In this end of series episode, Charlie spends some time recapping the whole series. He shares thoughts and ideas about the wonderful guests who have participated, and the important and helpful learnings that have emerged from them. Useful Links From This Episode:
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Charlie Warshawski (00:02.392)
Hello fellow coaches, I hope you’re having a good day. I hope that all is going well and that whatever you’re up to, you’re definitely enjoying yourself and you’re enjoying all of your coaching work. As with all good coaching sessions, we spend the last few minutes on a coaching session, just bringing things to a close nicely so that it feels complete for our coachee. And I’ve been told that for podcasts, we should do the same. We should not only bring each episode to a nice close, but also bring each series to a nice close. So…
This recording is the end of series one. We’ve finished our first series. Well, actually we haven’t quite finished our first series. We’re still waiting for one more guest to do one more recording that we’ll get lodged in, but we’ve mostly finished and now all of the episodes are over there for editing. So I thought I’d just reflect a little bit about this first series and about this idea of thinking about loving your coaching. So clearly we’re inspired.
by not only the name of our company, but also by the fact that we are absolutely surrounded by people who love their coaching. So many people from clients to coaches to organizations, and actually even to people, friends and family of coaches. We know that people love coaching. We know it’s a really good and an important bit of work. And we thought this first series should spend a bit of time on that. There’s so much to talk about. We’ve already started making
three of the following series, which has loads of details, loads of stuff, loads of resources. And we just wanted to take a beat here and just almost celebrate and appreciate and acknowledge what’s great about coaching. So you might have listened to every episode. You might have just skipped straight to this one just to see what this podcast is all about. So I’m going to make no assumptions about what you’ve heard. What we did is that we, I took a few topics. took
just an introduction to coaching, the whole idea of the world, the history of coaching from going from way back through its journey into the 1970s and got it a bit contextualized about what coaching is as a big organization, a big industry these days. Then I talked about various groups and how and why they love their coaching. Not evidence-based, quite anecdotal, based on really my experience and my observation.
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So I talked a little bit about why clients love coaching. know, what it is that people get out of coaching and being coached well. Why organizations love coaching and why they invest in coaching, not just in getting coaching for their people, but increasingly in creating a coaching culture and training coaches and having coaching as, part of their approach. And then I talked a little bit about why coaches.
love coaching and that’s the most obvious one for us as coaches, isn’t it? Really thinking about ourselves, thinking, what is it going on? Why do we love coaching? What’s important about that? And I enjoyed thinking about that, noticing all of those coaches who I’ve worked with and that I continue to work with and seeing their growth, their development, their enthusiasm, all of that. And then finally,
Just towards the end of the series, slightly embarrassingly, I shared a little bit about why I love coaching, why I’ve been in the coaching game now for nearly 20 years. And it’s really important. And I feel so glad that I tripped upon it in my early 40s and was able to embrace it and make it such an important part of my professional work. And it will remain the most important part of my professional work, I’m sure, as long as I’m carrying on working.
So all of those are very personal, but they are based on the fact that I hang around with lots of coaches, that I train coaches and mentor and supervise. And I see coaches every day. Every day I meet with coaches. Today, on this Friday, I’m supervising a coach, I’m mentoring a coach, I’ve got a coaching session, and I’ve got a coaching catch-up call. And that’s on a day when I’m not doing training. So I see coaches all the time, which means I listen to them.
And I hear and I understand, and I understand what their needs are, and I think I understand what the joy that they bring to coaching and the takeout of coaching is. So there were my episodes. In addition, we had, there will be five, but at the moment there are four recordings in there of coaches who love their coaching. And I cherry picked them a little bit, but also in the subsequent episodes, you, every coach,
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who comes on the show absolutely love their coaching. So perhaps these four don’t love their coaching more than other people, but they’re really interesting and fascinating people. I always knew that the first person that I wanted to talk to was my own coach mentor, Hilary Oliver, and it was really important, really significant that her recording will be first on the platform. She was a great stalwart of coaching for many years. She was a…
the global chair of the International Coach Federation. And I was lucky enough to have her as my mentor whilst I did my accreditation. And she shares so openly and so richly and it’s joyous listening to her, listening to her learnings and her wisdom right from the early days, you know, from when coaching was a little bit, or I think that language is the wild best, know, as people were just working it out as they go along. Then I really wanted to have one of our education people. We’ve trained over a hundred head teachers.
become ILM Level 7 coaches and Jim Walton was one who shares such passion and such commitment. He runs a school in Bristol and Jim is all over coaching and he trains during lockdown, which is a major achievement, isn’t it? Jim talks about coaching and he talks about it in the context of him being a school leader and how it’s so beneficial for him, but not just for him, for his colleagues and also for the children. A great and really interesting show.
