Cuff Coaching

Today I had the opportunity to coach and mentor one of my colleagues - I am lucky that I get to do this within my job and enjoy being able to challenge, question and expanding others thinking. I use the word mentor here as for me there is a difference. In this particular role I was mentoring more than coaching.  Coaching is what my Masters research was based on and I am fascinated by how coaching can have such a powerful impact on  persons development. Some of the following paragraphs are taken from my thesis - explaining the concept of what a coach is (mainly within the educational sector , however I easily see how this transfers to any business).  It is important that a definition of coaching is clear, and the difference between coaching and mentoring identified. Coaching has been frequently described as a  partnership to support individuals to reach goals through targeted and focused conversations, focusing on improvement (Aguilar, 2013; Connor & Pokora, 2012;...

 A new year is upon us - let's hope that this year will be significantly better than 2020. However, whilst we dealt with COVID  (and many countries are still in the midst of it) we do have to acknowledge to ourselves the things that were positive for us - it gave us a chance to reflect on what is really important to us and then to start making those changes. But how long did it take before we fell back into the same rut as before? Did we create any new habits and actually sustain them - or did life get in the way and we found ourselves back doing the same thing over and over.  Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is something we have all heard of. In fact the saying usually has the word "Insanity" at the start. If we truly want to change something we actually have to do something straight way to make it happen. We can't just accept that it will happen for us - we need to practice it and put the time into it. For instance if we want a job...