Family business

Balancing work and home life is a challenge for most parents. So when three companies trialled Next Generation’s parent coaching, it was no surprise that the courses were inundated. Sarah-Jane North Babies and children do not come with an instruction manual. Most...

Hidden depths

Coaching’s boundaries with therapy are starting to blur. Research reveals how coaches view psychotherapeutic interventions Eve Turner As coaches, we are very much aware that we are not therapists. So what does that mean for our coaching conversations? How do we...

Letters – Vol 3, Issue 5

Letters commenting on issues raised in the previous issue of Coaching at Work on the subjects of neuroscience and coaching and career coaching The brain drain When I taught neuroanatomy to medical students, the limbus was my favourite part of the dissected brain. It’s...

Resistance movement

Two coaching experts offer their solutions to a theoretical coaching problem The problem An external coach, Joan, has been brought into a medium-sized organisation by the new managing director to coach the board of directors. This underperforming firm has recently...

Turn up the volume

Two experts give advice on a hypothetical coaching query The problem The ‘quiet man’ in an investment bank will only make director if he gives a better first impression. He has been offered coaching, but will it help? And what exactly do his ‘loud’ new bosses want?...