Sticky business

Coaches need to acknowledge the importance of the relationship in their practice- Bowlby’s attachment theory has resonance for both coach and client, suggested Bill Critchley. By Elaine Robinson Sharing Ashridge’s relational approach to coaching at the European...

Tulpa calls on coaches to go global

Katherine Tulpa, CEO of the Association for Coaching (AC) Global, challenged coaches to think big at the AC’s largest conference to date. More than 400 delegates each day attended the AC’s Going Global conference in London on 11-12 March. In her keynote...

Big fish, new pond

A decision to keep only the ‘safe’ members of a sales force has coincided with an upsurge in new business. Can coaching take them out of their comfort zone – and into new ways of selling? Valerie is sales director of a large manufacturer. The difficult...

Many hands…

Continuing our series looking at coaching tools and techniques, Coaching at Work road-tests the sub-personalities approach 1 The tool What is it? Strictly speaking, the use of sub-personalities in coaching is not a tool but an approach. Even though the concept of...