Understanding and Working with Defence Mechanisms

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…

Who is the world calling you to be?

04/01/2021

What a year 2020 has been! How do we begin to find purpose and meaning in a year which, on the surface, has brought so much uncertainly, chaos and anxiety to so many people around the globe? It is easy to look back and be grateful for the times that bring joy and…

What is the essence of coaching?

30/09/2020

I’ve got this big idea. It involves articulating coaching and then training it at scale. Why? Well at the most basic level, I believe that if I know something will make a massive difference, it would be unethical not to share it But first I have to articulate coaching.…

What can a box of buttons do for your client?

11/02/2019

You’d be amazed I always am. It’s incredible what clients do with a button. All of a sudden the button takes on a persona, an emotion, a hurt, a meaning, a frustration. It can be tapped, and stroked, rubbed between thumb and fingers. It can be held up close and it can…