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Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching

 

Business coaching: what it is, why it works, how to do it, when to do it (and when not to). Plus, critically, how to make money doing it. One of the Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching’s biggest assets is it covers all this and more in a single, elegantly written volume. It is genuinely a one-stop shop for relatively new players in the coaching game, and the more experienced coaches I’ve spoken to have also gained much from reading it. At this point, in the interests of full disclosure, I should reveal that I published this book and that the author, Anne Scoular, has since become a generous mentor and friend. Which brings me on to one of the book’s other outstanding hallmarks: Anne’s voice. Read more

Legends of the Coaching Turf: Sir John Whitmore

‘Coaching should be more whisky and less water.’ This for me was the standout quote f Sir John Whitmore’s presentation at the recent Meyler Campbell fishbowl event. Rightly famous as one of the founding fathers of coaching, in business, sport and life, Sir John has also been a champion racing car driver, a ski coach and a Hollywoodfilm producer. An extraordinary character, just months after being hospitalised and in a coma as a result of a dramatically bad skiing accident, Sir John treated us to a breathstopping overview of coaching, the world economy, the malign impact (in his view)of technology, and everything in between. Read more

Under Observation

The night before I’d pitched and tossed along the treacherous horizon between the warm ocean of sleep and the thundery sky of wakefulness. So I felt tense and tired as I travelled in to my practice client session, where my tutor was due to shine the flashlight of observation onto my business coaching skills. ‘Coach, take thine own medicine!’, I thought as my spiral-bound nerves wound ever tighter in anticipation. Relax. Breathe. Get into coaching mode. What was I assuming that was making me feel so anxious? That I’d be rubbish; that David, my tutor, would wonder how on earth I’d managed to absorb so little of his wise teachings; that I’d been out there in the business coaching world, thrashing around with my practice clients, doing them no good at all. That I’d be found out – the imposter syndrome in glorious technicolour action. What’s the worst that could happen? After all my eager talk of becoming a real business coach, that I’d fail the programme. Read more

New Year Goals

Only about 3% of adults have clear written goals. These people accomplish five and ten times as much as people of equal or better education and ability but who, for whatever reason, have not taken the time to write out exactly what it is they want.” Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog! Read more