Language that reflects back the coachee’s own words is a win-win formula for success. This is called Reflective Language. The coach does not use up mental activity in interpreting and the coachee does not have to detach from the ‘experience’ they may be having in order to worry about the meaning of the words (interpretation of semantics) the coach is using. Reflective Language is very standard and used gracefully by all the best coaches I know. Coachees do not notice Reflective Language, but observers do notice! Continue reading Reflective Language
Category: Coaching-Manager aids
How to Be Happy
Last evening I had one of those wonderful warm glow feelings when all seems to be just right. These things can still surprise but we can also re-programme ourselves to be more susceptible to happiness. The old adage coined by Kahlil Gibran about the cup being half empty or half-full comes to mind. Can’t we just chose to be half-full? Continue reading How to Be Happy
Misconceptions & Myths about Coaching!
1. ‘Executive Coaching will increase expectations to the point where people are frustrated and leave us’ Continue reading Misconceptions & Myths about Coaching!
Video Masterclasses
We offer a range of coaching masterclasses on video. You can watch one of the several sample videos below. Each of these shows the coaching session and the debriefing with the audience. These debriefings are fantastically educational in teasing out observed tricks of the trade. The full videos are all about an hour and also include the full coaching session AND the film of the debriefing and are available exclusively to members of this site on a pay-to-view basis with six weeks to see the videos as many times as you like. The samples are all free to view. Continue reading Video Masterclasses
Video TED Talk
This short video extract of the ‘TED’ Talk given by Angus McLeod at the University of Gloucester in 2009 and called ‘Coaching – Be the Change’. This highlights the importance of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ as leader/coach. The full version is being migrated. To see the whole 18 minute video, just tell us using the contact button on the top navigation.
Full video was professionally produced, mixing from 3 film-cameras.
Effectiveness
Why is AMA Performance Coaching so successful? How does this evolved form of coaching create such amazing performance change? Have a look at the video. Continue reading Effectiveness
How (facilitated) coaching works
Here we will add further links to pages about how (facilitated) coaching works in executive development and performance. We provide some background psychology to learning and change to help. Continue reading How (facilitated) coaching works
Coaching models & methods
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What is coaching?
There are many forms of coaching methods, definitions and philosophies. We wish to provide over-arching knowledge that is common to all the best forms of coaching available today. So we provide an up-to-date definition as well as a glossary of terms. Continue reading What is coaching?
Wheel of work
The Wheel of work is a great tool for managers in organisations to get to know how to motivate people.
For coaches, the wheel of work provides a useful model to help the coachee learn more about their world of work, what can most influence a positive change, and where to establish sustainable targets/goals.