coaching

Correcting our flaws means, first of all, managing the task of actually seeing them. When challenged, we often respond by refusing to accept our flaws exist at all. People accuse us of being ‘in denial’. Of course we are: we literally can’t see them. When we can see them, they all too often appear not as flaws at all, but as virtues. The mythologis

Example: A client used her narrative coaching session to pivot from ‘I make the best of what is given to me' (old story) to ‘I choose to create what matters to me' (new story) – which she then started to use in suitable opportunities to attain more of what she wanted.

Ask yourself the right questions.

Introspection is key to building internal self-awareness, but aimless wandering through your own psyche probably won’t get you very far. You need a framework. To that end, Eurich has identified seven pillars of self-knowledge to help guide introspection: your personality, values, passions, aspirations, strengths, we

Having created some different options and then decided on one course of action, it is vitally important that the transformational coach creates time and space for coachees to rehearse what they will…

the invitation would be to go to a place where there are no problems, and look at the issues from there. Suppose we dropped all the labels, such as: ‘This is a problem', ‘This is not the way it should be', ‘This is hurtful'. What if the situation just is? From the phrase ‘This is wrong’ we simply drop the word ‘wrong'. This is a different dimension

Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful tomo

What are valid reasons for an organization to request coaching for an executive? Under what circumstances is it not appropriate to provide executive coaching?

Adults learn when they have a need to learn. Adults generally become ready to learn when their life situation creates a need to know or understand, for example when they need to cope with a life situation or perform a task. The more the coach can understand the interaction between the client's life situation and their readiness for coaching, the mo

what different circumstances exist in that case, or what the client did differently