BACP bridges coaching gap

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) has launched a coaching division. It aims to offer support and relevant benefits for BACP members who work as coaches, as well as counsellors and psychotherapists. It has been created because it was...

Editor wins Association for Coaching award

Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall has received an honorary award from the Association for Coaching (AC) for her work in the coaching profession. Hall received the AC’s award for Impacting (Leadership/External Focus) Service to the Wider Community for 2010-11 at...

Guardian angel

Darryl Warden found a little coaching went a long way to helping him achieve success in the Great North Run. Could he translate that positive feeling into a coaching culture at South Tyneside Council? I won my race! I completed my first ever Great North Run in the...

Do I have to spell it out?

Sue Blow, research associate in the Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit at Sheffield Business School, looks at the use of metaphors for sharing meaning.  “When I use a word”, Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean –...