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Building on personal strengths – beyond the basics

Identifying strengths is just the first part of a strengths-based approach to personal development. There are numerous self-completion questionnaires to help with the process, but these should come with a health warning – you have to have a relatively high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence to see yourself accurately. More effective is to add...

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Building rapport

Building rapport is the first step in creating a successful relationship. Investing time in the early meetings to get to know each other, establish common ground, share personal stories and start to think how you will work together is time well spent. Establishing rapport is essential in, for example, mentoring coaching relationships, because it allows...

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Career pathing

Career pathing is a useful process for helping someone learn from their previous career moves and apply that learning to future career choices. Its about moving from allowing careers broadly happen to you, to taking greater control of your career; about creating choices rather than waiting for them to come to you. Some of the...

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Career self-management

Career self-management involves making deliberate choices concerning current and future career prospects. We all influenced by internal and external factors which can impact on the quality of our thinking and clarity of purpose. There are a number of tools we can use to help us understand our motivations and career choices, to make better informed (more…)

Circles of concern and influence

We all have concerns in our lives; concerns could be around home life, health, finance, family, friends, the environment, violence, oppression, starvation, the environment – the list goes on. We are not always able to influence all of our concerns. So, we have a choice about where we choose to focus our attention, time and...

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Clean language

Clean Language is a non-directive questioning approach that encourages a different and deeper way of thinking. The term ‘Clean Language’ was developed by David Grove in the early 1980’s, as a way of preserving the client’s experience with minimal interference by the therapist. Clean Language was initially used within the psychotherapy context but it now...

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Coaching and mentoring millennials

Generation gaps aren’t what they were. It used to be a reasonable assumption that each younger generation was simply going through the growing pains of its predecessors; that the experience of an older generation was, by and large, directly relevant to them. Much of mentoring theory is based on this assumption. Yet the evidence has (more…)

Coaching or mentoring: which do you need? (A decision tree)

A coaching or mentoring decision tree can help to identify the appropriate type of developmental approach and method. The first step is to consider the need/issue; this will help in determining the support needed. Aspects to consider include: is the issue one of performance; career development; or personal/ leadership development? If the issue is about...

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Coping with work overload

Everyone feels overwhelmed from time to time. Sometimes it is simply a matter of volume of work. In this case, we can apply tried and tested practices: We can also aim to manage our energy efficiently, apportioning the times when we have most energy to the tasks that fall into the urgent and important quadrant,...

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Developing as a coach

How can I continue to develop as a coach? What to read There’s no shortage of reading material on coaching topics. Many of the leading coaches and writers on coaching produce frequent blogs and articles, which you can access for free. Each of the three main coaching professional bodies (ICF, AC and EMCC) has newsletters...

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