How to…evaluate coaching

Is it possible to make a concrete link between the bottom line and coaching? Yet this is exactly what organisations are demanding. Choosing what to evaluate is the first step Demonstrating Return On Investment (ROI) is one of the hottest topics for 2009, according to...

Credit where it’s due

The lack of women at management level makes depressing reading. But a mentoring pilot at Clydesdale Bank is successfully addressing the imbalance between the sexes. Kate Hilpern Only 12 per cent of board directors are female, and one in four FTSE boards has no women...

Keeping mum in the workplace

Female leaders are discovering that the ‘mothering’ skills they acquire on maternity leave are also distinctly new talents critical to successful leadership Research carried out in the financial services sector to evaluate how group coaching supports women returning...

Does curiosity kill the chat?

Can we lay all judgment aside in a coaching conversation? An academic at Sheffield Hallam University’s Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit examines our motivations. David Wagstaff Walking during late afternoons, as the nights close in, I get glimpses into people’s...

Orchestral manoeuvres

Hypothetical case study of a board of a multinational finding its new CEO critical and controlling. She accepts the need for coaching; but only for them, not herself. How can she be persuaded to take part? The problem Jane was appointed UK CEO to a multinational...