Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honour - The Cost to Organisations Is Real
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation with Nicola Spencer-Perera, Executive Coach & Founder, Reset Wellness: Episode 261 - 'Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honour - The Cost to Organisations Is Real.'
Being busy has become something some people wear with pride. Or perhaps we recognise it as a default response - the automatic answer to "how are you?" that arrives before the question has even fully registered. Or we notice it as a pattern because it...
The Most Powerful Moment in Any Conversation... And How We Keep Missing It
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation with Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, EMCC, Author, Coaching Educator & Mentor Coach: Episode 260 - 'Fifteen minutes. One metaphor. A life shifted.'
Most of us believe we are good listeners. We wait our turn, nod and follow the thread of what someone is saying... and we can still miss the most important thing the person just said. Not the content or the problem they described: it's a keyword or metaphor so...
The Sponsor Conversation That Must Happen Before the Coaching Begins
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation between Jeanine Bailey and Marie Quigly, Co-founders of Empower World: Episode 259 - "The Sponsor Conversation Nobody Prepares You For"
Coaching training rarely prepares you for one specific skill: it's not how to ask a powerful question or hold silence or work with emotion in the room. It's the skill of navigating the conversation that happens before any of that: the one that shapes everything that foll...
The Coaching Belief That Can Change Everything in Your Coaching Practice
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation between Jeanine Bailey and Marie Quigly, Co-founders of Empower World: Episode 258 - 'The Belief That Changes Everything About How You Coach'
What if the thing standing between your client and their breakthrough is not their problem - but your belief about their ability to solve it?
There is a principle at the heart of professional coaching that almost every coach has heard. It sounds simple and obvious...
Beyond Words: The Power of Somatic Awareness in Coaching
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation with Hind Taychouri, Trauma-trained Somatic Coach, Nervous System Educator, Empowering Leaders to Rewire and Regulate: Episode 257 - 'Your Body Knows: How to Heal Stress and Burnout From the Inside Out'.
Most of us were trained to listen to words and nonverbal communication. But as we went out into the world of coaching, perhaps we only largely listen to the words - to uncover meaning, beliefs and perspe...
Are You Cheerleading Your Clients - Or Truly Coaching Them?
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation between Jeanine Bailey and Marie Quigly, Co-founders of Empower World: Episode 256 - 'The Coaching Habit Nobody Talks About - And How It's Hurting Your Sessions'
"Reflect on the last time a client shared a breakthrough in a session. What came out of your mouth next?"
There is a moment many coaches will recognise. Your client has just had an insight. They are lit up, energised, on the edge of something i...
What Separates a Good Coach From a Great One
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast conversation with Andy Robbins, Founder of Oyster, Executive Coach, Author, Climber, and Photographer: Episode 255 - 'What a Camera Lens Teaches You About Coaching - And Why Presence Is Everything.'
Most coaches and leaders reach a point where they realise something unsettling: the models aren't enough. The frameworks guide, and the techniques support: they provide us structure, language, and a place to begin. But at...
The Skills That Stay
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's conversation with Monia Pyraki, Personal Growth Advocate and Life & Business Coach, on our Coaching and Leadership Podcast: Episode 254 - The Skills Are for Life: How One Coach Rebuilt Everything - Twice.
There's a moment most of us know. It's not a dramatic crisis. It's quieter than that. It's the moment you realise that the life you've carefully built - the career, the routine, the community, the identity - no longer fits the circumstances you fi...
The Place Nobody Thinks They Have Time For (But Can't Afford to Skip)
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's conversation with Larissa Thurlow and Tracy Manalani, PCC Credentialed Executive Coaches and Coach Supervisors, on our Coaching and Leadership Podcast: Episode 253 - Can You Afford NOT to Pause? The Power of Reflection in Community.
Most leaders are extraordinarily good at doing. They move fast, make decisions, hold teams together, and absorb pressure without visibly cracking. What they are rarely good at - and almost never given permission to do -...
Ethics Isn't A Rulebook. It's A Relationship
Why coaching's most overlooked capability might also be its most important and what to do about it.
This newsletter is inspired by Empower World's conversation with Wendy-Ann Smith, psychologist and founder of the Coaching Ethics Forum, on our Coaching and Leadership Podcast: Episode 252 - Falling Back in Love With Ethics: Why Your Coaching Practice Needs This Reunion.
The problem hiding in plain sight
The coaching profession talks about ethics, and every major coaching body has a code, and t...