The lovely thing about being a coach is that I genuinely want to help. I want to help even if the work is not in the coaching remit right now…. I will always endeavour to assist a client to find what they really need. This frequently involves accessing my network of providers that have differing […]
Adjusting your professional boundaries is always going to be a work in progress. Sometimes we suddenly realise we are being leeched left, right and centre. I know that for me, when I want to throw my toys out of my pram and run away from all of it, I actually need to reel lots of things in, […]
Put simply I see two personality types in my work; there’s the Active type and the Passive type. Both of these are equal but different in their modus operandi, and both have their uses in the world. Used well and these two types complement each other. Whilst the first type can anticipate difficulties ahead and take […]
In a world where things are measured only in what we can see or indeed spend, it is very difficult to make the space to benefit from pausing. I am not talking here of the rigorousness of a mindfulness technique, whilst I know this is powerful, what I am bringing to the fore is the […]
A fellow coaching colleague and I met today to share our business experiences, for we are not only practitioners, but entrepreneurs both too. What I was noticing today is that despite our scenarios being entirely different, the common ground was that both of us have been engaging in repeating the same behaviour and expecting a […]
Why I do the work I do? I realise there are people in the world who are utterly incurious about other people. I know this because I am married to such an individual. My beloved has absolutely no interest in the motives of anyone. He doesn’t ask ‘why would they do that?’, he doesn’t want […]
Every time I work with a client, We work in a different way. Even if we are using a technique I have used many a time before, even on a subject that appears similar, The process we design together will be entirely unique. Working with a client today we noticed that we were not doing […]
The power of walking alongside, and I mean physically really walking, is phenomenal. A majority of the coaching sessions I provide are static. Sitting across from the client, albeit with a beautiful view, we metaphorically journey together. However sometimes it’s much more effective to travel alongside each other in real time. When I client learned […]
It is all too easy to compare your inside with other people’s outside and come off much the worse for doing so. Because you live inside yourself, you see all the vulnerabilities and fears and flaws. We are also not best equipped to see our own skills and talents somehow. When we look at other’s […]
I had been invited to write some content for a fellow practitioner’s website. Monday I sat down and wrote the body of it. Then I set it aside for three days, firstly due to other commitments but also to let it settle. In the past I have perhaps been so keen to tick it off […]