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Mirel Duta, our wonderful Personal Performance Diploma graduate explains how his personal development process led him to coaching. Mirel shares his top coaching tips and lends some amazing insights about challenging your limiting beliefs to seize your dream and shoot for success. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 12 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Debra Carey, our accomplished NLP practitioner shares her inspiring journey that helped her rediscover her love for coaching and launch her own business after a five year break. Debra lends insightful coaching tips and proves that it’s never too late to make that change and fulfill your dreams.
Posted 12 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
DISC is a popular tool to help enhance communication and better understand people.
Posted 19 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Our wonderful NLP practitioner, Stasia Banto this week reflected on her life-changing journey and how coaching helped her reconnect with her passion and purpose. Stasia truly believes that people can achieve what they want in life and be happy with themselves.
Posted 19 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
DISC is a powerful profile tool that helps you really understand people and how to communicate with them effectively. As a DISC Master Trainer, I’m often asked “Which style makes the best leader?”, “Which style makes the best manager?” and “how do you motivate people?”
Posted 26 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Shanta Navaratnam came across coaching whilst she was at a crossroad in her life. This is Shanta’s amazing story of how coaching transformed her life and boosted her new career as a Chief Financial Offer.
Posted 26 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What does your morning routine look like? Is it filled with snoozed alarms until you drag yourself out of bed? Do you rush out the door with a coffee in hand and stress in your mind?
Posted 33 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Back in the day when no-one had really heard of coaching, I found myself watching a TV programme with a life coach on it. I thought the coach was amazing! At the time I was a stay at home mum to three small children and while I loved being there for my kids, my days had turned into an endless routine of washing, making food, park visits and reading stories with very little plot!
Posted 33 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Keeping a daily journal might seem like something for famous thinkers, or even angsty teenagers. However, in an increasingly digital age, taking the time out to put pen to paper and record our experiences, feelings, gratitude and dreams is a powerful tool for personal development.
Posted 40 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
To feel confident within, you must be your own best friend and honour your commitments to yourself, have down time when you so choose, say what you mean, mean what you say, sleep when you are tired, eat healthily when hungry, play when you want fun, take responsibility for your finances, respect yourself and your choices, appreciate and trust yourself.
Posted 47 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our wonderful coach, Lisa Lopez sat down and shared with us her amazing coaching journey and how coaching awakened and set her free to a new life. Lisa finally found herself looking at life through a new set of eyes…
Posted 47 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Bravery isn’t only for people we think of as heroes - those who save lives or climb the highest mountain they can find.
Posted 54 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
You can reclaim your power and get your life back on track when you learn how to stop resisting change. Our resistance to real change makes it so much harder to achieve. After all, if we didn’t resist so much, would it be quite so hard?
Posted 61 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Let's talk about what's good and turn the frown into a smile. Put our focus on acting on solutions, not complaints. Acting on what we can control and not complaining about what we cannot control.
Posted 61 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We recently had the opportunity to catch up with our lovely coach and business psychologist, Berta Maso, for a quick Q&A session in this week’s Coach in The Spotlight column. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 54 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Our brand new series, TCA Coaches’ Getting Clients Top Tips, begins with a quick catch up with our amazing coach, Sarah Jones as she shares some top tips for coaches getting clients.
Posted 68 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I hope you enjoy this article from my friend and mentor the late Richard Denny. Bev James
Posted 68 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Our 'Clients’ Success Story Series’ this week continue with a quick Q&A session with TCA Small Business of The Year 2015, Tina Dulieu where she shares her successes making a great living as a professional coach.
Posted 75 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our lovely coach, Louise Hook who is doing her third diploma with us, shares her interesting coaching journey and how coaching empowered her to transform her clients’ lives. Louise recently got promoted at work thanks to her wonderful coaching work and continuous personal development and learning.
Posted 75 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why do some people have more self-belief than others? Why do some people 'get on with it', while others prevaricate? Is self-belief innate within us, or is it a skill that can be learned?
Posted 82 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What is motivation? We all know when we have it and when we don't. In our society, we're often told - explicitly and implicitly - that without motivation, nothing would ever get done. No wonder this mysterious motivation stuff is so sought after!
