Coaching and mentoring are often seen as ways to help others grow—but what if the transformation goes both ways? Over the past decade, I’ve discovered that every coaching conversation, every mentoring session, is as much a learning experience for me as it is for my clients. One of the most profound realizations I’ve had is that growth is mutual.

A pdf version of this article can be downloaded here. __________ Why Use Assessments in Your Coaching Practice Coaching for personal growth and development is a hot topic. Especially as people are learning to navigate a new reality during the pandemic. Our social constructs are out of sync, making our inner compasses feel skewed. The need for skilled coaches with …

Bottom-line – this is a valuable resource yet the title is suspect when the industry has not agreed upon a term for this activity.

This whole idea of supervision is misguided. Who supervises the supervisors? Is this just another monetized certification?

I have started reading my mind based on my 15-years of corporate knowledge, practice and learning.

Erik de Haan’s (2008) research into “The inherent conflicts arising in the professional development of coaches” encourages us, as coaches, to become “simultaneously thicker and thinner skinned.” Through his research with 60 coaches, he examined 69 critical moments, that is, “turning points” and “dilemmas” (p. 529), moments when coaches “did not quite know what to do” (p. 529). Through analysis, …

Coaching is one of the most requested professional development methods of corporate leaders. In a 2001 study by the Corporate Leadership Council coaching was the 5th most requested method for development. In a more recent study by Ninth House, 95% of all the Fortune 500 firms that participated in the study utilize external executive coaches as a part of their …

Whether you’re an executive coach or not, Rosanne Scriffingnano’s paper “Coaching within organisations: examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders’ professional development” (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2011, 20-31) provides some essential considerations about the impact of clients’ goal orientation on their development. Given the prevalence of the goal setting …