salary as their top priority compared to 67% of millennials, according to a poll of more than 2,000 UK workers by recruitment technology platform, Tempo. Tempo’s research found that two-thirds of under-35s […]
Resilience at Work: Practical Tools for Career Success by Kathryn Jackson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 978 11383 0512 0 5 out of 5 Much of the literature informing resilience programmes is drawn from experiences outside organisational life. Resilience at work has received far less attention, so this book is welcome. However, its rich value comes […]
Coaching supervision is on the rise globally but regions share similar challenges in ensuring it reaches its potential. Carol Whitaker and Kristina Crabbe report Prominent figures in coaching supervision from all over the world took part in a collaborative enquiry into the global state of coaching supervision, organised by the Global Supervisors’ Network (GSN) […]
How do you coach an enthusiast for change or a resister to it? Coaches should look to the Buddhist image of the caterpillar and the butterfly by Lindsay Wittenberg Buddhists tell us that what the caterpillar perceives as the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning. That everything that has an ending has […]
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