Coaching

The Project Management Coaching Workbook (Book review)

The Project Management Coaching Workbook (Book review)

The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen is a book about how to operate with a coaching leadership style in a project environment. “It is not your ability to manage tasks and resources that will set you apart,” writes Susanne Madsen in The Project Management Coaching Workbook. “It is your ability to manage relationships…

Focus on Coaching: Susanne Madsen on the power of questions

Focus on Coaching: Susanne Madsen on the power of questions

This short series is looking at coaching in a project management environment. Today I’m interviewing Susanne Madsen, author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook and herself a coach. Hello Susanne. Tell me, what made you go into coaching in the first place? I started coaching and mentoring project managers because I wanted to make a…

Focus on Coaching: Book review of Leading and Coaching Teams to Success

Focus on Coaching: Book review of Leading and Coaching Teams to Success

I particularly liked the sub-title of this book: The Secret Life of Teams. Leading and Coaching Teams to Success by Phil Hayes is about what happens to teams behind closed doors. It talks about how teams gossip, go off the rails and implode. There’s something cathartic about reading about teams in a worse state than…

Focus on Coaching: expert team coaching with Phil Hayes

Focus on Coaching: expert team coaching with Phil Hayes

Phil Hayes is a coach with over 20 years experience in team development. He’s executive director of London training and coaching company Management Futures. I spoke to Phil about how team coaching can work with project teams. Phil, I’ve heard about coaching individuals, and I can see how you could extend that to a functional…