This book serves as an essential resource for professional coaches, trainers, consultants, and HR managers seeking to enhance their skills and effectiveness. It offers insights into coaching methodologies, practical tools, and strategies for managing teams and individuals. Emphasizing the importance of tailored approaches, it explores various coaching styles and techniques to foster personal and professional development. Readers will find valuable guidance on building relationships, facilitating growth, and navigating the complexities of organizational dynamics.
This issue of AD celebrates the extraordinary life and work of British architect Will Alsop (1947-2018), a career and portfolio that is both literally and metaphorically steeped in colour. Characterised as a maverick architect, Alsop was in truth an individualist who was all for the collective, and a non-conformist. His design aim was to replace 'a little misery in the world with a little joy and delight'. Far from diminutive in ambition, many of his built projects caused big shifts in thinking about ways for citizens to perceive, occupy and enjoy their cities. He believed deeply in the active participation of clients to explore their architectual ideas, involving them in workshops and the making of films to help them to see and better understand what design could do for them. His buildings and artworks are as contentious as they have been highly acclaimed, but never fail to amaze and inspire. His continuous engagement in teaching, lecturing and exhibiting throughout his career, with academic posts held in the UK, Germany, Austria, Australia and the US, meant he always remained in touch and was a consistent source of encouragement to new generations of architects entering the profession. This AD aims to harness that creative energy, commitment and camaraderie
