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Your professional services firm needs a balanced set of performance indicators
Historically, professional services organisations have focused on financial measures to track success. The SPI Research Professional...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Mar 26, 20192 min read
Has your career stalled?
Recent research with over 18,000 C-suite leaders has shown that it is common for talented executives to find their careers have stalled. ...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Mar 3, 20191 min read
Collective Impact: A proven approach to large scale collaboration
Creating lasting solutions to any large-scale social problem typically involves the coordinated efforts of a number of different...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Feb 21, 20191 min read
What is mindful coaching?
Mindfulness mediation has been shown to produce important positive changes in both brain and body function (Davidson and Lutz, 2008, Tang...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Jan 23, 20191 min read
What is results-focused coaching?
Results-focused executive coaching places a clear emphasis on identifying and reaching specific targets. The executive, the coach, and...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Dec 20, 20181 min read
What is executive coaching?
According to The Executive Coaching Handbook (http://www.executivecoachingforum.com) executive coaching is a three-way partnership...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Nov 25, 20181 min read
Lost connections: a cause of depression
Johann Hari has written a very readable book called Lost Connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression and the unexpected...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Nov 19, 20182 min read
Executive Coaching Centre announces new Partner
Helen Burt was appointed a Partner in the Executive Coaching Centre on 1 November 2018 joining Managing Director, Dr Iain McCormick. ...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Nov 15, 20181 min read
Have you stopped meditating?
Iain McCormick – Executive Coaching Centre, Auckland. M 021575449 Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of meditation,...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Nov 5, 20182 min read
Mindfulness Regained: A Retreat
A time to re-start your meditation practice Mindfulness practice has been shown to deliver many benefits including to brain functioning,...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Oct 20, 20182 min read
Coaching: From GROW to Gestalt
The GROW model of coaching, popularised by Sir John Whitmore1 in 2002, has become a very commonly used approach. It advocates a...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Sep 13, 20182 min read
A Better Free Personality Type Indicator
Despite its popularity the Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) has many psychometric flaws, including poor validity (i.e. not measuring...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Sep 13, 20181 min read
Inner Critic Inner Coach
Aaron, not his real name, is a very successful marketing manager. He was a straight A student at Victoria University and had gone on to...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Sep 13, 20186 min read
Coaching: From GROW to Gestalt
GROW is a great simple coaching model but sometimes you need more ...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Aug 1, 20181 min read
Using Schema Therapy in Executive Coaching
Presentation to the Auckland Branch of the Industrial and Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group of the New Zealand...
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Sep 29, 20161 min read
Using Acceptance and Commitment Training in Executive Coaching
Paper presented at the New Zealand Psychological Society Conference September 2016
Helen Burt Iain McCormick
Jul 8, 20161 min read
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