Book reviews — Volume 5, Issue 3

  Title Where Were all the Coaches When the Banks Went Down? Author John Blakey and Ian Day Publisher 121partners ISBN 978 1 445 21597 6 Usefulness 4/5 This book has its heart firmly in the right place: it wants to improve the practice of coaching. Its theme, in...

Guardian angel

Darryl Warden found a little coaching went a long way to helping him achieve success in the Great North Run. Could he translate that positive feeling into a coaching culture at South Tyneside Council? I won my race! I completed my first ever Great North Run in the...

Coaching on the rise

Liz Hall Some 82% of organisations use coaching but only a third evaluate it. Coaching take-up is higher than ever and is consistent across sectors, according to the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development´s (CIPD) 2010 Learning & Development (L&D)...

Crowd pleaser

The story of the Coaches in Government Network is a lesson in what can be done when practitioners get together. Ken Smith, its founder and co-ordinator, shares the tale of its success One afternoon in 2006, after coaching a client who clearly experienced something...

Solaglas is clear ICF winner

ICF Prism Awards 2009 Glass replacement and installation expert Solaglas has won an award for a coaching initiative for frontline managers that reaped a 490 per cent return on investment (ROI). The award-winning initiative also saved the business £797,000 in...