coaching

What are the benefits of reflective practice?

• Consolidate new learning into our practice.

• Innovation and vitality through - opening our mindsets to multiple

perspectives.

• Increase our capacity abilities through feedback and clarification.

• Partnership – reflecting with a ‘support team’.

• Tests out ideas, working with questions, for example:

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Correcting our flaws means, first of all, managing the task of actually seeing them. When challenged, we often respond by refusing to accept our flaws exist at all. People accuse us of being ‘in denial’. Of course we are: we literally can’t see them. When we can see them, they all too often appear not as flaws at all, but as virtues. The

Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful

What are valid reasons for an organization to request coaching for an executive? Under what circumstances is it not appropriate to provide executive coaching?

Level 1: Behaviour change – this is normally achievable in the relatively short term. It requires focused feedback, a commitment to change, and the development of alternative behaviours and practice as well as reinforcement. Level 2: Self-image – the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and how we view ourselves, both consciously and

Having created some different options and then decided on one course of action, it is vitally important that the transformational coach creates time and space for coachees to rehearse what they will…

The strengths of developmental coaching lie in the support provided for the client to grow and change. Clients are encouraged to explore work and life issues from a perspective of future efficacy and efficiency, not merely in relation to short-term solutions.

Brainstorming, experimenting, and reflecting on what has happened are key works of SPC that keep the process moving forward

In our own work we have observed that progress toward goals may be affected by many

factors, such as:

Motivation (How important is it to you?)

Contextual awareness (How accurate is your picture of external factors that may help

or hinder achievement?)

Ownership (Who shares this goal and has a stake in its outcome?)

Clarity (Are you able to envision the