Posts Tagged ‘coaching’
Are you working too hard?
It was interesting to read a recent interview with Sheryl Sandberg (The COO of Facebook) in which she confessed to something that she has only recently had the confidence to confess:
I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing... Read & Comment »
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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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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How I’m doing work that I love
I know a lot of people who hate their jobs and for whom Monday mornings are faced with dread. I do feel very fortunate as I love the work that I do and I really do get excited on Monday mornings as I can get back to what I do. If I were independently wealthy and didn't have to work,...
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GROWing effective Social Media
This article must start with a disclaimer that it doesn't offer expert advice on how to use social media because I am not a social media expert; I am a coach and I simply use social media for my own business; these are my thoughts on how to take a coaching approach to social media and is based on what...
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