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This blog post follows on from Edna Murdoch’s blog post on the 25th May where she wrote about the important of how and where we resource ourselves as coaches. This comes at a good time to link with a recent CPD day I facilitated as part of one of the CSA Community Development days for […]

Many of my supervisees and coaching colleagues, are noticing that they are working less in the area of leadership development these days and more in areas of resilience and resourcing. There seems to be an increasing trend in which clients want their coaches to support them to carry increased workloads and manage stressful work situations. […]

I am enjoying revisiting an excellent book on coaching supervision: “Coaching and Mentoring Supervision” Ed. Bachkirova, Jackson, Clutterbuck (2011). In particular, I have enjoyed Clutterbuck’s chapter ‘Using the seven conversations in supervision’. This chapter opens up an area that is most useful to coaches in supervision – looking at the dialogue that goes on inside […]

MakeSense — writing your way to clarity. After submitting my learning log for CSA supervisor re-accreditation last year, I realised that it was time to change my haphazard way of recording my learning.  I’m not a natural writer and though reflection is an important part of my practice, physically writing in a journal is not […]

Currently, I am interviewing executive coaches for CSA’s coaching supervision programmes. Some of these conversations truly catch fire and are as memorable for me as they are for our course delegates. I notice too how supervisees will sometimes say that ‘time stood still’ in their sessions with a particular client or that at some point […]

  I think we can agree that to reflect on one’s work brings benefit – yes??  CSA held a community day last week for our supervision graduates and we had the wonderful Jackee Holder (www. jackeeholder.com) inspiring us on the theme of using creative writing to aid reflection on our coaching. The group were suitably […]

We are inundated with information about the brain at the moment.  That’s because we are finding out much more about how it works and especially for us, how coaches and supervsiors can use our understanding of how the brain works to enhance our practice. In contexts such as decision making, creativity, creating a good learning […]

Recently I was delivering a teleforum  on the subject of contracting. Not just contracting, but psychological contracting; that is to say what goes on underneath the overt contracts we make and re-make with clients, stakeholders and sponsors. The context for this teleforum was one of our supervision training programs, the one currently running in Sydney […]

 I want to return to Linda Aspey’s article – see below – in which she questions our insistence on so many questions.  Much of what we are currently learning about coaching comes from the discipline of neuroscience and Linda illustrates succinctly why this new information is so important for us. She says that, “ there’s […]