Fancy a warm-up session?

How many times have you been faced with a client and felt paralysed by your own ineptitude? In this series, Sam Humphrey looks at stereotypical clients and identifies the CPDs you can undertake to support your coaching mastery. This issue: Carry On Coaching Client...

Women on the edge

Catherine Sandler and Kate Lanz work with executives on the borders of coachability. Some even have to be dragged to sessions. But shying away from a challenge just isn’t in these coaches’ joint nature, especially in such turbulent times, discovers Liz Hall It’s...

No more taboo on trust

By Liz Hall We need to remove the taboo about talking about trust – the helping professions have a role to play in ensuring this happens. This was one of the messages from Donald L Ferrin, associate professor at Singapore Management University, in his keynote...

Seeing is believing

The special report on coach training (‘Train to Gain’) makes great and heart-warming reading. It is very good news that agreement is emerging among leaders in the field about what coaching is there to do. The other factor that gave cause for delight is that more and...