Posted 82 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our 'Clients’ Success Story Series’ continue with a quick Q&A session with our wonderful coach, Phil Maddock where he shares his story of how coaching empowered his client to realise their ultimate dream.
Posted 89 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Can you think of a time when you set yourself a goal, or wanted to achieve something, but for whatever reason, you didn't succeed? Maybe you have a goal right now - an idea about what you might want to do, to achieve or to be, which you haven't managed to achieve?
Posted 96 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
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, we discovered that Lucy had a younger sister. This younger sister was the pretty one, the one who got all the boys, according to Lucy.
Posted 96 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
To begin our brand new 'My Clients' Success Story Series’, we asked TCA’s Coach and Parent Coach of The Year 2015, Sharon Lawton to share her story of how coaching has changed her clients’ lives. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 103 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
'It has been a truly transformative journey’ - as our wonderful coach and mother of 5 children, Sayyida Bano shares with us this week her inspiring coaching journey and how coach helped her overcome her challenges and limiting beliefs and empowered her to transform other people’s lives. For Sayyida, investing in one’s own personal development is priceless, and she is so glad that she did.
Posted 103 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
One of the greatest challenges we all face is managing our own internal emotional state, especially in difficult situations. How do you deal with challenges? Do you like your friends to console you? Do you feel the boil of anger rise followed by a verbal or physical outburst or do you throw yourself head first into activity to stop you from thinking about the difficult situation?
Posted 110 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Donna Smith recently sat down and shared with us her successful story and how Coaching enhanced her life and career. Donna also qualified with us on the NLP Practitioner Programme and has successfully been running her own Coaching Business since graduation over a year ago.
Posted 110 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
States affect our ability to perform to our best, when under stress our performance can drop by 20-30%. Learning how to manage your state will leave you feeling more in control of the external influences that impact on our general well-being and capability to perform, experiencing both the highs and lows, whilst knowing that you have a choice of how you react to any given experience.
Posted 117 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming is an incredibly powerful approach to communication and personal development. To quote Richard Bandler, one of the co-founders of NLP - “NLP is a discovery, not an invention”.
Posted 117 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our amazing coach, Clair Buck, shares with us her remarkable coaching journey since leaving her 30-year hard work entrepreneurial business. Claire has had a great first year of her Coaching business and is working on her plan to launch her online group coaching for Business Owners and Professionals around the world.
Posted 124 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Richard Branson and J K Rowling didn't have a plan B - for them, achieving their goal was the only option. How much is having your plan B stopping you from succeeding? It may be time to banish it!
Posted 124 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our wonderful coach, Lynn Degele shares with us her inspiring journey where Coaching empowered her to overcome her learning difficulty and go on to do remarkable things that she would never have thought of. Lynn has begun giving public talks on 'Ways to Succeed with a Learning Difficulty’ at local libraries to share her story.
Posted 131 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Spring is here - a time for sunnier days, blooming flowers and new beginnings. It’s also a time when many people choose to 'spring clean’ their homes.
Posted 131 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our passionate coach, Stella Maher, shares with us her inspiring story of how Coaching rebooted her life helping her to regain her self-esteem and beliefs. Stella is living her dream of helping other people overcome their own limiting beliefs and fulfill their potential.
Posted 138 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
As our life is constantly changing and we set new goals for ourselves, it is inevitable that these changes, willingly or unwillingly, can cause us to feel certain fears. We may want to set a new goal, dream about changes or find solutions to our problems but the feeling of fear holds us back.
Posted 138 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our passionate coach, Dariusz Zurek, shares his remarkable coaching journey and how Coaching opened a door for him to a happy and fulfilling career and far beyond.
Posted 145 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I’ve always loved helping people. Even when I was younger, I preferred talking to my friends about their problems rather than tackling my own!
Posted 145 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The Education Sector is booming with opportunities to utilise your coaching skills and there is currently a huge demand for coaching across the entire sector ranging from young people and parents to teachers and school leaders.
Posted 152 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The motivation to set a goal usually stems from recognising that you would like to make a change in a certain area of your life. Making the decision to set a goal is a great way to break through your barriers, but a plan is not an action and it is only by taking action that you can truly get the results you are hoping for.
