by Ruth Dillon, Experienced Psychotherapist and Coach On a continuum, psychotherapy and coaching are both professional services for assisting clients in gaining happy, healthy living. …
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Listening Techniques from Coach Training
In good coach training programs, listening techniques are an essential competency to include. What are the barriers to effective listening? One is biographical listening which …
Management Evolution to Executive Coaching
Thinking back thirty years, managers had the approach of “I am the boss so what I say goes and if you don’t like it you …
A Peer Coaching Conversation
Rather than offering ideas to a peer, a peer coach asks questions. When the peer is listened to, asked probing questions, and develops their own …
Peer Coaching versus Peer-to-Peer Conversation
Whether in a formal peer coaching relationship on the job or informally with friends, how exactly does peer coaching work? Peers want to be helpful …
Coaching Explored
Coaching is a hot topic – people who know what it is understand the benefits and often want a life or business coach, want to …
Executive Coaching – A Conversation
In the blog on Monday was a snippet of an executive coaching conversation. With the executive coach, the client explored what was happening, gaining valuable …
Executive Coaching – A Conversation
What happens in an executive coaching session? Of course each session is unique and is based on what the client chooses to address. Coaches are …
Coaching Leaders
Leaders have co-pilots. Historically the co-pilots have been a spouse or significant other, a mentor, a close friend, a parent or sibling, a consultant, or, …
Internal or External Executive Coach? Part 2
Which makes the most sense? On Monday the blog post explored the pros and cons of an internal executive coach plus the process for arranging …