Coaching matters

Clients sometimes express an anxiety that reinvention means losing themselves, or being less authentic. I reassure them this is not the case and tell them that it’s actually the opposite. We are made up of lots of ‘selves’ - not just one. Reinvention allows us to show more of those selves.

To coincide with Opportunity in Adversity: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal, i-coach wanted to understand the impact of lockdown in detail, so we sent out a survey inviting people to share their reflections on the experience. We asked 300 people across the country to participate in our survey....

Before coronavirus, we weren’t really in the habit of seeing colleagues as ‘whole people’. During the 9-5, we interacted with ‘Work Rebecca’ or ‘HR Peter’ or ‘Sam from the team downstairs’. If we’re truly honest, we didn’t give much time or thought to people beyond...

I wanted to write a blog post about a catch up I had with a colleague. The conversation took place a few weeks into lockdown. We discussed various things, but as most conversations tend to do these days, we circled back to coronavirus and the impact it has had on businesses, society and the...

New normal, new you? I enjoyed an article in The Sunday Times called ‘The New Normal’ by Professors Andrew J Scott and Professor Lynda Gratton. It is based on extracts from their highly anticipated new book: The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World which launched this...

For our third ‘change’ interview, we talk to one of the iOpening coaches. Angela Blacklaw worked for many years in senior organisational development roles in the civil service, and now runs her own coaching...

Making change, of any description, can be challenging. And, although life never stops changing, and constantly presents us with that very problem, most of us never learn how to manage...

Direction is a word that is often used to describe how to organise our lives. Having a direction, a clear and focused one, is seen as ‘good’; not having one, or not knowing where one is going, or why, is...