Wake-up call

A local authority finance director wants a coaching programme for his reports. He is keen on the process and feels his team would benefit, but is unaware of how negative they are feeling Paul is a lively, ambitious 50-year-old finance director in a metropolitan local...

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...

Balancing act

How should we ‘manage’ internal coaches, as they juggle the demands of a day job with the challenges of a new role? Supervision may well be the only answer, say Alison Fletcher and Liz Macann Internal coaching has become a cost-effective way of widening...

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,...