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  • Use coaching to improve focus - Keep your eye on the... Picture the scene, imagine I was coaching you on something as straightforward as catching a ball. We might conclude that keeping your eye on the ball would be a useful quality to bring to the task. Let's consider four ways I might try to help you do that. 1. "Watch the ball!" 2. "Are you watching the ball?" 3. "Why aren't you watching the ball?" 4. "What are you most aware of as the ball comes towards you?
  • oaching Skills Training: What docoaches need to know about - Coaches need to know about coaching and coaches also need to know about the situations and problems faced by their coachees. But which is more important and which can have the greater impact on our chances of success? Let's see.
  • 3 steps to linking coaching sessions - When you have a follow up coaching session with somebody you've worked with previously, it can be hard to pick up the flow. I like to use the Achievements, Issues, Plans model to help with this. Start by considering achievements, i.e. what has been accomplished since you last spoke.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Asking Questions - The coaching approach requires that we help the people we coach to find their own solutions in their own way. Asking questions does this in a way that giving advice or instructions could never do. When we ask questions, we encourage our coachee to think.Without questions we do their thinking for them.
  • Coaching Skills Training: How to listen effectively - If we're going to put so much effort into framing coaching questions in the right way then it follows that we should be equally concerned with really listening to the responses we get. We need to employ the skill of active listening.
  • Coaching the nervous speaker - Of all the arenas at work in which we might apply our coaching skills, helping people present in public seems to be amongst the most common. Many of the managers I train as coaches ask me how best to go about coaching their people through this experience. I guess much depends on whether we're going to be working with an individual over a period of time and develop them into an accomplished presenter or whether we're working with someone standing trembling in front of us like a gibbering wreck with 5 minutes to go before they're due on stage. Let's deal with the latter situation first. The usual approach to developing presentation ability, with its emphasis on technical skills is going to be no use to us here.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Communication and Coaching Part 3 - If you've read my first two articles in this series you'll know that I've so farf examined six communication styles and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each: Tells, Sells, Tests, Consults, Joins and Delegates So how does all this relate to coaching and where would we place coaching on the spectrum. Many contend that since coaching is about generating ownership and responsibility, it must be somewhere close to delegation. However, we can also see that perhaps coaching doesn't belong to this range of alternatives at all as it almost represents a philosophy of communication rather than a style.
  • Coaching at speed - Coaching sessions can be arranged on a spectrum. At one end we can place what we might think of as 'official' coaching. A quiet room, soft chairs, softer lighting and the time necessary to explore issues in depth. At the other end lies the notion of a quick conversation snatched in a natural moment at work. These types of coaching converations can be just as powerful providing we remember some core principles.
  • Coaching Skills Training Coaching versus Mentoring - More fuss has been made about the distinction between coaching and mentoring than most other facets of coaching put together.

  • Why You Might Be The Next Greatest Business Coach - There’s no doubt that the field of business coaching has exploded in recent years. With more and more people starting their own businesses, and executives working longer and more hectic hours, the need for an objective expert to help stop the insanity is growing. People want to do business and succeed at it, but they also want balance in their lives. They want to do what they love and spend time with their family. Not too much to ask, right? This is where business coaching comes in. Business coaches wear a lot of different hats and they work with a lot of different people. They offer help and advice on everything from increasing the profits in a small business to teaching entrepreneurs and CEO’s how to slow down and go home for dinner once in a while.
  • Coaching Skills Training:How to decide when to coach - In my work training managers to transform motivation through coaching, I am often asked how long coaching sessions should last and how often they should take place. To me that's a question that belongs up there with how long is a piece of string?
  • How to coach your boss - The relationship you have with your boss is very important on both a professional and a personal level. It can have a significant influence on your day-to-day job satisfaction as well as your long-term career success.
  • Bet you can't coach me! - A coaching skills training course delegate was recently explaining his frustration at the lack of interest and motivation his staff were showing when being coached. He explained that the normal reaction to being coached was for his staff to cross their arms, lean back in their chairs and adopt an almost 'bet you can't coach me!' attitude. No doubt these same people would leave the coaching conversation thinking 'See. I've won. You can't coach me!' How sad.
  • Job Market Strategies For New Graduates - It's that time of the year again when colleges let out and newly graduated young adults receive their diplomas. They will enjoy a well deserved, long hot summer and then realize "I've graduate - now what? I don't know what to do next!" A little daunted with the realization that now they need to find a job and put their four or five years of hard academic work into practice.
  • Coaching Skills Training: The three principles of coaching - Coaching starts with a healthy regard for the potential of the people whom we coach. Such beliefs are demonstrated by the three main things coaches do in the sessions they conduct. Firstly they concentrate wholly on the people they coach in order to raise their levels of awareness. Secondly they use encouragement and support to make sure that the people they coach take responsibility for moving their own issues forward. Thirdly they are open and honest and genuinely want to see others succeed and in this way they quickly build strong relationships of trust. Taking each of these in turn.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Coaching & Communication Part 1 - Let's cut to the chase: Coaches communicate; this is their skill and art. Managers who coach need to use their existing knowledge and skills to become similarly artful communicators.
