Course Re-Accreditation Survey 2019

Collingwood coach, Nathan Buckley, attributes their success to taking a strengths based approach

Collingwood coach, Nathan Buckley, attributes their success to taking a strengths based approach For those of you not in Victoria, it's 'Footy Grand Final Week' here in Open Door's home state and this weekend the Collingwood Magpies take on…
Advanced Coaching Certification

Three Cheers for the Champions of Coaching

Three Cheers for the Champions of Coaching   This week is 'Coaching Week' in Australia! Coach Week is a celebration of 'all things coaching' and for me it holds an extra special piece of significance this  year as this month we celebrate…

Special announcement – Strengthscope in Australia

Open Door signs exclusive agreement to distribute strengths based products and accredit coaches as Strengthscope Practitioners Open Door is very pleased to announce our new agreement with Strengths Partnership in the UK to be the exclusive…

Mentoring for High Performance

We are often asked on our programs ‘what’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?’ and many managers realise that what they call ‘coaching’ is actually ‘mentoring’.  In this blog, rather than explore the differences, I…

The role of vulnerability in leadership

I was reflecting recently after a couple of executive coaching sessions about the topic of vulnerability.  My clients, both very senior women where discussing the role that vulnerability plays in their workplace and particularly as part of…

Shifting Under Performance – Part 1

Whenever I am delivering a coaching workshop and talking about coaching to enable engagement, accountability, responsibility and high performance, our conversations are often naturally diverted by someone who says… ‘It’s all very well…

Knowing the GROW Model versus actually coaching!

In all of our coaching programs we ask participants to go back and just ask the basic ‘four top coaching questions’ to really practice the GROW Model: What is it you want to achieve? (Or what is your goal?) What’s happening now? …

Forget active listening and just listen!

So one of the ideas that I have been reflecting on lately is whether the concept of active listening has become out dated!  Yes, I know it’s a bit controversial! But before all great coaches before me rise up and call for me to hand in my…

I’m just here for a refresher

At the start of each coaching workshop I ask the participants ‘what is it you’d like to achieve from today or get out of today, so that this has been a great use of your time?’ My aim is to encourage the participants to really think about…