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As I write this, I am ill with flu – I’ve had it for 3 1/2 weeks. In the second week, for the first time (that I can remember) in 22 years of coaching, I canceled a coaching session [...]

Just lately I have been delving deeper into Transactional Analysis (TA), a psychological school of thought that emerged in the 1950s, and to which I was introduced about ten or twelve years ago. [...]

I wonder what your first thoughts were when you saw the title to this month’s newsletter. If they were anything like mine, they amounted to a denial: “Actually, I don’t think I have any ethical [...]

“Oh-oh-oh, what’s curiosity got to do, got to do with it? What’s curiosity, but a second-hand interrogation? What’s curiosity got to do, got to do with it? Who needs a coach [...]

The Clash of the Titans: Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) remove coaching from planet earth? The advent of AI and Chat Assistants seems suddenly to be reaching tsunami proportions – and people [...]

As coaches, we have all had moments where our client has had an insight, a realisation, an “aha!” moment. What do we do with that? Years ago, in a mentor coaching session with my mentor coach, I [...]

An aspect of coaching that has always fascinated me is what a coach listens for. I think a coach listens to what the client is saying, that is to content, but that a coach listens for something [...]

Hi Well, I certainly hope the (not so) new year has taken off with a bang for you and that you now have new clients coming out of your ears! 😆 While we are in the arena of superlatives, this [...]

Compliments of the season to you and best wishes for 2023 – I sincerely hope it’s a year that brings you everything you wish for! This year I am planning to write about an aspect of one of the [...]

Hello Recently, I came across a LinkedIn post by Ayesha Mathuthu (Jeewa), the Group Head: Talent Management at Aspen Holdings that contained the following image: For me, this says it all – if we [...]