Episode 26 - Jo Miles - Master Your Transition

Today’s guest is Jo Miles. Jo is an Executive Coach and the founder of Master Your Transition, her Coaching and Consulting business. Drawing upon two decades of Management Consulting and Coaching expertise, Jo empowers and supports individuals, teams and organisations to explore challenges, gain insight and take practical steps to achieve and sustain change. Jo is a Coach and trusted advisor to senior Partners at some of the worlds biggest consulting firms and has worked with clients at the likes of Strategy &, Baringa Partners and North Highland to name but a few. We cover some really interesting topics in today’s interview including: How Jo became a Coach What Coaching is, who should consider it and why it’s important for your career. The common challenges Jo finds clients struggle with and her advice on how to deal with them How you can tell a good Coach from a bad one and the questions you should ask when assessing whether a Coach is right for you. The importance of using Coaching as a positive tool for improvement and not a negative tool to deal with poor performance And much much more! Jo was a great guest and gave some fantastic insights in to an area of the industry that many people have heard about but very few have experienced. If you’re looking to take your career to the next level and want to understand more about how Coaching can help you do this then this interview is a must listen! You can find out more about Master Your Transition at http://www.masteryourtransition.co.uk/  You can find out more about Jo on Linked In at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-miles-0283461/  Specific things we discuss in this show: Selecting your Coach – following our interview Jo wanted to add a key point on how to select your coach related to understanding their CPD. Enter Jo: “Please note that CPD can mean attending conferences, training courses, academic lectures and supervision.  Supervision is an important aspect of CPD, as it shows Coaches are consciously seeking to develop themselves and their practice through working with a supervisor” Tatiana bachkirova - https://www.brookes.ac.uk/business/about/staff/myprofile/?wid=bus-academic-list&op=full&uid=p0035809 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey - http://amzn.eu/d/62NyrJC The Chimp Paradox by Stephen Peters - http://amzn.eu/d/3aF7ggs Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter - http://amzn.eu/d/3c1Obmh   Intelligence In The Flesh by Guy Claxton - http://amzn.eu/d/8V5Mv2Z Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader by Herminia Ibarra - http://amzn.eu/d/8j85oGk   Presence by Amy Cuddy - http://amzn.eu/d/9M6cIKx    Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk on Power Poses - https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?language=en   Mastery by Robert Greene - http://amzn.eu/d/7yuT5uP