In many coaching schools or leadership courses you learn NEVER to ask why questions. They lead to: Assigning blame Asking for justification Deepening the discussion

That hated moment — your client has finished talking. Maybe even while the client was talking, you were thinking: “Uh-oh — where is this going…

Most of us live in a bi-lingual world where we either speak more than one language or are communicating with people whose native language is

I love metaphors — I love playing with language and being playful is something I really enjoy. Recently I came across a BBC documentary podcast

… have a look around and see if you are not actually surrounded by a****les. When we are feeling down, angry, sad, irritated, anxious, etc.

I love cycling and in the summer of 2020 my husband and I cycled from Frankfurt to Spain. Here is what we learned (which is

If you catch me on a bad day and ask me about personality profiles, you will trigger a rant. Personally, I don’t believe that you

FREE COACHING MEETUP AND EXCHANGE Interrupting your client gets seriously bad rap from coaching educators, competency frameworks and other sources aiming at increasing the quality

So does the coach need to know anything? Do you need to understand anything as a coach? Or does mainly the client need to know

“Of course, you need a coaching agreement”, I am almost hearing you scream when you read the header of the text. But do you? Who

I recently gave an online keynote on “the art of conversation” for a group of around 50 people from all over the world with very

Can you challenge your client? Should you challenge your client? What if you do challenge your client and they stop liking you? What if you

My colleague Svea van der Hoorn from South Africa reminded me the other day that in many coaching books and in many coach trainings the

If you are a little bit like me, you have a lot to do and probably not always enough capacity to get everything done that

You are sitting in one of these meetings. A lot has been discussed. Everybody is sort of clear on what needs to happen to take