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Davos 2024: Business Evolution, AI, and the Untold Future of Coaching

January 25, 2024

Last week the world’s most influential voices gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the 2024 World Economic Forum, an event that invites us to explore the issues and challenges facing global society. While the agenda had a strong focus on geopolitics and the global economy, it also provided a chance to examine the opportunities lying in …read more.

The Importance of Maintaining Your Coaching Ethics in an AI-Driven World

September 7, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved as a powerful set of tools that process, synthesize, apply, and augment information. As these technologies become more sophisticated, they will transform the world of work for many professions, including coaching.   AI is already being used to help coaches market their individual businesses, to support organizations in identifying development needs, …read more.

The Role of Coaching in the Discovery of Life Purpose

March 23, 2022

My friend, who I’ll call Bob, was nearing the end of life. Bob and I had worked together for years and had grown to be good friends. As he was coming to terms with the end of life, Bob ask me to stop by for a visit. We sat across the room from each other …read more.

Coaching for Self-Actualization: Part II

June 22, 2021

In Coaching for Self-Actualization: Part I, I reviewed how Maslow’s work on the Hierarchy of Needs can be used in coaching and the Maslow Centre’s re-conceptualization of it in the 21st century. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can help a coach better attune to their clients’ needs and help them move to self-actualization. Self-actualization is the exploration of who you are …read more.

Key Takeaways on the Coaching Industry’s Recovery from the Pandemic

June 4, 2021

As a coach, it’s not news to you that the pandemic brought with it a unique set of challenges for the industry. From meeting new needs to finding new ways to connect, it’s been a year of anxiety, adjustment and adaptation.   As a follow-up to its 2020 ICF Global Coaching Study, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) committed to perform a snapshot survey to continue gauging the depth and range of the impact COVID-19 has on coaches around the world. The results of the initial COVID-19 and …read more.

Creating Meaning Before and After Positive Events

June 1, 2021

The Intersection of Life Coaching, Positive Psychology and the Making of Meaning  Since their inceptions in the mid to late 1990s, both coaching (with respect to ICF) and positive psychology have flourished as fields of study,  gaining insight from each other. Life coaching offers several important insights, including the effectiveness of guiding clients to focus …read more.

Adopting a New Integrated Approach to Positive psychology coaching

May 26, 2021

It has been more than 20 years since Martin Seligman formally launched Positive Psychology (the science of human flourishing) in 1998 as a way to move away from the perception that psychology only focuses on disorder or negative facets of behavior. Positive Psychology moves the field toward more positive concepts of optimal human functioning, including …read more.

Want to Innovate? Develop and Support a Growth Mindset of Interest

January 18, 2021

Believing whether interests can be developed or are inherent may impact an individual’s ability to address and solve the complex challenges of our VUCA world. Today’s problems often require people to draw from different disciplines to come up with effective solutions. According to new research from Yale-NUS College, if someone has a “growth mindset of interest” …read more.

3 Trends that will Shape the Future of Coaching

January 4, 2021

As generational change and economic dynamics continue to influence our world, rewards and challenges will be equally present in the coach profession. To help you make sense of what is yet to come, this article focuses on three major trends that will shape the future of coaching. After reading, you will get a better sense …read more.

Closing Out a Tough Year - Time for Coaches to Reflect and Recharge

December 23, 2020

2020 – what a year it’s been. Perhaps it feels like several years (or maybe a decade) wrapped into one long, trying year. When it comes to celebrating the close of the year, it seems we’re all on the same wavelength – good riddance.   For introverts, extroverts and “somewhere in the middle” folks alike, social distancing guidelines amid the pandemic have …read more.

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