April 2025 Edition
Coaching begins with curiosity and the willingness to hold space for someone’s truth. But let’s address the elephant in the room: “Could an algorithm ever ask a better question than a human coach? ” AI is thrilling for some, unsettling for others. But it’s here, slipping into spaces where we could never have imagined. Like the phone in your hand. Once a luxury, now a lifeline. Like that omnipresent masala in every Indian kitchen, you may not see it, but it’s there. Coaching,
ICF ACC Certification in a Nutshell
Becoming a coach is quite an ennobling experience, a calling and truly is transformational. The journey is rid with the discovery of the self, and truly changes the manner of your interactions not only with your clients but also with people around you.
Why more organisations are choosing to get their staff ICF certified as leadership coaches
‘Coaching is the future of leadership’. Dr Daniel Goleman classified leadership styles based on emotional intelligence. Coaching is the leadership style for the 21st century.
How to Start A Life Coaching Career?
Ravina, a retired defense pilot, is looking for a fresh start in a new space. A caring, thoughtful person, Ravina is the inevitable agony aunt for friends and family members.
Is Becoming an ICF-Certified Executive Coach Worth the Investment?
Executive coaching is an exciting and satisfying career prospect that ticks the boxes for leaders and executives who want to positively impact businesses by empowering other leaders and make a living out of it.
9 Trends That Will Change the Future of Executive Coaching Services in 2023
Executive coaching is proving to be a game changer in the world of business. It enables leaders to move confidently into a new era teeming with uncertainties and turbulences.
Human Motivation – The Fuel to Fulfil Your Potential
Can one move mountains? Can one achieve the impossible? Yes! says Dashrath Manjhi, the man who single-handedly carved a path through a...
ICF coach training – Avoid herd mentality in your journey to ‘Become a Coach’
We are social animals. Herd mentality is part of us. The brain and the mind will choose what is convenient, comfortable. Not necessarily, what is the best. ICF Coach training to become a coach, a professional coach, is too important a decision to go by herd mentality. It is also your journey to full potential, as a coach, professional, and a human being. You deserve the best!
Why is coaching needed more now … in the post-covid time?
The ongoing #Covid19 pandemic has unveiled how little we are doing to sustain our organizations in the future. Unpredictable change and...
Career Coaching – Life, Goals, Plans
@Quora: Plan your career strategy for the next five year? To what extent does your strategy fit with your long term goals, the...
Happiest Places on Earth
Had recently listened to a wonderful podcast on 2018 Best Countries on @WhartonBizRadio podcast by @Danloney21 . There were a few surprises. Listened to another brilliant podcast on # Happiness, with the author ‘Blue Zones of Happiness’ . (Bullet points are my random thoughts, rest of it is from the podcast) After Blue Ocean Strategy & it’s updated version recently, it is good we have something on ‘Blue’ zones of happiness. It is still sad we have a few zones of happine
From Bankers To People Leaders: Leadership Development At a Bank – Lessons for #BFSI
Banks have been slow to adopt a holistic leadership development, across the globe. Monetary and non-monetary benefits in the form of increment, performance incentives, promotions, contests/foreign trips, and of course, stock options, have helped to get bankers (& BFSI leaders) to deliver. To be fair, a lot of effort, energy, and man-days have been spent (not invested?) on (not holistic nurturing) talent. A lot of training focus has been on skill development, to fulfill the r
‘Grave’ thoughts help renew life
The Stanford commencement speech by Steve Jobs was not just inspiring, but a moving one…from one of the icons of the century One certainty of life is death, for sure. We tend to live as though we are immortal? At the same time is it necessary to live with the end in mind or one’s own eulogy?! How about life , at its best, is that goal? The Science may support. As the article points out, ‘thinking about death can lead to decreased militaristic attitudes, better health decisio
Leadership Coach Training for Young Leaders
Coaching is for leaders . Coaching is for development , to make us more effective at work, in life. Incorporating coaching as a leadership skill can have a positive impact on me, my team and other stakeholders. Regal Coach Certification (RCC) program is: – a foundation program to introduce coaching and mentoring, pure and classical. – for young corporate leaders, HR/L&D managers, entrepreneurs, consultants and other professionals. – not accredited, deliberately, for the flex
Hima Das
“What happened at the 400-m women’s final track at Finland may be an apt # metaphor for not just Indian sports but also the change in the way India looks at itself” — ET Blog In another brilliant piece in the same newspaper, @Economictimes by Garima Verma, quotes Hima who ‘describes herself as water that adapts and changes course at will”. Her metaphor is indeed water! Check out: Be Like Water, my friend: Bruce Lee (#Metaphor) “…the romance of ‘almost winning a medal’ i
Embracing The Future Of Leadership And Coaching
“Over the last 20 years, I’ve been focused on how coaches go from novice to good to expert. . . It’s easy to be a good coach; it’s very hard to be a great coach. How do we get better?” @ DavidBPeterson (@ Forbes )3 trends: 1. Self-directed development for leaders – Reflective, feedback: “Leaders are getting better at self-directed development. They are more reflective, trying things more, asking for feedback more naturally. Leaders are doing for themselves a lot of what coa
HBR: The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching has been glorified to amplify performance, enhance business outcomes and reshape the thinking of executives for excellence. While all this is true, an HBR study revealed that Executive Coaching can have serious pitfalls as well. To quote the study, executive coaches can actually turn a bad situation into worse because of their inherent biases, providing straitjacketed solutions & by ignoring deeper psychological issues! The link to the entire HBR article i
How to be mindful? 5 tips to begin your mindfulness journey
Mindfulness- Is it going to change your life radically? Probably not. But, will it help you transform yourself with every small step to greatness? Absolutely. In the previous article on mindfulness ( Mindful leadership: making work life better ), we noticed how inculcating mindfulness as an inherent trait benefits corporate leaders for a better and more rewarding life both professionally and personally. Now, let’s dive deeper into how to be more mindful and hence more remarka
Coaches Beware!
Beyond Coaching Psychobabble: Let the Buyer Beware (Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change) ‘ The advertising pitches of many coaches raise false expectations and seem designed to fool the gullible ‘, says the author. Interesting perspective, I may add! Coaches Beware?! I am tempted to add. This post by the Prof is a timely reminder and a good opportunity for us (coaches) to step back and look at o
Being a Coach, Managing Coach Business Practice
‘The rapid growth of the coaching and consulting industry is staggering. According to a research study by IBISWorld , at the end of 2014, it was said that coaching is a $1 billion industry that the ICF expects to grow by 20% in 2017′. (Pls note it is coaching, consulting and all that broadly fits into two diverse areas – for coaching and consulting are totally different, like two parallel lines. In between lies, training, guiding, mentor by subject matter expert, therap