Posted 152 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This is my story. I can’t believe I’ve only been coaching a year, but it feels so natural now. I feel like I’ve been doing it much longer…
Posted 159 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our coach, Joanna Marszal sat down and shared with us her inspiring Coaching journey and how Coaching has empowered her to overcome her fears and limiting beliefs to become the life-changing coach she is today. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 159 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Our mind is the most powerful tool we have; it can store either inaccurate conclusions about who we believe we are or assist us in turning our dreams into our reality. Depending on our thoughts we can either use our minds to limit our potential or enhance it.
Posted 166 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ever feel like your life is running you instead of the other way round? The pressures of work can become quite a demand when you are trying to juggle career alongside family, friends, social life and general well-being. There is no magic solution to achieving a better work / life balance, like most processes that will have a positive impact in your life, it is something to be practiced but here are some top tips that should help you along the way.
Posted 166 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
In early 2016, I was facing an uncertain future in my role at The Football Association, following a restructure when my role was put 'at risk’. I had been at the organisation for 11 years and whilst I had loved working there, in football (my thing) with some great people, I didn’t feel that I was fulfilling my potential or able to use the skills I have in the best way.
Posted 173 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, our PPD coach, Emily Merrell who is also completing her second Diploma - Executive & Corporate Programme, sat down and shared with us her exciting coaching journey and the golden opportunities coaching has brought her since quitting her job. We hope you enjoy...
Posted 173 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
It's mid-March 2018 and I find myself reflecting on the past 7 months with TCA since I started the Diploma in Small Business Coaching alongside the personal experiences that I have had which have inspired me to write this article.
Posted 180 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Visualisation is the practice of affecting the outside world by changing your thoughts and using imagination to experience new behaviours and new events. By creating detailed schemas of what you want, over and over again and by using all senses to recreate these, new patterns for a change in behaviours are laid down in the brain as templates.
Posted 180 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What if the only thing that’s really worth doing is the vision that comes from your heart? How do you find that vision? How do you express it? And how do you make it so compelling that you are suddenly able to overcome all the things that may have been stopping you from doing it and transform your life? As coaches, helping our clients do this is a challenge.
Posted 187 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, we caught up with TCA coach, Pauline Grant - a family Restorative Coach, currently in the process of setting up her coaching business, for a quick Q&A session in this week’s Coaching Weekly. We hope you enjoy...
Posted 187 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Winter has fallen behind us and the season of new beginnings has arrived! Are you filled with excitement for the next season of your life, or do you have a nagging feeling of sadness which questions whether you’ll ever feel happier?
Posted 194 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I’d been stuck at a job that just wasn’t for me for 13 long years. It was in 2015 that I finally realised, just how much of a toll it was taking on me both, physically and mentally. I just had to leave.
Posted 194 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching is all about asking questions. When you ask the right questions, you can create breakthroughs that provide you with a deeper level of clarity so that you can re-ignite your motivation and take steps to move in the right direction.
Posted 201 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Our thoughts are powerful. Along with words, mind-chatter and the things you say to yourself are often the number one support tool you have to guide you towards your goals. When we don't believe we can, we won't. Is your mind chatter helping you or holding you back?
Posted 201 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I had been a self-employed Learning and Development Consultant for 20 years and had come to the end of a long-term contract with a major global organisation. This coincided with my son of 19 having to withdrawn from university due to severe anxiety issues.
Posted 208 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How do successful people think? What drives them? If you truly understand their belief systems, levels of commitment and positive attitudes toward life and integrate these ways of thinking into your own belief system – you should be able to succeed at anything you put your mind to.
Posted 208 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We recently had the opportunity to catch up with NLP Practitioner of The Year 2017, Andreia Trigo, for a Q&A session for this week’s Coach in The Spotlight column. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 215 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I first discovered coaching in 2002, when I enrolled with the Academy and qualified in the Personal Performance Diploma. At the time, alongside my husband, we ran a design and manufacturing business with over 100 employees. I felt coaching would offer me the tools I needed to help me work with our employees to grow and develop them. After qualifying in 2003, I coached staff as well as others, and it was always a pleasure to see people’s delight when they achieved the goals they had set themselves.
