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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Transpersonal Coaching
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.
Common Themes and Challenges on our Coaching Courses
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.
Coaching Tools: The Wheel Of Life
In this article we explore one of the most versatile tools in coaching, the wheel of life. This tool encourages a conversation, elicits new thinking, and can help clients to …
Person-Centred Coaching
In this article we explore the person centred approach to coaching. This forms the base of all good coaching, and even if you’re not aware…
Values In The Coaching Room
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.
Psychometrics and Personality Profiling
In this article we explore the psychology behind a number of psychometrics or personality profiling tools that may prove useful in the coaching room. Asking a coachee to complete a personality questionnaire and then working through their report with them can be a great way to increase their self-awareness and also their awareness of the individual personality differences that others might have.
N.L.P. (NeuroLinguistic Programming) Coaching
In this article we explore what NLP is; its limitations; its uses in the coaching room; and, as always, our own thoughts on the subject and why it’s not an approach within our diploma programmes.
Ethics In Coaching
As coaches we are having conversations that matter, and discussing topics that are important to our coachees. With any conversations of importance thought is required around how we hold that space for our coachees and how we show up as coaches. Coaching is an unregulated industry and it therefore falls to coaching bodies to try to ensure that its members act with professionalism, integrity and an ethical approach.
In this article we explore the subject of ethics and what an ethical approach might look like to coaches within their own practice.
Coaching For Wellbeing
We regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.
One such topic is ‘Wellbeing’. In the last 10 years, Wellbeing has become a huge topic for discussion in many settings, including workplaces, schools and GP practices.
Wellbeing is a hugely diverse topic with many different elements and meanings assigned to it. So, whether you consider yourself a wellbeing coach or not, you are likely to come across clients who want to explore it in some way as a topic for coaching.
Join us as we discuss what wellbeing is, or could be, and how you might explore it with a client in the coaching room.