Telling Us Things We Already Know

There was a very positive feature about coaching in The Times this week.  You can read it here.  Whilst it's great for the profession to enjoy such positive publicity, I was kind of surprised that coaching was being written about as if it was some amazing new thing, just arrived to save the planet.  It's been around for years, and has been written about many times before - check this out from The Guardian in 2001.

The article also included a version of the 'Clean Sweep' quiz, which is widely used by many coaches. In this case they've labelled it a method to assess your Work/Life Balance, though I do think that if you need to do a quiz about such things, then you probably already know that your WLB ain't so hot. 

But if you're into quizzes, give this one a go well.  It's a Test Your Procrastination Level quiz.  Again, it probably won't tell you anything you don't already know, but sometimes we do need a bit of a poke to point out the truth.