What is Coaching?
Coaching is an enabling, professional skill that helps builds awareness empowers choice and leads to change.It unlocks a person’s potential to maximise their performance. Coaching helps a person to learn rather than teaching them. At The Core Questin our dream is to enable leaders to find and live their full brilliance, so their lives can be truly successful and fulfilled.
If you want to talk more about our approach to leadership and coaching, or are looking for a coach as your journey man/ woman, do reach out.
The financial year reset is upon us, and with it comes the sacred ritual of budget planning. Across boardrooms, spreadsheets glow with freshly projected figures, and leaders make the annual pilgrimage to debate costs, investments, and—somewhere in the mix—employee wellbeing. Traditionally, this conversation culminates in a well-intentioned yet predictable line item: the grand annual offsite. …
Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar, has been known to say that he considers smart people, working together as more important than good ideas. To some that is quite shocking, coming from a creative powerhouse that has spawned ideas into blockbusters. But, a closer look at Pixar’s culture reveals that collaborating may actually be Pixar’s …
On January 27, 1967, a cabin fire occurred during a pre-launch test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft, resulting in the tragic deaths of all three astronauts aboard: Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee. A huge blow to the morale of the team and the engineers at NASA. A massive overhaul ensued in engineering, flight …
In 1911, Endicott, New York, a company called “Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)” was founded by Herman Hollerith, Charles Flint and Thomas J. Watson Sr. A company we now know as IBM. The founders enshrined three core values into the company: “Respect for the individual”, “The best customer service” and “The pursuit of excellence”. The values that were meant …
In 2016, English Football Club Leicester City made history by winning the English Premier League. So what exactly made this win historic? That they had only narrowly escaped relegation from the league just the previous season and the odds of them winning the title were 5000-1, even higher than finding the Loch Ness Monster or …
The leadership Quest is The Human Quest. As we live fully into who we are, the purpose we were born to fulfil, we grow as leaders who make a real impact.
In the previous post, I wrote about Jim Dethmer’s work on Conscious Leadership. The first step – involved getting yourself located around the issue that you are facing. How are you ‘being’ with it in your life – are you responding to it from Above the Line or Below the Line. In case you want to …
In this article, I reflect on thoughts that were sparked by Cal Newport’s ‘Deep Work’ – about the importance of really knowing what we want from life, the magic of presence and connection, and the value of a deep life.
Does the choice or articulation of the agenda have a bearing on what could be achieved in a coaching session? Is it important to think through an agenda before your session? How can you chisel the agenda to help the session be more productive? I have been asked this question often and it is a pertinent question because the agenda is the point of leverage in a coaching session. Based on his experience across clients, Rameet arora offers a view on what a useful agenda might look like.
Frequently asked questions about coaching, answered and updated by The Core Questin team on this post.
