“You know, there’s a saying that I love, which is when you heal your inner world, your outer world starts to change….For me, HR isn’t just about policies and procedures. It is about people and meeting people where they are at. And when you’ve done that inner work, you can show up with more empathy, more clarity, more presence. And that’s where the real transformation happens.”

You don’t have to be a freelancer to bring coaching into your workplace. Debbie Connors is a Senior HR professional and qualified coach. Debbie shares her experience of doing HR work with the benefit of her in-depth coach training and experience. Debbie explains the work of an HR professional and how adopting a coaching approach changed the way she works and its impact and results. 

Through three top coaching skills Debbie explores the practice of “presence,” how to get into a place of being able to listen deeply, and developing the attitude of curiosity over judgement. For other coaching professionals, Debbie shares some key learnings from her own journey as a coach and how she has come to see coaching as an action of co-creation.

“Coaching is co-creation. It’s a kind of one plus one equals three. There’s me, there’s the client, and then there’s the magic that happens in the space between us.”