Talent show

How does a company keep its top performers? Formal development? Not according to two new employee surveys. Our 10-page special report looks at the vital role coaching and mentoring plays in talent management. Liz Hall reports Savvy organisations are putting coaching...

Toolbox – Give me five!

Continuing our series looking at coaching tools and techniques, Coaching at Work road-tests Facet5 personality tool 1 The tool What is it? Facet5 is a personality tool that helps participants understand how people differ in their behaviour, motivation, attitudes and...

Rising starr

Coach Julie Starr is on a lifelong quest for truth. She tells Liz Hall about making coaching more accessible, even if that means making it ‘disappear’ completely One of Julie Starr’s clients, a high achieving female executive, made it clear what she needed from...

Reveal all, report tells coaches

Senior talent professionals find it frustrating trying to identify external executive coaches with the right mix of skills and experience. This was a key finding of a study by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) UK and the Institute of Business...