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Latest thinking & contributions from our programmes


Benefits of Coaching for Senior Leaders
We are finding that an increasing number of our clients are utilising one to one coaching to support the development of their senior leaders


Five Steps for Great Coaching Conversations
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them...


My journey on the ILM 7 coaching programme
By Vicky Ross, Transformative Leadership & Career Coaching “In truth, whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well; and nothing...


How to choose the best executive coach training
There are an ever-increasing number of coaching courses out there, and on first glance they all seem pretty similar, right? So, what are...


Six Key Trends in Executive Coaching
If ever there was a time to be considering changing pressures and impact I guess it would be now, as we reflect on a year which saw life...


Why are Coaching Qualifications Important?
By Gordon Laird, Associate Coach & Consultant I should get the self-confession out of the way first. Prior to starting my coaching training with Taylor Clarke 6 years ago I was a bit sceptical about the need to be qualified as an executive coach. I had coached teams and senior leaders throughout my 20+ year career in blue chip companies, and had experienced coaching training as part of leadership development programmes. I had also trained and registered as a counsellor and ps


Five Reasons to Become an Executive Coach
By Trudy Arthurs, Senior Consultant, Taylor Clarke Why five reasons? Why not ten? Twenty? There are surely more than five reasons to...


Taylor Clarke’s Programmes for Executive Coaches: Some Feedback we’ve had from Past Participants
Taylor Clarke has been providing certified coach training for the last 11 years. Hear what past participants had to say about our programmes


5 Ways you can coach through the waves
“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf” – Jon Kabat-Zinn, academic and ‘guru’ in the field of mindfulness meditation. We...


What I learned as a Coaching Skills Trainer
By Wendy Robinson, Principal Consultant, Head of R&D, and Head of AoEC Ireland. I was working with a group of senior academics some time...


International Coaching Supervision Day
Today is International Coaching Supervision Day, as part of International Coaching Week. Seeing this coming up in the calendar, I was...


Coaching: Goals or No Goals?
Gordon Laird - Consultant and Coach Coaching is widely recognised as an effective approach to support managers to enable them to resolve challenges they face in the workplace. The generally accepted approach is that establishing goals is an important part of the coaching process. But is it always the best approach? Are goals always necessary in coaching? I should be clear from the start; goals in coaching are really usefully in framing what success would look like for both c
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