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5 Steps to Managing Your Team’s Career Development
With the slashing of L&D budgets across the private and public sectors in recent years, L&D teams have worked creatively to maximise the budget they have to help employees grow. The 2019 Workplace Learning Report suggested that L&D budgets are on the rise...
How are you creating a learning experience?
To ensure that your learners make the most from a learning session they are attending it is imperative for the L&D professional to create an experience for them and not simply a training session. Although theoretically we say that we have moved beyond traditional...
Coaching: Transactional or Transformational?
Part of what we do as coaches is to support an individual achieve their goals and bettering themselves by bring life-long, transformational change. However, I have found myself debating this question with other coaches, either when undergoing my own supervision or in...
Exploring the Client’s View of the World to Uncover True Meaning
Everyone experiences the world in different ways. Starting in childhood, we have been influenced by our experiences as we constantly build and shift the lens we use to view the world around us. When a client comes to coaching, they start describing for us, through...
Should we get to the root of a problem?
Clients often come to coaching to experience a change in themselves. They can sometimes identify areas that they label as “problems” and engage in a coaching program to bring some resolution. This raises a key question for the coach, or even the manager who is...
Dear Coachee… I feel unsettled
Sometimes, whilst in the full flow of a coaching session you might start experiencing the same feelings as your coachee. Is this good or bad and more importantly should you let the coachee know how you feel? Find out my thoughts below.Part of being a coach is...
Let’s not talk about the past…
This week I spent an amazing couple of days supporting an organisation in developing their line managers into executive coaches. As part of the discussions held one key question, that typically always arises when training coaches, kept us busy for a whole afternoon. ...
New Year, New Me? Here’s My 5 Promises to Myself
We have all been here before. The end of year is approaching and we start appraising ourselves on what we have done well and what perhaps we have improved on. Then, we set ourselves some goal, typically changes that we want to see or resolutions. As a coach I see this...
I do a great job of managing my team. Why should I coach them?
As a manager of a team you have heard all about coaching. Perhaps you even googled the word and found out it's probably about motivating and engaging your team members. But why should you bother learning more about coaching and how it works? So let's cut to the chase....
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