Author: Gareth Couch-Diewitz

Personal development is a lifelong journey that has the power to transform every aspect of one’s life. Often referred to as “the gift that keeps on giving,” personal development is not just a self-help trend but a profound commitment to continuous growth, learning, and self-discovery. It encompasses various dimensions of life, including emotional, intellectual, physical, […]

Leadership

Coachable Moments…

August 8, 2023

A Coachable Moment (noun, countable) : a pocket in time and space used to accelerate innovation in organisations. Grounded in positivity, with enough critical mass they can generate cultural shifts in organisational change and leadership development. In our Coaching Clinic at Nova Terra, we often use the term ‘coachable moments’. At first, our participants find […]

Leadership

Coaching. It’s not exactly what you think…

July 11, 2023

There was a post involving me recently which posed the question: What IS Coaching? There was an image of me, delivering training for the next generation of coaches at Nova Terra, Brussels. It was in a forest, far from the confines of a typical training session or the image of a traditional coaching session with […]

Coaching & Assertiveness

Coaching & Confidence

Leadership

I’m an Imposter…

March 8, 2023

I’m an imposter. And it is LIBERATING to say that out, loud and proud. Read on to discover how feeling like an imposter is great – and three personal hacks on Imposter ‘Syndrome’. First off, let’s debunk the idea that being an ‘imposter’ is a syndrome. A syndrome implies some notion that there is something […]

Coaching & Assertiveness

Coaching & Confidence

Leadership

Bigger. Faster. Stronger.

February 28, 2023

I want to be more effective. I want to be more efficient. Bigger. Faster. Stronger… Not only are these the words I used myself when I arrived on my coaching journey, they are the words I hear time and time again, in various forms, from my clients. The desire to push harder, take on a […]

Coaching & Assertiveness

Shame

Four Pillars to an Assertive Life

Grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one person I can, the wisdom to know that person is me (and the knowledge that if I don’t, I’ll end up in prison or committed to some other asylum).

Shame

PTSD, Coaching & Me…

It’s been a while since I shared anything or wrote anything – or worked. Three months in fact. There’s been period of absence from social media across the board and a period of absence more generally. Here’s what happened… If you’d asked me a week ago, had I ever experienced trauma, I would have said […]

Coaching & Assertiveness

Leadership

Forgiveness in Five Minutes

This morning I missed an appointment. Not a client, but a meeting with a contractor at 8am. This. Never. Happens. Or so I thought… Over the years I know that I have judged people for not turning up to appointments, become angry, felt wronged, bitter, resentful. It’s fair to say I was carrying a lot […]

Coaching & Assertiveness

Diversity & Inclusion

Leadership

Co-Leadership: Five tips on how to make it work for (both of) you.

As another leadership election arises in the UK, the notion of one person being in the ‘top job’ remains a universally held belief. However, we are in the age of job sharing and flexible working where such diversity in teams leads to greater creativity, problem-solving, higher innovation, better decision making and an improved bottom line. […]

Coaching & Confidence

A walk in the park…

May 23, 2022

Learning to trust ourselves can sometimes be one of our deepest challenges. How do we know that we have done enough in order to trust ourselves? And who do we look towards so that we can trust everything is OK?