Jul 2

Jul 2 A guide to the very lonely planet of working as a coach: maintaining my voice, presence and self as an instrument at its best By Luis San Martin

Practitioner Experience, Professional Development, learning styles, Business Development, Benefits writing

“Dad, I want to be a coach like you. [Dad replies, with clenched fists and a strained expression] Oh, God! Please, get a real job.” Let’s imagine for a moment that your kid comes up to you with such an occurrence.

Jun 25

Jun 25 Being and becoming: Mission reinforced by some exercises of meaning by Paul Foegle (Guest)

Guest Author

Practitioner Experience, External references, Life learning

The books of personal development are numerous to know a great success. With Jean Monbourquette's « How to Discover Your Personal Mission: The Search for Meaning », I am lucky (as well as others) to find keys to answer the question of how to do find your own search for meaning? How to welcome one’s Mission?

Jun 11

Jun 11 Passing ownership and responsibility with a non-directive style of coaching by Simon Dennis

Simon Dennis

Practitioner Experience, Cases/Caselets, Internal Coaching, coaching style, relating/relationship

My style of management and coaching can best be described as non-directive. Over time my roles have evolved to become more strategic than tactical, more management than operational. Partly it was about always seeking consensus – usually by asking questions – rather than telling somebody how something could be better. Partly it was also because I didn’t

Jun 4

Jun 4 How Coaching expands and enhances Leaders’ capacity by Maria Biquet

Maria Biquet

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

As a Coach I work with high level Executives and Entrepreneurs in developing their skills, abilities and behaviors to match the complex requirements of their roles. Developing a person is a highly demanding and very revealing process for both the Coach and the Coachee.

May 21

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

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

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the good coach is a coaching knowledge platform for a community of sophisticated coaching practitioners to learn and share their professional insights and personal reflections of how coaching works for them in their market.