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What is special about a coaching conversation? alinafloreadotnet coaching conversation empowerment Mar 15, 2022

Many managers researching whether coaching will work for them have this question:

What makes the coaching conversation so special?

They already have a good support system: friends with similar interests,  very understanding families,  managers or mentors in the working place, and...

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Choosing your right coach alinafloreadotnet choosing a coach executive coaching how to Mar 09, 2022

In 2010 when I became for the first time a coaching client, I had no idea what to expect about purchasing coaching services. Back then, coaching was even very new to my country. I participated in a national HR conference, and there I discovered several speakers, some now well known international...

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Coaching competencies for managers alinafloreadotnet career coaching competence leadership management style Mar 02, 2022

Many managers I know admit they would have benefited from having a coach in their journey towards their current management position or even in maintaining and mastering it. Many of them regret not having had such resource earlier. 

However, asked about how do they pay attention or take...

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Being your own coach alinafloreadotnet coachable executive coaching how to personal development Feb 23, 2022

How can I be my own coach?

This is the desire of many of my clients once they pass the threshold of belief that coaching is only for the weak or the insecure, and once they see the extensive benefit received throughout all sectors of their life. 

Suddenly, for them a new door of awareness...

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Employer Sponsored Coaching alinafloreadotnet career coaching coachee sponsor Feb 15, 2022

Looking back on both my experience as an executive coach and my previous experience as a C-level executive sponsoring coaching, I realised it might be helpful writing something about that case when organisations decide to sponsor coaching of managers or of management teams, and bring in external...

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Are You Coachable? alinafloreadotnet coachable coaching executive coaching Feb 09, 2022

MINDSET AND COACHABILITY

In her book “Mindset. Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential”, Carol Dweck studies how human mind functions in respect of learning, in an attempt to explain why and how some people manage to recover from and go fast over mistakes, personal...

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