The moment you stop doing what you are doing and start reviewing your life or career, is the time you begin a process of change. – Jackee Holder When I started out as a coach in 1996 the wheel of life model was one of the first coaching tools my then coach introduced […]
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Key Leadership Skill: Re- parenting Self
KEY LEADERSHIP SKILL: Re-parenting Self This blog draws its rationale from the transactional analysis concept of the Parent ego state. That part of ourselves with which we seek to manage our lives through the beliefs, values and ‘shoulds’ about self, others and the world. Leaders may be seen as having a particular role and responsibility […]
Resilience revisited
Much has already been written about the need to develop resilient and confident leaders. But this is starting to feel very tired and hackneyed. Instead I am wondering if there is another way of looking at resilience, which is more enabling, empowering, and helpful. Defining “Resilience” The definition of resilience is to withstand. According to […]
What’s wrong with chat-up lines?
I spotted this great blog from Aboodi Shabi this week and we are delighted that he has given us his permission to use it here. The blog brilliantly explores the importance of relationship in our work. As you may know, this is a key understanding in CSA’s work. Edna Murdoch What’s wrong with chat-up lines? […]
DEFINING THE “REAL WORK” OF LEADERS February 2014
Every day we are confronted with news stories, which catalogue our collective failures to respond to what is happening to ourselves, to our communities, to our planet. In last weeks Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Christine Lagarde, Director of the IMF outlined the causes of our current global economic crisis and inequalities. “The Francis Inquiry – One […]
“Mirror, mirror on the wall….?”
Getting the Most from Your Super-Vision “Learning is experience. Everything else is just information” Albert Einstein Discovered on a greetings card in the Victoria and Albert Museum What is Super-Vision? “Super-Vision” occurs when a practitioner (the supervisee) brings their work to a Supervisor in order to learn from their experiences and […]
‘Vulnerability – birthplace of innovation and change’
One afternoon a few weeks ago I was reading and a sentence jumped out at me. No matter what came after that my eyes kept travelling back to those words as it registered its impact on me. I noticed how it kept showing up again and again in my work with coachees, supervisees, and […]
Showering alone!
I came across this recently: ‘When you are taking a shower, check and see if you are in the shower. You may already be in a meeting at work. Maybe the whole meeting is in the shower with you.’ Jon Kabat-Zinn It made me smile – it is an elegant way to bring to our […]
Context, context, context.
This week, I am delighted to hand over the blog space to Aboodi Shabi whose Weekly Coaching Reflections arrived in my inbox this morning. I love what he wrote and wanted to share it with you. Edna Murdoch “As I write the draft for this newsletter, I am preparing my keynote speech for the EuroCoachList conference at the weekend (it will have happened […]
Detached or not detached??
I am posting a short piece that I sent to a coaches list to-day. You might find it useful….. Since I believe that ‘who you are is how you coach’, I think that having total detachment from clients and their issues is an impossibility – a fiction which our profession gets caught in. We […]
