As one of the foundation stones for my coaching is for the coachee to complete a Balance of Life Wheel of 8 segments which are totally the coachees choice with family and me time being regular contributors. When these segments are scored between one and ten family scores well even when the coachee is very […]

What do you see when you look in a mirror? I see my brother Don who was 12 years older than me. After exploring the different phases of life in last month’s edition of Meaningful Moments, I saw an article about the unstoppable move into older age and a meditation on the best ways to […]

Two of the coaching tools I have used over the many years of my coaching are the life balance and work wheels these act as a good barometer of where people are up to in their lives. During my own career I used to use these wheels on a reasonably regular basis to see how […]

I have recently been supporting people in their fifties with career support, much of it to do with getting over the shock of redundancy and rebuilding their confidence for the next challenge ahead. With younger people it is often how do they get over imposter syndrome to ensure they progress to the levels they wish […]

It is always good when I hear somebody has benefited from my newsletters which a fellow walker did last month. Which is why I am continuing the theme this month. When do people begin to lead? Team leader In my earlier years of coaching, I had many opportunities for coaching at this level. Being a […]

Judith, my social media expert, delegated to me (rather than the other way round!) the task of looking at my own career and reflecting on how coaching/mentoring, if I had known about it, might have helped me at different stages. At the time, as I am quite resilient, I might have asked why I needed […]

This is a book written by Oliver Burkeman which I started to read when in La Palma on a walking holiday. Ironically it was only when I got to page 140 that I realised I was wasting some of the valuable days I have of my remaining 252 weeks! Basically, the book is about the […]

CEO and Senior Manager Mentoring Support – why you need it? The top of the tree can be a lonely place with only a few people to whom you can really open up. There are multiple pressures externally, around strategy and business performance, whilst internally team development and difficult decisions present daily challenges. Sometimes this […]