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They could so use coaching — but don’t want to be coached!

We had a discussion in one of our ICF Onboarding class: a participant knows a person who would CLEARLY benefit from coaching, but they won’t

Taming the monkeys – How to say “No” in 5 simple steps

If you are a little bit like me, you have a lot to do and probably not always enough capacity to get everything done that

Why the “feedback sandwich” tastes bad

Dale Carnegie, the father of all self-help books and motivational speakers used the term “criticism sandwich” to help people structure feedback on an unwanted behavior,

The impossible team coaching

Last week I had a session with a few of our team coaching alumni. They had called for “first aid” — a kind of supervision

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue — that’s what American (and maybe also English? — enlighten me, English people, please) brides are supposed

The Saint of Small Stuff…. a holy productivity hack

Do you have too much to do? Do you sometimes not know where to start? Are you at times losing the overview and all the

“Sometime, somebody should…” – when no-one wants to commit

You are sitting in one of these meetings. A lot has been discussed. Everybody is sort of clear on what needs to happen to take

Fix, fluff, follow: the tools of a charlatan!

This week, I had a few encounters with the charlatan problem in coaching: everyone can call themselves a coach and since business coaching and life

Reflective Practice: Developing Excellence

The Solution Focused approach concentrates on a rich description of the desired future and a description of the instances in which this future was already

My new hire questions EVERYTHING!

My colleague Chris and I were facilitating a “mastermind group” for leaders this week. In our experience, this is one of the best ways for

Listening for “the who”

No, I don’t mean the Doctor or the band :-). The International Coaching Federation created “PCC markers“, behaviors displayed by professional coaches. They state: 5.1:

How to summarize concisely and usefully

In the ICF core competency 6 under “Active Listening”, we read: “Reflects or summarizes what the client communicated to ensure clarity and understanding” and the