Spare Some Time for Coaching and Mentoring

In today’s guest post Beverley Ireland-Symonds shares her experience from when she was in the early days of her coaching: Spare Some Time for Coaching and Mentoring By Beverley Ireland-Symonds If you’re a newly trained coach in the process of setting up your coaching business you probably have a long ‘To do’ list. Deciding on … Read more

Coaching Confidence Chatterbox with Jen Waller

Coaching Confidence Chatterbox with Jen Waller The Coaching Confidence Chatterbox is an interview feature with coaches where the questions are generated based on the origami fortune teller/chatterbox game. As this is the first week, I thought as this is my site I’d join in and play first. 🙂 Name: Jen Waller Website: www.CoachingConfidence.co.uk (this one!) … Read more

Do You Know Enough To Be A Coach?

Judy Rees asks a question that many new to coaching asks themselves, in this week’s guest post: Do You Know Enough To Be A Coach? By Judy Rees Are you a coach who actually coaches people? Or are you a perpetual preparer? I often coach people who are in the process of becoming coaches. I’ve … Read more

Finding the confidence to start coaching

One of the questions I quite often see some trainee coaches struggle with is how to find the confidence to find clients to coach. They have often done lots of preparation; maybe even have a secret suspicion that they do know the basics but they don’t feel that they have the confidence to actually start … Read more

Coaching “real people”

I’ve had several conversations recently with individuals that have revolved around coaching “real people.” Now if you, like me, have been known to take someone’s language literally that can conjure all sorts of mental images appropriate for the run up to Halloween of coaching seasons with zombies! However, what they actually mean is coaching someone … Read more