People usually become managers because they're good at something other than managing. They perform well as a designers, perhaps, or as engineers, a…

I like some of the conversations I have with strangers.

In this month’s blog, I write about a conversation about coaching that I h…

The coaching industry (life coaching and business coaching) emerged in the early 1990s. Though the initial ways of thinking behind coaching have ma…

The historical roots of all today’s life and business coaching lie in the inner game approach to sports coaching that Timothy Gallwey developed i…

Read about the philosophical significance of Coaching 2.0 thinking and about how philosophical thinking can help shape good coaching practice.

Coaching’s ultimate aim, I believe, is to help people live well in both their personal lives and their professional lives. What living well means…

Creativity is not only important in the arts. Solving any new problem takes creativity. New ways of thinking and acting have to be discovered.

There have long been two main routes into coaching and consequently two types of coach. People can take a coach training course accredited by a bod…

Our Turning Chatting into Coaching article looked at how to use the two basic skills of coaching — asking coaching questions and attentive…

Common Misunderstandings

I self-identify a coach. I deliver business coaching, life coaching, and coach training. But I look at a lot of w…

Life’s Big Questions

It’s amazing being human, but not always easy. We can turn our minds to almost any topic, even to the odd mystery…

Europe’s First Coach

In the years running up to 400BC, Socrates would spend much of his time in Athens’s bustling marketplace, the Agor…

There are two basic skills that we have to develop in order to provide effective coaching:

• Asking coaching questions. We must learn to…

Social encounters

As social animals with a facility for language, we chat a lot. We chat with friends, with family, with co-workers and, i…

Seeking a better way

Long ago, I set myself the goal long of finding a better way for the world of coaching to work. I was impressed by th…

Philosophical roots

I became a bit of a philosophy nerd not long after my grandad died. I was 15 and his philosophy books appeared on my p…

Removing confusion

The world of coaching — life coaching and business coaching — can be a confusing one. So let’s build up a simple …

A Chance Encounter

What we think of today as coaching — life coaching, business coaching, executive coaching, etc. — all owes …