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Please follow these links to other sites I find useful and recommend:

  • Association for Coaching (AC)
    • A leading independent, and not-for-profit professional body dedicated to promoting best practice and raising the awareness and standards of coaching, worldwide.
  • Businessballs 
    • Free career help, business training, innovative ideas, materials, exercises and tools.
  • Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)
    • The professional body for HR and people development practitioners.
  • Clean Coaching
    • Providers of training in Clean Language, Clean Coaching and Emergent Knowledge
  • Clean Learning
    • A world class provider of training in Clean Language, Clean Space, Symbolic Modelling and Systemic Modelling. Useful resources are also available here.
  • Clean Language
    • A vast resource of articles and information on Penny Tompkins and James Lawley's Symbolic Modelling and the Clean Language, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge processes of David Grove.
  • European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)
    • A professional body set up to develop, promote and set the expectation of best practice in mentoring and coaching across Europe and beyond.
  • International Coach Federation (ICF)
    • A non-profit, professional organisation that represents personal and business coaches.
  • Mind Tools
    • An on-line training site for management, leadership and personal effectiveness skills.

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