Photo credit: Tianshu Liu Despite the affirmations that many self-help books preach, life can be difficult and challenging with many impo...

Photo: Gabriel Benois Self Practice Self Reflection is about understanding coaching ‘from the inside out’ – by coaches experiencing the p...

A statesman is a respected leader in a given field. Perhaps more importantly they are often politicians who are unencumbered promoters o...

Many coaches see four or five clients a day for four or five days a week. The work requires endless concentration, empathy and compassion...

Photo credit: Marten Bjork Most executive coaches attend training courses and have supervision to enable them to keep up to date and rele...

Iain McCormick and Stewart Forsyth From a paper presented at the NZPsS Conference Rotorua, August 2019. Buddhism predates modern psycholo...

The best sort of project values are aspirational. These values tell your team what is essential for success even if some of these things ...

At times we all feel frustrated and wrung out at work. By contrast, burnout is a chronic feeling of emotional exhaustion, cynicism and l...

Think about how you spend your time as a leader. What percentage of your time is spent: 1. Undertaking your own tasks and achieving you...

There is a wealth of evidence about the value of mindfulness meditation for both brain and body function (Davidson and Lutz, 2008, Tang e...

This book by James Clear is definitely worth the read. It contains a number of fascinating ideas: 1. Habits are the compound interest of ...

Organisations are regularly forming partnerships to bid for new projects, to gain access to new markets or to reduce risk. As business g...

Historically, professional services organisations have focused on financial measures to track success. The SPI Research Professional Serv...

Recent research with over 18,000 C-suite leaders has shown that it is common for talented executives to find their careers have stalled. ...

Creating lasting solutions to any large-scale social problem typically involves the coordinated efforts of a number of different organisa...

Mindfulness mediation has been shown to produce important positive changes in both brain and body function (Davidson and Lutz, 2008, Tang...

Results-focused executive coaching places a clear emphasis on identifying and reaching specific targets. The executive, the coach, and th...

According to The Executive Coaching Handbook (http://www.executivecoachingforum.com) executive coaching is a three-way partnership betwee...

Johann Hari has written a very readable book called Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutio...