Over the last seven years of teaching coaching to educators, we’ve learned that choosing how best to help another does not always come easy. With too little time and so much to do, help can often look like a one-size-fits-all approach consisting of advising and telling.

Every school, organisation, teacher and school leader experiences challenges when they learn and embed coaching. One of the biggest challenges we recently identified is focusing on the small stuff.

Facilitating is an art form. It can feel easy one day and challenging the next. After more than 15+ years of delivering courses and workshops both online and in-person, there are still times when being a facilitator is just plain difficult.

As teachers, parents and friends, exams provides the opportunity to encourage resiliency and the adoption of a growth mindset in the young person. By taking on the role of a coach and using the skill of effective questioning, you will encourage the student to reflect for themselves about how they feel, what the results mean, and what they want to do next.

We value a ‘connected economy’. And by this we mean the connection created between humans that was difficult or impossible before the internet.

Sir John Whitmore played a major role in founding an industry that is still in its infancy but has the capacity to transform the world. He was a pioneer in coaching, co-created the famous GROW model and advanced the idea that the answers are truly within us. He reminded those who would listen that the role of the coach is to ask, not tell, and that when we increase awareness, we are able to generate responsibility.