May 21

May 21 Redressing the balance between positional and personal leadership by Yvonne Thackray

Practitioner Experience, Cases/Caselets, Leadership, Asia, Prof CC

A lot of my work in coaching is helping professionals reframe their understanding of the work they do in comparison to similar value work in the market place. MAKING PROGRESS AS A PROFESSIONAL

May 14

May 14 Listening unlocks my approach to coaching by Keiko Shinohara (guest)

Guest Author

Practitioner Experience, Skills, Listening, self-awareness, self development, CPPD, Con PPD

Every coach listens; the difference lies in the ways we each focus on what we’re listening to and how (self-) aware we each are when we’re listening to our client communicate with us.

May 1

May 1 An experience of finding rhythm and how it translates to coaching by Simon Darnton

Simon Darnton

Practitioner Research, coaching app/philosophy, Cases/Caselets, self-awareness

If you have read my previous two pieces here on rhythm, you’ll already know it’s a bit of theme in my coaching work. But I'll admit to you upfront that how I bring myself to coaching is still a major piece of inquiry for me. I don't quite know yet and I'm intrigued by how this is unfolding as my coaching practice develops.

Apr 23

Apr 23 Live where you fear to live: Embracing our own challenges as coaches by Jon Dunsmore (Guest)

Guest Author

Practitioner Experience, Cases/Caselets, learning styles, self development

During my postgraduate diploma studies in psychological coaching with the Metanoia Institute, I followed a strict study regime – devouring coaching books in my spare time. One such book was Much Ado About Coaching, published by the contributors to this website.

Apr 7

Apr 7 Working as a Consultant Coach can speed up results! By Maria Biquet

Maria Biquet

Practitioner Experience, CPPD, Consulting, Cases/Caselets, coaching style, coaching market

Most of us are fed up with instructions, ready-made solutions and all the literature about “the X steps to success” that somebody else has tried (or just imagined) and presents them to us all as the Guru in the matter of self- development and success in life and business.

Mar 30

Mar 30 Coaching myself as part of my career transition: Entering, and then sustaining, a transitional space by Caroline-Lucie Ulbrich

Caroline-Lucie Ulbrich

Practitioner Experience, Career Transition, self-awareness, self coaching, Identity, Reflection/Learning space

Understanding how I am developing my coaching practice has enabled me to become more aware and sensitive towards assessing how I apply what I do in coaching on myself, first, before advising others. I think it is important to “walk-the-talk” to demonstrate that a coaching approach is effective. It also helps with putting oneself

Mar 13

Mar 13 How sustainability leadership is redefining individual liberty: a new context for executive coaching by Geoffrey Ahern

Geoffrey Ahern

Practitioner Research, sustainability, ethics, Business Development, coaching app/philosophy, Org CC

Championing both individual liberty − as we do in coaching − and the sustainability vision are in conflict in the world today. There are signs that they could move ahead together, but that this would require a radical redefinition of what it means to be free!

Mar 2

Mar 2 Delivering coaching workshops for groups of tech entrepreneurs by Katy Tuncer

Katy Tuncer

Professional Experience, Business Development, Start ups, Group coaching

Recently I have launched group coaching workshops, building on successful pilots in 2017. My core role remains as a Business/CEO coach, normally one-on-one, and I work extensively with senior leaders in the tech industry in Cambridge, UK – both on the investor side – Angels, VCs – and portfolio company CEOs and/or Founders.

Feb 20

Feb 20 What is this rhythm thing and what does it have to do with coaching? By Simon Darnton

Simon Darnton

Practitioner Research, self-awareness, Competitive sports, coaching market, Cases/Caselets

In my first piece about rhythm being an untapped dimension in coaching and one that, for me, was born out of a domain full of speed and risk, it follows that what I do in coaching has to do with rhythm. I help my clients to find better rhythms, of course, but what about me?

Feb 6

Feb 6 WHERE CORPORATE CULTURE LIVES The Competitive Advantage of Empathy by Dr. Lucille Maddalena

Lucille Maddalena

Research, Practitioner Experience

Every day corporate leaders announce plans that will revolutionize their organization, move them forward and provide the environment to successfully take on more challenging work. The process can be likened to a business owner at the turn-of-the 20th century writing his hopes and dreams for the company on

Jan 29

Jan 29 My story of Coaching: Finding the way to myself by Maria Biquet (Guest)

Guest Author

Practitioner Experience

When I was about 25 years old I started asking myself why I am What I am. I didn’t know what I was and even more I didn’t know who I was. This still remains a big question for most people…

Jan 9

Jan 9 Rediscovering authenticity with the help of role biography by Caroline-Lucie Ulbrich

Caroline-Lucie Ulbrich

Practitioner Experience, External references, Reflection/Learning space, self coaching

I extensively used role biography as a self-coaching technique during a two-year Executive Master’s program in organizational psychology. I reflected on the roles I had assumed throughout my life in several case papers and as part of my thesis.

Jan 2

Jan 2 Dispatch from the [Internal Coaching] Front by Ian Flanders

Ian Flanders

Internal Coaching, External references, supervision, Cases/Caselets

I recently took part in a group supervision meeting with a number of my fellow internal coaches. For the coaches it is an opportunity, once a quarter to come together and discuss our practices. My sense is that for all of us it is an opportunity to get help and support, learn from others’ experiences, and take strength from the community. During this meeting two of the group shared quite different dilemmas that were troubling them,

Dec 26

Dec 26 If...for Coaches by Isobel Gray

Isobel Gray

Org poem

Dec 18

Dec 18 How to Say No …gracefully by Katy Tuncer

Katy Tuncer

Professional Experience, Skills, Cases/Caselets

Imagine you are not yourself, but you are “in charge” of you. You can deploy yourself to any set of tasks and activities you choose, in life and work.

Dec 12

Dec 12 “Rules of Thumb: My Own Coaching Heuristics” by Dr. Lilian Abrams, Ph.D., MBA, MCC

Lilian Abrams

Practitioner Experience, self development, coaching style, CPPD, Con PPD

I have realized over my time as an executive coach (and prior to that, as an OD consultant) that I have assembled my own personal treasure box of what I call “heuristics”. These are the pithy sayings, models, and go-to concepts that I have found useful in describing my meaning, in terms of providing a contribution to my client in that moment in our coaching conversation. (Understanding the nature of that prompting urge is, I suspect, a topic for another blog-piece!)

Dec 6

Dec 6 Rhythm - an unrecognised and untapped dimension of coaching: seen through a perspective born of speed and risk by Simon Darnton

Simon Darnton

Practitioner Experience, Cases/Caselets, self-awareness, Competitive sports, coaching app/philosophy

It was around five thirty in the evening. A warm, sunny August evening. Delightful. The course was now almost deserted as I descended the start ramp on foot with Finn, my 9 year old son.

Making sense of how the detail of behaviour works in Coaching – and forming greater awareness of this most important frontier for progress in Coaching by Jeremy Ridge

Nov 23

Nov 23 Making sense of how the detail of behaviour works in Coaching – and forming greater awareness of this most important frontier for progress in Coaching by Jeremy Ridge

Jeremy Ridge

Practitioner Research

I still find important gaps between my awareness of what actual Coaching practice involves, and what standards, or level of understanding, I believe is needed, that I can use to keep my awareness high about what matters in my practice.

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