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What is adaptability & why is it relevant in today’s working environment?
In the late 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated, “the only thing that is constant is change”, this is more relevant in the 21st century and the last two years than ever before. In any normal year change at home and in the workplace impacts people...
Effective and Active Listening in Coaching
In 1989 Covey wrote “The 7 habits of highly effective people” with the fifth habit being “seek first to understand and then to be understood”, or listen and then speak, explaining that people often do not listen in a conversation, instead rush to talk, and give...
An Introduction to Systemic Psychodynamic Coaching
A systemic psychodynamic coaching approach looks deeply at the underlying issues and elements that are limiting the performance of individuals and organisations, as such it takes into consideration a multiple of personal and environmental factors that influence...
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching as an Effective Technique in the Workplace
This paper discusses cognitive behavioural coaching (CBC) in the workplace as an approach to managing performance and dealing with cognitive and emotional barriers to goal attainment. Through research by Dobson and Dozois (2001), Ducharme (2004) identifies that...
Adaptive Leadership in the Post-Pandemic Era
It’s clear that leadership must change as we enter the post-pandemic era, successful leaders will need to adapt, learn, and incorporate new skills and capabilities. Check out this interesting article in the Harvard Business Review written by Paul Leinwand, Mahadeva...
Developing a Leadership Culture and Practice of Simplicity – The Hexagon Action Model
Developing a culture and practice of simplicity takes deft leadership skills, but the rewards are high. Check out this article by Julia Hobsbawm in Strategy+Business which introduces a six-part hexagon action model, illustrating how to turn simplicity of focus into...
How Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) Can Help Manage Stress In The Workplace
This paper briefly reviews Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) in the workplace as an approach to reducing stress and improving performance. CBC is based on three fundamental assumptions: firstly, how an individual imparts or thinks about the reality of a situation...
Driving Engagement and Employee Experience – The “Four F” Model
As leaders and managers one of our key roles it to drive engagement and improve the experience for our team in whatever they do. By doing this productivity and commitment is likely to improve, which is good for all involved! Here’s a nice article from...
The Positive Role of Coaching in Leadership Development – Emotional Intelligence, Role Transition and Transformational Leadership
Most human resource professionals believe that coaching is an integral part of the HR toolkit for improving skills and behaviours within organisations and that coaching helps executives become more effective leaders. This article briefly explores three elements of...
OODA, WOOP – Learning, Decision Making and Coaching
This paper builds on my research into learning and reflection models and how they had been incorporated into business and coaching. My research led me to two models, Boyd’s OODA loop and Oettingen’s WOOP method, both quite different but able to provide structure to...
Learning Models, Coaching and Change Management
This paper builds on my research into learning and reflection models and how they had been incorporated into business and coaching. At an early stage in my MSc in Coaching I researched three of the core learning models; Kolb’s “Four stages of Learning”, Schon’s...
The Role of Coaching in Leadership Development
Most human resource professionals and academics believe that coaching is an integral part of the HR toolkit for improving skills and behaviours within organisations and that coaching helps executives become more effective leaders. This article briefly explores...
Routines Provide Freedom
I think its fair to say that, like many people, I like routines and structure in my day both at work and personally – there are definite pros and cons. In the past I definitely became a slave to the structure, if I didn’t do something in a certain way or in a certain...
My First Coaching Experience
When you ask most people when or where were you first “coached” they would immediately think about sport. Whether it be learning to play tennis, hockey, rugby or soccer the fact that you are learning from a “coach” who at the early stages is effectively instructing...
Cateran – The Brand
One of the first personal challenges when setting up the business was not the business plan, the feasibility study or concerns about where my first customer would come from… it was “what should the company be called?” Pat O’Hare, a friend of mine and a creative...