Practising Before Performing: Why Being Seen Accelerates Coaching Development

A Personal Reflection - Becoming MCC and Letting Go Of My PCC Coaching

29/11/2023

To me, MCC is about “being” – who you “be”, and becoming – who you are becoming, beginning to be.

Am I what I say or what I do – Being versus Doing by Roy Childs

08/03/2023

My Divinity teacher (yes, they did used to exist) was renowned for picking out individual pupils and saying in a loud stern voice ‘Boy! If you act like an odious buffoon you will become an odious buffoon!’ He was clearly a psychologist in the behaviourist tradition. But this…

How to challenge what I believe about myself

05/12/2022

By Roy Childs PhD. This blog is describing a powerful way to help people learn about themselves through feedback. We know that feedback from others is one of the main ways that we learn about ourselves. It is like a mirror that can help to dispel some of our myths and…

Do coaches help change behaviour or personality?

29/11/2022

By Roy Childs PhD. Most coaches subscribe to the received wisdom that ‘coaches help change behaviour, NOT personality’. But this is based on certain assumptions that may not be entirely valid – one is practical and the other is ethical: The practical element is…

ACDC – How to Maximise the Impact of Psychometric Feedback

27/10/2022

You may like to consider what people find useful about any feedback, but this blog, written by Roy Childs PhD. is specifically about psychometric profile feedback. What I hear people say is: Me: ‘How useful was the psychometric feedback…

If you were really, really confident, how would you be?

04/05/2021

Recognising it’s tough out there and that confidence is down, I’ve been running weekly sessions on Zoom about how to protect your confidence in tricky times. So how do you be really confident? I believe confidence is the lifeblood of one’s business and, when it’s…