As coaching is a time-limited activity – we’ll typically have six sessions together – then preparing for life after coaching is an important element of the programme. I simplify this into two themes:

1. Maintenance of your ‘wins’ – maintaining the helpful habits, attitudes and skills you developed as part of the coaching programme. And when you explore how they’re working for you and why they have such a positive impact, you can start he second activity:

2. Generalising what you’ve learnt – it’s often the case that these skills, this self-awareness, can be used to good effect in a different part of your life. Skills you learn to handle workplace situations can often be used in your personal life. So look for ways to bring them to life in other contexts and notice this difference this makes.

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About Richard

Dr. Richard MacKinnon is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and the founder of WorkLifePsych, a team of accredited workplace psychologists.

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Here is a short video that should stimulate some critical thinking in this field: Rethinking the Psychological Assessment of Personality ABP 2023

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The received wisdom is that personality (as measured by psychometric questionnaires) does not change. Many believe it is baked into our DNA. However, there is increasing evidence that things do change and to understand this we need to be clearer about what we mean by ‘personality’, what psychometric questionnaires actually measure and to recognise that people are more adaptable both inwardly (changing their self-concept) and outwardly (changing their behaviour) than the traditional approach suggests.

This video explores this further and you can watch it here

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Procrastination is when we irrationally delay taking action – so these stories help us feel rational and logical. Buying in to them gives us temporary relief, but sets us up for more problems in the future.

Spotting these stories can help us identify patterns in our procrastination and begin to see them for what they are – unhelpful stories about who we are and how we do things.

Watch the video here

Dr. Richard MacKinnon is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist based in London, UK. Working with clients globally, his professional focus is on helping clients develop and maintain their productivity, wellbeing and interpersonal effectiveness at work.

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Separating Roles from Personality: watch the video here

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The Belbin Individual report analyses someone’s contributions in terms of the nine Belbin Team Roles. Identifying our behavioural styles is the first step to increasing self-understanding.

Belbin reports are easy to use and help people to better understand their strengths, cultivate hidden talents and work more effectively together.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/CmoUNv9os5s

Once you have the Belbin Individual reports to hand, conversations can start, and change can begin to happen

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Richard is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and expert in Psychological Flexibility. Based in London, but working globally, he is the founder of WorkLifePsych, where he focuses on supporting clients to develop and maintain their wellbeing, productivity and interpersonal effectiveness. He has over twenty years experience as a practitioner psychologist and publishes a fortnightly podcast all about the psychology of the workplace, ‘My Pocket Psych‘.

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In particular he looks at the contribution of:

1. Procrastination

2. Failure to prioritise

3. Automatically saying ‘yes’

4. Mixing up tasks and projects

The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/nK3llmPY0-g

Dr. Richard MacKinnon is a chartered coaching psychologist with over twenty years experience as a practitioner. Based in London, he’s the founder of WorkLifePsych, where he focuses on supporting clients to develop and maintain their wellbeing, productivity and interpersonal effectiveness. 

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All of Richard’s coaching videos can be found on the WorkLifePsych YouTube channel at WorkLifePsych.tv.

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