I love having coffee chats with coaches from around the world. Most of these are about getting to know each other and learning about each other’s journey to coaching. Inevitably, at some point I [...]
At last week’s Tuesday Club meeting an interesting discussion arose around whether coaches should offer pro bono sessions as part of their marketing and sales approach or not. The group were [...]
It’s now just over twenty years ago that my eldest son, Clark, came to me with his request: “Dad, next time you choose a job to do, please pick something that I can explain to my friends!” Those [...]
One question has already been raised more often in my supervision and mentor coaching sessions by fellow coaches than any other: “What do you do when your coaching client asks you ‘What do YOU [...]
DRAMA TRIANGLE: WHAT’S ALL THE DRAMA ABOUT? I can’t believe that the first quarter of 2024 has flashed past already! Did I blink! Well, I hope that you were able to lay a good foundation for the [...]
Wow! It’s already the end of February but, as a client said to me the other day, it feels like April already. I hope the year has started well for you. At one of the February of t sessions [...]
Compliments of the season to you. I hope that 2024 is a special year that brings you all that you wish it to be. It’s that time of year again when we set goals that we want to achieve in [...]
As we near the end of the year, we are all trying to get things done before we break for the holiday season. It’s been a long (couple of) year(s) for most people globally and it’s no real [...]
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. [...]