What Makes A Successful Coaching Conversation?
You can’t make people have an insight in your coaching conversations, but you can create the conditions for that to occur.
What’s Wrong With Questions? [Part 2]
Questions are hard work, especially if they are asked correctly.
What’s Wrong With Questions?
Questions are a powerful tool to uncover new knowledge and foster innovation. Yet, some people in authority resist thier use. Why?
Which Character Are You? [Part 2]
There is an infinite number of roles we can play, which means there is an endless number of options on how we can approach our issues.
Which Character Are You?
How complicit are you in creating the conditions you say you don't want? [1] I've written a few times about the stories we tell ourselves. I've also discussed how we are characters in those stories. Let's take that theme a little further. Think about an issue you are...
We Are All Characters In Our Own Stories.
As humans, we have been telling stories for eons. We even tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. We place ourselves in those stories and give ourselves characters to create certainty and reduce our anxiety around the events of our lives. Sometimes we are...
Hope. Verb or Noun?
“Hope is a fantastic noun and a shit verb.”Unknown [1] Just take a moment to reflect on that quote for a minute. How many times have you heard people say, “I hope ..”? Hope as a verb is not a strategy for success because hoping for something, doesn’t make it happen....
On Paying Attention
Yesterday I wrote about the concept of understanding the idea of 'How Do You Want To Be?' I was reflecting on that post [1] and writing journal notes last night. The following extract from my journal partly answers the question, "Where have you been getting distracted...
How Do You Want To Be?
Often in our lives, we think about what we need to do. Have you ever thought, however, about how you want to be? If we understand how we want to be, our behaviours and actions will become natural from there. If I want to be curious, I will ask questions and take an...