Who can a coach coach? What’s ethical? By Yvonne Thackray

Who can a coach coach? What’s ethical? By Yvonne Thackray

Yvonne Thackray
Con PPD

Recently a peer, who has worked in leadership development for almost two decades and holds a doctorate, reached out and asked a question about a challenge involving another coach which they considered to be an ethical issue. It was clear in their mind that the situation shouldn’t be taking place, especially as they are also trained as a therapist and the type of dynamic involved would never be allowed. With their permission, I asked if I could summarise their question/observations and share here after writing my response to their important challenge.

My Ikigai as a Coach by Ai Sakura (Aimee)

My Ikigai as a Coach by Ai Sakura (Aimee)

Guest Author
Con PPD

Welcome to my blog! Here, I will share with you how I transitioned my professional career from my corporate job (venture capital sales) into coaching. There was a lot of soul searching done in the process which I will dive deep into, and will share with you some concepts that helped me in my self-discovery.

Peer supervision by Yvonne Thackray and Katy Tuncer

Peer supervision by Yvonne Thackray and Katy Tuncer

Joint Authors
Con PPD

Peer supervision is an integral part of our practice. We have had between 6 to 8 hourly supervision sessions a year for the past few years and value the expertise in each of our coaching markets to provide the necessary space to check our fitness to practice. Our ultimate agenda when we participate in our sessions is to check our fitness to practice.

Expectation Mapping a Game Changer by Aubrey Rebello

Expectation Mapping a Game Changer by Aubrey Rebello

Aubrey Rebello
Org CC

In my 10 years of Coaching Practice, one of the constant refrains I find Business Leaders facing is " How do I Manage a Team Member who is constantly under Performing." Normally, the situation for this refrain plays out when a supervisor points out non-performance as and when it occurs, this of course creates some bitterness. It can also demotivate the poor Performer. 

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.

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