Peer practice

The British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology now has 15 peer practice groups. Recent topics included levels of coaching, identifying themes for developing models, and exploring statistical figures for coaching psychologists in the region....

Good medicine

The Centre of Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) has been helping pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim after it made redundancies for the first time in 150 years. CAPP has been bringing employees together to celebrate the shared history through storytelling, Nicky...

New report debunks non-directive ‘myth’

It is a myth that coaches adopt a purely non-directive approach, says a survey by leadership consultancy 121partners. Only 2 per cent of coaches adopt a non-directive stance in coaching, says the survey. It also finds that “even in the post-recession economy”, only 15...

‘We’re not here to save the banks’

The question of whose and which agenda coaches should focus on hit a nerve at a debate hosted by the EMCC UK. Panellist John Blakey said coaches should consider not just the individual’s but their sponsor’s agenda and that of the wider community. Another of the...