Lyssa de Hart talks with Claire Pedrick about her personal and professional journey, including her transition from therapy to coaching and her experiences with dyslexia and ADHD. They explore Lyssa's book, Light Up the Science of Coaching with Metaphors , and its use in facilitating different ways of thinking. And plenty of rich stuff about the ICF exam and the importance of documenting hours and maintaining records for future accreditations. Here’s the information about ICF exam prep with Lyssa...
Apr 24, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Today Claire Pedrick MCC is talking with author Michael Bungay Stanier who, like Claire, is passionate about simplicity and clarity in his work. The conversation explores Michael's personal journey and experiences, the importance of self-management and facilitating conversations, and the power of asking questions. Michael’s new book How To Work With Almost Anyone talks about 'keystone conversation' to discuss how to collaborate effectively before delving into the actual work. It’s like 3D’s righ...
Apr 17, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 18
The most frequent question Claire is asked is When are you going to talk about Time to Think at The Coaching Inn ? So today’s guest is Anne Hathaway. Anne met Nancy Kline by coincidence in the early 1990s and has been deeply involved in Thinking Environment work since then. The actions we take are only as good as the thinking behind them. And we have an interesting exploration about respect and positive regard. If you haven’t read Time to Think, take a look ! Contact Anne: www.annehathaway.co.uk...
Apr 10, 2024•40 min•Season 4Ep. 17
I went out to my supervision community and asked new coaches: What are you learning? I expected us to talk about business development, and this wonderful group dived straight into what they are learning about the art of coaching - the technical stuff and the human stuff and a tiny peek at business development. We talked about Action Learning Set Facilitator Training Pre-Recorded Masterclasses And podcasts with Melissa Hague , Sarah Short and Keeley Vuong White Thank you Emily Rappitt Febronia Ru...
Apr 06, 2024•55 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Brian Gorman shares his journey to his current role as a coach and VP for program development at Quantuvos and the role of group coaching in driving change and supporting leadership development. "Courage is critical. It takes courage to adapt to change. It takes courage to innovate. It takes courage to experiment." "One of the things I said earlier, I want to pick up on here in group coaching, the group is the teacher." We explore curriculum based group coaching, groups for culture change and th...
Apr 03, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Rob Wright's resilience journey moved him from being a self-employed copywriter and graphic designer to becoming an executive and leadership development coach and now a facilitator. He started a resilience practice called Giant Life Skills, focusing on understanding how people flourish during tough times. Listen to Rob’s story and the importance he puts on storytelling and how he has created a menu to bring to his work. Understanding human behavior and decision-making is crucial in communication...
Mar 27, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Joy Harcup and Helen Hopper both have extensive experience of being on and working with boards. Noticing that good dynamics were what made the difference, Joy realised that there was a book to be written. She was looking for a co-author with a psychology background, and met Helen on a leadership retreat in Rajasthan. "Boards often don't quite know if they're a team or a group or what they are." Find out about what they have learned on the way, especially the importance of how people defend thems...
Mar 20, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 13
While some professional bodies like ICF have a very pure definition of coaching, it's common for people coming to coaching to be unclear what we offer. Sometimes the organisation has commissioned you to do a combination of coaching and mentoring. What's ethical? What's partnership? What's useful? Today Claire is joined by Michael Kell who emailed info@3dcoaching.com with an idea to have this conversation Gary Crotaz Mark Mercer Matthew Rayward Nathan Whitbread Ivan Yong Takeaways The tension bet...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Robbie Swale is back at The Coaching Inn today to think about the coaching business flywheel and how important it is to be open to tweak and learn as we grow a coaching business. This episode is full of ideas. Since their first podcast together, Claire and Robbie realised that they live near each other and now enjoy walking and talking in the Malvern Hills. If you are or would like to be a member of Claire’s supervision community , you’ll be interested to know that it was inspired by Robbie’s wo...
Mar 13, 2024•47 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Claire saw a post about on Linked In from Kay Young about how Kay disliked the word mastery. Sharing her dislike of the word, Claire invited Kay to The Coaching Inn to find out more. Kay shares her experience of dialogue and relationship building in her recent accreditation with APECS . We talk about the liberation that comes for coaches when they discover a sense of 'enoughness' rather than being 'not good enough yet'. We explore the potential of coaching to affect systemic change or social jus...
