Coaching for success with a soul
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 …
In this month’s post Janet Kipling, a Wise Goose student, tells us how training in coaching is impacting on her work. Janet began her career as a journalist in newspapers, and as a BBC radio reporter, producer and presenter. Twelve years ago she jumped the fence to work in public relation. She still does occasional …
Sunday morning was definitely on the chilly side, bright and beautiful but with an unmistakable sense that autumn is elbowing summer out of the way. As the equinox brings shorter days I feel an impulse to turn inwards and take some down time. But I have to keep busy; I launched a new one year …
Management is out of fashion, not many people want to be called a manager, they might want their title to be leader, or entrepreneur, or even coach – but manager? Executives have been getting bad press for years now, they are thought to lack integrity, a 2008 Gallup poll on honesty and ethics found that …
Continue reading ““A Magnificent Profession” – The future of management?”
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 …
Last week I shared this photo on Facebook of Joolz Lewis. We first met earlier this year through Plymouth University’s ‘Futures’. I took the photo at the Bakehouse in Cullompton where we’d met for lunch to celebrate the launch of her first book ‘Enlightened Business: Leadership for Sustainable Success’. What a lunch! The food was …
Organisations are losing women. They are leaving at all levels, draining the intellectual capital of all kinds of organisations. It isn’t because there is a deficit in woman – there’s plenty of evidence that women are doing better academically than men. So why is all this talent and potential being wasted? Last month I attended …
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 …