5 Heart-Centred Ways to Enhance Your Relationships
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Amy Fry - Transitioning with confidence and determination
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Amy Fry, a Life & Business Coach for individuals who run lifestyle businesses. After almost two decades in the food industry, Amy decided that it was time for a change and found her purpose as a coach helping small business owners. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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The Secret to Branding as a Coach
If you're struggling to grow your coaching business, are trying multiple marketing and social media approaches, but nothing works, the answer might lie in your branding. A consistent, intentional and powerful brand will transform your business and brand expert Aarti Parmar will teach you to mindfully implement brand-led growth. Read on!
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Lynsey Kitching - Do you believe in this personal development stuff?
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Lynsey Kitching, whose passion for personal development led her to become a full-time Career and Leadership coach. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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How to Find Your Coaching Niche
We often talk about niches here at The Coaching Academy. We recommend it to our students and it's a big topic of conversation in our communities. For some, it's a simple question, for others, it's the cause of anxiety and overwhelm. If you're struggling to decide, this article will coach you through finding your niche!
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Lyubomila Karlikova - Contemplating the call to help people
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Lyubomila Karlikova, who came across coaching at a crossroad in her life. She embarked on this coaching journey that took her through different cities and experiences and emerged as a Personal Development & Relationship coach. She is now exploring the business of coaching while helping others find a path forward to their dreams. Enjoy her insightful story!
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6 Trends in Coaching that will affect you in 2021
Last year brought about many changes to the coaching industry both in how professionals coach their clients and also in emerging challenges and areas that people need coaching in. But what stuck? This week we're taking a look at the emerging trends in coaching in 2021.
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Aries Yeo: Finding your true self
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Aries Yeo, who found a new purpose within coaching after the loss of her son. Leaving behind a 20-year career in corporate, Aries now focuses on helping others find fulfilment, purpose and their true self. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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Strategy To Truly Reach Your Goal
One of the core skills most coaches build 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.
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Laurent Coste - Own your lives & Enjoy your life
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Laurent Coste, who has found a new purpose within coaching and is now helping others live a fulfilled life. Enjoy his inspiring story and make sure you answer the reflective questions at the end of the article!
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How to Fit Training to Become a Coach in Your Busy Life
Many TCA students begin their studies while in a full-time job, many are parents and have other day-to-day responsibilities on the side. So how do they fit the study around their busy lives? If you are a TCA student looking for some tips or simply interested in coaching but you're not sure how you could find the time for this, this article is for you. Read on!
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Antonio Esposito - Changing the world one person at a time
Our first guest of 2021 in The Coaching Academy's 'Mentor Series' is Antonio Esposito, international life- and business coach who recently passed a fantastic milestone, having completed 100 hours of volunteer mentoring for our next generation of coaches. Enjoy his inspiring story!
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Studying with The Coaching Academy - Our Diplomas
At The Coaching Academy, we are passionate about the power of coaching. We've seen first hand the difference it makes personally to every qualifying coach. So how can you become a qualified Life Coach, Business Coach, Team Coach, Family Coach or a specialised professional? Let us (re)introduce the Diplomas you can study with The Coaching Academy.
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Jacqueline Williams - The Power of Questions
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Jacqueline Williams, a governance and leadership consultant who found a new perspective with coaching. She started noticing a difference when asking more questions and she never looked back. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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Boss your New Year's Resolutions and Achieve your 2021 Goals
It's that time of the year again when we're all diving deep into New Year Resolutions! This can be one of the most fun times of January but what would it mean for you if you could actually stick to your goals this year, instead of giving up by the end of the month? Addictive Behaviour experts Kate Baily and Mandy Manners are using their knowledge of helping overcome negative behaviour to get you "addicted" to healthy habits this year. Read on!
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Shilpa Maher - Don't be afraid to aim for the stars
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Shilpa Maher who has a passion for helping people who lack the confidence to pursue their dreams. Shilpa has found coaching in 2018 and in this article, she's sharing her story, her reflections and some great tips to help with self-confidence. Enjoy!
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Review the Year
It's almost 2021 - how exciting! If you are in the habit of focusing on next year's goals at the end of December, we're here to support you.
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Merry Christmas from Bev James & The Coaching Academy Team
Merry Christmas and joyful holidays from our CEO, Bev James and The Coaching Academy team.
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The Art of Releasing Negative Emotions
As we approach the end of the year we inevitably start to think about the past and the future. Emotions get jumbled up and often it's the negative memories that surface first. In a year as challenging as 2020, it can be especially hard to release the negative energy of chaos and uncertainty that has been our daily companion for 9 months now. Let's correct that!
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Anna Filatova - Reaching your dreams and beyond
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Anna Filatova a business and success coach who switched to coaching after a demanding job in investment banking and reignited her passion for entrepreneurship. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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Resilience as seen in our favourite Netflix shows
There's been a lot of talk about resiliency this year. As a society, we had to toughen up in many ways and make hard choices for the good of our fellow men. This was the main message through the news, but if you managed to take some time away from the daily conferences and news articles and destress in front of the TV, you might have seen this topic popping up in your favourite series too. Let's discuss what we can learn from them!
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Karen Kissane - Life is about to change in amazing ways
Our latest guest in The Coaching Academy's 'Mentor Series' is Karen Kissane, an award-winning business and life coach who recently passed a major industry milestone, having completed 100 hours of volunteer mentoring for our next generation of coaches. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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Managing Change Through Uncertainty
Change is ever-present in our lives and learning how to manage and adapt to change is key if we want to thrive. Stephen Covey offers us a lot of insight with his famous Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence so in this article, we're exploring how to use this to help manage change.
