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March 17, 2023

Trust in Coaching-- read the guest blog by Manuela Tischler

What is trust in coaching? Why is it important? What different kinds of trust are there -- read the guest blog by Manuela Tischler

March 17, 2023

Coaching mastery: accomplishment or achievement?

Do you achieve mastery in coaching? I don't think so! Join me for some musings around how we grow as coaches

March 10, 2023

Managing complexity in team coaching

Sometimes there are a gazillion topics a team wants to cover in a coaching sessions -- how can we sort them, what can we do as team coaches to help. Read here.

March 3, 2023

What happens in team coaching supervision?

ICF and EMCC require team coaches to take supervision. Should I take supervision? How to chose a supervisor? What happens? How do I prepare?

February 24, 2023

Guerilla Communication with Solution Focus - how to lead a meeting without leading it

How to help unproductive meetings become more productive even when you are not the leader of the meeting

February 10, 2023

Your perfect road to misery

Read about a surefire way to make yourself and others miserable and what you might do to prevent that

January 26, 2023

Miracles in coaching

Have you ever wondered what the Miracle Question is and how it works? Here are some hopefully helpful musings of Kirsten.

January 13, 2023

Coaches - stop being nice to each other!

Coaches are too “nice” to each other. In our eternal quest for harmony, understanding and appreciation we are avoiding debates that might clarify issues and bring the field forward.

January 6, 2023

Selfies on the bridge

Our life often feels like a bridge. It can be wobbly. It can be scary. And yet, it can also be fascinating and amazing. As coaches, how do we work with this metaphor?

December 30, 2022

Coaching with confidence

Are you sometimes not feeling confident in your coaching? In this post, Kirsten shares a valuable lesson from her experience.

December 23, 2022

Conversations at eye-level

Would you like to act at eye level with your fellow human beings? This is usually more difficult than we imagine. In this blogpost, you can learn how to treat our conversation partners as equals in 4 typical situations.

December 1, 2022

Holistic coaching - what it really is

Many coaching approaches claim to be holistic – but are they?. Most marketing language around holistic coaching begins by separating a human being into different spheres: physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, for example.

November 25, 2022

Keeping track of client progress

How do you keep track of client progress? Do you keep track of client progress as a coach? How can we encourage our clients to keep track themselves?

November 18, 2022

Forget the coaching competencies

Yes, actually, why not try that for a moment. Forget that coaching competencies ever existed. Forget everything you know about coaching and mentoring. This is not easy to do, but a very useful exercise.

October 28, 2022

Rocks in the swamp

Recently a coaching colleague shared a case where she was wondering what to do when a client just wants to talk and talk and talk about a problem