Coaching for success with a soul
Many thanks to Wise Goose graduate Lucy Weldon for this post. Lucy is a career coach who specialises in the development of sustainable careers. Have you thought about what living to a hundred will be like? It will soon be unremarkable to live that long. Many societies, including the UK, are rapidly ageing. There’s lots of …
Continue reading “The Climbing Wall – A new way of looking at our working lives”
Many thanks to Mark Hunt for this post. Mark had recently finished his first training weekend with Wise Goose where we’d been looking at questions in coaching when he had real life opportunity to put the theory into practice! Recently, after a visit to Wise Goose, I was travelling back to Exeter along narrow Dartmoor …
Continue reading “Questionable Intentions – Intentional Questions “
Many thanks to Sarah Dawkins for this post. Sarah is a graduate of the Wise Goose Advanced Programme and works as a Confidence Coach here in the South West. If your confidence stopping you from taking those steps to getting where you want to be in your life or work then confidence coaching is a great opportunity …
In this month’s post Janet Kipling, a Wise Goose student, tells us how training in coaching is impacting on her work. Janet began her career as a journalist in newspapers, and as a BBC radio reporter, producer and presenter. Twelve years ago she jumped the fence to work in public relation. She still does occasional …
Sunday morning was definitely on the chilly side, bright and beautiful but with an unmistakable sense that autumn is elbowing summer out of the way. As the equinox brings shorter days I feel an impulse to turn inwards and take some down time. But I have to keep busy; I launched a new one year …
What do you most deeply and profoundly love? What are your deepest and most profound gifts? What are your most profound responsibilities? On Friday, sixty of us, mostly coaches, spent the day at Embercombe reflecting on these questions. Embercombe is a delight, ‘a garden that grows people’ a place dedicated to touching hearts, stimulating …
Following the previous post about pilgrimage I had some requests to say more about ‘Walking Coaching’. So here goes… ‘Walking meetings’ have become a bit of a fad among Silicon Valley and New York entrepreneurs, as well as at the White House where Barak Obama often ends his working day with a walking meeting with …
Coaching and pilgrimage – what’s the link? My son returned last week tired but happy from walking the last stretch of the Camino of Santiago di Compostella with his youth group. The ‘camino’ or ‘Way of St James’ is a 500 mile long walking pilgrimage route that’s inspired seekers since the Middle Ages. It had …
Do you feel you are enough? Sometimes, as we are busy coaching to improve performance, meet goals and help our clients achieve more, we can find that another very different question rises to the surface. It’s not about hard goals and outcomes and can be tricky to pin down; it’s question that arises in …
The other day a friend was quizzing me about coaching and how to go about hiring a coach. It’s a big investment of time, energy and money and going about finding the right coach can be a daunting prospect. How can you maximize your chances of getting it right? What kinds of questions to ask? …