Leading the home of modern vintage: Kenny Wilson, CEO of Cath Kidston

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‘You have a long working life, you need to enjoy it.’ When I meet Kenny Wilson, the affable yet determined powerhouse heading up Cath Kidston as its CEO, he certainly seems to be enjoying his job. The news that the company has been bought out by private equity group Barings Asia has just gone public. […]

Bridging the knowing-doing gap

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The inspiration for this post was in a chemistry meeting with a new coaching client, who asked: ‘In your experience, what do clients find the most difficult thing about coaching?’. Great question! It stopped me in my tracks and got me thinking. And of course, it depends … On the individual client, their organisational circumstances, […]

Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching

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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 […]

Kickstart Your Business

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This post is slightly different from usual, in that it’s about a forthcoming event rather than a reflection on something I’ve already done. The event is ‘Kickstart Your Business’ and my contribution will be to use my coaching skills to help people clarify what they want from their business, focus on achieving their goals and […]

Speed Dating for Coaches

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Several coaches lightheartedly compared it to speed dating. While most people hastily qualified this analogy by saying they’d never actually been to a speed dating event, I confess, rather shamefacedly, that I have and there were definite resemblances! There was the same boisterous, slightly breathless sense of anticipation. There was the same primal urge to […]

Under Observation

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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 […]

Dress Code: Floor length oyster satin

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The invitation had promised full-on glamour, pared-down art deco style, crittal windows and floor-length oyster satin. I’m not sure about the satin, but there was style and glamour in spades as more than 50 guests milled around the function room on the 10th floor at 80 The Strand, marvelling at the eye-pricking views of London. […]

What’s your Type?

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In our sixth coaching tutorial we focused on self-awareness. The emphasis was on how self-knowledge can help you ‘get out of your own way’ when you’re with a client, and on how having a grounded sense of your own preferences and characteristics can lead to useful insights into how you behave as a coach. Liz […]

New Year Goals

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“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! Liz GoosterI like to […]

Time to Think in a Fishbowl

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If questioned, most of use would probably admit that we’d benefit from more time to think, without distractions, interruptions, assumptions. Nancy Kline’s ‘fishbowl’ session, organised by Meyler Campbell, was an astonishing demonstration of the power of her ‘time to think’ technique.[1]. Liz GoosterI like to describe myself as happily ‘At Large’ in an independent portfolio career, balancing […]

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