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Celebrating achievements is a common practice for a coach and within business.   We are all familiar with the positive impact of effective recognition at work and the power of a simple ‘well done’.   Well, taking a leaf out of my own coaching book I’m making 2016 a year of celebration and an acknowledgment of 10 […]

Have you ever noticed how people are half full or half empty, happy or sad, rich or poor, full or hungry or see life as either black or white?  We live in a multi-coloured and multi-faceted world with an abundance of choice, yet for most of us we seem to default to looking at life as […]

The largest international independent coaching body, the ICF, undertook some research in 2014 to understand how coaching is being applied in a variety of small to large organisations across North America.  They found that 60% of organisations demonstrated that they had a strong coaching culture and they not only had more engaged staff, but also […]

Life is not Black and White In coaching we are used to working outside of the lines.  If you believe there are only two solutions, an effective coach would encourage you to come up with 4 or 5.  If you see the world as black and white, again a coach would help you find the […]

You have probably come across the Conscious Competence Learning Model Matrix at some point moving from unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, unconscious competence to conscious competence.  In other words, you move from not knowing what you don’t know right to knowing what you do know. I personally think unconscious bias follows this competency model.  You only […]