Mar 8

Mar 8 What’s going on inside my head when I am coaching a client? By Epimetheus

But what I have not come across in the written literature, is anything that examines the practical details of what a coach actually does during a coaching session.

And by that I mean, what is going on inside the coach’s head?

Feb 1

Feb 1 What can questions do for us? By Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Coaching CS, Con PPD

I cannot remember a time when asking questions was not at the heart of my work. Whether as a trainee, as an investigator, as a team leader or as a manager.

Oct 19

Oct 19 Selecting coaches for internal coaching programmes by Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Org CC, Prof CC

This article builds on the ideas I examined in my ’Coaching as a manager’ where I concluded that a manager could not truly be a coach to someone they manage, regardless of the fact that they can use coaching techniques to help them. Let’s look wider than the manager/coach relationship and examine the organisational situation they work in.

Sep 14

Sep 14 Coaching as a manager by Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Org CC

Can a manager ever be a coach to someone they manage? This question is the subject of chapter 18 in ‘The Complete Handbook of Coaching’. And it is something I have been thinking about for a while now. Managers are encouraged to adopt a ‘coaching style’ and Civil Service Learning offer a programme of self-study with videos, reading material and a three-hour face-to-face workshop to do just that.

Aug 24

Aug 24 Integrating coaching models as part of my coaching practice by Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Con PPD

I’ve always believed that somewhere in a person’s experience there is something that they can use to look at a current problem and use their experience to solve that problem. And my experience shows me that, very often, that person has forgotten or discounted their experience and have built up the issue they face into a problem in their mind.

Jul 6

Jul 6 Contracting for CAM: Setting up the working relationship to have meaningful conversations by Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Con PPD, Org CC

When people are thinking about being mentored or coached, they are really nervous about what could happen if they and their mentor or coach don’t get on. This, I think, is entirely natural.

May 18

May 18 What can coaching and mentoring (CAM) do for people? By Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Con PPD, Org CC

I’d like to describe what coaching and mentoring (CAM) are and why I think that they are something that everyone should have access to. My conviction lies in my personal experience of being coached and mentored, and of being a coach and mentor.

Mar 31

Mar 31 “You’re not listening to me!” –How to listen and hear what's being said by Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Coaching CS, Org CC

I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to a series of training events for registered Civil Service coaches. This event was called ‘The Power of Listening’. It was an informative and practical workshop and it motivated me to summarise what I learned and how it relates to my experience of coaching in this blog.

Oct 31

Oct 31 The Accidental Coach OR "How I stumbled across coaching and discovered I was one" By Epimetheus (guest)

Guest Author

Practitioner Experience, Internal Coaching

Service - helping others. There, I’ve said it. After much reflection and rummaging in my memory I’d sum up my approach to coaching with that one word. Jeremy Bentham wrote, “Create all the happiness you are able to create. Remove all the misery you are able to remove.” And coaching is a powerful way of doing that.

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