Podcast: Coaching at Work Climate Coaching Action Day 2024 with Charmaine Roche     In this podcast recorded to mark Climate Coaching Action Day 2024 on 6 March, Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall interviews Charmaine Roche, coach, supervisor and researcher, ‘compassionate disruptor’ and ‘social justice change agent.’ They discuss themes including the juncture between social and climate justice, and whether the climate movement is political or not, whether this matters, and what this means for coaches, and what is coming up in Roche’s work as a supervisor, amongst other topics.   ..read more

Leaders with disabilities are under-represented in senior roles. Tailored coaching has the power to change that. Yvette Sargood and Caroline Dove report Figure 1: Empathy and understanding of disability at the heart of the coaching relationship (Y Sargood)     There is a stark under-representation of leaders with disabilities at senior levels in most organisations today. From the complexities around personal disclosure to systemic and cultural barriers, the reasons are complex. But these challenges are not insurmountable, nor should they be a barrier to individual or organisational ..read more

How are tech and AI shaping coaching and how can coaches play more of a role? Carol Braddick and Rebecca Rutschmann report on the Association for Coaching’s Tech Fest on this theme held last November.    We need to prepare coaches for a tech-enhanced future so that they become credible influencers of how tech is used in and developed for coaching”, says Woody Woodward, clinical assistant professor and program lead, MS in the Executive Coaching & Organizational Consulting program at New York University. Woodward was speaking as a panellist at the Association for Coaching (AC) Tech ..read more

Podcast: Coaching at Work Climate Coaching Action Day 2024 with Rita Symons In this podcast recorded to mark Climate Coaching Action Day 2024 on 6 March, Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall interviews Rita Symons, former EMCC UK president, and head of EMCC Global Centre for Excellence in Climate Action and Sustainability, which releases its new report on coaching and climate action on 6 March. They discuss the report, why Rita can’t not care about the climate crisis, and how we need to avoid othering, amongst other related topics.   https://www.coaching-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/0 ..read more

What role can team coaching play in the climate change agenda? In the latest Talking Teams column curated by Team Coaching Studio (TCS), Catherine Andrews and Tamsin Tweddell share their insights   When TCS CEO Georgina Woudstra invited us to write a response to the question of what role can team coaching play in the climate change agenda, we were delighted. Both of us have worked in sustainability and environmental impact throughout our careers, and as team coaches some of our work is with organisations and teams that want to think about how the climate and ecological crisis relate to th ..read more

Podcast: Coaching at Work Climate Coaching Action Day 2024 with Seedlings co-founders, Andra Morosi and Monique Cumin In this podcast recorded for Climate Coaching Action Day 2024, Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall interviews Monique Cumin, leadership coach and consultant and Andra Morosi, systemic executive coach, supervisor, mentor, both co-founders of Seedlings, a pioneering coaching organisation, with mission-driven legal status, planting the seeds of deep transformation of business for a regenerative economy. They discuss drawing on the collective, on living systems, role-modelling the i ..read more

In this column, we provoke fresh thinking and round up some of the weird, wonderful, quirky, surprising – and shocking – stories out there   You can’t be too kind Underestimating how well others will respond to positive acts starts when we are young, finds research.  Building on research among adults which has showed we underestimate how others respond to acts such as expressing gratitude, giving compliments and random shows of kindness, research from Stony Brook University and the University of Chicago carried out among both adults and children finds that this tendency starts when c ..read more

Jane Brendgen reflects on a range of topical coaching matters. This issue: the Middle East – our assumptions, biases and beliefs     The tumultuous geopolitical events that are unfolding in the Middle East at this time of writing are activating primal emotions for most of us. It’s like a cauldron of reactivity on a hot fire. I’ve been confronted with more subtle layers of unintegrated psychic material related to values, boundaries, speaking my truth, safety and belonging. These are some of the central themes in my coaching practice.  One of the disturbing psychosocial effects th ..read more

In the latest in this column for leaders who coach, Lynn Scott explores coaching for leadership presence and gravitas   Executive presence, gravitas and leadership presence are often considered important attributes for leaders and senior leaders. It’s quite likely the people you coach will want coaching on a version of this. (‘More confidence in my leadership role’ and being seen as ‘confident and credible’ by others is often the broad presenting issue, whether it’s a first-time manager in front of you or a seasoned and experienced leader.) I’ve been thinking about the word ‘presence’ as ..read more

Getting it ‘right’ in coaching practice means trusting your instincts. How you are is more important than how you’re doing, says Nicci Statham    In my passionate journey of coaching supervision, I’ve been musing about a key challenge that, in my experience, coaches or mentors can often face in the wholehearted endeavour of their practice. In this article, I explore the widely challenging but often unspoken subject of the ‘how’ I am DOing the session.   Frequently in coaching supervision I hear various forms of the following self-doubt from clients: Am I being too directive? Do ..read more