How can you be resilient and take care of your well-being?
The Resilience-Wellbeing Paradox Whilst resilience and wellbeing are often uttered in the same breath, in many respects these two concepts are at odds with one another. Of course it depends on your definitions. There are elements that overlap but the ‘energy’ is different. For example, we might say that a ‘sense of purpose’ is true […]
3rd March 2025What’s new at Imaginarium Learning and Development?
Welcome to Imaginarium Learning and Development We are planning to provide regular more in depth articles on topics such as leadership, resilience, dealing with difficult people, personal power and coaching. Melody and Joe are currently already offering tips via regular Linkedin Newsletters and this will be an additional resource for you. You can start by […]
4th February 2025Why all Managers need to know how to Coach?
Why all Managers need to know how to Coach? Take a moment to consider how Managers are created. The most common way for someone to move into management is to get promoted because they are good at the job. For example, you are a good salesperson, engineer, scientist, shop assistant etc so you get promoted. […]
12th April 2024Have you assessed your stressors and your self-care practice?
Have you assessed your stressors and your self-care practice? (NB I will be writing about self-care in parallel with my posts about Coaching for a few weeks. As Coaches are you role modelling good self-care? If not this will be for you too. Even if you are there will be some ideas you can share […]
10th April 2024How does Coaching work?
Have you ever wondered how does Coaching work? Even if you are already a Coach yourself it is worth considering the answer to this simple question. Let me start by sharing some of my experience of Coaching in the Corporate setting. Sometimes we provide the Coaches for an inhouse Coaching programme for one of our […]
2nd April 2024What are Coaching Super Tools?
In this post explore some advanced coaching tools used by the most experienced coaches
19th March 2024What are the skills a Coach uses?
When you ask, what are the skills a Coach uses, you might want to bear in mind “how long is a piece of string?” There are some skills that all good Coaches will use for sure and these may seem quite obvious, such as: Being present the client. Creating a safe space. Building a relationship […]
26th February 2024What is Coaching?
What is Coaching? You may wonder why I am writing such a basic post about “what is coaching? Well, recently I have noticed that in some of our Corporate contracts, there is some confusion. The people who offered coaching have not really understood what it is. Some have even thought they were being punished. In […]
21st February 2024Understanding Drama in the Coaching Room, the theory
So you can have an understanding of Drama in the Coaching Room this week I will lay out the theory in a little more detail. As already mentioned Transactional Analysis has a great model called the “Drama Triangle” (Karpman 1968) as one way of exploring what Berne described as games. In Transactional terms, the interaction […]
2nd November 2023How Coaches are invited into the Drama and what happens next!
This week I will start by exploring how Coaches are invited into the Drama. So let me clarify what I am talking about. The models and ideas for this series are drawn from Transactional Analysis. Following on from last week, Coaches can often find themselves being sucked into their client’s Drama and this is unhelpful. […]
25th October 2023