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Matt Somers

Matt Somers is a leading voice on training and coaching in the UK publishing Coaching at Work in 2006 and Coaching in a Week in 2016. He holds an MSc in Human Resource Development and is a Fellow of the CIPD.
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What happens when the coaches leave?

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What happens when the coaches leave? Thomas was always full of doubt. He sometimes wondered if his mother’s preference for giving her sons biblical names had created something of a self-fulfilling prophecy in his case. His...
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I can’t come to the training

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I can’t come to the training – I’m supposed to know this already! I was recently asked what I thought was the most important component in rolling out a successful internal coaching programme – particularly...
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The coaching profession – a bit of a rant.

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The coaching profession -  a bit of a rant. I’m hoping Jude won’t mind me using space within her magazine for me to have something of a whinge at my profession. It is an entirely personal perspective....
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Focus – your greatest asset

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The ability to achieve focus is surely the greatest asset any employee could have in a world of work now assailed by Covid and the resultant restrictions. As if things weren’t difficult enough already, given...
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I may have made a terrible mistake!

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I suggested coaching couldn’t help with mental health at work and that may have been a terrible mistake. A long time ago, before one guy ate an undercooked bat and changed the world forever, I...
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Be grateful you have a job

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Be grateful you have a job. Business leaders need to be careful before they play the “they want to be grateful they have a job” card. As I write, the UK, where I’m based, is coming...
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Coaching needs to be different to work

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Coaching needs to be different to work. If what you call coaching was really coaching, we wouldn’t need coaching! I have noticed a pattern.  I’m told, “My boss coaches me, however, it doesn’t make much difference and...
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Leaders must provide L&D

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It is leaders now, not departments that must provide L&D and perhaps that’s no bad thing. Picture the scene: A CEO is poring over the results of the 2019 employee engagement survey. The results have been available...
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Why I too have had enough of experts

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Why I too have had enough of experts. “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts….”Michael Gove, Justice Secretary, June 2016 I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Michael Gove. I...
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