Building Emotional and Mental Resilience in Tough Times

Leaders need to build emotional and mental resilience during tough times and model behaviour that shows courage, decisiveness, vision, and the ability to adapt to change.

#Coaching2Connect Twitter Q & A hosted by SACAP

Last month, we participated in a Twitter Q & A session on the topic of how coaching plays a role in your being or becoming more of a “people person”.  The Twitter talk was hosted by SACAP, the South African College of Applied Psychology.  What follows are SACAP’s questions and my answers (which you can […]

Coaching Leaders: Experiential Learning for Client and Team

Learning from experience and client stories Learning, and particularly learning from experience, seems to be one of the major components of the coaching conversation. Learning from experience implies an understanding of the language and content of the client’s story, with the coach helping the client to reconstruct their own reality by searching for meaning through […]

Balancing Interests in Business Coaching

This article is adapted from Sunny Stout Rostron’s book, Business Coaching Wisdom and Practice: Unlocking the Secrets of Business Coaching (2013), which is available from Knowledge Resources (www.knowres.co.za) Business coaching often involves a three-cornered relationship between the coach (or team of coaches), the client organisation paying for the coaching, and the individual executives, managers or […]

The Reconstruction Of Meaning

This article is adapted from Sunny Stout Rostron’s book, Business Coaching Wisdom and Practice: Unlocking the Secrets of Business Coaching (2009) which is available from Knowledge Resources (www.knowres.co.za)  Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life (Victor Frankl, 1946:105). Reconstruction of meaning is one of the most important levels in which practitioners […]

Team Coaching is Crucial for Organisational Transformation

This article is adapted from Sunny Stout Rostron’s new book, Business Coaching Wisdom and Practice: Unlocking the Secrets of Business Coaching (2009) which is available from Knowledge Resources (www.knowres.co.za) As a business coach, you are helping your clients to learn from and interpret their own experiences, and to understand the complexity of the environment in […]