Doctor’s orders

NHS managers make decisions that affect not only the state of their business but the health of every UK citizen too. Nowhere has executive coaching been more important says Sarah-Jane North The actions of any management team have a direct impact on the wellbeing,...

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...

Coaching Train to gain

In part one of our two-part special report on coach training, Liz Hall examines the overall trends in coach education and development. What’s on offer and where can you go to get it in a growing and often confusing market? The answers are here. If the sense of...

Coaches weather recession

By Helen Slingsby Coaching is proving highly resilient to the current recession, with more than a third of coaches saying their business has grown during the downturn. Despite arguably the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, a further 36 per cent of coaches say...