Purpose -The paper sets out to consider the value of coaching to the sensemaking process. It aims to demonstrate how coaching enhances sensemaking and seeks to describe coaching as a sensemaking activity. Design/methodology/approach -The objectives are achieved by exploring the literature of both coaching and sensemaking with the purpose of demonstrating the mutually supportive nature of coaching and sensemaking. Findings -By analysing sensemaking and coaching activities, the paper aims to demonstrate that coaching greatly supports and enhances the quality of the sensemaking activities of the individual. Research limitations/implications -Coaching as an academic discipline is still in its infancy and lacking in sound empirical research. It would be value for future research activities to focus on the sensemaking the individual engages with during the coaching process. Practical implications -As mentioned above, sound academic research is necessary in order to understand the nature of coaching. This paper goes some way in exploring both coaching as a sensemaking process and also how coaching fundamentally supports the sensemaking process the individual engages in. Originality/value -Coaching has not been explored in relation to sensemaking nor the value that coaching brings to sensemaking. Exploring coaching from a sensemaking perspective helps create a deeper understanding of what takes place within the coaching relationship.

Organizations create knowledge by making sense of new stimuli with which they are constantly being bombarded with. Furthermore, the knowledge created is transmitted through the application of knowledge. Language facilitates the sharing of knowledge created. The meaning which is collectively created in an organization has evolved within relationships over a period of time. Meaning is a product of interaction and does not take place in isolation. An increase in relationships means exposure to different knowledge which results in an increase not only in knowing, but also in what is known. Knowledge is not isolated from that which the individual considers reality to be. There are many interpretations as to what constitutes reality. Knowledge of the world does not reflect an objective world, but an understanding of the world as it is experienced.

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Purpose: This paper proposes, discusses and evaluates a four-stage model of storyselling and its accompanying power dynamics, which are at the heart of coaching in organizations. Design / methodology / approach: This paper is informed by a social constructionist view of coaching. Findings: The conceptualisation of the coaching process as a series of storyselling activities highlights the power of storytelling to facilitate management development through coaching on the one hand and the potential for manipulation and abuse on the other. Research implications: The application of storytelling in organizational coaching as well as the darker and manipulative side of storyselling in the coaching process and relationships should inform future research into these important phenomena. Practical implications: An analysis of the complex nature of the dynamics of coaching and the multi-layered nature of the relationship between coach, organization and coachee will be of benefit to practising coaches, purchasers and recipients of coaching as well as researchers interested in coaching. Originality / value: The value of this paper lies in the exploration of the relatively new concept of storyselling and accompanying power dynamics in an organizational coaching context.

The ligand properties of the organometallic fragment (η 5 -SC 4 H 3 )Cr(CO) 3 were studied in the new σ,π-bimetallic complexes [Cr{(η 5 -SC 4 H 3 )PtL 2 (SC 4 H 3 )}(CO) 3 ] with L = CO and PMe 3 1 or L 2 = dppe [1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane] 2, [Cr{(η 5 -SC 4 H 3 )Au(PPh 3 )}(CO) 3 ] 3 and [Cr(η 5 -SC 4 H 3 SnMe 3 )(CO) 3 ] 4. Whereas the intermediates [Cr{(η 5 -SC 4 H 3 )PtL 2 Cl}(CO) 3 ] (L = PMe 3 or dppe) and [Pt{(SC 4 H 3 )Cr(CO) 3 } 2 L 2 ] were too unstable to isolate and characterize, 4 slowly converted into [Cr{η 5 -SC 4 H 2 (SnMe 3 ) 2 }(CO) 3 ] 5. By contrast, the reaction of lithiated [Cr(η 6 -SC 8 H 6 )(CO) 3 ] with [Pt(dppe)Cl 2 ] afforded the stable trinuclear complex, [Pt{(η 6 -SC 8 H 5 )Cr(CO) 3 } 2 (dppe)] 6.Studies of the activation of organic substrates by more than one transition metal in dinuclear organometallic complexes are increasingly being reported. 2 The interest in such complexes stems not only from their intriguing structural diversities 2,3 but also from their potential catalytic activity, 4 their possible importance in materials with conducting properties 5 and their role in bioinorganic chemistry. 6 Furthermore, metal-ligand activation in dinuclear complexes has not yet been studied systematically and an improved understanding of the scope and extent of such activations is very relevant. Two metals in close proximity sharing a common unsaturated ligand can cooperatively activate and assist in novel reactions, unique transformations and can cause severe structural deformations. 7 Examples are carbon-carbon bond-cleavage and coupling reactions, 8 sterically and/or electronically controlled sites of activity, 9 stabilization of reactive intermediates via co-ordination 1,10 and migratory movements of ligands or metal fragments. 11In our laboratories studies relating to heterobimetallic complexes with σ,π-bridged phenyl and thienyl ligands are of particular interest. 12 Recently we discovered an interesting activation mechanism surrounding a shared thienyl ligand which was π bonded to Cr(CO) 3 and σ bonded to Mn(CO) 5 in the 2 position. The two metal fragments irreversibly, and according to an intramolecular mechanism, exchanged σ,π co-ordination sites. 13 This novel conversion was a direct result of the metals being in electronic contact through the bridging thienyl ligand. These results prompted us further to investigate the extent of activation by σ-bonded early and late transition-metal substituents and their influence on thienyl ligands which are π bonded to Cr(CO) 3 . In this paper we describe the synthesis and characterization of dinuclear complexes with σ-bonded platinum() and gold() fragments in the 2 position of a bridging π-coordinated thienyl ligand.The platinum group metals show very high hydrodesulfurization (HDS) activity 14 and Maitlis and co-workers 15 recorded an oxidative insertion of Pt 0 into the C᎐S bond of thiophenes. Unfortunately for HDS purposes the reverse reaction, regenerating thiophene, is favoured. Efforts to prepare platinum() complexes of 2-(2...