Then thirdly, I really wanted to talk to Ros Toynbee because Ros and I are professional partners, I suppose. She runs the whole coaching provision at Ofcom, a major organization that they’ve got 40 coaches more or less, and they’re passionate about coaching and they do coaching skills for managers training. And with these coaches, we support them, we supervise them, we…
We also, and Ros does this, she organizes a system where anyone in Ofcom can apply for coaching. So she organizes the allocation, the distribution, all of that stuff. It’s a really wonderful model. Loads of organizations really struggled to do that bit. They get the trained coaches and then how do they make sure that that translates into something for the business? And she’s doing that and continues to do that. And we work closely together and she works incredibly hard and it’s
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developing and growing. So her knowledge and wisdom, plus she’s also a really experienced coach and MCC coach, she has so much to share. And then finally, Kerry O’Neill, Kerry was also at Ofcom when all of this stuff was being set up with Roz. She’s now, she’s now worked at Ipsos Mori. She is, she leads the people in organization, what used to be called HR directors, but that type of senior HR
manager in a global organization. And Kerry is relatively new to coach training, but she’s been very long time a passionate advocate of coaching and in all the organizations she’s worked for, she’s always made sure that coaching is front and center. So Kerry shares a very personal story, a very personal journey to becoming a coach, but also seeing how coaching is so impactful from her corner of the organizations that she works for. And they’re wonderful to hear.
There will also, there will be an episode, touch wood, from a coachee, someone who has got the experience of being coached well. I’m trying not to use someone who I’ve coached because I think that can be a slightly awkward, embarrassing conversation. one of the team will offer one of their coachees who’s happy to come along and talk about the experience of being a good coachee and enjoying coaching. So that’s person to be named.
So that’s a flavor of this series. If you’re listening to this and now you want to go back and listen to the episodes, that’s great. If you’ve already listened to this series, this is just a little bit of a recap and I hope that’s useful. Just reminds you of some of those episodes. And obviously let’s do a little trailer for series two. I’m really looking forward to series two. Series two, I’m calling, starting your journey as a coach. And 15 episodes of which…
half give or take will be with guests talking about them starting their journey as coaches. Some are quite new coaches, some are more experienced, but we’re all going to go back to day one. We’re going to talk about day one. And I’ve got quite a few episodes in there that help map out the pathway. So if you are just starting, or even if you’re a year or three along the line, I think you’ll be able to see and take quite a lot from some of these early steps.
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So that’ll be coming up. I’m not going to put dates on these recordings because I’m not sure when anything is going to get published, but it will be a rolling program after series one. So there you are. This is series one finally coming to an end. I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to it. I hope it’s been helpful. I’ve been hugely enjoying making these recordings. I think it’s a fascinating thing and it’s really making me think hard. And I hope you’ve got some good coaching activities coming up.
whatever that is, whether it is talking with a fellow coach, bit of training, coaching sessions with your coaches, going to a coaching group, a bit of reading, talking about coaching with your partner around the kitchen table, whatever it is. Let me wish you a good end to the day, a good end to the week, and keep enjoying your coaching. Happy coaching.
About Charlie:
I’m Charlie Warshawski, a UK based coach, coach trainer and supervisor. Coaching has been my thing since 2007 and I’ve been keen to start this podcast, to help fellow coaches navigate the difficulties of running a coaching business or practice. Most of my coaching takes place in education and I love coaching school leaders. And most of the supervision I do is with coaches who are starting their coaching practice.
Since 2019 I’ve been supporting new and experienced coaches with resources to help them grow their business – our free The Sustainable Coach programme is available to all coaches, and over 200 coaches have accessed these resources.
Away from coaching, four children, three pets, a poor table tennis and cycling schedule and a thirst for language learning all keep me busy.
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