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1. Great new book on coaching - "The Art of Coaching - A Handbook of Tips and Tools"

   The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools, by Jenny Bird and Sarah Gornall.

2. Happy New Year 2016

   2015 was a year in which so many lost their lives unnecessarily - whether through war, sickness, terror or displacement. We were confronted with the realisation that all of us, whether refugee, ebola victim or ordinary Parisien, simply want to go about our lives in safety and in good health.

3. Coaching: professional relationships

   I’ve been looking a lot at relationships recently. I do this every day of course in my work, but I was recently on a training course called Professional Relationship Coaching, run by Sandra Wilson for Coaching Development, which was all about how to specifically use coaching to support a relationship between two people, in a business setting.

4. Prioritising Prioritisation!

   It’s a topic that crops up in coaching all the time: how to cut through the sheer volume of activity, identify the priorities, and do what matters, without getting drawn into things that aren’t key, or that don’t support the strategy. In short, how to stay on track.

5. Hold on tight to that back to school feeling!

   Over recent years I've noticed that September and October has increasingly become a time when people re-group and re-focus after the summer. I certainly see this in clients and client organisations. But as the clocks go back and the weather changes, it's too easy to forget about the good intentions we set in late summer and fall back into old habits.

6. This week's client quote...

   You were brilliant, so natural and non-threatening – Team Coaching, GSK.

7. Setting up coaching for success - find the right coach for you

   So often in life, the pattern for what follows is set almost before you’ve even noticed you’ve begun. So too with coaching, whether coaching and individual or a team. There are opportunities, and pitfalls at the very start of every coaching assignment, and how all parties respond has a huge impact on the way the rest of the work will pan out.