My Executive Coach blog

Critical Issues, Challenging Perspectives! This year’s conference is an intimate event for in-depth professional connectivity, with final numbers capped at 300 to ensure everyone has opportunity to attend and engage in the seven key-note presentations and follow-on round table discussions and networking. Join us for: 👉Two and a half days of shared learning and connectivity […]

As you may know, our 2023 Conference ‘Coaching in the New World of Work’ takes place on Thursday 16 November in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. We’ll be exploring how we as coaches can support our clients to navigate the New World of Work across areas such as teamwork, collaboration, communication and wellbeing. […]

The word ‘listen’ contains the exact same letters as the word ‘silent’.  Now, isn’t that interesting. When a coach works with a client, guiding them through the conversation with powerful, exploring, open-ended questions, and uses the client’s own language to reinforce their goals, outcomes, plans, this is what it referred to as active, or “Level Two”, […]

EMCC Global Conference was hugely informative and reassuring, First face to face meeting since the pandemic, where Human Capital Development was our leading theme. So inspired by the discussions around team development in in the face of adversity, rapid change and business disruptions.  For me the key takeaway was trust: building trust, enhancing trust and […]

The EMCC Global Research Conference is nearly here, so book your place for 8th September 2022 for this virtual event where the theme is Celebrating and Flourishing: A Dialogue Between Research and Practice in Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision.  This promises to be an interactive, knowledge exchange dialogue with panel discussions, drop-in sessions and thought leaders […]

Congratulations to all who contributed and attended the EMCC Global Research Conference last week – what an amazing event, with phenomenal speakers that included Professor Jonathan Passmore, Alison Mitchell, Dr Riza Kadilar, Nathalie Lerotić Pavlik, Dr Lise Lewis, Dr Suzy Green and Professor David Clutterbuck, Dr Travis Kemp, Professor David Lane and Dr Michael Cavanagh […]

Over the years, it’s quite possible you may have taken a psychometric test that collects information about you and assigns you to a neat box.  These tests are usually conducted in order to evaluate an individual’s maximum performance and more aligned to aptitude – such as skills, knowledge, abilities and job/academic potential. However, other psychometric […]

I’m delighted to have completed my Mental Health First Aid re-fresh course with Mental Health First Aid Ireland.  I originally completed my First Aid course last year and felt that it enabled me to understand the background factors to be aware of when discussing mental health along with increasing my ability to helpfully discuss this topic […]

Reading an intriguing book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman that was mentioned to me by a client.  It’s a curious take on the thriving and expansive industry that has grown up around goal optimisation and productivity and how we all are part of the endless list making and […]

When a coach works with a client, guiding them through the conversation with powerful, exploring, open-ended questions, and uses the client’s own language to reinforce their goals, outcomes, plans, this is what it referred to as active, or “Level Two”, listening. The art and science of active listening is listening with intention to truly understand what […]

I was working with my coach recently and the conversation landed on the power of trust within the coaching environment – and also within the broader organisational context.  The obvious place to start delving into trust models is with David Maister’s trust equation as it’s one of the most famous in the business world. It’s […]