Jun 25

Jun 25 Being and becoming: Mission reinforced by some exercises of meaning by Paul Foegle (Guest)

Practitioner Experience, External references, Life learning

The books of personal development are numerous to know a great success. With Jean Monbourquette's « How to Discover Your Personal Mission: The Search for Meaning », I am lucky (as well as others) to find keys to answer the question of how to do find your own search for meaning? How to welcome one’s Mission?

Jan 9

Jan 9 Rediscovering authenticity with the help of role biography by Caroline-Lucie Ulbrich

Caroline-Lucie Ulbrich

Practitioner Experience, External references, Reflection/Learning space, self coaching

I extensively used role biography as a self-coaching technique during a two-year Executive Master’s program in organizational psychology. I reflected on the roles I had assumed throughout my life in several case papers and as part of my thesis.

Jan 2

Jan 2 Dispatch from the [Internal Coaching] Front by Ian Flanders

Ian Flanders

Internal Coaching, External references, supervision, Cases/Caselets

I recently took part in a group supervision meeting with a number of my fellow internal coaches. For the coaches it is an opportunity, once a quarter to come together and discuss our practices. My sense is that for all of us it is an opportunity to get help and support, learn from others’ experiences, and take strength from the community. During this meeting two of the group shared quite different dilemmas that were troubling them,

Nov 16

Nov 16 To what extent do we consider biases in our practice as coaches? by Lynne Hindmarch

Lynne Hindmarch

Practitioner Experience, External references, Skills

In this blog-article I will discuss areas of cognitive bias that I have come across consistently in my coaching practice, my experience of transference, and the implications for coaching.

Oct 12

Oct 12 Building Companies’ Sustainability Stories: A Role for Coaching by Geoffrey Ahern

Geoffrey Ahern

Practitioner Experience, sustainability, External references

Mobilising the company’s stakeholders on behalf of full sustainability entails the development of their stories about the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is our era in which we humans have an increasingly significant influence on the Earth.

Sep 4

Sep 4 Time for a paradigm shift in coaching – my call for a turn towards autoethnography by Margaret Chapman-Clarke (Guest Author)

Guest Author

Practitioner Research, External references, Knowing coaching

It is 7.15 pm. on a Monday evening. I am sitting overlooking Scarborough’s North Bay. There are four mature gentlemen in evening dress, complete with bow ties posing for a photograph with the castle ruins and the sea as the background. I don’t see that often in this part of town. Most people dress in shorts, t-shirts and flip flops, with children carrying buckets and spades. It is sunny. The sea is calm. I have been reflecting on what I might write to succinctly capture the peaks and troughs of coaching (past, present and emerging future).

Aug 7

Aug 7 Intuition as a Leadership Asset by Larissa Conte

Larissa Conte

coaching style, External references, Listening, Practitioner Experience, Skills, Prof CC

It inspires curiosity, intrigue, skepticism, judgement, and profound personal growth, as we work together to develop their intuition as a powerful asset. In this article, I share how I help leaders develop their intuition as a key capability

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