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Silence Is a Technique, Not an Absence

Contemplative traditions have four hundred years of thinking about what to do when nobody is talking. The coaching literature has roughly none.

Rosa MarchettiCorrespondent6 min

Business

The Contract Is the Intervention

Most of what goes wrong in a coaching engagement was decided in the paperwork, weeks before anyone sat down. The contract is not admin — it is the first and largest piece of work you will do.

Marta VieiraEditor7 min

Life

Nobody Teaches You to End It

Training covers contracting, listening, questioning and ethics. It spends almost no time on the last session, which is the one clients remember.

Daniel OseiPractice editor6 min

Business

The First Ninety Seconds

Everything that determines whether a coaching relationship works is settled before either person has said anything of substance.

Daniel OseiPractice editor5 min

Sports

What the Bench Taught Me About Boardrooms

Sport figured out something about coaching that business is still arguing over: the head coach is not the best coach in the building, and everyone involved knows it.

Tom HalloranSports editor6 min

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