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The Coaching Cafe Podcast — 150 episodes
Interviewing Martin Mercer, CEO Scentia
Gallup Report Reflections
Passing the PCC & MCC Exams
Part 2: AI and Ethics.
REUPLOAD: AI and Coaching Part 1
A Short Message
Innovation: How can Coaching help?
Critical Thinking, Leadership and AI
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Psycological Safety and Coaching
Start the Year with Intention, Performance Conversations
2026 trends in coaching
Coaching Café: Reflecting on 2025
ICF Global Coaching Study '25 Highlights!
October Recap!
"Knowledge" in '25 ICF Competencies
Coaching Philosophy!? What is it?
Safety in the work place - Psycological Safety
Talking About Mental Health - The Barriers
'25 Update of ICF Core Competencies
Coaching in action MCC - Part 2
Coaching in action at the MCC level (Part 1)
Coaching in action – PCC Level Demonstration (Part 2)
Coaching in action – listen for PCC-level competencies (Part - 1)
Coaching in action – listen to a coaching demonstration (Part 2).
Coaching in Action - Listen to a coaching demonstration (Part 1)
The instant fail: What to avoid in coaching conversations
Taking it up a level: Exploring PCC-level coaching competency
Are you a competent coach? Exploring the ACC Level.
Bringing It Home Strong - Performance conversations
Rainbows and Lollipops and Shifting under performance
Coaching for tricky performance conversations
Getting a 36% uplift in performance from quality performance conversations
International Coach Week Interview: Hayley Goldsmith
Performance Reviews: Coaching Changes Everything
Gallup 2025: engagement matters - how coaching helps
ANZAC Day Reflection
Ethical Practice - Open Forum
AI in Coaching – A Practical Demonstration
Ethical use of AI in Coaching – is it cheating?
Maintaining confidentiality whilst navigating stakeholder requirements
You can’t coach everyone! Maintaining the distinction between coaching and other services
Renewing your ICF Membership? Don’t just tick the box! Exploring the ICF Code of Ethics
Unravelling the mystery around the ICF Credentialing Exam
Trends in Coaching for 2025 and beyond
The Year in Coaching – Trends & Highlights
Setting Goals for the New Year
Keeping Up the Momentum and Motivation
Consistency, Not Perfection
I’m not sure it’s my role - breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace
Breaking down the barriers to mental health conversations in the workplace
Managing strong emotions in coaching
Shifting under-performance through coaching
What about coaching upwards?
When is it not the right time for coaching?
When it’s easier to do it myself! Coaching and delegation.
What if I know the answer? exploring workplace coaching scenarios
How to coach a client with too much on their plate?
What are you not saying? A deeper look at active listening
Coaching demonstration – a deeper dive into the more subtle ICF Core Competencies
Coaching demonstration – the difference between ACC and PCC competencies
What does PCC-MCC coaching sound like?
The beliefs and behaviours of ‘exemplar’ coaches
Coaching demonstration - bringing the ICF Core Competencies to life
Coaching Agreements – going beyond what do you want to achieve?
What is a coaching mindset?
Ethics in coaching – the instant ‘fail’ at any level of ICF credential
Ethics in coaching – the importance of values
Will AI replace us as coaches?
What if AI can make my coaching better? Putting AI to the test
The use of AI in Coaching - The HR function and Coaching
The use of AI in coaching (why we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand)
Burnout - what are we actually doing?
Trends in Coaching 2024
2023 in Coaching Café’s
How leaders build engagement – exploring positive duty with guest speaker Leisa Bowness
How leaders build engagement with guest speaker Andrew 'Figgy' Figtree
Focus on strengths-based coaching to turn around poor engagement
Workforce engagement at 20%? Let's get the conversations going
Overcoming the barriers to mental health conversations
Inspirational case study: coaching young people at risk
Best practice case study: broadening the reach of coaching across very different environments
Coaching Culture – Creating the ‘force multiplier’ effect in coaching
Best practice in building a coaching culture – is it even possible?
Mental health conversations in the workplace - I don't have 10 minutes to myself
Mental health conversations – I’m not sure it’s my role
Getting a 36% uplift in performance from quality performance conversations
Managing tricky performance review conversations
Asking better questions in the annual performance conversations
Is now the time to ask for a pay rise? Getting what you need from performance conversations.
Setting up successful performance conversations
20 years in business celebrations…what does great coaching look, feel and sound like?
20 years in business celebrations - HR Leading the way in coaching
Flashbacks to 2003... 20 Years in business celebrations!
Highlights from the ICF Global Coaching Study 2023
Hybrid Workplaces - resist the temptation to fix the problems
Hybrid Workplaces - what we need right now is better conversations
How do you remain in your career 'sweet spot' as the world of work changes and evolves?
Are our leaders equipped to lead in today's environment?
Why don't we achieve our goals? Exploring the 'R' in SMART
Trends in Coaching for 2023
The Year in Coaching Cafés
What Makes a Great Coach? Game. Set. Match.
What Makes a Great Coach? Open Door's expert panel
What Makes a Great Coach? Belief
What Makes a Great Coach? Curiosity
What Makes a Great Coach? Energy
What Makes a Great Coach? Communication
Mental Health in the Workplace - it's ok not to have all the answers
What Makes a Great Coach? Purpose
Decision Making - our job is to build good strong decision makers
Join us for the LAUNCH of What Makes a Great Coach?
What makes a great coach? RESILIENCE - more than just bouncing back
What makes a great coach? EMPATHY easily beats out other characteristics
What Makes a Great coach? Listening
What is the number 1 practice of great coaches? Passion
Exciting Announcement! New book: What Makes a Great Coach?
Coaching - what not to do
Coaching Upwards
Annual performance reviews – focusing on strengths to enable high performance
Annual performance reviews – having a meaningful career discussion
Annual performance reviews - I put myself on a development plan!
Annual performance reviews - your questions answered
A very special presentation: Organizations Reimagined: transforming the future with coaching
Managing tricky performance review conversations
Taking a coaching approach to performance conversations
Setting up for a successful annual performance conversation season
What big changes will impact the professionalism of the coaching industry?
Q&A on Mental Health in the Workplace with Nick McEwan-Hall
Career Agility: is this the answer to the ‘great resignation’?
Creating workplace engagement – starting with yourself
To coach upwards or not? That is the question!
Best practice - Introducing a coaching culture in your organisation
Why don’t we achieve our goals? Exploring the ‘R’ in SMART.
Trends in coaching for 2022
2021 - The year in Coaching Cafes
Competent or Not yet Competent? Coaching through the eyes of the Assessor
Building workplace engagement through coaching
Learning from Leaders - The Future of Coaching
Don't forget to check out the library of past episodes
Best practice - organisational artefacts
Measuring Return on Investment - Best Practice
A moment of mindfulness, with Natalie.
Measuring Return on Investment - running the numbers
Just for laughs - what does bad coaching sound like?
Characteristics of the coaching champion - with special guest Leisa Bowness
Recognising the signs of anxiety and depression in the workplace
Coaching your teams through lockdown fatigue
Juggling? Let’s take just 10 minutes to put the balls down
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