At Barefoot Coaching we find that many organisations are requesting team coaching interventions in addition to one to one executive coaching.
In the 1930s, 40s and 50s people would traditionally undertake a Spring Clean of their homes around this time of year. This was prompted by the return of the sunshine throwing light on the dust and debris in the house, with a great sense of starting anew and getting rid of all the junk and baggage of the last year.
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...
