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If Coaching Is The Answer, What Is The Question?
The importance of anchoring coaching to business strategy and goals
🇬🇧 Top 10 Tips For Coaching Difficult People
It has been said that there is no such thing as difficult employees, only ineffective managers, but I've yet to meet anyone who believes that's true. In the end, if people want to be difficult that's there choice, but recognizing that the way we manage such people is part of the mix here's a selection of tried and tested techniques:
🇬🇧 How To Coach Through Difficult Times
These are difficult times. Commercial organisations are faced with empty order books, lack of cash or capital and shrinking markets. The public sector too is finding its resources shrinking as there is simply not the finance expected even a year ago.
🇬🇧 Coaching Myths
It is widely agreed that coaching is a much-misunderstood concept and it is perhaps not surprising that many myths have sprung up around the subject. Can you see any truth in the following for example?
🇬🇧 Introduction To Coaching
Ask anyone to define the word coach and you will get a wide variety of responses. Some will say coach is a sort of tutor or instructor, but others will say it's a large, multi-wheeled railway carriage. Unfortunately, the second definition is about as helpful as the first in deciding what coaching at work is all about.
🇬🇧 How To Exploit Rapport In Coaching
Rapport is a somewhat exotic English word derived from the French verb rapporter, meaning to bring back, to refer. The English meaning, a relation of harmony, conformity, accord or affinity, indicates the importance of rapport to communication and consequently coaching. This article examines what coaches need to know.
🇬🇧 Coaching Today: What Coaching Is And What It Isn'T
The comparing of coaching to other forms of workplace development that my previous articles have dealt with has helped us understand coaching relative to other approaches, but this article seeks to refine our understanding of coaching in absolute terms.
🇬🇧 Coaching Skills Training: Coaching & Counselling
"Coach me? If I wanted counselling I'd ask for it thank you!" This article examines the confusion between coaching and counselling and how we can make our intentions clear to avoid statements like this.
🇬🇧 Learn To Coach: How Could We Classify Motivation?
Continuing his series of articles on the importance of motivation to the coaching approach, Matt outlines how the complexity of motivation can be broken down and made managable and how different types of motivation may be classified.
🇬🇧 Coaching In Management - Essential Business Skill Or Temporary Fad?
There continues to be massive coverage in the press just now about how effective the skill of coaching can be both in the workplace and in people's personal lives. Can a manager employ coaching skills to further the performance and general motivation and morale of their employees?
🇬🇧 Coaching Can Get The Boss In Shape
Who tells the boss that they can improve their management or leadership? How do they look at themselves objectively and identify what areas they can improve and the benefits of doing so?
🇬🇧 Coaching Or Mentoring - Does It Matter Which?
Some differences and grey areas where Coaching or Mentoring overlap
🇬🇧 Developmental Coaching For Organisational Growth
Human capital and organizational development strategies that systematically use developmental coaching to uncover and nurture latent and potential capacity can provide a better means to cultivate organizational futures.
🇨🇠High Performance Coaching - Business Coaching Sessions Replace Traditional Seminars
Leading edge thinkers are thinking about BCS (Business Coaching Sessions). If the world is really about faster, cheaper, better, then BCSs are a perfect response to this question: How can I get more out of the increasingly limited time I have to invest in personal and professional development?
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