How do you become a great coach? why how you learn matters
I’ve talked a lot about the skills I believe that great coaches have but how do you become one? Is it by knowing every coaching question out there? learning lots of coaching models? your life experience? being a naturally good listener? or doing a qualification? The answer is it’s a whole host of things and […]
What are the skills you need to build as coaches now?
Over the last few years I’ve been keeping abreast of research into AI and coaching: I’ve been in rooms where people say AI will replace coaches and I’ve heard explanations of what coaching is which is way different to my definition. It’s very easy to sit back and say AI isn’t coaching or to go […]
Is AI going to replace coaches?
I remember sitting in a room and everyone was saying that by the end of 2025 coaching would no longer exist in the form that we saw it and that AI would have taken over. A year later and the predictions are unfounded yet we know that AI is transforming the world of work and […]
What really makes you “successful” as a coach?
One of the questions I get asked on at least a weekly basis is: “What helps someone become a successful coach?” As someone who has trained 1000s of coaches, mentored 1000s more and been in this industry for over a decade my answer may not be what you think. Yet before I start there is […]
Pure coaching vs Coaching blends
Week on week I see posts and comments around the preference for pure coaching vs blending coaching with other interventions. My personal opinion is that both of these can be useful as long as we’re clear in our contracting and conversations what people are getting and it meets their needs. I’ve noticed, as someone who […]