Claire writes: ‘When I first started coaching in the 1980s, I worked with people who wanted to get involved in overseas aid and development work. We often talked about the balance of skill and knowledge and experience, and how an MA in Development Studies was probably not enough to work in a development project where people on the ground could do more for themselves than a Masters Graduate could.

There’s a lot of talk in the coaching world about knowledge – acquiring more theory and models. Yet that need for balance still stands – a balance of skill and knowledge and experience in equal measure.

A great conversation is like gravy. It may have begun with pans of vegetable water and juice from the meat… but it is most tasty when that’s been reduced to something very simple.’

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