Being a Coach, not doing Coaching — Tom McCallum

This week I was on a group call with a network of coaches and found myself mentoring them around coaching skills as some of them had been on a multi-day coaching skills course. I myself went on this (with the same master coach leading the course) for the first time over a decade ago and it remains the single most powerful learning experience ever for me.

The group call found the group asking me a lot of questions around coaching and coaching skills and the transition from being an expert businessperson (perhaps some think of themselves as a…