Rachel Morris’ latest piece in The Business Reporter argues that shifting employee expectations demand new skills from line managers, centred around embracing a coaching approach.

Rachel Morris’ latest feature in The HR Director explores how organisations can support line managers with the day-to-day realities of managing and the benefits of line manager coaching as an alternative to traditional training programmes.

Why it pays to supplement formal learning programmes with coaching.

Coaching can be the perfect compliment to formal leadership and management programmes, multiplying your ROI whilst increasing the all-round capabilities of your leaders.

Listen to Rachel Morris discuss how group coaching can offer a multiplication of the return on investment of learning programmes with special guests Sophie Peaty and Sarah Shaw from The Body Shop.

What are the challenges of coaching in a redundancy situation? What are the dual responsibilities of outplacement coaching? Our coaches have experienced both sides of this challenging situation and understand the requirements of successful outplacement coaching.

Sophia Taylor and Gayle Tong, Motion coaches and specialists in outplacement work, recently discussed the issues involved.

We all know there are times where having someone objective to talk to helps tremendously. Those moments when, through skilled conversation, complications and confusions begin to become crystal clear.

How do you know when you’re at one of those moments?

How do you choose an executive coach? How do you know the fit is right?

Rachel Morris, executive coach and partner at Motion Learning, shares her views on the signs of potential for a good coaching relationship and reveals some of the key qualities of any great coach.

Over the course of 15 years, we’ve never stopped learning at Motion Learning. Here are a few thoughts from our journey so far.

We weren’t completely unaware that to make a success of a business would take lots of energy, time and some good ideas, but to paraphrase, we certainly “didn’t know what we didn’t know”.

Who do you turn to when you need advice, support or inspiration? Is it one person, or different people depending upon your need?

A personal development board, AKA The bench, is a group of people standing behind you, supporting you, keeping you on track, guiding, challenging and stretching you.