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Coaching <=> Mentoring
I get frustrated with lack of understanding and discrimination between coaching and mentoring. I've met people who will argue what one...
Shirley
Jul 18, 20172 min read


If you and I went to the moon, would we get on?
I was at Brian Cox's last show of 2017 tour in May.. His passion is clear. His message to others is the enormity of the universe and...
Shirley
Jul 7, 20171 min read


Pacing yourself
I often talk to people who have a lot of things on their plate. I probably attract that type of person because I naturally have lots too,...
Shirley
May 27, 20172 min read


Flexibility
Opinionated or easy-going? Rational or emotional? Positive or negative?. Big picture or detail? Are you one or the other, or capable of...
Shirley
Mar 30, 20171 min read


Civilisation needs a new operating system
Have just read that - 'Civilisation needs a new operating system' in a quote from Hawken (Ecologist) in Leadership Team Coaching by Peter...
Shirley
Feb 21, 20172 min read


Happiness is.......
Here is a Positive Psychologist's message to promote happiness at work. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-shouldnt-you-happy-work-dan-co...
Shirley
Jan 27, 20171 min read


Which psychographic group are you?
Here is come critical thought about grouping by age, especially challenging the danger of reading too much into fashionable views of...
Shirley
Jan 10, 20171 min read


Discover something about yourself and you will change
My good friend Lesley recently wrote about having to change once you've learned something new about your self (and you don't like it)....
Shirley
Jan 4, 20171 min read
What are Soft Skills?
The best description I have as a placeholder ...they reflect 'thinking dispositions', which takes account of the merger of cognitive,...
Shirley
Jan 4, 20171 min read


Does coaching pose a conundrum?
Looking at my research data about project managers' experience as coaches, it struck me...do I think coaching is often encouraged for...
Shirley
Dec 13, 20162 min read


The trouble with blogging.....
Is that it's a treadmill you can never escape from....it naturally sets an expectation that I will regularly update it in the hope that...
Shirley
Dec 6, 20161 min read


What is coaching? (Moving you to action, based on your self-responsibility?)
I ran a research project in 2012-2013 asking project managers what coaching they'd experienced. The answer was a range of management,...
Shirley
Jun 18, 20152 min read
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