Developing listening skills for coaching
Recently we discussed paying attention to the way in which we listen to other people. Listening is one of those unconscious skills that we have. When we are young we learn that we can hear what someone else is saying and immediately the skill of listening transfers from a conscious process, one that we are […]
Working with coaching clients
The key factor in the success or non success of a business is client acquisition. If you have the right number of clients and your clients are of the right quality, then you have a successful coaching business. In the video below we explore, from the perspective of a coaching business, what is the right […]
Grow your business with collaborative coaching
My primary aim in coaching anyone is to make a positive and lasting difference to them. I believe that I can consistently achieve this aim by assisting people to overcome the worlds most popular internal block. This internal block is variously described as lack of confidence, fear of failure, and lack of self belief. Businesses […]
Train to be a coach
More and more people are choosing to take trainings to become a full-time or a part-time coach. So why would you consider to become a professional coach? Coaching as a skill is accessible to all Coaching is more about how things are done rather than what is done. How did you learn to walk? Did […]
NLP Perceptual Positions
One of the most popular exercises in our range of professional development training courses is one that comes from the world of NLP and is called Perceptual Positions. How easy do you find it to take a multiple perspective on things? How often to you walk in another persons shoes, so to speak, in order […]
NLP Coaching – Model for Change
Continuing our series on NLP Coaching, I would like to introduce you to the Coaching Model for Change. Most of us have things that we don’t particularly like in terms of our own behaviour. Generally they are behaviours that do not support the general way that we want to live our lives. In NLP terms […]
Achieving what you want – NLP Goals
Think of something that you achieved in your life. Do that now, go on. Have you got something? It could be anything e.g. passing your driving test, having children, passing exams, eating less and losing weight. Anything like that. So, have you got something? Good. How was it that you ended up achieving that thing? […]
Are you really listening? – NLP Coaching
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Happiness Index – NLP Coaching
One of the tools that we use in our coaching programmes and one of the tools that we train others to use in our NLP Coaching, Life Coaching Training Courses is the Wheel of Life or Happiness Index. This is a great tool to use in the first coaching meeting to enable the client to […]