The School of Coaching Blog Archive

Liz Sscot and her husband Stuart from Coaching Connect are cycling from Devon to Edinburgh and back. On their journey they will be interviewing esteemed coaches, authors and trainers to help spread good practice, skills and knowledge. The interviews will then be added to their website and blog.

On Liz’s journey she will be interviewing Meredith Belbin (creator of the Beblin team role system), Nancy Kline (author of ‘Time to Think’), Nick Williams (author of ‘The Work you were Born to Do’), Paul McGee (author of SUMO – Shut up, Move on), Geoff Burch (author of ‘Go it Alone’) and Michael Carroll (author of various books on supervision).

Coaching Connect is for Coaches where they can support and help each other to develop their businesses. Liz interviewed Myles Downey on the 6 July 2010, with this in mind she asked Myles a number of questions around the topic of Coaching. Please see below some of the questions Liz asked.

• What qualities does Myles think makes a good coach?
• What’s important/unique about the Coaching Training Myles delivers?
• What tips does he have for coaches around setting up a business?
• What ideas does he have for coaches to find clients/develop their businesses?
• What is his stance on coaching becoming regulated?

If you would like to keep-up with Liz’s Journey, please click on the link Coaching Connect Blog

We will keep you informed, when Myles’s Interview is available to read.

View a selection of videos from a number of great speakers on how coaching can support performance. This was the first NHS/EMCC coaching conference and hopefully not the last. The speakers talk about how to create and embed a coaching culture. They share their knowledge of coaching and use their experiences of making coaching work within an organisation. These videos are inspiring and thought provoking and will inspire leaders, HR and organisational development professionals.

The speakers included Sue James, NLC Emergent Leader Workstream Lead and CEO of Walsall Hospitals, the inspirational Phil Morley, CEO Mid-Cheshire Hospitals on creating a coaching culture in his organisation, Professor David Megginson (from the NHS Institute Executive Coaching Register) generated thinking and future actions through an interactive Appreciative Inquiry and Professor David Clutterbuck, one of the top HR thinkers in the UK who chaired the day.

Please click on the link to view the selection of videos http://www.institute.nhs.uk/building_capability/general/the_first_nhs_national_coaching_conference.html