Stick to your guns

Sometimes breaking the rules brings great ideas; coaching can help by allowing employees and leaders the freedom to innovate Max McKeown A young researcher, Richard Drew, working for a modestly sized company in Minnesota in the US, visited a local garage to test out...

A room of your own

A series looking at coaching interventions examines the technique Clean Space The tool What is it? Clean Facilitation is a technique that aims to direct the client’s attention to new possibilities in a non-interpretative way. The specified questions and syntax of...

Growth market

Charts the rise of systemic coaching, an innovative strategy that develops key leaders in line with business needs. David Peterson and Bobbie Little Executive coaching is in the midst of a transformation. Leading-edge organisations are moving beyond reactive,...

Educating Teacher

Discusses the benefits that coaching can bring to those involved in teaching at schools, further education colleges and higher education institutes; includes two case studies Sarah Gornall Self-doubt is a terrible thing,” wrote a respected headteacher from Bristol....

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...