Category: Leadership
Leadership
Mentor Coaching
Personal
From Dream to Reality: The Unexpected Journey of Writing a Book
If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be holding in my hands my own book, The Ultimate Coaching Handbook: 101 Ways to Support Your Practice, I wouldn’t have believed you. Writing a book had been on my list for years (16+ to be precise), but for a long time, it stayed a background goal […]
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Leadership
Leading Through Turbulent Times
In a world where uncertainty feels more like a constant than a condition, the role of coaches and supervisors becomes not just relevant but essential. For leaders and teams navigating the renewed turbulence brought on by Donald Trump’s reelection, hope, faith, and love may sound like unlikely or even overly idealistic tools. Yet, these values […]
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Coaching & Assertiveness
Leadership
Personal Development: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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, […]
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Leadership
Coachable Moments…
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 […]
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Leadership
Coaching. It’s not exactly what you think…
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 […]
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Leadership
Motivational Monday
16 marathons in 16 weeks…
This Sunday (April 23rd) I will run the London Marathon. 42km. In training, I have run a marathon a week on average. Needless to say my legs are looking forward to a well deserved rest, however my brain is more focussed than ever… read on to see what I’ve learned (and these lessons stretch way […]
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Coaching & Assertiveness
Coaching & Confidence
Leadership
I’m an Imposter…
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 […]
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Coaching & Assertiveness
Coaching & Confidence
Leadership
Bigger. Faster. Stronger.
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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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