Yesterday I was working with a client, and at the end of the session he asked me how it was I got to the root of his issue - "I thought I was choosing my words very carefully, but you have picked up on things I haven’t spoken about for 20 years. How did you do that?"
I’ve been reflecting recently on the behavioural and motivational aspects of objective setting in organisations – the mechanism by which a leader and team member derive personal, developmental or task objectives - and how executive coaches might help leaders reflect on the leadership behaviours to adopt through such a process.
I’ve recently lost some weight – around a third of my old body weight has gone so it’s a reasonably significant amount. I’ve tried losing weight for a few years but not got past the few pounds mark (then rebound). And before that I had a long history of significant “yoyo dieting”. This time though it felt so easy, both to lose and keep it...
It is now widely accepted that coaches need to be able to work with the whole person and this includes any limiting beliefs and assumptions which are holding their clients back from achieving what they want. Delegates on our Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching are often concerned about whether this is straying into the...
Coaching at Work road-tests Barefoot Coaching's Coaching Cards for Managers in the latest CAW Magazine: 1 The tool What is it?
