Ten pounds for a lot of life coaching is a pretty good bargain. I tried it and it worked. No hype, no hocus-pocus, no hare-brained woo woo nonsense. This is a refreshingly down-to-earth book, based on sound psychology, made totally practical. If you work through the chapters and apply the tools, frameworks and exercises as… Read more
At a recent Association for Coaching conference, we got to hear how they train up leaders in NASA. As a big fan of Apollo 13 (particularly that scene where the boffins on the ground try to fit the square thing into round thing – can you tell I’m not technical?), I was all ears. Christine… Read more
Health warning: if you’re someone who curls up inside at the thought of praising one of your team or a colleague – this post could induce queasiness. But hold it – there are ways to praise and still feel good. I’m not talking about the over-the-shoulder ‘that was great’, or the pat-on-the-back ‘well done’ or… Read more
How can a book of less than fifty pages, published over sixty years ago, be relevant and useful to us now? Let me count the ways. This is a gem and deserves to be used (important point: not just read, but used) by anyone who wants to come up with more and better ideas, whether… Read more