Author: Nick Bolton

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What Happens When A Manager Learns to Say Less?

What changes when a manager stops being the answer? This article explores how a coaching approach, listening, stillness and restraint can create better thinking and greater ownership.

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The Fallacy of the Primacy of Goal-Setting in Coaching

Challenging the centrality of goal-setting and its place within transformative coaching.

Coaching as a Calling – On The Deeper Purpose to Being a Coach

An exploration of the deeper sense of calling and purpose that coaches have that transcends the job or business.

Are Long-Term Coaching Relationships Beneficial and Ethical?

Nick Bolton challenges the conventional idea that coaching is a short-term approach and that longer-term work risks dependency.

Understanding the 9 Kinds of Coach

An exploration of the 8 kinds of coach from life coach through to team coach, including what each do and who they work with.

Humanistic And Systemic Tensions Around Personal Agency

An exploration of the philosophical clash between humanistic and systemic perspectives on personal agency.

How To Work as a Coach Without Having Your Own Business

An exploration of the career options open to coaches who don’t want to start their own business.

What’s the Difference Between Coaching Supervision and Mentor Coaching?

In this article we clarify the difference between coaching supervision and mentor coaching breaking it down into 5 key areas of difference so you know what to look for.

The PROSPER Model – 7 Ways to Continue Developing as a Coach

Nick Bolton shares his PROSPER Model offering 7 areas of focus to continue your journey of growth and development as a coach after qualification.

Why the professional coaching associations matter more than we realise.

In this article, Nick Bolton argues that we owe more to the professional coaching bodies than we often acknowledge and need to shift our mindset from transactional value to contribution to impact.

Separating Empathy and Collusion in Coaching

Animas founder, Nick Bolton, explores the boundary between empathy and collusion and provides a way for coaches to think about these two ways of relating.