Don’t be so sure

David Lane and Martin Down Are these uniquely difficult times? And if they are, how do we coach our clients through them? We are told we are living in unprecedented times, so what does the evidence have to offer when there is no evidential precedent? What might the...

Emotional appeal

Continuing our series looking at coaching tools and techniques, Coaching at Work road-tests the Individual Effectiveness questionnaire. The tool What is it? The Individual Effectiveness (IE) questionnaire measures 16 scales of Emotional Intelligence (EI), ranging from...

Coach driver

Kathryn Pope has a lot on her plate. AS UK ICF president, this tenacious and unconventional coach has set an ambitious agenda for a historically cautious body – and fully intends to meet it. Liz Hall discovers how. Kathryn Pope has a reputation for getting things...

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...

News-in-brief: I

Training must be more ‘experiential’ reveals new report Many coaching and mentoring training programmes in England fail to synthesise training and practice. This was one of the conclusions of a draft report for LifeLong Learning UK (LLUK) from Trends Business Research...