Manager-as-coach: Building on success

Offers practical advice to line managers involved in coaching their own staff Many of the managers I work with often ask how they can coach their poor performers to enhance their motivation and performance. You can do this, but it’s also worth considering another...

Trouble is our business

As the credit crunch bites, coaches must get ready to help their clients survive the crisis. Daniel Burke As coaches, now is the time to make our greatest contribution. Organisations are under intense pressure to restructure and focus on core money-making activities....

How to… coach authentically

What does it take to be an authentic coach? Sharing the ‘professional you’ is a necessary part of the coaching relationship, but without input from the ‘whole you’, any genuine dialogue is lost By Natalie Carolan and Simon Callow Some years ago, after a somewhat...

Knead to change

A hypothetical case study of resistance to change after a merger. Can coaching lead to engagement and motivation of the new team? Two leading coaches offer their advice The problem PP is a large non-UK state-owned company investing in property on behalf of a public...