Posted 215 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Just as 'location, location, location’ is the key element in real estate, networking is the key ingredient in any business development plan. Whether your business is large or small, a start-up or one with a long-history, for-profit or not-for-profit, 'networking, networking, networking’ is the key to business development.
Posted 222 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I had been searching for a career to bring out all the things that I felt that I stood for in life, an honest, trustworthy, understanding person and leader who always liked to help people to develop and achieve their dreams.
Posted 222 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Research by The Coaching Academy’s Coaching within Education Programme Trainer, Pam Lidford has revealed the answer to the question that has puzzled teachers and parents for generations: what do teenagers really want? Be prepared for a surprise...
Posted 229 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, TCA Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ series continues with a quick Q&A session with our coach, Debra McAndrew, where she recalled how coaching helped accelerate her business success and shared some top tips for coaches getting clients. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 229 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching is all about asking powerful questions which can help us to create breakthroughs in our careers, relationships and overall well-being. When we ask ourselves the right questions we direct our minds towards seeking answers, considering different perspectives, altering our moods and finding solutions to our challenges.
Posted 236 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching is often likened to the fitness world, and this is especially true at this time of year. As the end of January approaches ('Dry’ or otherwise), a number of Small Business owners and managers are once again realising that many of their New Year resolutions are unlikely to carry as far as February. Like the folk who have set those 'Get fit/lose weight’ etc goals, Small Business owners are planning for an improved year now that the old one has finished.
Posted 236 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
TCA coach, Debora Luzi, recently sat down with us for a quick Q&A session for the Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ Top Tips series this week. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 243 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We recently caught up with Claire Cahill, TCA Executive Coach of The Year 2016 to ask her some quick questions for Top Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ Tips series this week. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 243 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
If you knew something influenced virtually everything you did or said, would you want to learn more about it? Would you want to develop it? Let’s face it - many of us are stuck sometimes with fear, boredom, sadness, annoyance or anger. Many of us cannot adapt to changing situations. Many of us struggle to connect and maintain personal and professional relationships.
Posted 250 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The new year is finally here and we’re into the full swing of 2018. Many of us have been contemplating our dreams to achieve throughout the following year and beyond. However, Robert Herjavec once said, “A goal without a deadline is just a dream”. The key this year is to transform our dreams into goals, and then realise them.
Posted 250 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Going back to early 2015, as a consequence of reassessing life I decided to quit my full-time job, which I had been doing for almost 15 years. The main driver behind my decision was that I wanted to be around for my 92-year-old mum, who lived with us and also look after our granddaughter 2 days a week when her mum returned to work. So, April 2015 began a new season, as I reflect it was quite a challenge caring for a 92-year-old and a 9-month-old. One, increasing in independence and curiosity of the world around them and the other, with a degree of reluctance, was becoming more dependent.
Posted 257 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Another year has flown by and January has arrived. It's a new year and a new start and many of us may excitedly declare our new year's resolutions only for our motivation to be short-lived. A recent study conducted by the University of Scranton's psychology department showed that 71% of those surveyed only followed through on their new year's resolutions for the first two weeks and sadly it's the case for many of us.
Posted 257 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
About 5 years ago, I was in a career rut and was questioning everything about what I was doing. I had been a Primary School teacher for nearly 20 years, had taken a break to raise my daughter and was really struggling to get back in to it because everything had moved on apace. But I didn’t think there was anything else I could do. Eventually I contacted a Life Coach, called David Jessop. I began working with him and, as well as coaching me to move forward, that led to him working with me in school with the children. He inspired me so much I decided I wanted to do what he did.
Posted 278 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I stumbled into Coaching not knowing what I really wanted, but thinking that I wanted something different to what I already had.
Posted 285 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
At first, it was my personal situation that motivated me to enrol with TCA. When I became a young woman, I found myself in a challenging position.
Posted 285 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The language we use to communicate with ourselves has incredible power and it is often the case that the words we use can be a reflection of both our internal and external experiences.
Posted 292 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We recently caught up with The Coaching Academy Graduate, Abigale Otchere, for a Q&A session for this week 's Coach in The Spotlight. Abigale is currently hosting the Motivational Monday Podcast, where she interviews an array of inspirational experts from around the world. We hope you enjoy it...
Posted 299 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What do all these award winners have in common? They all began their coaching journey by attending our FREE 2-day Foundation in Life Coaching event.
