The View from One of the UK’s Largest Housing Providers by Malcolm Nicholson, iCN Journalist (UK) It is rare to come across a major initiative within an organisation that positively impacts not only changing the culture of the organisation but also changing customers’ lives. Recently, I had a conversation
by Malcolm Nicholson, ICN journalist (UK) The last two decades have seen a cascading of business coaching out of the C-suite offices to C-Suite teams, leaders and leadership teams and more recently the awareness in enlightened organisations that a coaching culture within the business actually works. There is also
Playing with the eFIRE Model and Mindset by Malcolm Nicholson – iCN Journalist (UK) The following is based on a conversation between Geoffrey Abbott, PhD, Director, Executive Coaching Programs, Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology and the author. In an increasingly VUCA world, there is a need
By Malcolm Nicholson – iCN Journalist (UK) Gerard O’Donovan has been one of the driving forces in the Coaching Industry since 1993. He is more than a master Coach and Blogger, Gerard is the founder and CEO of The Noble-Manhattan Group. Europe's premier and longest established professional coaching and
By Malcolm Nicholson – iCN Journalist (United Kingdom) The vast bulk of developmental work in NLP happened during its most fertile and creative period under Bandler and Grinder on the West Coast in the 1970s. Even ‘New Code of NLP’ (as opposed to what is now called ‘Classic Code
By Malcolm Nicholson- iCN Journalist (United Kingdom) The business coaching marketplace is evolving. The impact and benefit of coaching – no matter what flavour – is beyond dispute and so demand continues. There is a continuing flood of inexperienced or transitioning newcomers into the business, whilst within organisations the
By Malcolm Nicholson – iCN Journalist (United Kingdom) Speaking to leaders I’ve been hearing how different everything feels to even a decade ago. How does a C21st business leader navigate their business through such waters? Overall, my sense is that leaders are having to deal with the paradox of
by Malcolm Nicholson (United Kingdom) Summary: Organisation development initiatives often fail, and have not embraced coaching as a methodology. Coaching can contribute significantly to the acceptance and engagement with OD initiatives by a) challenging the thinking of OD initiative leaders and b) enabling managers to increase employee engagement by adopting
By Malcolm Nicholson (United Kingdom) The following is taken from an interview with Dr Geoffrey Abbott, a leading authority on international coaching. He is a lecturer, author, executive coach consultant, and Director of the Centre for International Business Coaching. Nobody denies that the nature of business now is fundamentally
By Malcolm Nicholson (United Kingdom) Is career coaching ‘coaching’ in the way that the Coaching Industry aspires to be, or is it a more directive, formulaic advice based approach? As there are no agreed definitions of career coaching worldwide, mainly due to cultural, linguistic and perceptual differences I will
