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What coaching is not

It’s fine by me if people are a bit unsure about coaching as their development option. It does not upset me in the slightest if a future coachee confesses to a level of hesitancy or even cynicism. To be so open is welcome. It’s a data point. We can work with it. We can look…

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New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work – or perhaps they can

New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work – or perhaps they can Although the New Year is an arbitrary date, we human beings are programmed to symbolic beginnings and endings and invest heavily in the power of renewal and the new start. And so, many of us began the New Year with…

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Know thyself? Limitations of self-perception

Understanding who we really are, as an individual, is a multi-faceted conundrum. It’s a big question, a huge question, with so many contributing aspects to consider.

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The power of re-framing perspectives about beliefs!

One of the many artful skills of being a coach is supporting our client’s to shift their disempowering perspectives into more empowering ones!  There are always so many and varied ways of re-framing perspectives: different stories, beliefs and experiences we can choose to…

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Who else am I?

Who else am I?

Who else am I? The familiar percussive music of the signature theme begins.  A contestant makes the short journey to the famous black chair.  She is asked her name.  Then she is asked her occupation. I find myself wondering, why this second question?  I suppose it…

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Ken Smith

Alone Together in Time by Ken Smith

In a time and place far, far away, when it was not unusual for someone to spend their whole career in one organisation, they would, when they retired from it, be given a gold watch.  The symbolism is obvious, of course: after having given the majority of their waking hours to…

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