by Debbie | Jul 29, 2022 | Coaching, Personal learning
In the final post of this series, I’m focusing on a potential downside of the coach-coachee relationship. It sounds like I’m ending this series on a negative topic, but it has its basis on the positive coach-coachee relationship! When you work with a coach: you feel...
by Debbie | Jul 23, 2022 | Coaching, Personal learning, Supervision
In ‘4 Ways to Sharpen Your Coaching Skills’ I raised the question – How do you ensure that your coaching abilities are as good as they can be? Here are 4 more ideas … let me know what you think, and which others you’d add! 1. Keep a...
by Debbie | Jul 18, 2022 | Coaching, Personal learning, Supervision
Reflection is a type of thinking associated with deep thought, aimed at achieving better understanding. You’ll reflect within the coaching session (*reflecting ‘in action’) with the support of your coach, and beyond it (*reflecting ‘on action’) through your own...
by Debbie | Jul 17, 2022 | Coaching, Personal learning
One of the core skills of a coach is feeding back to you (the coachee) things that they are noticing … hearing, seeing and feeling. This might include: noticing shifts in your body language or changes in tone / volume, whenever you talk about a particular topic,...
by Debbie | Jul 10, 2022 | Coaching, Personal learning, Supervision
Whether you coach as part of your role in an organisation, or you’re an independent coach, how do you ensure that your coaching abilities are as good as they can be? Do you have people or systems (or both) that help you review your ongoing development? As a...
by Debbie | Sep 17, 2021 | Personal learning
I don’t know about you, but when it comes to evenings, weekends or holiday times, I find it hard to stop doing things. Winding down feels like an effort that I haven’t got the energy for! I also find myself having a battle with my thinking … “I need to do ‘X’ …” “I...
by Debbie | Sep 11, 2021 | Personal learning
There are several times in my life when I’ve hit overwhelm. One of the earliest was studying for tests and exams. The pressure that I felt from others, and the subsequent pressure I put on myself, has been a recurring pattern into and throughout much of my adult...
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