KOI Consulting Blog
What’s getting in your way?
Why is the diet industry a multi-billion dollar industry and yet obesity is on the rise globally?
These facts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) are sobering:
- Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980
- In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese
- 65% of the world’s population live in countries where being overweight and obesity kills more people than being underweight
- Nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010
(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/)
WHO state in the same factsheet that at least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese.
The really shocking fact however is that obesity is preventable! So why are we racing towards it with open arms?
What is Coaching and What Should you Look for in a Coach?
As a professional coach, I’m often asked “what is coaching?”
Zeus and Skiffington say it’s about change and transformation. I like this; it captures the essence of coaching and is often all that is required to satisfy the friendly enquiry.
Of course, coaching is a very broad field and is an emerging profession.
Organisations such as the Association for Coaching, European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the Life and Business Coaching Association of Ireland have emerged to promote good practice and ethics.
In my view, this is a very important and necessary step in the development of our profession. Read the rest of this article »