Tag Archives: Mentoring

Reflecting on behaviour for team success

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Arthur Shelley

We rarely afford ourselves with the luxury of engaging in sufficient time to do what Donald Schön called “reflection in action”. When we do so, we realise just how much more there is to life and we enhance our learning … Continue reading →

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Metaphor for Mentoring

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Arthur Shelley

Although I have actively engaged in mentoring throughout my career, I have proactively increased my mentoring efforts since leaving the “big corporate” world.  This increased interest and activity has resulted from a number of emergent opportunities: Firstly, my association with … Continue reading →

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Enhancing Professional Coaching with Metaphor

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Arthur Shelley

Performance is a big focus of professional coaching and behaviour is a big part of performance. A concept that stimulates a reflective dialogue about the impact of behaviour on performance is a useful interaction, providing it is done in a … Continue reading →

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Place, experience, identity and belonging

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Arthur Shelley

Connections are strange things – they seem to come out of nowhere, but have importance to us and how we lead others.  A few weeks ago three unrelated things happened a few days apart that triggered me to recall two … Continue reading →

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Wiki Conversation Visualised

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Arthur Shelley

A group of my students studying knowledge based performance are each asked to research a separate topic and then write about it in a wiki. They insert links in the context of their own topic to the topics researched by … Continue reading →

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