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Some years ago we were running a five day residential course as part of our Future Managers Programme. On the Thursday evening, before the last day, one of the delegates rang his wife and when she asked him how he was getting on he replied. "What I have learned is that you don’t know, what [...]

I am very pleased to recommend this wonderful new coaching tool developed by Michael Bungay Stanier, an Australian living in Toronto.

Once rapport has been established, coaching depends on asking good questions and making generative suggestions. How do you do this when you [...]

I have been clearing out the papers in my office. Here are some notes I made a few years ago on goal setting; I can’t remember the source.
Write down you goals – print them (block capitals by hand):

What do you want to be?
What do you want to have?
What do you want to do?

Then write [...]

We have had an interesting week in the UK. We have created a very effective but entirely unjustified petrol crisis!
Concern about the price rises following Hurricane Katrina led a protest group to threaten to picket oil refineries and distribution centres to encourage the government to reduce tax on petrol. As a result, thousands [...]

I have mentioned that we are laying the foundation for a regional network. If you live in one of the areas below and would like to meet up with other consultants, coaches and trainers, please contact me.

Cheshire
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People Learn What They Live
If people live with criticism

They learn to condemn

If people live with hostility

They learn to fight

If people live with ridicule

They learn to be shy

If people live with shame

They learn to feel guilty

If people live with tolerance

They learn to feel confident

If people live with encouragement

They learn to feel confident

If people live with [...]

It has been a bad week for America’s public image. There has been much criticism of the support provided to victims of hurricane Katrina at state and federal level, with particular reference to New Orleans. This has over-shadowed the wonderful work being done locally by volunteers and charities, both in raising money and donating goods, [...]

We are laying the foundation for a regional support of Brefi Group in Great Britain and Ireland. Would you like to join us?
Last week we appealed for regional directors; this week we are seeking regional secretaries for the Brefi Network (watch CorporateCoach for breaking news): -

London
South East
South West
West Midlands

East Midlands
East
North West
North East

Yorkshire
Scotland
Wales
Ireland

Regional director [...]

Regular readers of CorporateCoach will know that I have been interested in different ways of setting and achieving goals, and generally improving my future. I know that affirmations and visions and keeping a journal are the way to do it and I absolutely believe that they work.
Unfortunately I just do not get round to doing [...]

Here are a few comments from the Tenth Annual Higher Ground Gathering organised by the Secretan Center.
We had a presentation from Dave Buck on his latest thinking about coaching. A new style for Dave, with an incredible story about his visit to India.
Here is a summary of how his model of coaching can respond [...]

Brefi Group is committed to growing to £2 million turnover. We have been working for a year on new products, which we shall be announcing in coming weeks. "We have the bandwidth, we have the technology."
Would you like to join us? We are looking to develop our sales team and are seeking [...]

New Orleans really should not be there; much of it is six feet below sea level and even further below the level of the largest river in America. It is unreasonable to build a city on such a site.
I have visited New Orleans twice this year and each time I was fascinated about how a [...]