Publications
COACHING JOURNAL: A guide and journal
Super-charge your coaching capability through reflective journalling.
A beginner learns the theory.
A practitioner puts theory into effect.
An expert regularly reflects upon their performance.
Journalling is more than just logging events from a coaching (or mentoring or teaching or whatever) session; as well as recording what happened, we analyse and interpret events in order to make sense of them. This helps us challenge our thinking and, in turn, learn from our actions and develop our practice.
In short, journalling is a method of helping us improve.
THE COACH'S BACKPACK podcast
They are only allowed to take limited items on a hypothetical new engagement: one book, one tool/technique/approach/framework, one other item of their choice … and a person to accompany them.
THE ONLINE FACILITATOR'S COOKBOOK: Baking fun into your workshops
“The Online Facilitator’s Cookbook” by David Lowe and Rafa Ribeiro is an innovative guide that transforms the chore of online facilitation into a delectable culinary experience. Bid farewell to tedious virtual sessions and welcome engaging, productive workshops seasoned with a pinch of amusement.
Ever found yourself trapped in a monotonous two-hour online workshop? David and Rafa certainly have, and they’ve brewed up a solution: infuse fun into the mix. But this isn’t about becoming a stand-up comedian; it’s about merging practicality and amusement to create sessions that captivate while achieving goals effectively.
THE INNOVATION REVELATION:
A story about how to satisfy customer needs
A real-world guide to taking a customer-focused approach to creating products and services that people actually want and are happy to pay for.
What would happen if one guy from IT decided to tackle a whole organisation’s inefficient approach to service design?
Written as a light-hearted fictional story, The Innovation Revelation follows Charlie Blades, a desperately unhappy IT professional struggling to survive in his job at one of the UK’s top department stores. He is on the cusp of walking away from it all when he realises they’ve been doing everything wrong.
With a little help, Charlie tries new ways of working that break from the conventional approach, in a last-ditch attempt to eradicate ineffective business practices and traditions and save his department from being offshored.
THE LEMONADE STALL:
How to test and validate ideas
A real-world guide for using hypotheses to drive product development and the best business outcomes.
The Lemonade Stall comprises a short story and a suite of practical exercises to help you understand how to use the scientific method and hypotheses to achieve successful products and services.
The story follows many familiar characters from the highly successful The Innovation Revelation but twists it to a more practical application by asking you to consider how you might apply the methods, tools and techniques in your environment. In addition, there is a short essay to explain why this approach is so relevant in today’s markets.
