Keeping council

Most in local government are braced for difficult times ahead. But not North East Lincolnshire Council and it’s all down to the performance coaching programme it put in place three years ago for its managers. Liz Hall finds out why Britain’s public sector, and the...

Letters from readers

fine line The issue of the boundary between coaching and therapy was a theme in Coaching at Work (vol 5, issue 4). Your Poor Practice Survey showed 61 per cent of respondents thought practising therapy while coaching was unethical, and 49 per cent poor practice, while...

Chinese whispers

How is coaching growing in China? Slowly, says Dinah Gardener, of a culture that views the Western concept with suspicion. But a combination of best practice and Chinese wisdom could be about to change all that Coaching in China is beginning to take off. Twenty per...