Your Questions Answered: Clear Pathways and How to Get Started

Thinking about training with Wise Goose? We offer practical, professional coach training for people committed to making a positive difference. Below you’ll find a clear overview of how our programmes work, the values that guide us, and what to expect when joining. For more detailed information, you’ll find plenty of resources throughout our website and …

Is Coaching Your Next Step? Explore Possibilities and Pathways:

Discover how coaching can enrich your current role, open new coaching career paths, and help you create meaningful impact. Thinking about coaching as a career or wondering how to integrate coaching into your work and life? Curious if it’s the right fit for you?  In our ‘First Steps into Coaching’ free online sessions we help you understand what coaching is and what it …

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 …

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 …

‘Walking the Talk’ Purpose Led Business

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 …

GROW Coaching Framework: What It Is and Why It Matters

Discover the most popular coaching framework, its strengths, limitations, and how to use it wisely. So, what exactly is GROW? It’s an acronym that stands for: At each step, powerful questions structure the coaching conversation. Starting with the client’s goals, identifying the gap between where they are and where they want to be, and clarifying …

Beyond Performance: Stillness as Action, Lockdown on the allotment

Cronk cronk… Cronk cronk… Cronk cronk… At the third of the rhythmic set of cries I stop, push the garden fork into the soil and turn.  Of course, I know it’s a rook, but somehow there’s a depth in this particular call that makes the familiar strange, she has my attention. The tone and the …