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My book launch!

So on May 12th 2020 right in the middle of ‘Lockdown’, I held what I suspect might be the UK’s first virtual book launch! Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide The launch of my book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide was a chance to share the culmination of several months of my work and my passion

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Why become a mentor coach: Extract from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide

This is the final extract from my upcoming book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide.  If this piques your interest, you can pre-order here If you are not a coach, I hope you might still be taking this journey with us as you might still learn something about leadership in roundabout ways. My motivation for mentor

The 3 elements

Preparing for Mentor Coaching: Extract from Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide

This is the second extract from my upcoming book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide.  If this piques your interest, you can pre-order here If you are not a coach, I hope you might still take this journey with us as you might still learn something about leadership in roundabout ways. There are three elements that

Time for a change

In coaching, it’s the little things that make a big difference

As I have been mentor coaching coaches recently (observing their coaching and giving them competency-based feedback), we’ve realised that small changes in language make a big difference to the way a question or an observation is received by the thinker.  It might only reach their sub-conscious, but even then, it will get in the way

Reflections

Mentor coaching – I’ve written a book

Here’s what I learned I’ve written a book this summer.  On mentor coaching (where a coach is observed and given feedback against a set of competencies).  Mentor coaching is what I am becoming known for.  If you want to find out more, you’ll have to wait until April for the final reveal. In the meantime,

For life

Mentor Coaching is for life – not just for a credential

How coaches show up in the room The International Coach Federation is the only professional coaching body that assesses coaches’ actual coaching skills in depth – how you show up in the room.  How we show up in the room is way more important than how much we know about the theory of coaching.  The

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International Coaching Week 2018

Last year in International Coaching Week, I co-created this wonderful animated story about Helen’s journey towards supervision. This year, I am talking at the International Coach Federation UK conference about when to use coach mentoring and when to use supervision. International Coaching Week provides a great opportunity to experience coaching and raise its profile and

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New Date: Lock-in for International Coach Federation Accreditation

Find the “loving kick” to accrue your Mentor Coaching hours and complete your paperwork You’ve decided to externally validate your coaching with the International Coach Federation (ICF), but finding the time – and the motivation – has been tough, given your workload. You are ready to spend some good quality time on it, and you

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