Coaching Articles

I came across a Hallmark card recently. It was titled: “Coaches are Everyday Heroes”. The inside tribute says:

“Coaches inspire hopes, nurture dreams and encourage success.

They show you that life means sometimes winning with honour… and sometimes losing with grace.

They support the talented, com...

As a life coach you inspire, guide, empower, encourage, and support. Quite a responsibility for you who have your own weaknesses and issues to deal with. This is why life coaching is a profession of a high calling. It is a job that requires you to share your life and be part of one’s life. It is the...

To coach successfully, a Professional Coach must build a trusting relationship with the client and assist them on their journey of personal discovery.

Listening: In coaching, listening is more important than talking. By listening, people can be helped to overcome their fears, offered complete objec...

“I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.” Quee...

Coaching gives you an opportunity  to make a difference in someone else’s life, but limiting coaching to this definition is myopic. Yes, the coaching process is bounded by time but the  impact of an effective coaching transcends the limits it sets. It is in this context that coaching becomes more th...

Realistically, coaching is just one of the many factors such as currency fluctuations, political stability, economic conditions that affect the growth of an organisation. But It goes without saying that a strategic investment in “human assets”  for their development would bring about  financial and ...

Feedback mirrors to us how our environment perceives our actions or behaviour. We may not notice it but in reality feedback happens almost all of the time. Consciously or unconsciously we express opinions as we engage in a conversation without really having a conscious thought of what we want to acc...

Leadership coaching has stolen the limelight from the traditional corporate training. From commanding, directing and teaching for a definite period of time to empowering individuals and relationship building.  It has generated increasing popularity in the workplace for its capacity to address the ne...

A coaching culture, as current studies would define it, is a manifestation in the organisational life of the values and principles rooted in the practice of coaching as a tool to sustain or spur business success through talent management.

Developing a coaching culture is to weave organisational coa...

“You can’t improve what you can’t measure.” So goes an old adage which science supports and common sense accepts. In other words, if we cannot measure the difference between what was and what is, no progress can be assessed.

A coach works with an individual but operates within a system. Any coachin...

Investing in human capital is investing in an organisation’s most valuable resource – it’s employees. Recent years have generated interest in coaching in the workplace as researchers strongly indicate that it enhances employees’ commitment and development. As a manager you play a critical role in th...

There are three very good reasons why leaders should learn how to coach.

First, learning how to coach is an opportunity to find out more about yourself – who you are, what you believe in, how you relate to others in your world. You refine your communication and interpersonal skills which are the co...