by Creative Vectors Coaching | Sep 24, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Jul 3, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | May 29, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Mar 29, 2012 | 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...
by Creative Vectors Coaching | Feb 21, 2012 | 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...
