The word spiritual keeps cropping up in relational to coaching, but typically with very vague explanation.
B.S receptivity refers to a person’s tendency to evaluate B.S in an inflated, positive way, such as finding it especially profound, important, informative, etc.
I make it a rule to challenge at least one deeply held assumption every month. This month I have been challenged by two recently published books that have stimulated a rethink for me.
If an employer fails to ensure a workplace or work practices are physically safe, they can be prosecuted on a wide range of legislation, from minor infringements to corporate manslaughter.
Clarifying the differences between coaching and mentoring is difficult, nor least because it is highly contextual. Almost every difference proposed has a counter explanation.
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What can you, as a coach, do for the planet today? One of the most damaging myths about coaching is that it is completely non-directive (in spite of its origins in very directive tutoring). Every time a coach chooses to ask or not ask a question, they have just influenced the conversation. And our research...
I was pointed to a fascinating book at an EMCC webinar on supervision and neurodivergence. We’re all neurodiverse by Sonny Jane Wise explores the modern history of neurological difference in society. Its starting point is that neurodiversity is the norm. Neurodivergence describes behaviours or traits that do not conform to a cultural norm – yet cultural norms are social conveniences that have no scientific basis.
I was pointed to a fascinating book at an EMCC webinar on supervision and neurodivergence. We’re all neurodiverse by Sonny Jane Wise explores the modern history of neurological difference in society. Its starting point is that neurodiversity is the norm. Neurodivergence describes behaviours or traits that do not conform to a cultural norm – yet cultural norms are social conveniences that have no scientific basis.

I was pointed to a fascinating book at an EMCC webinar on supervision and neurodivergence. We’re all neurodiverse by Sonny Jane Wise explores the modern history of neurological difference in society. Its starting point is that neurodiversity is the norm. Neurodivergence describes behaviours or traits that do not conform to a cultural norm – yet cultural norms are social conveniences that have no scientific basis.

Coach-bots are becoming more and more sophisticated to the point where they can administer GROW model coaching at least as well as a human. In all fields of life, anything that relies on following a defined, predictable, repeatable process can be reduced to algorithms.