Out of the dark

Continuing our series looking at coaching tools and techniques, Coaching at Work road-tests the Hogan Development Survey. The tool What is it? Psychological Consultancy Ltd (PCL) first published the UK edition of the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) 10 years ago. The...

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...

Top dilemmas revealed

Feeling pressurised to reveal client information is one of the top 10 ethical dilemmas for internal coaches, finds research by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). Other dilemmas include coaches knowing something about the client’s future that the...

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...

Positively blooming

Positive psychology has a mission – a noble goal – to help the world flourish by feeling good. Fiona Parashar’s study reveals seven themes that can help coaches turn this ambitious call to action into a reality. One of positive psychology’s calls to action is to...