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Dec, 9, 2022

How to Sustain Performance Under Pressure

More than two decades of research, and our own experience of coaching leaders and executive teams, shows that it’s easy to lead when conditions are positive. However, strong leaders differentiate themselves when the organisation or…

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Apr, 9, 2020

Executive Coaching on the Next Level – Part 3/3

There is this discussion in the coaching world of whether or not similar experience like the coachee matters or not. E.g., does someone who coaches CEOs need to have been in top management positions before? Or should a coach who coaches bankers have banking experience? Etc.

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Apr, 7, 2020

Executive Coaching on the Next Level – Part 2/3

There is this discussion in the coaching world of whether or not similar experience like the coachee matters or not. E.g., does someone who coaches CEOs need to have been in top management positions before? Or should a coach who coaches bankers have banking experience? Etc.

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Feb, 24, 2020

A Somewhat Different Approach to Developing Coaching Excellence

Back in early 2002, I decided to get a professional coach training as I was contemplating leaving the corporate world to become an Executive Coach. At the time, I had just recently relocated to Hong Kong and my research showed that there were only a handful professional coaches in all of Hong Kong. Also, there was no institute at all in Hong Kong that would provide any coach training.

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Feb, 18, 2018

Coaching – What Coaching?

Even among experienced executive coaches, there seems to be a lot of confusion and disagreement on how to distinguish different types of coaching. The following is based on Progress-U’s Asia Innovative Coaching Institute’s (AICI) definitions…

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Oct, 3, 2016

Why coaching works

“Charlie, do you do presentation coaching? Our Director of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Jane, makes depressing presentations to the top management team. She needs to improve her presentation skills,” Kelvin inquired by phone. Kelvin is…

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