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Andrew Parrock
Sally East
Pradip Shroff
Epimetheus
Lilian Abrams
Martin Richards
Maria Biquet
Simon Dennis
Katy Tuncer
Ian Flanders
Simon Darnton
Geoffrey Ahern
Alan Robertson
Isobel Gray
Laurent Terseur
Aubrey Rebello
Lynne Hindmarch
Doug Montgomery
Sue Young
Jeremy Ridge
Naomi Dishington
Wendela Wolters
Nicholas Wai
Charlotte Murray
Yvonne Thackray
All in Benefits writing
This is a story and a dream that started many years ago. It is about the search for the Holy Grail, the key to unleashing the potential energy in leaders, teams and organisations. The journey will cover a new understanding and importance of system energy, how to measure it and most importantly, how to change it.
In part one I described how it came to be (add link) and explored the similarities of the framework and mindset a coach and an author (the ‘being’), looking at Contracting and Researching, and Show don’t tell. The final three of the five things that the practice of coaching and the practice of novel writing have in common are;· Getting the reader/client to do the work; Having patience with the unfolding story; Flow state; being ‘in the zone’. I will describe what they feel like for both my coaching practice and my creative novel writing and focus on the internal and external processes for coaching-writing (the ‘doing’).
This blog looks at some similarities I have seen between coaching and novel writing, as my experience in these two activities has grown over the last six years. It’s such a strange idea that I feel I must describe how it came to be, so that you can make sense of it.
Does the pain of writing outweigh the gains that you will receive from writing?
A coaching case report on helping a Project engineer lead the project like an owner by Pradip Shroff CEO Coach, Mumbai
For Maria and Yvonne, after working for a combined years of 20+ years and collectively over 350 clients around the world, it’s been a while since we’ve taken those training wheel off and in each of our ways moved to that curiosity stage of all the different components that makes coaching coaching. We wanted to share from our experiences some of the myths we hold that when we begin to explore in more detail, that there is more to consider than what meets the eye.
But what I have not come across in the written literature, is anything that examines the practical details of what a coach actually does during a coaching session.
And by that I mean, what is going on inside the coach’s head?
As I stepped back to further reflect on what I’ve written, and integrating them with my recent experiences of coaching, I began to evaluate my style of coaching and what could be underpinning my approach. The key word that continuously popped up for me was ‘character’.
As a coach I help my coachees, as a manager I help my team, in conversations I help my colleagues and in supervision I help my coaches do one thing above everything - achieve clarity. Above all else – a great coach I know, Simon North, says, ‘Clarity Wins’. I think that is the role of a manager. It's the role of a coach.
The pandemic has provided an opportunity for coaches to re-evaluate and take stock of the practice and business and determine how they want to deliver coaching. Coaching is often described as the 'Wild West' because it has a perception that many who come into coaching consider that it's easy to earn money in coaching, versus those people who are coming to coaching to deliver something of value through coaching.
A few years ago, my dear colleague Yvonne Thackray asked me, “Who are your ideal clients?” I was puzzled by the question. “I can work well with any leader who wants to work with me”, I said. To me, it was a simple question of them being motivated to achieve their coaching goals, and their feeling with a comfortable fit with me. She countered by saying that she suspected that that might not be the full picture.
This is the second in a series of blogs where Martin Richards (a Certified Coach) has been interviewing Lisa M Evans, Ed.D. (an Experienced Educator) about situations from her experience, working as a teacher and administrator, focusing on which coaching skills that would have benefited her in those situations.
This is the third in a series of blogs that examines the ways in which a coach-educator manages the external and internal struggles that arise from taking on challenging educational assignments.
This is the first of a series of blogs where Martin Richards (a Certified Coach) has been interviewing Lisa M Evans, Ed.D. (an Experienced Educator) about situations from her experience, working as a teacher and administrator, and focusing on which coaching skills that would have benefited her in those situations.
This is the second in a series of blogs that examines the ways in which I, as a coach-educator, handle the external and internal struggles of taking on challenging educational assignments. But, it's not working out. There have been challenges. Resistance, from the trainers, is increasing.
This is the first of a series of blogs that examines the strategies an independent coach-educator can use to handle the external and internal struggles that arise when taking on a challenging education assignment in a less-than-optimal setting. My name is Martin, I have worked as a teacher for many years, especially with so-called challenging students, from whom I realize, I have learned the most about teaching.
It's an interesting parallel because in some industries, deregulation or lack of regulation at all enables people to make choices about what's good, what's bad. You would hope that the good remain and the bad gets sifted out. I think coaching's one of those things where the quality of coaching can have a knock on impact - that can have a lasting effect.
