When we started Graydin in 2012, we asked one of the founding fathers of coaching and our good friend, the late Sir John Whitmore, to share with us his thoughts on education.

“Education needs to be modernized. For too long we have focused on quantitative knowledge and technology as the way to utopia, and neglected qualitative wisdom, that enables us to use our knowledge wisely.”

If you haven’t read our post about defining The Waterfall Effect, start there for context. These ideas were inspired by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant who wrote Option B.

Adversity comes in all shapes and sizes. The death of a loved one, divorce, unemployment, homelessness, disease – not only is the magnitude radically unique, but the impact on the person experiencing the adversity is significantly different.

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.

There are a lot of reasons for this. Everyone has their Achilles heel; I would love to share mine.

It’s likely you had a few notable growth spurts as a young person. You may have been one of the lucky ones who woke up one day four inches taller. Or, you may have had a slightly prolonged experience, feeling the growth occur little by little.

The phrase ‘growing pains’ means “neuralgic pains which occur in the limbs of some young children” and the important word here is ‘some’. Not everyone will experience the same sort of pains, or any pains at all.

Strengthening your biceps with weight training or pumping your heart on an outdoor run are two simple ways to activate your physical muscles. We want the same for your coaching muscle.

It’s a new year and we’re all being bombarded with the sentiment of ‘new year, new you’. More than any other time of year, people are focused on what they’re putting in their bodies and how they’re moving them, too.

In 2017, one of our cofounders, Quinn Simpson, wrote a blog for the 74 Million that articulated how transformational teachers are when they use coaching skills. The blog focused on the teacher and their relationships with students, but it didn’t explore in great enough detail how the classroom would transform when guided by a coach.