When I am coaching I like to take my clients backwards and then forwards to their future. I invite them to enter a virtual time machine: my coaching ‘Tardis’ if you like – and I first invite them to seize the controls and take it back 10 years. And then I ask them, ‘How would you have introduced yourself ten years ago? What are you doing? Where are you living?’ What do you want for yourself ten years on? How would you describe your life looking forwards 10 years?
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Kris Robertson, UK’s leading Coach Mentor/Supervisor and Operations Director of The Coaching Academy shares his top 5 Coaching Questions:-
Client: Although I have this goal…..this has now appeared… and I wonder how I am going to be able to juggle all the balls and still succeed?
The power of coaching never ceases to amaze me, especially because we coaches are in the position of working with a range of clients, forever [...]
It never fails to amaze me the impact coaching has on people’s lives. We must hear the words ‘life changing’ on a daily basis, and when I think of the miracles it has bought about in so many people’s lives I feel humbled and inspired to be a part of such an [...]
Career counselling may involve specialist services, which use psychometric tests. By giving the client a series of tests measuring aptitudes, occupational interests and aspects of personality, the results may be interpreted by a consultant psychologist and a report with recommendations written. Other career counsellors may make no use of [...]
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‘Coaching within organisations has moved beyond being ‘the latest fad’ to adding real benefits’ was the rather cumbersome title used for a recent Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) survey, which looked at the benefits coaching can, and does, bring to the workplace via HR.
I found myself nodding agreement [...]
A look at what creates entrepreneurial spirit and how to turn it into a successful mindset
Entrepreneur is a term bandied about by many these days, especially in an economic climate where it is not just desirable to be of the entrepreneurial persuasion but something to be greatly admired.
Some business people may [...]
Following Sir Alan Sugar’s claims that it is impossible to describe what makes an entrepreneur, David Abingdon, CEO of the Alchemy Network, explains why it’s perfectly possible to train one to do great business.
When I heard Alan Sugar gruffly declaring in the last episode of The Apprentice that an entrepreneur is impossible to define [...]
A friend of mine has an interesting philosophy: that every person is right about half the time and wrong about half the time. My friend’s perspective has given me food for thought over the years, because I’m generally the type of person who takes a position and tends to [...]
Jim was the Chief Financial Officer of a growing robotics company. He had six other managers reporting to him and was responsible for two departments, as well as budget and financial information for the company’s operations. It was a stressful job at times but a great company to work [...]
