The Business Coaching series is now available to download as a free ebook Coaching Skills for Creative Leaders. Here's my simple definition of business coaching: A focused conversation that …
Business Coaching – An Introduction
As a creative coach, one of the questions I get asked most often is "So what exactly do you do?". So this is the start of a series introducing business coaching - what it is, who does it and how …
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7 Ways to Stop Worrying When You’re Under Pressure
In my last post, How to Maintain Your Enthusiasm When Things Get Tough, I started answering a question from a comment on my post 5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm is Better than Confidence. Ludivine wanted to …
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How to Maintain Your Enthusiasm When Things Get Tough
My post on 5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm is Better than Confidence has turned out to be the most popular piece I've written on Wishful Thinking. It's been very encouraging to receive the comments, links …
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5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm is Better than Confidence
We all want to be confident, don't we? It's a word that crops up fairly often in coaching sessions, even with people who are very talented and successful. We're all human, and for most of us there are …
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Creative Synaesthesia – If You See What I’m Saying
I discovered the Reactable, a new music-making interface, via City of Sound and Peter Marsh. Why do I find this so fascinating? I think it's the way it opens up new creative possiblities via …
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What Makes a Creative Person?
Liz Strauss sparked a heated debate recently with her post 10 Reasons Creative Folks Drive Us Crazy, with some people (mistakenly) interpreting her as meaning that "creative folks" are somehow …
The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick
I was about to go to bed last night when I flicked over to BBC1 and saw Alan Yentob describing the construction of a bridge made entirely of glass. As Alan said, it was like something out of a …