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We see blogging as a form of practitioner research, and a meaningful approach to personal and professional development in coaching. (For more details read "Blogging as a form of practitioner research")
Encouraging coaches to blog about their practice takes on and expands on, how blogs are currently being shared. We hope that after reading the blogs, this has inspired you to share too.
Sharing your coaching experience is a courageous act in itself. Writing expends more energy because it requires conscious thinking and sense making of what is actually happening during the process of coaching.
Importantly though blogs are individual expressions that start with one’s own word in order to bring out the ambition of being the best each coach can be.
Context: Coaching is a big subject … still developing … and everyone does it from their own way – which is why we need to recognise this and appreciate it more.
Sharing our knowledge: Blogging, here, is about sharing your own experiences, and practice, in doing coaching.
Share your knowledge: We invite you to share your experience for how you live it, and make sense of it.
So ….
Be guided to something you feel positive and strongly about what you have been doing – in what coaching is about as you see it. (Remember a lot of people are finding they have been doing what is now called coaching for quite a time, or they just see it called something else!) And where you would feel good to have had a go at explaining it in ways others could appreciate.
This isn’t a race or a comparison exercise. It’s about you and what is important to you. That is what matters – in whatever aspect it comes to you.
This is about talking about yourself – not others!
Be detailed and expansive about how you saw what was going on, how you were involved, and how things all worked – as you saw them … as well as reports from others involved.
At the same time please be general / impersonal about the actual examples …we don’t need to know the content details – for reasons of confidentiality - about the practice you are talking about.
Making sense may involve expressing yourself, in your own words, and also offering some linkages to some of the current popular words you have come across to use in referring to what you are talking about.
We are still building common language / agreed terms and there is still important diversity in how people feel it is best to refer to this multifaceted area of coaching practice.
Blogs are short summaries – not long detailed research reports, so there is a license to say more and say it more freely.
We are celebrating your experiences in a blog, rather than fitting in with what someone else says was the right thing to do.
It’s about what you believe works for you in working with coaching with others.
Have fun whilst you write - start anywhere and just write, and if there is an image/video clip/quote that helps make your point add it. There is always time to go back and edit. For now, just go with the flow of writing.
Be comfortable with your style - it's not about conformity, it's about diversity and the freedom to express your experiences of coaching in your own style and approach.
More than just writing - explore all the creative ways that you'd like to share your knowledge whether as a passage of writing, a paragraph of text with some bullet points, or as a poem. Enjoy the experience, and you're readers will too.
We've got you - if you don't feel like your blog reads well, whether it's around the flow of the blog or being grammatically correct, don't worry as we are here to provide that 'light' touch and support.
Following the UK Copyright Law (who are members of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works) any leading practitioner (author) who publishes their blog through the good coach (automatically) owns the copyright of their specific piece of work. The author, to their best of their abilities, has checked that any referenced materials are fair use, appropriately referenced, fact-checked, and where necessary seeked the necessary permission for use.
Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license the author (licensors) gives the good coach permission to distribute, remix, tweak and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as the good coach credits you for the original creation.
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In the coaching context, time is both a parameter and a container for reflection that spans the duration of the continuing lived experiences that is drawn to attention, a space for learning-unlearning-(re)learning, realising growth and development, and continuing developing character within a series of timed scheduled events.
What this article is about is ‘approaches to coaching’, with the big exception that you don’t have to part with any money. On the other hand, you may have to pay in another currency; the effort of hard thinking and coming up with your own answers. I hope that is an acceptable compromise. I explored in part 1 the various approaches a coach can learn their craft and journey so far, and in part 2, as a reflexive practitioner I attempt to articulate my personal model of coaching that generates the results that my clients find most beneficial to them.
What this article is about is ‘approaches to coaching’, with the big exception that you don’t have to part with any money. On the other hand, you may have to pay in another currency; the effort of hard thinking and coming up with your own answers. I hope that is an acceptable compromise. Part 1: Explores the various approach a coach can learn their craft.
Working with family managed organisations as a Mentor and Coach, combined with my Executive roles in professionally managed companies, I would like to share some of my learnings and insights here.
Advancing insights from 1st piece written Dec 12, 2016 from
As a neurodiversity coach, my aim is to advocate for greater inclusivity and support for individuals on the Autism Spectrum in the workplace.
What to do when the plan goes awry. This is the last in the 5-part series looking at how Sarah, a recent postgraduate who’s in her mid-20’s, with just over £40,000 student debt, learned to handle her personal finances. She’s determined to start her own business as a coach because it’s her passion and earns an inconsistent salary throughout the year. She came to me, for financial coaching, as she wanted to achieve her goals.
The first three parts of this blog looked at what Sarah wanted her money to do, her priorities (the heart bit) and some of the reality of finance (head). In this 4th part, we’ll look at the “hands” of the process, taking the information about the person, their dreams and their realities, and putting those into concrete plans for their finances.
In Parts 1 to 3 I introduced Sarah and her situation, looked at how we unpacked the details of Sarah’s dreams and gave them more structure and how these linked to her current life situation and beliefs. In this 3rd part of the five-part series I’ll look in more detail at realities of her finances, applying the “head”, a more objective approach to the “heart” of her dreams.
A lot of the principles I apply is drawn from my experiences as a CEO and shapes the way I approach coaching with my clients. Depending on the type of challenges Clients face I may draw upon them to share as a perspective to enable Clients to find their own solutions; because such information, experience and access is often limited and specific.
In Part 2, I’ll look at how we unpacked the details of her rather vague dreams and gave them more structure. Then we’ll move to how this relates to her current life situation. This is the ‘heart’ of my approach, and in the remaining parts of my 5 part series, I’ll focus on the ‘head’ and the ‘hands’ of making personal finance for Sarah (and others like her) fit into their current realities.
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