Category: Coaching
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Photo Credit R. Baldwin Here’s a segment from my TEDx Lausanne Talk on 7 May 2018: When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try asking these 4 questions! What do…
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Photo © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0 Article by Veronica Riemer, World Health Organization, WHO Published in the March 2018 edition of the UN Special Extracts: “Often when we think of a coach, what comes to mind is an athletics, tennis, basketball or football coach developing young athletes to perform to their full potential in winning teams.…
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Photo credit © Joshua Earle Is coaching at work used everywhere in the world? Coaching in the work environment has developed unequally across continents. While coaching is widespread in the US, UK and Australia, it is still on the periphery of management practices in most other countries. Even where coaching is widely used (80% of…
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Learning coaching tools For most coaches, an introduction into practicing our profession started with learning a coaching tool. Coaching is a behavior and an experience so the only way to get a grasp of it is by actually practicing it. There’s nothing better than a coaching tool to start DOING coaching! And, once…
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Les compétences non techniques (soft skills) sont très demandées, que vous soyez un aspirant candidat juste à l’intérieur du seuil d’entrée, ou un manager chevronné. Il y a tellement de définitions des compétences non techniques que le concept peut être quelque peu évasif. Vous pourriez dire qu’ils incluent la communication interpersonnelle efficace, l’empathie, les grâces…
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Self-Leadership……. it sounds like just another management buzz word, doesn’t it? Actually, self-leadership is a very well-researched concept that proposes specific and practical cognitive strategies to improve personal effectiveness. It is a tested process by which individuals can learn to influence themselves to achieve their aspirations and objectives. Self-leadership theory is particularly interesting because it is…
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There are so many books about coaching and it’s quite hard to navigate through all the titles to find what really matches your needs. I can’t claim to have read everything there is to read about coaching, but here are a few tips from my bookshelf. If you are new to coaching, or just curious to know what all the…
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Increasing the availability of coaching inside companies Coaching used to be largely reserved for executives and senior managers for whom an external professional coach would be hired to help them advance in various aspects of their leadership function. Coaching is an exclusive, highly customized learning and development experience, driven by the client’s goals, which explains why companies…
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Soft skills are in high demand, whether you are an aspiring candidate, just inside the entry point threshold or a seasoned manager. There are so many definitions of soft skills that the concept can be somewhat elusive. You might say they include effective interpersonal communication, empathy, social graces, ability to resolve conflicts, solution-focus, positive attitude, likeability, self-motivation, …
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Many people use the verb “coaching” to indicate a form of teaching, training or advising. In general they refer to giving information or instructions on how to do something, rather than transmitting theoretical knowledge. It appears that in this usage, “coaching” is intended to mean a dynamic, informal, practical sort of teaching. There are strong, valid historical…
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