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7 Jan 2017Coaching2 min read

How To Achieve Personal Goals Using Given When Then

At the start of a New Year, many people turn their attention to new personal goals, often referred to as New Year resolutions. We all know how these “resolutions” usually end up, forgotten and unachieved. However, there is a strategy that can lead to significant chances of meeting your goals.One of my personal goals for 2017 is to read 24 books. The first book i’ve finished this year is Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini.Within the book Robert talks abo

25 Nov 2016Coaching1 min read

Becoming a Coach

Today my Coaching Journey took an exciting step.I have enrolled on a course from Barefoot Coaching to become a Qualified Business and Personal Coach.Barefoot Coaching offer a PG Cert in Business and Personal Coaching which is accredited by the University of Chester and the International Coaching Federation (ICF).The course is broken into three modules with each module last four days. The course covers a wide range of topics, far too many for me to mention here. You can read the full course conte

24 Aug 2016Coaching3 min read

How i approach Coaching

This year i’ve been on a journey of discovery into Coaching. My official job title is “Agile Coach” and as the title suggests a key part of the role is Coaching. This blog explores how i approach Coaching with the intention that my experience will help others interested in the topic.What is Coaching?This was a question that troubled me for many months. It’s not an easy question to answer. It’s something i’m still discovering but through constant reading and practice i’m much more informed than i

17 Aug 2016Coaching2 min read

Facilitation using Ritual Dissent

I recently read Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed. In the book one of the topics Matthew explores is brainstorming. He talks about how an idea should be exposed to lively debate and challenge in order to refine the idea. Here is an extract from the book:Perhaps the most graphic way to glimpse the responsive nature of creativity is to consider an experiment by Charlan Nemeth, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues. She took 265 female undergraduates and rand

12 Aug 2016Coaching1 min read

Are you really Coaching?

I recently read “Brilliant Coaching” by Julie Starr. The book explores practical ways you can apply Coaching in the workplace. She provides great examples of how you can apply a Coaching style moving from Directive leadership to empowering others(Self Directed)In the book, Julie presents a model; the Scale of Influence. This can be used as a model to build self-awareness in your Coaching conversations.Scale of Influence: Brilliant Coaching, Julie StarrIn a Coaching conversation, we may use diffe

1 Aug 2016Coaching2 min read

5 Best Life Coaching Books

Here are the 5 best books that have influenced my professional coaching. These books are essential for anyone training to be a life coach or experienced professional coaches looking for ideas.

11 May 2016Coaching3 min read

When to Coach and When to Mentor

Until recently I hadn’t thought much about the differences between Coaching and Mentoring. I’ve come to learn there are big differences and most recently started thinking about: When to Coach and When to Mentor?What is Coaching?The definition I've been using most recently is from Timothy Gallway:“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”What is Mentoring?In my research for a sound definition i came across

31 Mar 2016Coaching3 min read

Agile Coaching Exchange – Kim Morgan

This week I attended Agile Coaching Exchange meet up in London. The guest speaker for the evening was Kim Morgan of Barefoot Coaching who is co-author of “The Coach’s Casebook: Mastering The Twelve Traits That Trap Us”Kim Morgan & principles of #coaching at #acelon #scrum pic.twitter.com/OJFmTEvRWa
— Helen Meek (@Helen_J_Meek) March 30, 2016Principles of CoachingKim introduced us to some of the Key Principles of Coaching:1. Listening to ignite the human mind2. Presupposing success3. Leveraging M