5 Obstacles in a Coaching Conversation by Qaiser Abbas

5 Obstacles in a Coaching Conversation Qaiser Abbas What Coaching Is and Isn’t: Coaching is about helping people be the very best they can be. Coaching is not telling people what you think they should do. It is about facilitating someone to gain their own insights in a situation. ‘A coach acts as an accountability […]

Drawing Corporate Connections: What Can Sports Coaching Teach Us

Drawing Corporate Connections: What Can Sports Coaching Teach Us Haris Mehmood, Shahid Ali Khan Nelson Mandela famously remarked, “Sport has the power to change the world.” In the wake of the recent ICC Cricket World Cup, sports coaching and its application to executive coaching sparked our interest. This mounting curiosity led our team to conduct […]

Coaching: A Way of Life at PEL

Coaching: A Way of Life at PEL Raza Nabi We, at Pak Elektron Limited, have always taken two things very seriously; helping people grow and encouraging them to innovate ideas. Both these areas may seem to sound out of fashion in terms of latest HR trends, but they mean the world to us. Our focus […]

Essential Coaching Tools

Essential Coaching Tools Essa Jan Allawala First things first, coaching works towards building capability, discovering hidden talent and helping the coachee to bring out their best by making them believe in a capability they never thought they had or lacked the confidence to acknowledge. After getting that out of the way, lets now learn how […]

From the Diary of a Trainer

From the Diary of a Trainer Syed Azam Jaffar In the last 18 years I have been to the wilderness with so many different people and in varying places that I have lost count. We were out there in mountains, valleys, jungles, rivers – in scorching sun, chilling winds, drenching rains, freezing snowfalls. The outdoors, […]

3 Ways to Build a Coaching-Centric Approach with Millennials

3 Ways to Build a Coaching-Centric Approach with Millennials Jawad Gilani When it comes to the modern workforce, millennials are perhaps the most talked about topic across the business world. Organizations associate certain attributes like, hungry for quick recognition, entitled, disloyal, beanbags and so on. This labeling and over generalization is misleading in many ways. […]

Impact Pride Series: In Conversation with Zahra Majid

Impact Pride Series: In Conversation with Zahra Majid International Coaching Federation Accredited Coach, Zahra Majid, has worked for over ten years with international brands such as British American Tobacco, China Mobile, Ericsson, NSC Global to name a few, as a senior HR Consultant. In 2013, she ventured into setting up her own consulting business “Coaching […]

Coaching in the Digital Age

Coaching in the Digital Age Is coaching in the digital age different from traditional coaching? Muhammad Abubakar Siddique As a coach one must be aware of the distinction between traditional and digital coaching. Even though the basic principles of coaching remain the same; but what is required to be a coach in a digital world […]

Using Gamification to Boost Employee Engagement

Using Gamification to Boost Employee Engagement Debunking the myths of gamification in corporate HR Haris Mehmood Aqib, the head of HR of in Insurance Company came across an increasingly daunting dilemma; a problem of ethics that was a company-wide epidemic. If exacerbated this could become a problem that might shut down the company! After months […]

Maintaining a Strategic Posture

Maintaining a Strategic Posture Lessons in Leadership Naseem Zafar Iqbal Leaders take on a certain strategic posture to lead an organization effectively. It is part of the broader strategic planning process, when leaders collaborate to develop the vision, goals and strategies for a business in the foreseeable future. One might wonder, what is the difference […]