Moral support

As new legislation increases corporate accountability for ethical failures, companies are turning to coaching to reset their moral compasses. Justine Lutterodt reports Financial crisis in the UK, the BP oil spill and global corruption at Siemens – the high cost...

TV show keeps Aussies happy

Australia is happier, thanks to a new documentary and associated website sharing tools such as mindfulness and Positive Psychology exercises. The three-part documentary, Making Australia Happy, was aired in November. By December, more than 40,000 people had completed...

Survey: Coaching still growing

Against the backdrop of public sector cuts, bail-outs and general economic strife, it comes as little surprise that many of you (42 per cent) identified demonstrating value for money (VFM) as a key priority for 2011.Or that a number of you (11 per cent) highlight...

I wish I’d…

Nottingham Business School’s Elaine Robinson and her supervisor Erik de Haan from Ashridge Centre for Coaching share insights from one of their sessions What’s hard about supervision is that it makes us think about the myriad things we didn’t say,...

Australia to finalise coaching guidelines

Australia is one step closer to having guidelines for coaching in organisations, following publication of a draft document for public comment. The Standards Australia coaching committee has released a handbook, Guidelines on Coaching in Organisations, for public...