Coaching for success with a soul
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about paradox. The experience of holding tensions that don’t resolve – working in situations where choosing one side risks losing something important. From the responses I’ve had, it seems many people recognise this. There’s a sense that: This recognition matters. But it also raises a different question: …
Gone are the days of having one career for life. Times have changed. Today’s global market-place makes our working lives more impermanent and unpredictable plus with a potentially longer working life we’re less likely to settle with something that merely pays the bills. We want something more – so phrases like ‘self-improvement’ and ‘personal journey’ …
As a trainer, it’s not easy to give a true to life flavour of what it’s like to start out, or convey the ups and downs of learning to coach, so I asked a Ali, to share her experience of joining a Foundations Course. Ali has a background in PR, has worked as a personal …
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In this month’s post Rachel Jewell, a Wise Goose student, tells us about her journey from therapist to a coach specialising with working in the field of female empowerment. Facilitating Change, one way or another! My passion has always been to facilitate change in others so that they can achieve their chosen …
Many thanks to Irene Brankin, one of the Wise Goose Team, for this guest post where she shares some thoughts about the stress, pressure and general busyness of life and talks about the theme of her next book. Irene will be speaking at the Coaching Connect event on October 11th. We’re all so busy ‘chasing …
“Soft skills tend to differentiate good college graduates from exceptional college graduates,” Joseph Krok, university research liaison at Rolls-Royce. Last week as I drove through Exeter University campus, graduates in robes and mortar boards were ambling in the afternoon sunshine. It started me thinking about young people’s prospects these days.