Participant chat from Roundtable webinar, Let’s talk about: Coaching across difference, with Fenella Trevillion and Will James, hosted by Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall 15 April 2024, online The first in a series of webinars and dialogues from the Roundtable for Race Equity in Coaching on moving race equity from the margins to the mainstream             What participants said (anonymized) “The term ‘people of colour’ is widely used but I’d like to offer that it’s divisive and it largely reduces people just to colour. And white is a colour too yet some white peo ..read more

A host of coaches and coach supervisors from countries including the UK and South Africa joined the Roundtable for Race Equity in Coaching’s event on 6 February online to explore how we can shift race equity in coaching from the margins to the mainstream.  The event, held to mark Race Equality Week in the UK, was hosted by Coaching at Work editor, Liz Hall, who opened the event with a guided mindfulness practice. The dialogue included lively contributions from participants and body representatives: Ashnee Naidoo (COMENSA), Will James (APECS), Tia Moin (BPS Division of Coaching Psycho ..read more

About half of coaches, mentors and supervisors believe climate crisis should be on the coaching agenda, and just over half don’t, of whom 17% are vehemently opposed, suggests research from the EMCC Global’s Climate Action and Sustainability Centre for Excellence. The Centre, headed by former EMCC UK president Rita Symons (see profile) publishes its report, Exploring the role and boundaries of coaching for climate action, on 6 March to mark the fifth Climate Coaching Action Day, a global initiative launched in March 2020 by Coaching at Work to celebrate and promote climate coaching (see more he ..read more

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