situational coaching

Beyond situational coaching: being deliberate in how we foster deliberation

By Elisabeth Goodman, Sunday 18th July 2021 My blog on practising situational coaching has been one of my most widely read posts, with about 8,500 hits in 2020-2021 so far! I wrote it for managers who coach, but I suspect that many professional coaches and also coaching students are reading it too. If so, I …

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The manager as coach: when your people need more support

By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th January 2021 So, another year, another lockdown. We all need as much support to get us through this as we can get. But what kind of support, when, how and how much? Colin Fisher and colleagues (Fisher, C.M., Amabile, T.M. and Pillemer, J. 2021) have some wonderful insights to share with …

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The manager as coach: practising situational coaching

By Elisabeth Goodman, 23rd November 2019 What is situational coaching and when to use it? One of Sir John Whitmore‘s legacies was the GROW coaching model, an apparently simple yet highly effective tool to help managers and coaches: “unlock people’s potential to maximise their own performance.” [I’ve written about the GROW model elsewhere, see for …

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