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February 2, 2024

Validation in coaching

Imagine you hear a story like that in coaching, as you probably will. Superiors hurt employees feelings, peers hurt each other, subordinates hurt superiors and the hurt will not always be recognized: what can you do as a coach?

January 26, 2024

Misophonia - a Solution Focused Approach

Many people feel really uncomfortable when they hear certain sounds. Here is a description of what helps and what does not.

January 17, 2024

Confidentiality in internal coaching

Many organizations benefit from internal coaching pools for cost efficiency, context familiarity, and cultural enhancement. However, confidentiality poses challenges. Key strategies include defining boundaries, handling sensitive matters transparently, seeking supervision, and self-awareness.

January 12, 2024

Coaching serendipity

In coaching, serendipitous moments of insight and inspiration can only happen when we are in an alert state of “doing nothing”.

January 5, 2024

Coaching the genius

What would you do if you had to coach Einstein?

December 29, 2023

Insights and assumptions

During a coaching conversation the coach may have intuitions about the client or the situation being discussed; on the other hand, the coach is not a mere passive presence in the conversation and it is natural that they are sensitive to what they hear and observe. How best to manage these intuitions so that they do not become assumptions?ts and assumptions

December 22, 2023

Listening lessons from the dentist

How to listen to someone who is afraid in ways that make it possible for the person to be heard and not diminished.

December 15, 2023

Should coaches be "supervised" at all

Should coaches be “supervised” at all? This article replies to Julius' Weinberg's "Coaches should not be supervised".

December 8, 2023

My co-coach is messing up! What do I do?

What do you do when you are co-coaching and your colleague is acting cringeworthy? Here are some tips!

December 1, 2023

If you want to do coaching right, you are doing it wrong!

How do you learn coaching? It is not a skill like math or accounting!!! Here are some tips.

November 24, 2023

4 steps to stopping complaining spirals in your team

Your team doesn't like a recent development and they are spending a lot of energy complaining -- here is what a manager or leader might do

November 17, 2023

Signs not steps

What is a good experiment after a coaching session? Are you asking people what they want to do or are you asking them to observe?

October 27, 2023

Coaching and Ubuntu

We are who we are through others - how can coaches use the principle of "Ubuntu" to enhance their services.

October 20, 2023

Pricing your coaching services

How much to charge is one of the most difficult decisions of a coach. You don’t want to overprice, you don’t want to underprice and then there is this pesky question of “how much am I worth?”

October 13, 2023

Coaching grudges

What if your client holds a grudge and you want to help them overcome, forgive or move on -- here are some hints

Validation in coaching

Misophonia - a Solution Focused Approach

Confidentiality in internal coaching

Coaching serendipity

Coaching the genius

Insights and assumptions

Listening lessons from the dentist

Should coaches be "supervised" at all

My co-coach is messing up! What do I do?

If you want to do coaching right, you are doing it wrong!

4 steps to stopping complaining spirals in your team

Signs not steps

Coaching and Ubuntu

Pricing your coaching services

Coaching grudges

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