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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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Personal
Supervision
Building Resilience in the Coaching Profession
“Resilience isn’t just about surviving adversity. It’s about embracing change.”
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Personal
Supervision
The Power of Supervision: Why Every Coach Needs It
In my last blog, I shared my personal journey of overcoming imposter syndrome as a coach — a journey that, even now, is ongoing. Today, I want to take you deeper into a part of that process that has profoundly transformed my practice and perspective: supervision. Just like imposter syndrome, supervision has become an integral […]
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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).
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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 […]
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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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Coaching & Assertiveness
Assertiveness & You – ROI that’s impossible to ignore.
And in my final instalment relating to ‘Assertiveness & You’ (the best workshop on assertiveness that you have yet to discover!) we explore the final piece of the puzzle where the participants are at this stage aware of what assertiveness demands, what they demand from themselves to be assertive and their beliefs, values and emotional […]
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Coaching & Assertiveness
Assertive Communication
Through exploring our non-verbal and our verbal communication in my workshop, we begin to uncover what it means to be authentically, unequivocally you.
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