by Catherine Stothart | Jun 20, 2024 | Managing and leading, Motivation
What’s your intention when you give feedback? And what impact does it have? Giving and receiving feedback is fraught with difficulty. We are often embarrassed to give it and afraid of receiving it. It taps into our anxieties and fears. But giving feedback that works...
by Catherine Stothart | Jun 6, 2023 | Motivation
In previous blogs, I have discussed the barriers to coaching, how to overcome them, and how to coach using the GROW model. In this blog, I look at the topics that clients typically present and discuss what may really be going on. What to Coach? We tend to coach the...
by Catherine Stothart | Dec 13, 2022 | Managing and leading
Last month I blogged about my experience working with Google managers to build their coaching skills and overcome the barriers to coaching, based on the powerful testimony of their own words and the words of their coachees. Here I cover some of the pitfalls I have...
by Catherine Stothart | Nov 22, 2022 | Managing and leading
Are you either a manager or a coach, or can you be both manager and coach? One of the positives that came out of the first Covid lockdown in 2020 for me was that I had the opportunity to join Google’s Mastery Faculty of virtual facilitators, to deliver training in...
by Catherine Stothart | Apr 13, 2020 | Personality styles
When we interact with others, we get stressed by different things. Last week’s tips were how to help your housemates cope with #forcedtogetherness. This week it’s about how you can help yourself to manage the stress of so much time at home – with or...
