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Latest News
The Observer names The Coaching Academy as "The number one coach training programme in Britain and the UK's biggest coach school."
National Occupational Standards in Coaching – officially sponsored by The Coaching Academy
The National Occupational Standards in Coaching and Mentoring have now been completed and The Coaching Academy is responsible for initiating this lengthy project and providing the funding to make it happen. As the only coaching school on the committee that trains life coaches, The Coaching Academy is proud to have contributed to the professionalism of this new industry.
“It was open to all coaching companies to provide sponsorship, but The Coaching Academy was the only one prepared to turn talking about standards into action”
“We’re an action-based company and take pride in leading the coaching field. The National Occupational Standards is one of the ways we are constantly moving the profession forward.”
Further Reading

Five Ways To Build Rapport
04/12/2012
What we say can create or destroy rapport, but interestingly only 7% of communication is the spoken word. Our body language and our tone of voice are more important than the actual words spoken.

Limiting Beliefs
05/11/2012
Limiting beliefs are those things you believe about yourself that place limitations on your abilities. Limiting beliefs are simply assumptions about reality that are not true. In order for our actions to have the greatest positive effect, we need to have beliefs that are as close to reality as possible - deceiving ourselves will take us further from the goal.

GROW Model
02/11/2012
The GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) model is the most common and widely used coaching tool. It empowers the coach to structure a coaching conversation and deliver a meaningful result.
The GROW acronym suggests that a coach using the GROW model is likely to start by asking the client to set goals, both for what they want to get out of the coaching sessions as a whole and for each individual session.

How To Master Your Motivation - Bev James
03/07/2012 10:00:01
Do you find yourself setting out to do one task and ending up completing something else? Do you sometimes have so many ideas on the go, you are unsure which to do first? Or perhaps the passion for the task has faded and you are spending time dreaming up new plans, but are unsure which to run with.

Childs Play And What Can You Learn From It - Saira Nisa
19/06/2012 08:51:50
Have you ever wondered why as a child you had all the will in the world to be a superhero or just somebody absolutely fantastic and now as a grown up you seem to have lost the will to live? We’ve lost our motivation and don’t know how to get it back.

Top Tips For A Supercharged And More Positive You
12/06/2012 09:00:49
Our state, the way in which we show in our interactions and movements, has an extraordinary influence on the course of our lives. Whether in work, politics or any other field, your state of mind has a very strong influence on your results and general feeling of happiness.

Seven Steps To Change Your Self-Image Forever
29/05/2012 09:30:36
Lucy has been struggling with a poor self-image for the past six years. She felt unattractive and strongly believed that men didn’t find her sexy. She had a successful career as a management consultant but could not stop feeling bad about herself. Through our sessions, I discovered that Lucy had a younger sister. This younger sister was the pretty one, the one who got all the boys, according to Lucy.

Going For The Goal
14/05/2012 11:41:42
One of the core skills most coaches deal with is goal setting. It seems relatively straight forward, yet most of us and our clients find it hard to achieve the goals we’ve set, so let’s take a good look at why that is and what we can do about it. The most common model for goal-setting is represented by the acronym SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time based. The other element that is usually stressed is that the goal should be positive; for instance, instead of saying “I will lose 20 pounds,” one might say, “I will have a stable, healthy weight of 12 stone.