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Realising potential

I don’t know if you’ve ever found yourself blurting out someone’s name, a telephone number, the title of a film or an obscure European capital city days (or even weeks) after you were first asked the question?  That’s your unconscious … Continue reading

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Zenployment at work

There’s another dimension to the zenployment story that I didn’t have time or space to include yesterday.  It’s this.  You don’t have to change your job to achieve the state of ‘zenployment’. It’s not everyone that wants or is able … Continue reading

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The importance of trust

Trust is closely linked to rapport.  But although rapport can be built immediately, trust takes time.  There are things you will need to do, or demonstrate, to gain a person’s trust.  These apply across contexts – as a colleague, a … Continue reading

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What’s coaching like? Metaphors for meaningful job descriptions

It’s so hard to find good definitions of coaching.  There are technical definitions of course, and lots of discussion about the difference between coaching and mentoring, or coaching and counselling.  But nothing that really does it justice.  Nothing that would … Continue reading

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A voyage of self-discovery

Coaching, for me, is about so much more than achieving goals. Its real power, its magic, is in the transformations that occur in relation to the stuff that happens day and daily: our ordinary, extra-ordinary, everyday reality. This is what … Continue reading

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