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...

E-newsletters

Welcome to the January issue of the newsletter Happy New Year to you all. Our blogging section is now up and running with our first blog from John Whitmore – do let us know what you think. We’re currently gathering thoughts about issues concerning poor coaching...

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...

Cold comfort

Sarah Fenwick can boast one of the strangest and quickest assignments of most people’s coaching careers – supporting a polar expedition. She reveals the huge pressures – and the lessons learned by all. “It’s awful, the worst day of our lives”, and a tearful, “If it...