What’s the point of mentor accreditation?

Burnout is a phenomenon we usually associate with individuals. It’s typically the result of long-term stress caused by an inability to get on top of challenges, such as increasing or overwhelming workload. When everyone within a team is experiencing similar stresses, they amplify the problem. When the whole organisation is in the same situation, the stress notches up even further.

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Why mature coaches are increasingly moving towards being professional mentors

Burnout is a phenomenon we usually associate with individuals. It’s typically the result of long-term stress caused by an inability to get on top of challenges, such as increasing or overwhelming workload. When everyone within a team is experiencing similar stresses, they amplify the problem. When the whole organisation is in the same situation, the stress notches up even further.

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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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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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The leader as lonely dragon: a parable of imposter syndrome

Once there was a dragon king, who lived in a cave on top of his vast treasure trove of knowledge and experience. Very little light penetrated the cave. Every day, the people in his kingdom would come to him to ask what they should do in their daily lives. For each of them, he would...

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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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Who is in control of how you spend your time?

One of the key aspects of a sense of work-life balance is feeling in control of your own time.  Trouble is, for most of us, maintaining control over our time is increasingly difficult. I’m lucky to have a super-efficient PA, Amanda, who protects my diary. Yet even she can’t prevent the unexpected phone calls I...

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