Coaching and Emotional Transference
Transference usually refers to the client seeing an emotional relationship developing between themselves and a coach, where the coach is seen by a client as an important figure in the client’s life,...
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Your 2 Emotional Dogs
One morning after a restless night, a young monk approached his master and confessed. “Its like having 2 dogs in my heart. One is the yearning of my soul, One is the yearning of my flesh. The yearning...
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The scariest number! 4000.
At a networking event last night I heard a number that was both surprising and a little frightening. The number 4000. 4000 is the number of weeks that the average person will live in the UK....
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7 Ways to Boost Your Resilience
Success requires that you maintain a high level of personal resilience so that you can cope with set backs, problems and disappointments. Your reservoir of resilience will, however, need to be...
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Watch the Cash and Don’t Go Broke
Money is the lifeblood of a business. There are lots of other measures for performance, but the amount of cash you have on hand to pay your company bills gives a ready measure of if you are able to...
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Tools of the Coach
Coaching has become quite an industry. Life coaches, business coaches, marketing coaches, the list goes on. And to support, train and endorse these coaches are a number of different organisations that...
View Article5 Tips for Motivating Your Team
Here are 5 tips to help you motivate your team. 1. Set clear achievable goals – Your people need to know what a good job looks like so that they can then do the things they need to do to achieve it....
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The Power of 5 Minutes
Napoleon trained himself to eat his 4 course dinner in 15 Minutes! this he claimed was because as a leader he knew the value of time, even the value of 5 minutes. What could you do with 5 minutes? 1....
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How to Pick The Right Coach for You
Executive coaching can be misinterpreted as many things. In general terms, coaching is a precision development tool use to allow leaders to identify, develop and optimise their abilities. Frequently,...
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Tips to be a Better Mentor
As a leader, you will often need to take time to develop those people around you; your peers and your team members. This can be called mentoring. A mentor is a trusted person that helps team members...
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The Coach Client Relationship
The power of coaching comes from the relationship that develops between the coach and client. If this relationship is strong, then the outcomes are normally very good. If the relationship degrades,...
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Book review: You Can’t Not Communicate 2 – David Grossman
David Grossman certainly lives up to his trademark title of your ‘Thought Partner’. His new book, ‘You Can’t not Communicate 2‘ , further explores how top leaders differentiate themselves from the...
View ArticleHow do Coaches Charge?
One of the early stumbling blocks to engaging a coach is the client not understanding what the costs will be. Coaches also tend to obscure the cost of coaching by using marketing phrases such as ‘For...
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Applying Guiding principles to Your Business
As individuals we are a product of our person values and behaviours. You recognise a good person by the things they say they believe in and the actions they take. If someone says they value thrift and...
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Better Active Listening
You’ve probably heard the adage that in ‘having 2 ears and 1 mouth, we should listen twice as much as we speak’. Some coaches think about the last 3 letters of the word listen and believe the...
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5 Tips for Motivation
Motivation is the key to getting stuff done through team work. A motivated team builds upon the strengths of the group and thrives. Whereas a demotivated team struggles to achieve anything. As a...
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Increasing Your Business Efficiency
There is a fairly famous quote from David Allen of Getting Things Done fame that states: ‘There is no need to have a thought more than once unless you want to!’ That to me is the essence of business...
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Your Unique Life Purpose
In Marketing and Business, there is a concept of USP the Unique Selling Proposition If a business or product deserves a USP then surely you do too. Mary Dunbar suggested that ‘We each have a unique and...
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80 Percent!
Woody Allen is often quoted as saying that “80 percent of success in life is showing up!” Imagine my surprise then when a friend organised a free marketing event for coaches and NONE of them...
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How are you paving your way to success
You may have heard the phrase ” If you do what you’ve always done, You’ll get what you’ve always got! ” Intuitively it sounds correct doesn’t it? But it assumes a steady environment and if you...
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