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X E-mail: info@www.thesmartschool.co.uk Info: Nick Bolton is founder of the Smart School and now heads up the unique Rapid Results Business Coaching programme.Posts by the author (8)

New Approaches to Coaching: Cognitive Behavioural Coaching

Cognitive Behavioural Coaching forms a core part of our Diploma in Coaching Excellence and represents one of the recent powerful developments in coaching.

But what is it?  What are its origins?  What are some of the models it uses?  And when is it the right approach to use?

In this webinar, Paul Kensett, Head of  Training and Mentoring at the Smart School, gives the lowdown and cognitive behavioural coaching.

Watch the webinar video here:

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XNick Bolton E-mail: nick.bolton@www.thesmartschool.co.uk Info: Nick Bolton is founder of the Smart School and provides the vision, passion and energy that makes the school such a unique place to be. Within the school he now heads up the unique Rapid Results Business Coaching programme and delivers some of the Master Classes.Posts by the author (32)

The impact of Carl Rogers’ person-centred theory on coaching

Have you ever wondered why even the simplest chat can help someone tackle a problem or challenge that’s been holding them back for a long time?

I’m not talking here about coaching  but just simply the act of listening and asking the odd question or two.

Carl Rogers, a psychotherapist writing from the 1940s onwards,  proposed a new way of conceptualising human behaviour that shook traditional psychology, with its pathologising approach, to its core.  And it has been fighting the battle ever since.

What is not so well understood is that, in many ways, it has also become the root from which sprang coaching in its purest form. Read more

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