The Doctors’ Coaching Blog

Here we share our thoughts on how doctors can utilise coaching to support those around them, from clients to patients, from mentees to trainees; from patients to colleagues; and from colleagues to family and friends. Well executed coaching skills have the ability to transform any conversation into an opportunity to generate new ideas and, from there, to transform relationships into more balanced and empowering thinking partnerships.

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Coaching For Social Health
Coaching For Social Health

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Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rarely gets talked about directly with patients, clients or coachees. We talk about physical health and mental health, but social health tends to get overlooked.

Much of the deep thinking that’s been dedicated to the issue, from Aristotle to Brené Brown, recognises that it’s the deeper connections that we have with people that are the most important. But how do we talk to coachees about their social health and support them in giving thought to navigating their relationship landscape and strengthening some of those human bonds.

In this article we explore some of the research and developing ideas around social health, We also discuss ways in which we might start to have meaningful conversations with our coachees about their own social health.

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Transpersonal Coaching
Transpersonal Coaching

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In this article we explore the transpersonal approach to coaching. Often called spiritual coaching we explore what that means, when it is useful, and how it can be integrated in to the coaching space.

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Common Themes and Challenges on our Coaching Courses
Common Themes and Challenges on our Coaching Courses

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Having trained over 250 doctors to coach and with another 50 or so currently participating in our training programmes, we have noticed that they do have some wonderful transferable skills. We’ve also noticed that most of the doctors that come to learn to coach have some common challenges that crop up for them when it comes to learning to coach.

Some of these challenges stem from the personalities of our coaching doctors and some stem from their education, training and the constraints of the system they work within.

In this article we follow up on Episode 78 of the podcast where we explored Personality Profiling. We talk through some of our observations of the challenges that stem from the personality differences and individual working styles of those that we train. Tom also has some interesting statistics to share about our coaching doctor population.

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Values In The Coaching Room
Values In The Coaching Room

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Values are an important aspect of coaching and your values may not become apparent until they are challenged or trampled on. Alternatively, you may be keenly aware of your most important values and actively seek to live a life aligned with them.

We know that working with a coachee around understanding what their values are and how they are showing up in their life, can have a dramatic impact on their views of the world, and themselves, as well as the coaching outcomes they achieve.

In this article we explore what values are, why they’re important, and how to work with them in the coaching room.

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