How to Pick a Good Coach or Coaching Provider?
In this short video, discover the four levels of coaching and how to choose an executive coach that is right for your organisation. Continue reading Coaching Standards
Category: Manager aids
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
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?
Stress Management
The HSE in their 2008 study show: “that in 2007/08 an estimated 442,000 people in Great Britain, who worked in the last year, believed that they were suffering from stress, depression or anxiety caused or made worse by their current or past work. This equates to 1,500 per 100,000 people (1.5%) who worked in the last 12 months in Great Britain”. Continue reading Stress Management
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.
Mixing coaching & mentoring
In practice, when coaching, mentoring may sometimes be needed. Why is that?
Coaching, since Tim Gallwey, is perceived universally as a facilitative process, whereby the coach attends to the coachee and their learning. This attention to the coachee and their learning leads to the use of just three principle instruments of coaching, namely: questions, challenge and (Self-reflective; SR) Silence. Continue reading Mixing coaching & mentoring
Coaching Definitions
Before we set out definitions, it may be worth providing some context so we can come off the same page.
Because the person or organisation that pays is normally referred to as ‘the client’, the word ‘coachee’ is invariably reserved for the person being coached. Continue reading Coaching Definitions