A new Practical Appreciative Inquiry live online facilitator training starts soon – click here to get the details and how to book Transcript The affirmative topic for an Appreciative Inquiry is important – ‘fateful’ as many books about AI describe…
How To Do Appreciative Interviews With People Who Are Feeling Negative
Recently one of my Practical Appreciative Inquiry graduates emailed me an interesting question. She is using an appreciative interview format in her research working with maternity staff (doctors, midwives and maternity support workers) who have worked through the Covid crisis…
How The Experience Cube Works In Coaching Part 1: Introduction And Observing
Gervase Bushe’s ‘Experience Cube’ (part of the Clear Leadership model outlined in his excellent book, Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work) is a useful tool for reducing anxiety, communicating more clearly, and increasing self-awareness. This article is…
Why Coaching With Compassion Works Better Than Coaching For Compliance – The Neuroscience Of Coaching
Coaching Works – But What Kind Of Coaching? It’s fairly well established that coaching works. For example, a meta-analysis of studies of workplace coaching in 2015 shows a strong positive effect on individual performance, and smaller but still positive effects on…
What Executives Get Wrong About Coaching
A study published in the Harvard Business Review by Leadership professor Julia Milner and management consultant Trenton Milner has revealed that most executives don’t really know what coaching is. It’s worth looking at what experts generally define as coaching. These descriptions…
Four Essential Questions For Coaching Yourself Or Others
Why some coaching questions can do more harm than good Coaching, if we follow Sir John Whitmore’s definition that it’s “helping people to learn rather than teaching them”, is about asking questions to help the ‘coachee’ find their own answers and…
10 Ways To Help Someone Close To You Loosen Up Their Limiting Beliefs
Even for experienced coaches and therapists, it’s not easy to help a person change when it’s someone close to you, because you’re emotionally involved yourself. If they’re stuck with a belief system that they know is holding them back, but they just…
Appreciative Inquiry: How To Define Your Affirmative Topic Effectively
Get your Appreciative Inquiry process started off right with this quick and easy guide to defining an affirmative topic The affirmative topic for an Appreciative Inquiry is important – ‘fateful’ as many books about AI describe it – because the…
Questions In Coaching (4): ‘Chunking’ Up Or Down
Note: This article follows on from these others in the series: Questions in Coaching (1): Solution-focused or problem focused? Questions in Coaching (2): Presuppositions Questions in Coaching (3): Open versus closed questions Another important distinction in coaching questions is whether…
What I’ve learned about leadership from my dog
I came to dog ownership at a relatively late age – we didn’t have pets when I was a kid, and consequently I grew up with something of a fear of a) dogs that were big enough to kill me…