Do we connect?

If it’s true that women and men are ‘hardwired’ differently, what does that mean for how and who we coach? We asked two coaches who work together as business partners for their thoughts. SHE SAYS… JACKIE KEDDY Clive is the opposite to me in so many ways. His...

2009: your year in coaching

By Liz Hall Last year could go down as the year coaching started to grow up. Certainly many of you consider its survival as a main achievement of 2009 – and rightly so. Yet it was also the year coaches showed just how resourceful, creative, accepting of facts,...

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...

Exercising power

Continuing our series looking at coaching tools and techniques, Coaching at Work road-tests the Leadership Signature Toolkit. 1 The tool What is it? The Leadership Signature Toolkit is both a model and online psychometric instrument. It helps leaders deploy the most...