What does coaching really mean?
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Recently, I wrote an article for the brilliant guys over at The Charity Learning Consortium. I considered the question ‘What does coaching really mean?’ I dove into the work of…
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Is it time to stop worrying about the competition?
“I’m a bit of a maverick when it comes to competition in business. You see, I don’t think I have any. Before you accuse me of all sorts of arrogance,…
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Turning leaders into coaches
Late last year I was a guest on the wonderful Kelly Loudermilk’s POP Talk. We spoke about the benefits of leaders assuming the role of coach within their organisation. We…
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Performance management: why poor results should be managed with coaching, not disciplinaries
“We might replace the terms ‘misconduct’ and ‘capability’ with the more optimistic ‘willingness’ or ‘ability’.“ I recently wrote for Training Zone about the way employers conduct themselves around poor staff performances. A…
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How to apply inner game coaching principles
“Only people can achieve targets and they need to be allowed to learn their own effective ways for doing so.“ I recently spent some time with the brilliant Tim Gallway, author…
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How good coaching can replace bad performance reviews
“If we coach our people properly we can hold them accountable for their performance and develop them at the same time.“ More and more organisations are ditching annual appraisals and…
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Coaching: why it might be time to ditch the GROW model
“The notion of GROW coaching can make us believe that asking questions is all there is to coaching, but this is simply not true. “ I recently wrote an article for…
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Coaching: If you manage people, you’re a coach whether you like it or not!
“As a manager of people, being a coach to the team is inevitable. They can do it well or they can do it badly. What they can’t do is avoid…
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If you’ve never trained before, start with coaching
“Coaching can help us reinforce the idea that doing the job and learning about the job are not separate, competing activities, but rather part and parcel of the same activity.“…
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Never has business coaching seemed less relevant but perhaps that’s unfair.
Looking at the list of key workers the UK Government published in response to Covid 19 is a humbling experience.