Mar 06, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 10
This week, Claire is talking to Michael Levitt. A former Health Care leader, Michael burned out in 2009. He talks about lessons learned and some strategies to avoid burnout - useful for anyone encountering burnout themselves or with others. Takeaways Invest in getting enough sleep and prioritize restful sleep for better physical and mental health. Be mindful of what you eat and consider getting a food intolerance test to identify foods that may be causing issues. Establish boundaries around work...
Feb 28, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Today, Claire is in conversation with Patrick Regan about the work he is doing with Brighter Days. Find out about Patrick’s journey from working with young people in London, through his own experience of being broken, to the work he is doing now around mental health. Patrick designed a wellbeing course, inspired by the Japanese art form Kinsugi, which emphasizes resilience, honesty, forgiveness, and other key life skills. The course grew during the pandemic, with over 10,000 people completing it...
Feb 21, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Behind every athlete is a human. Today Claire is talking to Elizabeth Egan about her journey into personal development coaching in sport. Lots to think about this week around working with young people, and the differences between our work and sports coaching. Elizabeth has written an excellent reference guide, with Rob Clift and Carly Jones that you can find on her website https://www.somuchmore.ie/ . It’s a wonderful guide for any kind of coach. Takeaways Coaching conversations with athletes sh...
Feb 14, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 7
At our last mentors meeting we thought it would be fun to invite you into our conversation from time to time. Today, Claire Pedrick is in conversation with Ruth Bennett PCC and Zoe Dickinson PCC about what we are learning from technical check ins with coaches - looking at and listening to recordings of their work. We talk about • Making the rightsizing questions normal • The Importance of Asking 'How Will You Know' • Connecting with what people are saying so we don’t sound like a tennis ball mac...
Feb 07, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Today Claire is talking with Derek Hill about the research he has done into endings in coaching. At 3D Coaching, we find that this topic comes up more than almost anything else in our coaching supervision community. We talk about intimacy and belonging, how different people engage in ending the relationship and Derek generously shares some of his learning. His Henley Insight Guide on Goodbyes is available to anyone subscribed to Henley Live. And it’s also available to download in my supervision ...
Jan 31, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Sometimes the best learning about coaching comes when we talk about something else and then make our own meaning. Claire met Kate Caroe at the Out of The Box/ Deep Talk conference in September 2023. Over coffee, Kate shared some of the connections she was making between Home Education and Coaching. So we invited her to come to The Coaching Inn and talk more. Kate has home educated her 6 children and learned about how to facilitate them to do their own learning, how to keep out of the way, to be ...
Jan 24, 2024•41 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Claire is known for her opinion of much of the use of tools and techniques in coaching. And she’s up to be challenged. So when Joanna Lindenbaum from the Applied Depth Institute asked whether we wanted to talk about using resistance archetypes in coaching, we pulled up a chair at The Coaching Inn and said let’s talk!. We talk about resistance in coaching, and what you notice. There’s mention of systemic practice and ritual. This is about noticing and naming - as an offer, in partnership. There’s...
Jan 17, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Today’s guest is Virtual Assistant and author Kathy Soulsby. Kathy has just published How to Work with a Virtual Assistant : Outsource Everything but Your Brilliance. If you are wondering about getting support and don’t know how, listen in! This episode is full of insights about what to outsource and how to do it. Kathy started as a VA in 2014 and now leads a team of 30. Contact Kathy Soulsby through Linked In or www.personallyvirtual.co.uk Remember to subscribe or follow The Coaching Inn wherev...
Jan 10, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Today, Claire Pedrick MCC is in conversation with Melissa Hague who brings extensive experience in organisational life and a desire to support people to engage in their wor places with courage and vulnerability. Melissa is a certified Dare to Lead facilitator, and has ‘Melissa-d’ her work by doing the inner work that enables her to facilitate other people to do theirs. If you’re interested in the dance of coaching, and how to not be in control with courage, this is definitely one to listen to. C...
Jan 03, 2024•42 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In the final episode of 2023, Claire Pedrick MCC is in conversation with Samreen McGregor about her experiences growing up in Venezuela and the UK, the challenges of being a global citizen, a third culture child and mother and her work as a consultant and executive coach. This has given her a unique perspective to working on the margins of organisations. Samreen started in private banking and then transitioned into consulting and leadership coaching. Her son’s treatment for a brain tumour shifte...
