Coaching for success with a soul
This reflection was written in the midst of delivering the first days of Wise Goose Foundations course. It’s part of an ongoing series of articles exploring goals, meaning, growth and transition, and what coaching can offer when achievement alone doesn’t quite answer the deeper questions people are carrying. The first two days of the new …
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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 …
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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 …
Why This Question Still Matters When lockdown hit in 2020, one question kept coming up:“Are you going to move the new training courses online?” We could have migrated our programme immediately, as many training providers did. Instead, we paused. Instead we listened to feedback from past and present students and trainers, considered options, and asked …
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Many thanks to Sarah Dawkins for this post. Sarah is a graduate of the Wise Goose Advanced Programme and works as a Confidence Coach here in the South West. If your confidence stopping you from taking those steps to getting where you want to be in your life or work then confidence coaching is a great opportunity …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …