Unlocking clarity: 80th Birthday Visualisation
Without a vision for what you want to create in life, it’s hard to know what bets to place and where to direct your energy and focus. Instead, you get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, swept away by immediate priorities, forgetting to reflect on the bigger picture.
Are you stuck in a Cycle of Perfectionism?
The need to be seen by others as perfect can be a relentless and exhausting mission. By understanding perfectionistic thoughts, emotions and behaviours, you can start to unpack how you show up to help determine if you are stuck in a cycle of perfectionism.
How to set (and keep) your 2024 Goals
Creating New Year’s resolutions that stick involves value-led planning, SMART goal setting, and the implementation of reflection practices and strategies that help you stay accountable. Here are my top tips to help set (and keep) your 2024 resolutions.
Coaching with the CREATE Model
The CREATE Coaching Model is designed to anchor coaching conversations to the coachee's evolving context, while creating a structured approach to explore reactions, aspirations, tests (or change experiments), and a process of evaluation.
How to debrief a 360 Assessment
Have you been asked to debrief a 360 Assessment Report? Wondering how to do this in a way that creates impact and clear learning outcomes? We’ve shared our top insights on how to effectively debrief your next 360 Assessment report.
10 tips to close a coaching session
An effective closing sequence should allow the coachee space to reflect on their session's insights and an opportunity to create commitments and momentum to move forward. Here are 10 of our favourite tips for closing a coaching conversation.
How to lead a three-way contract
Get this wrong, and things can get tricky. Quickly. Because whenever you have someone paying for the coaching, who is not the coachee, then you essentially have another client – a third party with an invested interest in the engagement.
10 tips to open a coaching session
Creating a sense of certainty and structure is key for opening effective coaching conversations, as you navigate towards defining the goal, or priority, for the session. Here are 10 of our favourite techniques for opening a coaching conversation.
How to coach with the CIA Model
The Control Influence Accept (CIA) Coaching Model is a stress-management framework to help you pause, evaluate a situation, reframe your perceived levels of control, and ultimately move forward with an increased sense of calmness.
The power of reframing overwhelm
A ‘busy’ mindset can lead to overwhelm, decreased productivity and burnout. And while there are many factors contributing to our experience of overwhelm, there are also some interesting conversations to be explored on the power of reframing.
Coaching with the GROW Model
Asking effective questions in a structured format helps increase self-awareness and encourages ownership of the conversation’s outcomes. The four-step GROW Coaching Model is a popular coaching framework that structures conversations through powerful questions.
Effective leaders do three things well
Today I attended a workshop with Jumpshift and Salta Horses on Equine and Leadership Facilitation. There’s a lot to learn about how connecting with horses can have a positive impact on both your leadership style, and the people you lead. Here’s what I learnt.
How to shift from ‘doing’ to ‘being’
The BE-DO-HAVE Coaching Model helps reframe your focus from 'doing' to 'being'. As a framework, it puts ‘mindset’ at the heart of the conversation and prompts consideration of attitudes, values and beliefs that may best support you in reaching your goals.