Posted 292 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Absolutely everyone has it in them to develop themselves and reach their full potential. We all could do a little more each day than we think we can possibly do. This could be in work, relationships, family, sports, fitness or pretty much any situation that requires you to focus your mind-set and behaviours.
Posted 299 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I had been searching for a career to bring out all the things that I felt that I stood for in life, an honest, trustworthy, understanding caring person who listened intently with family friends and colleagues. I feel that I have a very natural warmth and easy-going manner when it comes to understanding people’s emotions and reactions.
Posted 306 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
As human beings, it’s safe to say many of us can often spend far too much time overthinking our problems within our lives. It is a huge challenge and across the board, we’re forced to stop and ponder over various key points; whether it be work, home, relationship or personally related. In fact, around 95% of us fall into this trap to some degree, according to considerable research by Dr Piers Steel, a Psychologist at the University of Calgary and the world’s foremost authority on procrastination.
Posted 306 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I have had a long academic career. Until recently, I have been largely known as a musicologist, lecturer and published author. I have lived and worked in Greece and England, and have faced and overcome some formidable, life-changing hurdles that led me to my present life and Coaching career path.
Posted 313 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, 'My Client’s Success Story Series’ continue with TCA’s Protégé Graduate - Debbie Robinson’s inspiring story of how coaching has changed the life of one of her clients. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 313 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
If you consider what you want your future to look like, what does your ultimate success story hold for you? What does it look and feel like? Can you picture yourself punching the air or raising a glass or two in acknowledgement of your achievement? It's a great feeling, isn't it? What would happen if you got offered this opportunity tomorrow? Would you be ready for success?
Posted 320 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
When setting goals, it is important to avoid making mistakes that can cause you to fail before you ever get to the action phase.
Posted 320 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
This week, David Hare sat down with The Coaching Academy to tell us about a powerful success story that changed the life of one of his clients - Jeremy, an award winning, young Hollywood director. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 327 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
To begin our 'My Client’s Success Story Series’, we asked TCA’s Coach, Judith Quin, to share her story of how Coaching has influenced her clients’ lives. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 327 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Most people at some point in their life could benefit from an improvement in their self-confidence. Often, just talking about it isn’t enough. In order to make lasting change to this life challenge, you have to take action and believe you can change.
Posted 334 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We recently caught up with The Coaching Academy Graduate, Irina Sanchez de Lozada for a Q&A session for this week 's Coach in The Spotlight. Irina has recently set up her own Coaching business and is passionate to help other women become happy and fulfilled. We hope you enjoy it...
Posted 334 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
As coaches, we are driven by the desire to help people achieve their goals, explore new opportunities, ideas or possibilities and in some cases, help build the foundations for a better life – what a great way to make a living, making a positive and lasting difference to others.
Posted 341 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My journey with The Coaching Academy started back in July 2015 when I came across an advert for TCA’s free 2-day Coaching event on the Facebook app on my phone whilst being on my train back home.
Posted 341 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The more I work with DISC, the more I love it….. and when you consider I’ve been working with it since 1992 you have to realise, there’s a whole lotta love!
Posted 348 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My journey to become a professional coach started in October 2015.
Posted 278 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Anthony Robbins said: “There are no un-resourceful people, just un-resourceful states”. What does it mean?
Posted 355 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
'Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.’ - Mahatma Gandhi
Posted 355 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Self-esteem is a make-up of the thoughts, feelings and opinions we hold about ourselves, over time these habits of negative thinking can create beliefs about how we see ourselves and dent our self-worth. These beliefs however aren’t fixed and can change, depending on the way we think.
Posted 362 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will/Way forward) model is the most common and widely used coaching tool. It enables the coach to structure a coaching conversation and deliver a meaningful result logically and effectively. GROW needs to be practised but once mastered is incredibly adaptable to many different coaching styles and scenarios.
Posted 362 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Business coaching is an incredibly rewarding lifestyle business.
Posted 362 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I have worked in the education sector for most of my professional life, initially teaching and latterly as a senior manager for over 18 years. My first interest in coaching was through a short training course at work and I found that coaching approaches fit with my desire to always help all people to achieve the best they can for themselves.
