“But all you do is listen and ask questions? What’s so special about that?” In one guise or another, this is a question (or challenge) often posed to me and, no doubt, other coaches.

Succeeding as a professional coach is not being a one-hit wonder! Coaching is still a relative newcomer to the personal change world, but the last 5–10 years have seen a growing recognition that coaching is a profession, not simply a skill that, once learnt, can be assumed to have been safely mastered and stored away.

It often gets messy before it gets better! You might soon start noticing a common theme in my thoughts, and it’s essentially that they largely aim to debunk myths

“Nick, is coaching a fad?” I was asked recently. There was no malice to the question, no attempt to suggest that it was. Just a genuine curiosity.