Category: Career Development and Transitions

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Alumni Spotlight: Glyn Botterell on Leadership, Change, and Coaching with Purpose

From the Foreign Office to coaching and organisational development, Glyn Botterell’s career has been guided by curiosity and care for people. Discover how Wise Goose training helped him weave coaching into a diverse portfolio and why embracing uncertainty is central to his approach. What drew you to coaching? The first thing to say is I …

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Thinking About Becoming a Coach? Here’s What You Need to Know About Associate Coaching

What is an Associate Coach? Many coaching and leadership development organisations work with associate coaches. These are independent contractors hired to deliver coaching sessions, often one-to-one or team coaching, under the organisation’s brand. What do these organisations typically require? Rates vary depending on experience and the programme, but fees are often lower than private coaching …

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Career change crossroads – don’t get stuck at the junction – it may be time to move on…

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’ …

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The Climbing Wall – A new way of looking at our working lives

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 …

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Coaching Through Organisational Change

Recently, one of my clients described her leadership role as working in a minefield. She pictured herself in potentially hostile territory, without a map, not knowing if a bomb was inches away. A powerful image of turbulent organisational life; with economic uncertainty, rapidly changing technology, globalisation, restructuring, downsizing and good old fashioned acquisitions and mergers. …

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