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Remember when we read Traction?... Well here is another book from the same authors, and that actually covers very similar topics, but with this one we start finding out whether you (or the person you work for) is a visionary or an integrator.  The reason that this is...

Positive Intelligence.... Does that mean anything to you at this point? I had absolutely no idea what it was about when I first heard about it but what I did quickly realise was that this might be the answer I was looking for when it comes to overcoming things that...

I started reading this book knowing it was about strengths but knowing nothing about how or why that was going to be relevant to breaking any rules. I also received some rather strong reactions from family members walking past me and reading the title! However I knew...

Do you think you have a ‘standard operating system’? If I had to describe mine it would be a mixture of very direct, ordered and planned pathways to things that if you looked closer included a million mental detours and pivots...I actually start describing my skill...

I don't know about you but when I've heard too many rave reviews of something, I'm usually then disappointed by it - the hype doesn't match my reality of experiencing it. However, that's not what happened with this book. I've listened to people talk about it for a few...

Book Club - Month 1 Welcome to the start of the Catherine Gray Coaching Book Club! Im picking the books and you get to join in in any way you want to. At the moment there is not an official 'meet up' but this may come in the future if people want it. Month 1 saw us...

Leo Tolstoy once wrote: ‘I felt that what I was standing on had given way, that I had no foundation to stand on and that which I lived by no longer existed and that I had nothing to live by.’ I don’t know how hopeful you feel today, but for me it seems a changeable...

What do coaches actually do? Trying to explain what coaching is, is my only problem with coaching! It is something very specific, yet changeable…something concrete and yet fluid, something with very visible results and clear outcomes and yet something I am still...

Hi, Im Cat / Catherine (I go equally by both so call me whichever you fancy, or even mix it up a bit!) I live in Bristol, UK with my husband James and my sons Daniel and Ben. Im a coach, an administrator, an entrepreneur and many other things but today I thought it...