Coaching for success with a soul
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 his chief of staff. Steve Jobs was known for taking walking meetings, Mark Zuckerberg is said to have picked up the habit from Jobs. Continue reading “Walking Coaching”
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 become fairly dormant but since the 1980s its popularity has grown, though these days it’s commonly taken as a secular pilgrimage – you can watch this video about the camino to find out more. Continue reading “Coaching as Pilgrimage”
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 a tentative, hesitant, almost faltering way, it goes something like this: “Given there is always ‘more’ that I can ‘go for’, where do I find a sense of enough? A sense that who I am is enough?” Continue reading “The Power of Vulnerability”
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? What to look for? How to ensure a good ‘fit’?
Here are a few suggestions: Continue reading “How to Choose a Coach”
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. Continue reading “A Quest for Values”
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 our tails’ these days especially with social media, and all the new technology that is coming out. We’re being told how much we need these things and how they are different from what we’ve got – if we use them in the first place! All pressure and more pressure. Continue reading “Stop; Breathe;Take Stock”
Many thanks to Liz Scott, one of the Wise Goose Team, for this inspiring guest post where she shares her pioneering work in bringing coaching into schools…
It was very nerve-wracking. Here I was, in front of a group of 45 pupils, (aged 9-10 years old) and I had to entertain them for the next hour. I was in a primary school pioneering a coaching skills programme with children. Continue reading “Pioneering Coaching in Schools”
“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. Continue reading “Boosting Graduate Employability”
Last week I attended a workshop on Luminaspark psychometric profiling. I’ve always had reservations about personality profiling. I worry that people might be pigeon holed, or that profiling might filter diversity out of organisational cultures.
Luminaspark is different. It recognises complexity and diversity within the personality and so fits very neatly with the subpersonalities model from psychosynthesis which informs my work in coaching. Continue reading “Personality Profiling and Coaching”
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Well, wise and wonderful learning continues here in the beautiful South West this week, the London marathon was a joy to watch. Seeing the diverse range of runners always brings a smile to my face. The weather was great for a marathon and I am sure a relief for many!! . I have set a life goal to run a marathon; but for now will stick with the race for life until I have time to train properly.