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There’s no choice.  I’ve only one or two options.  I can’t see a way out of this! Common words of despair when we feel we have no choice about a difficult situation or dealing with a difficult person.  But do we really have no choice?  As part of World Mental  Health Day we are reminded […]

The phone rings – it’s my coaching client calling for their bi-monthly coaching session scheduled for 30 minutes.  Like many Co-Active Coaches in 2002 my coaching sessions tended to last 30 minutes, every 2 or 4 weeks and over 3 to 6 months. A very much ‘little-and-often approach’ to personal development. With headphones on, I […]

21 Years in Coaching. You only have to look at the main coaching federation’s website to see the annual research as to the benefits of getting a coach. Over the past 21 years, most of these reasons have remained the same – improved focus, productivity, decision making and confidence building. But let’s take a moment […]

21 Years in Coaching My 21 benefits to being a coach. When I started coaching back in 2002 there wasn’t a lot of ‘noise’ around coaching.  If anyone had heard of coaching they immediately thought of life coaching – but in the main, most people’s awareness around coaching related to sport coaching, and not at […]

When I started out, people didn’t know what coaching was, they used to think I had something to do with buses.  In fact, if you searched for a Life Coach, you’d get listing for bus and coaching transport companies. It’s hard to believe how much coaching has changed over the past decade.  For most people […]