Dec 27, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 92
In June 2023, William McKee came to The Coaching Inn to talk about psychometrics in coaching. Here is is. It’s our second most popular episode this year and has received lots of feedback and evoked conversation. So we invited William back with some people who expressed interest in going deeper. And that's exactly what we did! We explore the connection between the ethics of coaching and the ethics of using a psychometric tool; the useful and the sacred; psychometrics as power tools and more. Well...
Dec 20, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Today Claire is in conversation with Tuula Valkonen, the founder of Deep Talk. They met when Claire delivered the keynote address at the Deep Talk/Out of The Box conference in September and they made lots of connections between Tuula’s work and ours. Today’s podcast is on our YouTube channel as well as our audio channels because there is much to watch as Tuula facilitates Claire to explore using the Deep Talk method. We explore the origins of Tuula’s work as a working counsellor, linguist and pl...
Dec 13, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Andy and Fi are both experienced interims working in many different roles across different organisations. They are also both trained coaches. They had each noticed how they used their coaching skills in different ways in their interim roles. So Claire said ‘ Come to The Coaching Inn and let’s talk more…’ We talk about knowing, about not knowing the back story and about not needing to find the whole solution in your role: Which bit do we need to do here? Contact Fi Stevenson Andy Riggs Takeaways ...
Dec 06, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Matt Abrahams contacted Claire via Linked In to say ‘ Can we talk about my new book: Think Faster, Talk Smarter : How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot‘. It was a no brainer to say yes as we have been doing so much work on not knowing and how to speak when you don’t know what to say! There are some great insights in today’s episodes including the value of what we do outside work that builds our courage and presence inside. For Matt, it’s martial arts. Matt shares his journey to c...
Nov 29, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 48
If you missed the live launch of The Human Behind The Coach at The Coaching Inn last week, here’s your chance to catch up. This week’s host is Alan Gyle - the voice of The Coaching Inn credits! Karen Foy interviews Claire and Lucia about the book. This episode is also available in full on our YouTube channel Check out www.thehumanbehindthecoach.com And you can buy a signed copy - with a personalised dedication from https://www.3dcoaching.com/shop/hbtc-signed-copies/ Contact Claire Pedrick Lucia ...
Nov 22, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Today, Jamie Fiore Higgins joins Claire at The Coaching Inn. Jamie worked as a Managing Partner in Wall Street for 20 years. After she left, she wrote: Bully Market - My story of money and misogyny at Goldman Sachs . Jamie is now establishing herself as a coach. We talk about working with integrity and being human. We also notice a connection with William Bridges book Creating You and Company . You can contact Jamie at www.jamiefiorehiggins.com Takeaways Finding one's own recipe for success and ...
Nov 15, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 43
"Give the world your message, and the right people come back to you. You'll be a magnet for the right person, the right clients." This week, Claire talks with new coach and long time marketer Keeley Vuong White. Claire and Keeley first met on a coaches walk in the Malvern Hills**. Keeley talks about her year of experimenting and how you’re the brand and it doesn’t have to be corporate because brand is only a tool. Takeaways The power of purpose-driven branding and its impact on coaching The impo...
Nov 08, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Sandhya Bhat has come to coaching from an HR background. She lives in Pune in India and, having come from a structured background, is interested in the role of not knowing in coaching. We think about the common question: Why would I listen if I don’t need to understand? and recognise that there is a lot of magic in not knowing Contact Sandhya through Linked In Takeaways Embracing the unknown in coaching requires a shift from a structured approach to being comfortable with uncertainty and going w...
Nov 01, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 44
This week, experienced coach, coach trainer, and Shakespeare enthusiast Emily Walker joins Claire at The Coaching Inn after they had had an earlier conversation about the sound of coaching. If dissonance and resonance matter in coaching, and if Shakespeare uses them well, what more useful stuff is there for us to learn as coaches? They explore the connection between coaching and Shakespeare's use of dissonance and resonance in his work. They also touch on the importance of metaphors, the role of...
Oct 25, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 43
"It's not about a destination. It's about how can you set yourself up for success in order to really be able to continue to show up as a founder, as an entrepreneur in the day-to-day grind of building a business." Today Claire is talking to Katie Lewis who, with Matthew Stafford, founded 9 others. They host dinners around the world asking people : what’s keeping you up at night? We talk about what makes vulnerability important and how generosity matters in business. This episode is for coaches, ...
Oct 18, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 36