Posted 369 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What an amazing journey The Coaching Academy has taken me on! My initial interest was in taking the NLP Practitioner course and with an abundance of NLP providers in the market place. I was delighted to come across a Free 2-day Foundation in Life Coaching Course with The Coaching Academy which I attended in February 2016.
Posted 369 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Was there a time when you once said, 'one day I am going to ….…’ and then didn’t get round to do whatever it was you said you were going to? Maybe that day has now come; when we set ourselves goals we face an interesting dilemma: do we make the goal small that it can be easily achieved or do we make it so large that it feels too big to conquer? When facing a career or lifestyle crossroads, there are numerous things to consider.
Posted 376 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My self-development journey has taken me full circle through a career as a veterinary surgeon, programme manager and management consultant and back again. My first experience of coaching was on the Leadership Programme for one of the Big 4 consultancy companies. I was writing my business case for promotion and through the coaching process, I realised that whilst it was a great job that paid well, it didn’t fit in with my personal values. I wasn’t desperately unhappy, but something just wasn’t right. I ended up writing my business case to leave the firm and return to vetting, taking a considerable salary cut but doing something I loved.
Posted 376 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Have you ever noticed how conversation just seems to flow when two people are in rapport? Their bodies as well as their words match each other. Just watch a couple in a restaurant or friends meeting in a pub, they dance the dance of rapport! Picking up their glasses in unison, matching each other’s body language and speaking styles - is all part of the dance!
Posted 383 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We recently caught up with The Coaching Academy Graduate Nazma Kabir, who had the privilege to work with Mother Theresa at the age of 17, for a Q&A session for this week 's Coach in The Spotlight. We hope you enjoy it...
Posted 383 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Your procrastination habits may seem to be very deep rooted and, indeed, they probably are. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be changed. Forget everything you have ever been told about laziness, tardiness, lack of application and short attention span; procrastination is about how we think. More specifically, it is about how we allow certain thoughts to morph into beliefs. If we are serial procrastinators then we will have some underlying beliefs that are getting in the way of action.
Posted 390 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My story began on a train journey a few years ago. I had been studying self-help and development all of my adult life, and because of my friendly curious nature, people tended to open up to me and would like to talk through their problems and concerns. This evening was no different, a friend of mine was having a difficult time at work and was considering handing in his notice. We talked through all of the angles and I reassured him that whatever he decided, it would all work out in the end. Then something unexpected happened - Just as he was getting up to leave he turned and said, "You would be a great life coach." It was like a bolt of lightning had just hit me! I didn't even know exactly what a life coach was, but something told me that this conversation was meant to happen and I had to do something about it.
Posted 390 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Do you ever feel that you are not fulfilling your true potential? Are there things about your lifestyle, choices or experience that may be holding you back? Our environment is made up of surroundings and influences that are familiar to us. It is the place where we can be ourselves without really trying. It is also made up of our thoughts and behaviours – the habits of daily life.
Posted 397 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Whenever someone asks how you are, how do you reply? “I’m great!”, “I’m fab, thanks!” or something else equally as positive and enthusiastic? Or is it more often the case that you reply with “I’m ok”, “I’m getting there”, or “Not bad”? If we’re being honest with ourselves, many of us tend towards the latter. Why? Because we’re settling for lives that are less happy than they could be.
Posted 397 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My journey started about a year ago when I stumbled across a free 2-Day sample about coaching on Facebook. I signed up and it was at that taster session that I knew it-was-for-me.
Posted 404 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I sensed the excitement as I walked into the room of the TCA’s free 2-Day event in March 2016. I sat down next to a lovely lady who introduced herself and we immediately formed a friendship, which endured as we supported each other through our coaching qualification.
Posted 404 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
We often hear people claim that they “don’t believe in having regrets”. Yet, whether they care to admit it or not, absolutely everyone has to deal with regrets at various points in their lives. Regrets come in an infinite number of shapes and sizes, from minor ones, like making an error at work, to big, life-changing regrets - such as not taking a job, or moving somewhere new, or ending a relationship.
Posted 411 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How many times on average does someone attempt a goal before giving up? Would you guess – one, two or three? The real answer is less than one. Many people give up before they even try. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” Lao Tzu
