The what, why and how of it

I’ve been thinking about why we do what we do and how we do it, a lot recently. I blame Tatiana Bachkirova. In the first term of her postgraduate supervision course at Oxford Brookes, we had to write about our model, demonstrating that we understood why we worked the...

Letters

Hearts and minds The report of the ICF European conference in Madrid (vol 6, issue 4) conjures up a highly charged atmosphere in which the keynote speakers’ words finally got the response they were advocating, although perhaps not in the way they were intending. As I...

What you’re saying online

At the last count, there were 2,130 members of the Coaching at Work LinkedIn group, from all over the world. Here’s a selection of what you’re saying: Typical fees in coaching Adopting a values-based approach to fees was recommended by Chris Grieve (and...

Letters from readers

fine line The issue of the boundary between coaching and therapy was a theme in Coaching at Work (vol 5, issue 4). Your Poor Practice Survey showed 61 per cent of respondents thought practising therapy while coaching was unethical, and 49 per cent poor practice, while...

Letters from readers

At your service It was great to see Coaching at Work opening up conversations about coaching’s role in the global shift towards responsible leadership and a sustainable future (vol 5, issue 4). I think Myles Downey is right (‘We’re not here to save the banks’, p9), we...