Fast and empowering coaching
How did you become interested in coaching? My career background is in the police in London and I’ve managed a number of teams and being in charge of them means trying to get the best performance from them and that involves coaching. When I left the police, I then started getting in more self-awareness coaching,… Read More
Neuroscience based techniques for HR to boost wellbeing Problems in staff attrition? Sickness absence? Accidents or errors of judgement at work? Challenges in performance? Equipping yourself with neuroscience based techniques could be the solution. Pressure to boost performance and achieve targets from leadership creates a battle between well-being and performance. Employee well-being should be the… Read More
Maria’s run in with Standard Coaching Many years ago, I believed that I needed to get some credibility for my coaching practice and so enrolled on a standard coaching course. It was personally disastrous. I went from being a highly competent coach to a gibbering wreck, while I saw the people around me who had… Read More
Is there a natural and an unnatural way to coach people to change? Short answer: “yes”. So why is this? Well, it all stems for the popular notions of psychology and neuroscience that have filled the space with assumptions and noise that have led to myths that are accepted as reality. As an occupational psychologist… Read More
What is it like using neuroscience for professional coaching? To answer that, we first need to go on a tour of a brief history of coaching! What is Coaching all about? My friend, Dr Alan Beggs was one of the first psychologist coaches. Originally an academic, he was asked to ‘coach’ Team GB for the… Read More