Book reviews – Volume 5, Issue 1

  Title Further Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring Author David Megginson and David Clutterbuck Publisher Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 978 1 856 174992 Usefulness 4/5 Produced as a companion to Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring, 2005, this new text incorporates...

Do I have to spell it out?

Sue Blow, research associate in the Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit at Sheffield Business School, looks at the use of metaphors for sharing meaning.  “When I use a word”, Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean –...

Love’s labours lost

A survivor of a round of redundancies is now being coached as a potential high-flier. But she reveals that the upheaval has left her ambiguous about the company. How should coaching proceed? The problem Rachel works for a company that has fought hard to climb out of...

Coach driver

Kathryn Pope has a lot on her plate. AS UK ICF president, this tenacious and unconventional coach has set an ambitious agenda for a historically cautious body – and fully intends to meet it. Liz Hall discovers how. Kathryn Pope has a reputation for getting things...

Counting the cost

How coaches behaved in the credit crunch isn’t just a matter for personal reflection – coaching is young enough for our reactions to have affected the whole profession. It’s time to get our house in order, says John Blakey  At the start of 2009, I was reading Coaching...