3 Minutes to Midnight • Award-winning, inspiring and challenging articles for coaches and the coaching profession
Award-winning, inspiring and challenging articles for coaches and the coaching profession
Since 2012 our regular column in Coaching at Work magazine has informed, inspired and challenged coaches, mentors and people-development professionals internationally.
Titled ‘3 Minutes to midnight’ (reflecting the idea that the darkest hour is just before the light), the column has won the Magazine’s Thought Leadership award, as judged by readers and the editorial panel.
Have a read, and see what thoughts, questions and solutions the columns raise for you.
Saving the planet? You’re having a laugh! • 3 Minutes to Midnight: Part 4
At a recent client event Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency, was a guest. He shared a story of a taxi driver asking him what he did. Chris told him about the agency’s work. “Haven’t we got better things to think about than saving the planet?” the driver replied.
The professional bodies in conversation • 3 Minutes to Midnight: Part 3
In the last in this three-part series of articles exploring the role of coaching and mentoring in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges of the 21st century, we hear from professional coaching and mentoring bodies in a unique ‘dialogue’.
Views and voices of coaches and mentors • 3 Minutes to Midnight: Part 2
"It is our duty to refuse to work with any organisation if it is not about changing the world." You can always rely on Sir John Whitmore for a comment to stimulate conversation. This one was retold to us by Marianne Craig of Firework Coaching and MIRUS (a...
People actively making good things happen • 3 Minutes to Midnight: Part 1
What’s the role of coaching and mentoring in addressing the biggest challenges of the 21st Century? In this three-part series which originally appeared in Coaching at Work magazine, Neil Scotton and Alister Scott explore possible answers to this question, drawing on interviews carried out in three camps. They find important issues to consider, and a shadow side as well as a light side.