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Learning coaching in an institute and then practising it is the accepted best practice for most coaches who offer coaching services. There is a deficit in such a method: how can I as a coach ever know its efficacy in the business or even a personal environment unless I have some measuring mechanism in place. Alongside 35 years of leadership experience in many parts of the world, and a very keen focus on interpersonal relationships, I learnt coaching: the bottom up approach. My personal observations in the business world and conducting 123 interviews with CEOs, managers, entrepreneurs, and other decision makers gave me first-hand data about the perception of coaching and how potential clients and coaches alike look at coaching. It has also enabled me to evolve methods to decode what works and what does not work in coaching.
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I do not want to leave unmentioned the work of psychologists Ernest Haggard and Kennet Isaacs for having discovered micro expression three years before Ekman, as mentioned in Emotions Revealed (2003).
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Kohli, A. (2016). Personal Business Experience. In: Effective Coaching, and the Fallacy of Sustainable Change. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39735-1_4
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