Coaching

There’s something about walking alongside a tumbling winter river, listening to Stairway to Heaven, that brings a smile to my face.

I had the pleasure this week of working with a group of bright, young tech consultants on developing their coaching skills and practice. They impressed me with their openness, their appetite for learning and the way they wrestled with the practicalities and tensions of integrating coaching into their practice as leaders and consultants.

When I heard Sir John Whitmore make this assertion a few years ago I was taken aback. It’s a nice, pithy line but surely coaching is more complex, more subtle than that.