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Choosing an Executive Coach – accreditation?

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...

It is what it is

Coaching, Leadership, Resilience

In my last blog I wrote about the benefits of frustration as a prompt to get you to imagine what you want. “daring to dream is an important step in thinking about change” This kind of imagining is future-oriented and is a creative step towards choosing...

In praise of the life unlived

Coaching, Creativity, Strategy, Teams, Training Transfer

I’m really enjoying reading a recently published book by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips called, “Missing Out: In praise of the unlived life.” He says that we spend a lot of our energy on awareness of what is not in our life and wanting something else. This is essential...

Making Change Stick(y)

Change, Coaching, Creativity, Strategy, Training Transfer, Workshops

Whether you are planning a new product launch, forming a new team or planning a new strategy, there are two key challenges. The first is to decide what to do and the second is to make it happen. A whole science and business has grown up around the issue of Change...

Creative Vectors Coaching: Coaching defined

Change, Coaching, Creativity

I’ve been asked by a few people lately why I named my business Creative Vectors Coaching. I chose the name to reflect my understanding of what coaching is. A vector is a term from maths and physics that has direction and magnitude and is illustrated with an...

Power Distance and Cross-Cultural Working

Across Cultures, Coaching

Poor Jean Baptiste Bernadotte! When the Swedes asked this Napoleonic General to become their King in 1809, he thought he would be magnanimous and address the Swedish Parliament in their own language. But to his horror, his new subjects laughed at his efforts. Hofstede...

What’s the value of Research in Coaching?

Coaching, Critical Thinking

Executive Coaching is a relatively new profession and even its practitioners sometimes struggle to explain what it is. In fact, coaching is a helping service that draws on many other disciplines to contribute to its own growing body of thought and evidenced practice....

Do you have to be perfect?

Coaching, Leadership

Conscientiousness and a passion for excellence are highly prized qualities in the workplace today. In a highly competitive world we need to avoid mistakes and achieve the highest standards. So a perfectionist working style can be a real asset. But what happens when...