by Creative Vectors Coaching | Sep 15, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
Coaching is widely recognised as a helping profession. Many people develop coaching skills because they want to support others—and that’s certainly been true for me. But what I didn’t expect was how much I would gain personally from becoming a coach. What Your...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Dec 4, 2023 | Coaching
I’m feeling delighted and honoured to have achieved the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential by the International Coaching Federation. Coaching is a growing industry with an estimated 110,000 practitioners worldwide. In February 2023, the ICF announced that it had...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Aug 20, 2018 | Change, Coaching
Guest blog by Tina Smith, Enhanced Relocation: Arrive and thrive! I’m excited to announce that Linda Spencer, my Co-founder at Enhanced Relocation has recently been awarded Professional Certified Coach (PCC) status by the International Coach Federation (ICF). This is...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Mar 5, 2018 | Coaching, Leadership, Teams
I am now offering Quintax Personality Profiling in my coaching work. Why use psychometrics? I believe that understanding yourself is a fundamental first step in personal and professional development. Once you understand yourself and “where you’re...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Jun 17, 2016 | Change, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Resilience
A dyslexic journalist? Surely a recipe for disaster. You might be surprised. A.A. Gill’s autobiography, Pour Me: A Life is a great read for those of us who love his journalism. He’s the Sunday Times’ restaurant and TV critic as well as an occasional feature writer,...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Feb 12, 2015 | Across Cultures
Are you grappling with a cultural puzzle? Then I heartily recommend this article from the Harvard Business Review by Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski, which I find to be very much in sympathy with my approach to working across cultures. The article identifies...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Oct 13, 2014 | Coaching, Leadership, Resilience
In a business world that is increasingly volatile, it’s often said that leaders need resilience. But what is that? The dictionary definition refers to an ability to spring back into shape, or recover from difficulties, and in psychology literature, we see resilience...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Jun 27, 2014 | Teams
You want to make the most of the know-how in your organisation? Mentoring is a great way to transmit skills, know-how and culture through key levels of the organisation. A senior colleague (mentor) is matched to a junior colleague (mentee) and the agenda is driven not...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | May 20, 2014 | Strategy
Strategy is all about choice and we can look to some useful role models who typify three different strategies; Masterly Inaction, Revolution and Game Change. Your coach can help you choose. 1. Masterly Inaction Fabius Maximus, known as the Procrastinator, was a Roman...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Apr 4, 2014 | Coaching
Deciding whom to work with when you are looking for an executive coach remains difficult. In 2004 The Harvard Business Review wrote about the “Wild West of Coaching”, noting that there were few barriers to entry, few quality controls and few ways for clients to check...
