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Curiosity is my ‘in the moment’ progress and success measure for coaching by Yvonne Thackray: Part 2

Curiosity is my ‘in the moment’ progress and success measure for coaching by Yvonne Thackray: Part 2

Yvonne Thackray
Con PPD, Coaching CS, Knowing coaching

Understanding that curiosity is one of the basic traits needed for survival has been a paradigm shift for me, my coaching practice, and my education because it addresses how I have intuitively applied curiosity in my coaching practice with my clients to enable their potential. In Part 2, I’ll go into more detail of how curiosity manifests itself in my work as a coach and the approach I’ve used to write up these experiences for curious coaching practitioners to consider as part of their own continuing professional and personal development.

Curiosity is my ‘in the moment’ progress and success measure for coaching by Yvonne Thackray: Part 1

Curiosity is my ‘in the moment’ progress and success measure for coaching by Yvonne Thackray: Part 1

Yvonne Thackray
Con PPD, Knowing coaching

Understanding that curiosity is one of the basic traits needed for survival has been a paradigm shift for me, my coaching practice, and my education because it addresses how I have intuitively applied curiosity in my coaching practice with my clients to enable their potential. In Part one, I describe why curiosity is important in my practice, and in Part two, I will explain how curiosity unfolds and emerges though my work as a coach.

History as a resource of knowledge for People Development professionals and Coaches by Maria Biquet

History as a resource of knowledge for People Development professionals and Coaches by Maria Biquet

Maria Biquet
Con PPD

Studying history is observing the changes that human kind went through and understand our behaviour today. The process of people development, mentoring, training and coaching aim at helping a person change their behaviour and act in a different way. In order to make progress we need to understand where we stand today and what has shaped our behaviour until today; how we have behaved in similar situations; how we formed our current beliefs; what we have achieved in the past. It is our personal history that evolves within the historical framework where we are born.

What I wished I’d known about setting up a coaching business – The nitty gritty of setting up and running your own executive coaching business by Lesley Hayman (Part 3 of 3)

What I wished I’d known about setting up a coaching business – The nitty gritty of setting up and running your own executive coaching business by Lesley Hayman (Part 3 of 3)

Lesley Hayman
Coaching CS, Con PPD

My coach training was excellent but it didn’t prepare me for what I needed to do to set up and run my own coaching business successfully. I want to share some of the things I’ve learnt in this 3-part blog:- 1) before training 2) surviving and prospering post training 3) the nitty gritty of setting up your own business.

The Novel Coach- What coaching and writing novels have in common (part two) by Andrew Parrock.

The Novel Coach- What coaching and writing novels have in common (part two) by Andrew Parrock.

Andrew Parrock
Con PPD, Benefits writing

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’).

Matching coaches with clients, the next evolution in Internal Coaching by Simon Dennis (Part 2)

Matching coaches with clients, the next evolution in Internal Coaching by Simon Dennis (Part 2)

Simon Dennis
Con PPD, Knowing coaching, Org CC

In Part 1 of this series, I reported on how external coaches have shifted their practice, as time has moved on, on refining their model and refining their offer so that they're offering something unique and specialist. Absolutely, it might restrict their market, I think though there's an element that says it makes you a better coach because you're dealing with your strengths and your unique offerings. Building on this focus of being a better coach, I apply this notion into the internal coaching context and its practical application with a proposed blueprint.

What do I mean by ‘integrity’ in my coaching practice? By Sally East

What do I mean by ‘integrity’ in my coaching practice? By Sally East

Sally East
Con PPD

Integrity means I feel a sense of validity within what I'm doing and understanding of the shared purpose with the client. For the coaches, themselves, the integrity, is partly about their own inner confidence of how I feel about all time talking about what I'm able to offer, and how I'm doing it. And then the outer confidence is about how I'm actually doing it, sharing it and showing it as I coach my clients.

What I wished I’d known about setting up a coaching business – surviving and prospering post training by Lesley Hayman (Part 2 of 3)

What I wished I’d known about setting up a coaching business – surviving and prospering post training by Lesley Hayman (Part 2 of 3)

Lesley Hayman
Coaching CS, Con PPD

My coach training was excellent but it didn’t prepare me for what I needed to do to set up and run my own coaching business successfully. I want to share some of the things I’ve learnt in this 3-part blog:- 1) before training 2) surviving and prospering post training 3) the nitty gritty of setting up your own business.

A no blinkers approach to coaching- seeking a wider view for new coaches, by Sally East

A no blinkers approach to coaching- seeking a wider view for new coaches, by Sally East

Sally East
Con PPD

Whilst there are plenty of opportunities for managers and leaders to coach colleagues in an organization, more are choosing to strike out and start their own career as a coach. They have had some basic workshops as part of the on-the-job training, and, typically without clear guidance as to when to appropriately use their coaching skills in various situations, they may have had a diverse range of results. Now that they have applied this thing called ‘coaching’ and it’s worked, some of them want to be a coach (and exit their current role).

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