Ashlee Vance, author of a recent biography of the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk learnt that one of the people who had bought his book had listened to it at twice normal speed in order to ingest the information at a quicker rate. How many of us have wished that we could absorb the learning from the […]

Being a good listener does not in itself equate to being a good coach but being a bad listener probably does mean poor coaching. I worry that, as coaches, we sometimes apply too rigorously the techniques of active listening within a coaching conversation – paraphrasing and reflecting back – and are busy writing careful notes […]