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It's Mental Health Awareness Week
It's Mental Health Awareness Week

Here are some ideas about improving wellbeing at work beyond holding conversations and raising awareness. Capitalising on Mental Health at Work Week and the importance of addressing mental health as we exit lockdown.

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Coaching, Leadership, Skills and Values, WellbeingAmanda Dudmanresilience, wellbeing, mental health, EAP, employee, diversity, inclusion, culture, values, kindness, words and actions, policy, training, stress, lockdown, The Guardian, apps, nine free apps, Mental Health First Aid, strategic, working from home, raise awareness, conversation, coaching, NLP, motivational interviewing, solution focussed therapy brief, using data, rewards, performance management, appraisal, development, HR, benchmarking, REBA, resilience skills, experts by experience, peer led, patterns, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Awareness WeekComment
CPD opportunities just got better in lockdown for coaches and mentors
CPD opportunities just got better in lockdown for coaches and mentors

Take the opportunity of lockdown to have a great CPD plan as a coach and mentor. I include 5 books to consider.

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Coaching, MentoringAmanda Dudmancoaching, mentoring, Peltier, Jenny Rogers, reflective practice, CPD, Skype, zoom, virtual space, lockdown, learning, development, Do Lectures, NLP, webinars, classroom, practitioners, post graduate, books, Coaching Skills, knowledge, trust, therapeutic, Executives, Directors, non directive coaching, David megginson, David Clutterbuck, Stephen Palmer, Alison Whybrow, Coaching Psychology, theoires, academic, practical, M, Myles Downey, Arrien, feedback, relationship building, flexible support, intake, contractingComment
Fostering empathetic listening as a mentor and coach
Fostering empathetic listening as a mentor and coach

Some ideas and practical tips on the skill of listening empathetically.

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

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Coaching, Mentoring, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmanlistening, empathy, empathetic listening, active listening, coach, mentor, reflective practice, CPD, Stephen Covey, coachee, mentee, filtering, self aware, questioning, open questions, clean question, world view, understanding, Senge, feelings, perspectives, step inot the shoes, training, coach training, frame of reference, non-judgmental, values, beliefs, compassion, trust, connection, summarise back, pay attention, silence, non verbal, voice, language, body languageComment
Location,, location, location: the right environment for coaching and mentoring meetings
Location,, location, location: the right environment for coaching and mentoring meetings

Finding the right location and space for a coaching meeting is vital. Here’s how to go about it.

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Coaching, Learning, MentoringAmanda Dudmanmentoring, coaching, location, envirnment, code of ethics, confidentiality, trust, rapport, telephone, Skype, professional, distractions, IOEE, EMCC, safe space, communicating, Kirsty and Phil, Buzan, confidential, be on time, neutral ground, cafe, community centre, lobby, coffee shop, GDPR, data protection, safeguarding, euqality, diversity, health and safety, boundaries, role model, code of conductComment
Thoughts are not facts - a way to boost resilience
Thoughts are not facts - a way to boost resilience

Boosting your resilience by avoiding habitual thinking traps. What are the common thinking traps we have that undermine our resilience and how can we overcome them?

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Coaching, Learning, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmanresilience, thinking traps, Reivich, Shatte, resilient thinking, thoughts, beliefs, thoughts are not facts, workshops, coaching, personal resilience, feeling, 1-2-1, Albert Ellis, Avoiding Thinking Traps, habitual thinking, adversity, me, mem, Book of Life Rules, Overgeneralising, magnifying and minimising, personalising, tunnle vision, jumping to conclusions, always happens, emotional reasoningComment
Using reflective practice
Using reflective practice

Reflective practice is something we should all learn as a skill for life.  It's especially a must do for mentors and coaches.

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Coaching, Leadership, Learning, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmancoaching, mentoring, coachee, mentee, client, leader, leadership, VCSE, collaborative, reflective practice, reflection, change, learning, growth, skill for life, therapist, supervision, model, theory in use, self assessment, action planning, value, professional development, feedback, training, remove the ego, meta thinking, self management Comment
Effective questioning in coaching and mentoring
Effective questioning in coaching and mentoring

From an early age we are curious and ask questions.  And we are encouraged to give answers too.  But we are rarely taught how to phrase and ask the 'right' question.

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Coaching, Learning, MentoringAmanda Dudmancoaching, mentoring, coachee, mentee, Padesky, SFEDI Awards, questions, questioning, killer questions, enterprise mentoring, effective questioning, intuiition, practice, outcome, practitioner, find asnwers, process thinking, psychological, seamless approach, listening, global listening, guided discussion, goal, journey goal, session goal, answers, summarise, truthful answers, responsibility, challengeComment
International Women's Day - stand up and say something
International Women's Day - stand up and say something

On International Women's Day I've picked the theme of 'standing up for yourself' as a relevant topic for work and life, for men and women.  Women stood up for my rights in the past.  I'm responsible for finding the courage to do the same.

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Coaching, Learning, Skills and ValuesAmanda Dudmancourage, fear, assertiveness, listen, listening, Cabot, cocaching, skills, values, International Women's Day, say something, attributes, Lisenby, behaviour, support, resilince, sense of purpose, woman, sexism, harassment, prejudice, empathy, respect, emotional intelligence, resourcefulness, conflict, re-frame, fair, adult suffrage, responsibility, accountability, changeComment
Personal resilience at work
Personal resilience at work

Good news! Resilience skills are practical and can be learned.

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Skills and Values, Training, Coaching, CommunityAmanda Dudmanresilience, personal resilience, Karen Reivich, Martin Seligman, training, coaching, ask for help, adpatability, purposefulness, confidence, social support, resilient thinking, EAP, employee assistance, wellbeing, cope, stress, bounce back, .successful, skills, set backs, adversity, competencies, learning, explanatory style, perception, adjusting, change, changingComment