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Gabriela Baldi - Empowering parents with Sunbeam for Life
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Gabriela Baldi, a parent who became passionate about coaching to help and support other parents through challenging journeys with their children. Today she's co-founder of a non-profit, Sunbeam For Life, with a vision of launching an accessible, resourceful and hands-on platform to all parents. Enjoy her inspiring story!
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7 Steps to Ditch Procrastination
This year's Autumn brings new challenges to the whole world. Distance from friends and loved ones, from our old routines, lack of sunshine with darker evenings and an uncertain outlook on the close future does not help. Some of you might be starting to give in to procrastination more often than before. As a coach, you might find your clients are struggling with it.
Posted 97 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Nigel Smith - Finding Myself: Developing 'Soft Skills for Hard Outcomes'
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Nigel Smith, a project manager who was sceptical at first about the power of coaching but decided to enrol and experience this himself. Now he is the Agility Coach for Project Professionals, helping leaders in the project management field and not only. Nigel is also a gifted storyteller, so enjoy his thoughts on the coaching journey!
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Why Addictive Behaviours Coaching and why now?
Where there is stress, there are unhealthy coping strategies. Many of us have been under a lot of stress in this past year in one way or another and Addictive Behaviour experts Kate Baily and Mandy Manners are on a mission to help us reflect on our habits. Find out more and discover the addictive habits pocket guide in this new article.
Posted 103 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Matt Verrell - Why I became a coach
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Matt Verrell, an ex-lawyer who discovered coaching after searching for ways to make a positive difference in the world. Discover the steps he took and his story from resigning from his corporate lawyer position to qualifying as Life Coach with The Coaching Academy, in this inspiring article!
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How to turn challenges into superpowers
As England faces lockdown 2.0 people are reacting to it differently. Your experience might be distinct to your family, friends or even clients and that's normal. But award-winning coach and TCA Trainer Sharon Lawton says we all have 4 superpowers we can use in this challenge. Discover them in this insightful article!
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Jessica Woodsford - Empowering an inclusive future
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Jessica Woodsford, who chose to commit to two of her big passions - helping leaders and managers drive change in their lives, as well as, setting up a non-profit foundation to empower students from underrepresented groups to explore and focus on the future that is right for them. Enjoy Jessica's inspiring story!
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Mastery Series: Pam Lidford on Supervision
We've launched a monthly Mastery Series to offer you top tips from our accomplished team and trainers. In this week's blog, confidence coach and trainer Pam Lidford shares the importance of supervision, it's benefits and how it helps your professional coaching development.
Posted 118 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Jo Howarth - There is a better tomorrow out there with your name on it
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Jo Howarth, a SEN mother who found hope and a new path within coaching. She gave up her job to care for her son after being diagnosed with autism 5 years ago and today Jo helps other SEN parents navigate these challenging waters as a professional coach.
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Halloween Scary Myths about Coaching
Many scary myths are floating around about life coaching that might be stopping you or your clients from taking the leap. This Halloween we're unmasking the biggest myths and bringing to light the truth behind them.
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Brian Eddies - Coaching with visual impairment
We caught up with inspiring graduate of The Coaching Academy, Brian Eddies. He is one of our students that we were delighted to offer extra support to, as someone with impaired vision. Brian has been using his coaching skills and many areas of life and his ventures and with this interview, we're checking in to see where Brian is 6 years after graduating. We hope you enjoy his inspiring story!
Posted 132 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What Can I Do About Parental Guilt?
It's National Parenting Week - and anyone who is a parent will know that apart from being the most important job we will ever do, parenting can be a rollercoaster of emotions, with extreme highs and lows. As coaches, we can ask ourselves how we can support parents to be the best they can be and avoid the secret lots of parents hold which is parental guilt. We spoke to Award-winning family lifestyle coach Sharon Lawton to share her thoughts in this new article.
Posted 132 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Rosa Cabrera Delgado - Express all of yourself with confidence
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Rosa Cabrera Delgado, an executive confidence coach who trusted the coaching process and turned her perceived limits into fantastic assets. Rosa now uses her previous experience in expressive art to coach Executives who wish to improve their Confidence. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 138 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ann Skidmore - On Group Coaching and Leadership
What lies behind the power of group coaching? Whether you are managing a team in your business, or you are part of a team in a company and even when you think about your friend group, a good team cohesion is essential in our lives. Ann Skidmore has been coaching teams throughout her career and in this article, she's sharing her thoughts on coaching groups. Enjoy!
Posted 139 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Piotr Jankiewicz - Don't Be Afraid to Raise the Bar
Today we are shining a spotlight on one of the skilful mentors of The Coaching Academy: Piotr Jankiewicz, international business coach and workshop facilitator. We hope you enjoy his inspiring story!
Posted 146 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 Powerful Ways to Build a Thriving Coaching Practice
Simon Alexander Ong, Life Coach of the Year 2019, believes that the world needs more people who are dedicated to their mission and passion and has made it his goal to help people become the best versions of themselves. That's why he created this powerful guide so you can build a thriving coaching practice and create the impact you desire.
Posted 146 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Laurie Rees - The journey of self-acceptance
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Laurie Rees, who, after a long career as an accountant decided to follow her path as a life coach. Today she helps people accept themselves as they are, to be confident and authentic. It's something Laurie struggled with and she found her purpose in coaching. Enjoy her insightful story!
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Being a person of value with Simon Alexander Ong
We caught up with the thoughtful Simon Alexander Ong, Life Coach of the Year 2019 at the 2019 International Coaching Awards, to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We hope you enjoy this insightful interview!
