Reflections: The Animas Blog
An exploration of the thorny issue of how much coaches earn including a range of approaches that can help a coach earn more from their business.
A rundown of everything you need to look for when looking for a good coaching course including the essentials and the preferences.
In this Bitesize article, we explore what working as a coach after qualification can look like.
Discover the differences between coaching and mentoring as we take a look at these two often misunderstood terms.
Wondering if you should become a coach and whether it would be the right journey for you? This article will help you answer that question.
An exploration coaching accreditation and credentialing with a particular focus on the t3 major coaching accreditation associations.
Explore the 9 additional skills you need to operate successfully as an executive coach on top of core coaching skills.
Coaching, a transformative process designed to facilitate personal growth and change, is rooted in the principles of effective communication and adult learning.
Discover the essentials of executive coaching, its benefits, and emerging trends across industries. Enhance leadership skills and drive organisational success.
Discover the benefits of becoming a certified coach: unlock your potential, boost credibility, and enhance your career with certification.
If you new to coaching you might be asking yourself "exactly what is coaching?" - In this post, we set out to answer this for you.
Unveil the truth about coaching! A myth-busting journey through 10 inaccurate assumptions.
Discover how you can use the LIFE Model to plan out the 4 critical outcomes of your coaching business.
An exploration of the INSPIRED Model for identifying your coaching niche.
We uncover 10 benefits of coaching in the workplace as supported by research.
A short exhortation for coaches to hold lightly the boundaries between coaching and other helping professions.
Challenging the centrality of goal-setting and its place within transformative coaching.
An exploration of the deeper sense of calling and purpose that coaches have that transcends the job or business.
Nick Bolton challenges the conventional idea that coaching is a short-term approach and that longer-term work risks dependency.
An exploration of the 8 kinds of coach from life coach through to team coach, including what each do and who they work with.
An exploration of the philosophical clash between humanistic and systemic perspectives on personal agency.
An exploration of the career options open to coaches who don't want to start their own business.
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.
Guest writer, Beatrice Zornek, explores the role of ego states and the transactions taking place internally with the inner critic.
Nick Bolton shares his PROSPER Model offering 7 areas of focus to continue your journey of growth and development as a coach after qualification.
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.
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.
In part 2 of "Can Coaches Ever Be Truly Non-Judgemental?", we explore a number of key factors around what we judge, who we judge and how we can become less judgemental.
Can coaches ever be truly non-judgemental? Nick Bolton shares 7 Levels of Judgement and Non-Judgement which he proposes we operate from as humans and which dictate the level of non-judgement we can achieve.
If you’re a coach (or want to be), you’ve probably heard of coaching supervision.
But you might not know exactly what it is or how it could benefit you and your clients.