The Power of Ambiguity

How do we deal with ambiguity? What do you do when there is no structure? This was the challenge faced by participants of a personal development programme I recently co-facilitated. This week long event was an open space programme with no agenda or structure, creating a huge sense of ambiguity and uncertainty.

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Daring Greatly: How to commit and re-commit to your courageous goals

What does it feel like to gain your dream job then lose it again all in the space of 12 months? A client of mine has recently gone through this experience and I have gone through it with them. It has been a journey of highs and lows; a rollercoaster that lurched this way and that and then shuddered to a halt.

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Hungarian SPARKLE

Coaches are like diamond polishers. Coachees are like a diamond in the rough that is polished so they reach their goals and sparkle. These are the thoughts from Laura Komocsin, Hungary’s best-known coach in her book “Toolful Coaching” that details the SPARKLE model.

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Thinking Fast & Slow: How to make smarter decisions

Daniel Kahneman’s book ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ has prompted many people to stop and think. In particular, it has prompted them to stop and think more slowly using what Kahneman terms System 2 thinking (reasons and logic) rather than System 1 thinking (intuition). Now some of you might say this is common sense,

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Nancy Kline – Time to Think: The Challenge of Autonomy in Coaching

We are delighted this week to feature guest blogger, Mac Farquhar. If you would like to blog on a theme related to Challenging Coaching then please get in touch. Here is Mac’s valuable insight into Nancy Kline’s coaching classic ‘Time to Think’.

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Appreciative Inquiry and Challenging Coaching

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has developed significant interest in the world of organisational change and individual development. The AI approach has interesting overlaps with the FACTS model of Challenging Coaching.

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