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The Strategic Latte
Most people fall way, way short of fulfilling their potential and it happens for loads of different reasons. It is all to easy to lose sight of your goals, to get bogged down, to spend time on the wrong things or to try to do everything. Coaching can play a major part in unlocking performance, but you don't actually need...
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Why you shouldn’t follow advice
There is plenty of advice around and plenty of people willing to offer it! Every time I look on Twitter, Linkedin, at my RSS feeds or the Podcasts I've got saved for long journeys, I see loads of advice being offered and lots of case studies, best practices, motivational quotes, and 'success secrets'! There is a lot of good material,...
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Why ‘Kingfisher’ Coaching?
I found it quite a challenge to name my business. For some time, I'd had a working title in my mind of 'Eudaimonia Coaching', after an excellent lecture on the concept of Eudaimonia by Professor Charles Handy a few years ago. As a business name, it had lots of appeal to me as it is all about...
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What I blog & tweet about
To set some context, Kingfisher Coaching (which is me) does three main things: - Runs in-house courses and workshops for companies, of which the flagship is the 2-day 'coaching for peak performance in yourself and others' - Works with teams to help them become high-performing - Provides 1:1 coaching (to a wide mix including CEO's, senior people, high-performers, poor performers,...
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The Lean Startup
I've been watching some of the talks from the excellent Authors@Google series (where Google employees hear from authors on a wide variety of topics) and one that has really made me think is a talk by Eric Ries (@ericries) who is the author of...
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Are you following the unclear path?
I've been very inspired by the TEDxConcordia talk by Tara Hunt (@missrogue on Twitter) who is a startup entrepreneur and CEO of Buyosphere. If you can't see the embedded video above, please click here to see it....
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3 ways to coach yourself
It is remarkably easy to get stuck when trying to achieve our goals. I'm a great believer in the benefits of good coaching, but there is a lot that people can do to coach themselves through the simpler challenges so that they can work with a coach on the the more challenging issues! In my experience (of both my own...
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