Becomingness: a critical element of coaching and mentoring

It’s called status inflation and it starts when kids are in their early teens (or before). They want to appear just that bit more mature than they are. You would think adult coaches would have grown out of this instinct. But we seem the same phenomenon in relation to executive coaching. It seems that any coach, whatever their experience or capability tags the word executive in front of their descriptor. As a result, the term executive coach has been steadily devalued in recent years.

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You’re an executive coach. Really?

It’s called status inflation and it starts when kids are in their early teens (or before). They want to appear just that bit more mature than they are. You would think adult coaches would have grown out of this instinct. But we seem the same phenomenon in relation to executive coaching. It seems that any coach, whatever their experience or capability tags the word executive in front of their descriptor. As a result, the term executive coach has been steadily devalued in recent years.

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Psychological safety and neurodivergence

The relationship between performance at work and psychological safety is well-established. High performance requires people (both as individuals and collectively) to be periodically in “flow”. That’s hard to achieve when our thoughts are distracted by fear of, for example, saying the wrong thing, or by the need to maintain a mask that protects us from...

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Making hybrid working work

One of the first things we learned when a company I chaired in the mid-1990s moved to a hybrid model of working was that people have very different perspectives and needs. For some, being in the office most of the time was important to their identity, social engagement and sense of efficacy. At the other...

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Making change happen

This simple formula helps someone plan how to bring about a change in an aspect of their life. It’s firmly rooted in positive psychology, because it explores only the positive things they can do. It involves three questions: © David Clutterbuck 2024

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What makes genius teams tick?

Every now and then, we meet teams that are extraordinarily creative and productive. A recent article on Harvard Business Review’s Insider website presents an interesting perspective from psychologist Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg, at IMD business school in Switzerland. Two of the three differentiating factors she identifies are fairly predictable: It’s the third item that is most noteworthy (more…)

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Tangles – a new metaphor for coaching harmonics

Whether it be a computer cable, a garden hose or a shoelace, we all have experienced how hard a is to untangle a tangle. Jiggle the wrong way, or too hard, or too soft and we make it worse. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been experimenting with a robot to find the...

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My AI doesn’t understand me Part 2 (A fictional supervision conversation from the not-too-distant future)

I’ve written a lot in recent years about the coach-AI partnership and how it might work. I’m pleased to be part of a new research project, which aims to collate perspectives from experienced coaches, who already integrate AI into their professional practice. There  is also increasing discussion in popular literature comparing the relationships people build...

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