Traditional, reverse and reciprocal mentoring – a continuing evolution

Formal mentoring programmes have been around since the early 1980s and have made a massive impact upon the careers of millions. Applications of mentoring have bloomed. For example, return to work mentoring has radically changed the experience of working mothers and ethical mentoring has supported hundreds of would-be whistleblowers in the UK National Health Service...

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How to help clients reset and recover

Studies from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have found that the benefits of a holiday/ vacation disappear within a week. Jessica Bloom, the scientist who conducted the study, recommends six restorative activities that we can use across the year. Together they from the acronym DRAMMA. D = distancing yourself from negative or stressful...

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How to take collective responsibility for individual development

  Personal development plans are a great idea in theory, but in practice simply become another file at the bottom of the desk drawer. There are many reasons for this, but one of the main ones is that all the responsibility lies with the individual to put the plan into practice. Here’s a simple, but...

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How to help a team cope with chaos

Many teams and organizations operate on the boundary between complexity and chaos. Managing the dance between those states can be time consuming, yet without devoting sufficient time to manage this boundary, they default – consciously or unconsciously – to the habit of multiple quick fixes. The more quick fixes they apply, the greater the propensity...

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The reverse Turing test: a challenge for coaches

Alan Turing’s famous test for machine intelligence was whether or not a conversation with the machine was indistinguishable from that with a human. I was introduced to the reverse Turing test by Kiersten Dierhof, one of the most perceptive observers of coaching that I know. It says, basically, that if a human (coach) cannot be...

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Triage your meetings – a pragmatic approach to wasting time at pointless meetings

A Doodle survey of more than 6,500 European professionals and executives in 2019 calculated the cost of unnecessary meeting globally at $591 billion. That’s almost certainly a significant underestimate. On average, the respondents calculated that they spent 13 days a year in pointless meetings. Increased working from home will almost certainly have added to the...

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“Coachability” – a reflection

I’m hearing the word “coachability” a lot more recently in my supervision groups. For example, “I should have gone with my instinct and turned the client down – he’s not coachable.” There are two schools of thought around this. One is that no-one is uncoachable. The issue is whether this coach is the right coach...

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