Do get your hopes up

A Danish psychologist states that the use of hope theory is key to coaching Applying hope theory to coaching can offer more than a “quantum of solace” as individuals and society battle with the challenges arising in the current troubled times. Danish coaching...

Step this way

Although most companies are aware that they have too few women at board level, the gender imbalance continues. Shows the challenges women must overcome if they are to keep moving up the ladder. Peninah Thomson We thought we’d covered our ground when our book came out...

Manager-as-coach: The coaching contract

First in a short series as manager-as-coach Elaine Robinson and her report and client Rebecca Peat share diaries of their sessions together, starting with the coaching contract Meeting One The coach Elaine Robinson, senior lecturer, HRM, Nottingham Business School,...

How to… coach authentically

What does it take to be an authentic coach? Sharing the ‘professional you’ is a necessary part of the coaching relationship, but without input from the ‘whole you’, any genuine dialogue is lost By Natalie Carolan and Simon Callow Some years ago, after a somewhat...

Ripple Effect

Launch of the Coaching the Community campaign, looking at how coaches and mentors can use their skills and make a real difference in the wider world Liz Hall Enlightened self-interest; as the Dalai Lama calls the awareness that in helping others we help ourselves;...