Series

What we can learn from the world's best coaches

Thirteen people changed how coaching works today — and most of them you've never heard of. In this series I take each one in turn: what they stand for, what's uncomfortable about it, and one exercise you can do today. No textbook, no hero worship. What stayed in my own work, and what didn't.

All parts of the series

  1. Part 01

    Tony Robbins: What I learned, and where I got off

    The quality of your life is the quality of your questions — and why I stopped going in 2004.

  2. Part 02

    Carl Rogers: Why good advice ends the conversation

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  3. Part 03

    John Whitmore: Four letters against endless problem talk

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  4. Part 04

    Timothy Gallwey: The game that happens in your head

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  5. Part 05

    Edgar Schein: Ask first, advise later

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  6. Part 06

    de Shazer and Berg: When was it better already?

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  7. Part 07

    Kegan and Lahey: Why you want to and still don't

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  8. Part 08

    Chris Argyris: Which assumption is steering you?

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  9. Part 09

    Donald Schön: Learning doesn't happen in the seminar room

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  10. Part 10

    Marshall Rosenberg: Observation is not judgment

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  11. Part 11

    Kim Scott: Kind and honest at the same time

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  12. Part 12

    Carol Dweck: Ability is not a state

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  13. Part 13

    Albert Bandura: The smallest step that still counts

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