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

Photo credit: Marten Bjork Most executive coaches attend training courses and have supervision to enable them to keep up to date and relevant in a rapidly de...

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

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

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

Think about how you spend your time as a leader. What percentage of your time is spent: 1. Undertaking your own tasks and achieving your own objectives? 2....

There is a wealth of evidence about the value of mindfulness meditation for both brain and body function (Davidson and Lutz, 2008, Tang et al. 2007). Howeve...

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

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

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

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

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

Mindfulness mediation has been shown to produce important positive changes in both brain and body function (Davidson and Lutz, 2008, Tang et al. 2007). Ther...

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

According to The Executive Coaching Handbook (http://www.executivecoachingforum.com) executive coaching is a three-way partnership between the coach, the exe...

Johann Hari has written a very readable book called Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected solutions (London, Bloomsbu...

Helen Burt was appointed a Partner in the Executive Coaching Centre on 1 November 2018 joining Managing Director, Dr Iain McCormick. Helen is a senior leade...

Iain McCormick – Executive Coaching Centre, Auckland. M 021575449 Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of meditation, including sleep and health i...

A time to re-start your meditation practice Mindfulness practice has been shown to deliver many benefits including to brain functioning, the immune system, i...

The GROW model of coaching, popularised by Sir John Whitmore1 in 2002, has become a very commonly used approach. It advocates a four-stage questioning proces...