Working out loud: sharing the first few ideas about a new book. I began work on this in the last few months of 2020. A structure emerged, and deep into the research for the book, new ideas began to emerge which are now informing the outline and progress that I am making so far. It’s … Read more
Over the last two months I have become much clearer about the overall structure of the book series that I am writing. Called, The Concepts Series, it draws on my working experiences and the lifelong learning that I have been engaged in. This blog post describes my current thinking about the through-line of these books. … Read more
Radio Silence is established just before an attack to ensure that the enemy doesn’t detect you and counter-attack first. I’ve been in radio silence on this blog since August. The last post described some of the manuscripts and rough ideas I was working with at the time as I homed in on the new book, … Read more
This is a really quick update as the box in the photo has just arrived and I am just about to facilitate a Zoom call which will take up the next couple of hours or so. Today, after several weeks of amends and last minute edits, the new book arrived in a box. The first … Read more
Just a quick update to let you know that you can now pre-order “Insight Coaching” here on the website. It will be available on Amazon in a week or so. For now, if you are keen to order a copy, follow this link and place an order. Thanks for reading this, and have a great … Read more
It has been a long time in preparation maybe two years from the initial idea. I’ve had the challenges of resistance and losing momentum. Seth Godin talks about the importance of shipping material and not holding back (this man has blogged every day for years and years now!) And Steven Pressfield really does understand what … Read more
To take hold and pick the moment,To wait as though it was the first moment before an exam,To hold the breath and never let it go. Even in those moments of panic, when the smog clearsAnd we see this pandemic for what it is, a reset,A discharge of all the poison from the world. It’s … Read more
The writing retreat is nearing the end, and I am really pleased to say that the first rough draft of “Insight Coaching” is completed. It will, of course, need work before it is ready to publish. If you are interested in how coaching can give deeper insights into the way we work, what we focus … Read more
I have written about Writing Marathons on the blog before. I did my first one back in 2015 – that process lead to the book “Values Count”. During that weekend, most of the ideas and word writing for that book actually happened. The second marathon took place in 2017. This time I had two books … Read more
In ‘Values Count’ (my previous book) I wrote about values based working. That book looked at why working from values is so important. In my new book (“Insight Coaching” coming soon), which I am in the midst of writing, I look further at values based approaches, and look at how they can be applied to the coaching process. … Read more