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It has been suggested that coaching is fundamentally about unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance (Whitmore, 1995); it is about helping them to learn, rather than teaching them. Yet one of the...

Insights into the impact of COVID-19 on different areas of business and finance have been shared by academics from Henley Business School in a new book published online today. A New World Post-COVID-19: Lessons...

While most coach training programmes teach you how to coach, few tell you how you can make a living from the new skills you have acquired. Maybe this is because most coaching schools are run by trainers, not successful coaches. We believe...

In Finland, the majority of CEOs in listed companies are male with backgrounds in economics or engineering, reflecting a far narrower leadership model than the ones suited to today’s diverse,…

Coaching clients to think is one thing. Coaching them to think for themselves is wholly another. The for themselves part changes the game. It moves the plates and it can turn our coaching inside out. It is worth...

Currently, the resilience of businesses is being tested to the limit. But also, leaders’ robustness and resilience are key now to enable organisations and their teams to operate in these…

Weaving culture into coaching and leadership is crucial, not only because cultural diversity is an integral part of our reality, but because when coaches and leaders tap into people’s intercultural potential they...

Great questions make someone think. They derail expected trains of thought, opening up new tracks to follow – typically by taking different perspectives. The task of creating powerful questions...

‘The greatest challenge concerning the digital revolution is that external change is always faster than the organisation perceives it to be,’ says Ben Laker, Professor of Leadership at Henley Business…

I’ve spent around 20 years now working in the space termed “Strategic HR” – from a practitioner, academic and consulting perspective. In this time, and through these different lenses, I…

Boosting the effectiveness of non-executive directors (NEDs) in growth companies is the aim of a new guide based on the findings of research by Henley Business School. Commissioned by the…

Solution-focused coaching can help coachees and employees to focus on what is possible, rather than the problem they face or the ideas which are outside of their grasp.