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Tim Gallwey - The Inner Game and origins of modern coaching

Timothy W. Gallwey (born 1938 in San Francisco) is an outstanding thinker in the field of personal development, professional development,...

Business coaching - a way to develop your company

The support of a professional in managing your own business is invaluable. If you run a company, you are the president or a member of the...

Socrates - the first good coach in the world?

Socrates (469-399 BCE) is, next to Plato and Aristotle, considered the greatest philosopher of antiquity. Was he also the first coach?

Did coaching come before Christ?

To talk about the oldest sources of coaching, I suggest starting with a trip to Greece and going back in time about 2,400 years.

Sir John Whitmore - the father of business coaching

He is the co-creator of the GROW coaching model, which has been recognized as the foundation of business coaching. And he coined the term...

The history of coaching

According to Wikipedia, the first use of the term coach to refer to the concept of trainer appeared around 1830 at the University of Oxford

Self-coaching - Problem Solving

Today I propose a very specific exercise, which is a simplified version of the GROW model described earlier. Try it and enjoy the benefits!

Self-coaching - Sense of Agency

One of the most important keys to our fulfillment is the ability to focus our attention on what we WANT. This, in turn, requires clarity...

Self-coaching - thinking either-or

Today I will risk saying that many of us are not fully aware of what words we use every day. And most of all, we don't realize that ...

Self-coaching - GROW method

Today I would like to show how the GROW method in which I work can be wonderfully applied to self-coaching.

Self-coaching - difficult situations and NVC method

Today, we are starting a series of columns that are intended to provide specific tools for working on ourselves. They can be used both for..