We are delighted to tell you that Claire’s book Simplifying Coaching comes out this week.  If it’s for you, we’d love to hear what you think: directly, or on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn

Claire writes: “How we are formed in our first career influences our leadership and conversational style. Doctors and engineers are formed to quickly assess the problem and find solutions, PR people are formed to think about the customer. 

I was formed as a teacher of Mathematics. Even though it was short lived because I discovered coaching and took a different path, it still influences some of the ways I think about what I do now. When we use too many words in conversations that are meant to be about someone else, it makes us too big. That’s simple maths. And it makes us look like the expert. Sometimes we might be the expert and that might be why we are having this conversation. But often – and particularly in coaching – and in mentoring – the conversation is about them.  Less is definitely more.

And on the subject of Mathematics, hope you like the quotes I saw at the back of a classroom when I was running some training for head teachers in a school – both have great insights into what forms great coaches!”

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