Family business

Balancing work and home life is a challenge for most parents. So when three companies trialled Next Generation’s parent coaching, it was no surprise that the courses were inundated. Sarah-Jane North Babies and children do not come with an instruction manual. Most...

Ripple Effect

Launch of the Coaching the Community campaign, looking at how coaches and mentors can use their skills and make a real difference in the wider world Liz Hall Enlightened self-interest; as the Dalai Lama calls the awareness that in helping others we help ourselves;...

Letters – 0302

SHARING EXPERIENCE ENRICHES COACHES Supervision is looming on the coaching horizon. I agree we need to look beyond simply lifting practice from the therapy world, we need to focus on what worked in that therapy world and adapt it to organisations’ different coaching...

A different track

Profile of John McGurk, the CIPD’s new adviser on coaching Sarah-Jane North Train driver to coaching tsar is not the most obvious of career paths, but such has been the journey taken by John McGurk, a new CIPD adviser on learning, training and development. At first...