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The latest thinking from Australia's leading Organisational Coaching specialist, Open Door Coaching.
Released weekly on Tuesdays the Coaching Cafe is presented by Dr Natalie Ashdown an MCC accredited coach.
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Coaching Café: Reflecting on 2025
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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ICF Global Coaching Study '25 Highlights!
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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October Recap!
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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"Knowledge" in '25 ICF Competencies
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Coaching Philosophy!? What is it?
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Safety in the work place - Psycological Safety
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Talking About Mental Health - The Barriers
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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'25 Update of ICF Core Competencies
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Coaching in action MCC - Part 2
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Coaching in action at the MCC level (Part 1)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Coaching in action – PCC Level Demonstration (Part 2)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Coaching in action – listen for PCC-level competencies (Part - 1)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Coaching in action – listen to a coaching demonstration (Part 2).
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Coaching in Action - Listen to a coaching demonstration (Part 1)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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The instant fail: What to avoid in coaching conversations
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Taking it up a level: Exploring PCC-level coaching competency
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Are you a competent coach? Exploring the ACC Level.
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Bringing It Home Strong - Performance conversations
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Rainbows and Lollipops and Shifting under performance
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Coaching for tricky performance conversations
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Getting a 36% uplift in performance from quality performance conversations
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May 27, 2025 |
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International Coach Week Interview: Hayley Goldsmith
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May 20, 2025 |
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Performance Reviews: Coaching Changes Everything
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May 13, 2025 |
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Gallup 2025: engagement matters - how coaching helps
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May 06, 2025 |
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ANZAC Day Reflection
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Ethical Practice - Open Forum
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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AI in Coaching – A Practical Demonstration
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Ethical use of AI in Coaching – is it cheating?
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Maintaining confidentiality whilst navigating stakeholder requirements
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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You can’t coach everyone! Maintaining the distinction between coaching and other services
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Renewing your ICF Membership? Don’t just tick the box! Exploring the ICF Code of Ethics
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Unravelling the mystery around the ICF Credentialing Exam
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Trends in Coaching for 2025 and beyond
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Year in Coaching – Trends & Highlights
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Setting Goals for the New Year
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Keeping Up the Momentum and Motivation
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Consistency, Not Perfection
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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I’m not sure it’s my role - breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Managing strong emotions in coaching
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Shifting under-performance through coaching
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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What about coaching upwards?
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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When is it not the right time for coaching?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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When it’s easier to do it myself! Coaching and delegation.
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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What if I know the answer? exploring workplace coaching scenarios
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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How to coach a client with too much on their plate?
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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What are you not saying? A deeper look at active listening
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Coaching demonstration – a deeper dive into the more subtle ICF Core Competencies
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Coaching demonstration – the difference between ACC and PCC competencies
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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What does PCC-MCC coaching sound like?
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May 30, 2024 |
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The beliefs and behaviours of ‘exemplar’ coaches
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May 29, 2024 |
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Coaching demonstration - bringing the ICF Core Competencies to life
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May 28, 2024 |
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Coaching Agreements – going beyond what do you want to achieve?
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May 14, 2024 |
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What is a coaching mindset?
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May 07, 2024 |
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Ethics in coaching – the instant ‘fail’ at any level of ICF credential
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Ethics in coaching – the importance of values
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Will AI replace us as coaches?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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What if AI can make my coaching better? Putting AI to the test
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The use of AI in Coaching - The HR function and Coaching
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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The use of AI in coaching (why we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Burnout - what are we actually doing?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Trends in Coaching 2024
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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2023 in Coaching Café’s
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How leaders build engagement – exploring positive duty with guest speaker Leisa Bowness
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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How leaders build engagement with guest speaker Andrew 'Figgy' Figtree
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Focus on strengths-based coaching to turn around poor engagement
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Workforce engagement at 20%? Let's get the conversations going
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Overcoming the barriers to mental health conversations
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Inspirational case study: coaching young people at risk
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Best practice case study: broadening the reach of coaching across very different environments
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Coaching Culture – Creating the ‘force multiplier’ effect in coaching
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Best practice in building a coaching culture – is it even possible?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Mental health conversations in the workplace - I don't have 10 minutes to myself
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Mental health conversations – I’m not sure it’s my role
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Getting a 36% uplift in performance from quality performance conversations
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Managing tricky performance review conversations
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Asking better questions in the annual performance conversations
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Is now the time to ask for a pay rise? Getting what you need from performance conversations.
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Setting up successful performance conversations
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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20 years in business celebrations…what does great coaching look, feel and sound like?
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May 16, 2023 |
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20 years in business celebrations - HR Leading the way in coaching
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May 09, 2023 |
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Flashbacks to 2003... 20 Years in business celebrations!
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May 02, 2023 |
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Highlights from the ICF Global Coaching Study 2023
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Hybrid Workplaces - resist the temptation to fix the problems
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Hybrid Workplaces - what we need right now is better conversations
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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How do you remain in your career 'sweet spot' as the world of work changes and evolves?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Are our leaders equipped to lead in today's environment?
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Why don't we achieve our goals? Exploring the 'R' in SMART
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Trends in Coaching for 2023
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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The Year in Coaching Cafés
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Game. Set. Match.
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Open Door's expert panel
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Belief
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Curiosity
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Energy
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Communication
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Mental Health in the Workplace - it's ok not to have all the answers
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Coach? Purpose
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Decision Making - our job is to build good strong decision makers
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Join us for the LAUNCH of What Makes a Great Coach?
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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What makes a great coach? RESILIENCE - more than just bouncing back
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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What makes a great coach? EMPATHY easily beats out other characteristics
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great coach? Listening
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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What is the number 1 practice of great coaches? Passion
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Exciting Announcement! New book: What Makes a Great Coach?
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Coaching - what not to do
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Coaching Upwards
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Annual performance reviews – focusing on strengths to enable high performance
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Annual performance reviews – having a meaningful career discussion
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Annual performance reviews - I put myself on a development plan!
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Annual performance reviews - your questions answered
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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A very special presentation: Organizations Reimagined: transforming the future with coaching
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Managing tricky performance review conversations
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Taking a coaching approach to performance conversations
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Setting up for a successful annual performance conversation season
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May 24, 2022 |
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What big changes will impact the professionalism of the coaching industry?
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May 11, 2022 |
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Q&A on Mental Health in the Workplace with Nick McEwan-Hall
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Career Agility: is this the answer to the ‘great resignation’?
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Creating workplace engagement – starting with yourself
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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To coach upwards or not? That is the question!
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Best practice - Introducing a coaching culture in your organisation
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Why don’t we achieve our goals? Exploring the ‘R’ in SMART.
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Trends in coaching for 2022
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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2021 - The year in Coaching Cafes
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Competent or Not yet Competent? Coaching through the eyes of the Assessor
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Building workplace engagement through coaching
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Learning from Leaders - The Future of Coaching
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Don't forget to check out the library of past episodes
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Measuring Return on Investment - Best Practice
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Best practice - organisational artefacts
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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A moment of mindfulness, with Natalie.
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Just for laughs - what does bad coaching sound like?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Measuring Return on Investment - running the numbers
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Characteristics of the coaching champion - with special guest Leisa Bowness
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Recognising the signs of anxiety and depression in the workplace
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Coaching your teams through lockdown fatigue
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Juggling? Let’s take just 10 minutes to put the balls down
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Teaser - stay tuned for The Coaching Cafe podcast!
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Apr 15, 2021 |