Coaching for success with a soul
From school leadership to coaching supervision, Catherine Rees shares how Wise Goose training transformed her approach to supporting education professionals. Discover her journey from burnout prevention to empowering leaders and why coaching is vital for well-being and meaningful change in today’s demanding education landscape What drew you to coaching? I was at a time of …
Wise Goose Founder and Director Helen Sieroda shares some thoughts about the importance of ethical marketing for coaches, touches on marketing snares and snags and offers a some suggestions for marketing with integrity. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been preparing for our 2025 BCorp recertification, this happens every three year. It’s a rigorous process …
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A leadership lesson in vulnerability I’m delighted to share this post by Pam Billinge, writer, leadership coach, and specialist in Embodied Horse-Led Leadership Development. I always encourage coaches to use supervision, and this is a powerful story of how much of a difference it can make to coaching practice. Thank you Pam – being your …
COP26 is almost upon us, convened against the backdrop of profound challenges and upheavals of 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic, floods and wildfires to Black Lives Matter. Like many others I’ve questioned the ability of our political, economic, and societal systems to take action. This year’s Edelman Trust Barometer survey showed that rather than …
I can’t believe we are heading towards the Autumn equinox and the marking of the transition between seasons. There’s definitely that back to school/ work feeling in the air. This week I’ll be driving my son back to Brighton for the start of his final year at the University of Sussex. This year it’s a …
Have you ever been ignored, rejected or felt slighted by a colleague or a boss? Have you ever given someone the ‘silent treatment’? Silent bullying is common and costly, I know a lovely woman who was so badly shunned by her boss she became depressed, burnt-out and left a career she loved. I’ve also …
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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 …
Did you know we’re in the middle of International Stoic Week at the moment? No, well I wouldn’t have either if I hadn’t received an invitation to a workshop at the University of Exeter about how Ancient Philosophical Ethics could contribute to Modern Business a few weeks back. I spent a fascinating couple of hours …
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In the world of coaching we often think about values as individual, personal and subjective principles that guide our way through life. But values don’t just shape individual worlds; they influence our wider world for better or worse driving society forward (or backward) impacting business, government, the economy and education.
In the wake of the financial crisis the media spotlight has been increasingly on unethical behaviour in organisations. We’ve seen trust in leaders unravel and a crisis of confidence in institutions of all shapes and sizes. Society is calling for more responsible leadership and demanding that companies and individuals act with integrity.