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Coaching. It’s not all about YOU!

Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, guys.  When you coach someone, it’s not all about YOU! What makes me say that? I’m fresh back from running another Leadership course, where on the third day I invite folks to coach each other. I ask them to use the...

Coaching made simple. One good question is all you need.

Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills

Pablo Picasso has inspired this week’s post.  Thanks Pablo, it is pouring with rain outside, and to be honest I was feeling a bit flat and lost for words until I saw your great quote: “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how...

How not to Coach!

Business Skills Training, Coaching Skills, Management Skills

If I asked you to name the one activity that Managers tend to neglect most, what would it be?  I suppose I must have trained thousands of Managers over the years, in organisations large and small, public and private, all around the world.  My experience is that very...

Ask more questions, stupid!

Business Skills Training, Consultants Training, Management Skills

If you could choose just one behaviour which you could somehow magically fix overnight in your organisation, and you had to choose the one which would make the most business impact, which one would you choose? I know which one I’d go for.  Easy.  Not asking...
The coaching session from hell

The coaching session from hell

Business Coaching, Career coaching, Coaching Skills

At the beginning of the year I was lucky enough to be part of a gaggle (or is the collective noun an “incompetence”) of business trainers and coaches who were trained in  Level B Occupational Personality Assessment.  Bully for you, I hear you say. The...

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