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Habits: small steps towards lasting change
Unfortunately, despite being fully vaccinated, I caught COVID 19 recently. And whilst the acute symptoms lasted only a week I’ve been left feeling very tired – as often happens after a nasty virus. Much as I’d love to return immediately to my usual level of activity,...
Diverse and brilliant boards: why we need them and how to develop them
This week I’m running a ‘Making the Most of Your Board’ training session for charity leaders, so I’ve been thinking about governance. Governance is rarely a sexy or fashionable topic of conversation, but I think it’s critically important. If I had to choose the...
If you read one book about coaching make it this one…
Amazon lists over 100,000 books about coaching. If you were to read only one title on this subject Time to Think by Nancy Kline would be a great choice. It’s a simple, effective, radical and highly compassionate approach. There’s plenty of research to back...
Things I’ve learned about coaching from my coaches
When I first trained as a Relational Dynamics coach over a decade ago, a key principle of this programme was that we learn a huge amount about coaching from being coached ourselves. Therefore in that training model trainee coachees are coached and reflect on their...
Finding your compass: using your values to set direction and stay on track
Being clear about your values, as an individual or an organisation, can be a very effective way to provide direction. It can also keep you on track: by guiding decisions about what you do and how. Values are like a compass – a simple navigational device you can...
Making virtual meetings work well: 8 top tips
Train ticket from my last f2f facilitation assignment
Visually thinking
In Spring 2019 my friend Ann was visiting and as we were stuck indoors due to rain so I suggested that we sketched our dreams for the year ahead. I’m not very good a drawing, but I had done a similar exercise with my Action Learning set and found it really enjoyable...
‘Comrades in adversity’ coming together to solve problems and support one another – the joy of peer-learning
Recently I was asked to participate in a research interview for a project the British Council has commissioned around peer-learning, and the consultant sent me over some interesting questions she wants to discuss, that led me to ask my own questions about this topic…...
Creating a sense of direction – the art of goals
Setting goals is a key part of coaching – imagining and articulating the destination, where we want to get to, is an essential stage in making change happen. In fact, in the popular GROW model of coaching, setting the goal is the first step – the G of GROW. We decide...
Setting yourself up for success through accountability
Want to do or change something but know you’re going to find it a struggle? Maybe you;ve tried before and not managed it? Find yourself setting goals or committing to new habits which you find it hard to stick to? Then accountability could be your friend…. When we...
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