  • Executive Coaching A Sucessful Venture - More and more companies are finding that executive coaching can help communication in the office. A business coach fulfils much the same purpose as a personal coach. In both cases, the coach helps to boost self-esteem, give suggestions on setting and achieving goals, and improve efficiency with regard to the goals you set. If you are having concerns about your ability to complete tasks or you are just confused as to what your job entails, executive coaching can help.Executive coaching can forward your career, but it isn't a guarantee to a promotion or raise. The purpose of seeking an executive coaches is to better yourself inside and out.
  • Top 6 Reasons People Are Afraid to Say What They Want - Have you ever had a client answer "I don't know." to the question, "What do you want?" You are not alone.
  • Life Coaching: Is It The Right Profession For You? - Before we get into whether life coaching is the right profession for you, let's first define what coaching is, where it comes from, and why people hire coaches in the first place. Where Does Coaching Come From? Let's start with a bit of history. Where does coaching come from? Personal or life coaching has sprung from a handful of related yet distinct fields. These include sports, psychology, and personal development. While some people were coaching in the 1980's and 90's, they may not have called it that. The first coach training organizations were established in the mid 80's and the first coaching association in about 1992. Now, due to media exposure and the internet, the public is more aware than ever that life coaching exists.
  • What if coaching uncovers signs of depression? - Good coaching is a process of asking provocative questions and listening attentively to the response, but responses can be suprising. We may set off talking about time management or assertiveness issues and quickly find ourselves talking about more significant psychological conditions.Coaching managers would be advised to develop at least a little insight into the signs of abnormal psychology.
  • Coaching Skills Training: How do we treat abnormal psychology? - "Respect the power of coaching questions" is one of the first learning points that I cover with the managers I train as coaches. I go on to explain that they must recognize the possibility that what starts as coaching around a simple, work related issue, may lead to the unveiling of a more significant problem.
  • A philosophy of coaching - We cannot prove human nature; we can only form our own view. One of the most accessible pieces of theory on this point was provided by McGregor when he described the idea that managers view their people in two main categories. These he labelled Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X People are lazy and dislike work People must be coerced or threatened with punishment People avoid responsibility People are motivated mainly by money Theory Y Work is a natural part of life People will exercise self direction People accept responsibility under the right conditions People are motivated by achievement, recognition, etc. These two theories are really the extreme ends of the same spectrum and in truth, most of us would admit to feeling a mixture of these views about some people some of the time.
  • Management Development: Planning Everyday Activities - Management, as much as we complain about it, is necessary for any business to operate. Managers organize the company's people, track its cash flow, and plan its everyday activities. Some people are just naturally more suited for these responsibilities than others. But management development coaching can help anyone by making sure that these tasks are being approached in a reasonable and consistent manner to produce the best possible outcome for your business. Even a best manager needs to enlarge his capabilities by undergoing management development. Every one can gain from the inputs of a good coach, as the inputs are intended to give you a leg-up. Starting on a course of development is not to be thought of as an indication of your deficiencies but rather as a recognition that you are worth the efforts to improve further.
  • What to Look For in A Coach - Have you considered the possibility of including a Coach into your support system. Top performers know it's important to find and utilize many venues in developing their careers. The right one-on-one coaching relationship can move your career and your life forward faster and better. Depending on what area you want to move forward in, you would want to find the right Coach to collaborate with you in this process. "Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential." (International Coaching Federation) ==> Here are some basics when searching for your coach. --Coaching doesn't require a license or any certification credentials from the State. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) (www.CoachFederation.org) is the organization that creates standards for the coaching profession.
  • Can we argue against introducing coaching? - Despite the compelling reasons we might offer for introducing coaching we can expect to encounter many barriers. We need to understand what the barriers are and how we might help others develop their understanding of coaching so that these barriers may be removed. "We've got enough on our plate as it is.
  • Coaching Skills: Training v Coaching - "You've done some of that coaching stuff;
  • "Focused Career Success" - Everyone wants the key to a successful career, right? I always did and I'm sure you do too. None of us want to be left at the starting gait feeling disenchanted and broke.
  • The basics of coaching - The word coach has a variety of meanings. Is it a bus or a coach or a railway carriage? Is it a tutor or a teacher or a sports trainer? With so many definitions is it any wonder that coaching at work is the subject of so much confusion? To receive 'coaching' and to be a 'coach' are both very popular terms right now but they are both widley misunderstood.
  • Phobias: What coaches should know - When I train managers as coaches I always warn them to respect the power of coaching questions and to recognize the possibility that what starts as an innocuous, business related conversation, may lead to the unveiling of a deeper issue. Coaching managers would be advised to develop at least a little insight into the signs of abnormal psychology. Consider for example, phobias.
  • Money motivates in peculiar ways - In a house at the end of a cul-de-sac an old man lives a hermit-like existence. If he had his way would have nothing to do with the rest of the world, because more than anything else in life this old man values his privacy and peace and quiet. He wakes one day to the sound of three small boys playing football in the street just outside his house. There not being yobbish in any way, but it's a warm day in the school holidays and they're having fun and making noise.
  • Career Coaching: What Do You Want Your Life To Look Like? - Before you start thinking about your ideal work, dream job, new career, the very first step you need to take is to describe your ideal life. Ask yourself the following questions : "What do I want my life to look like?
  • Coaching, A Very Useful Business Resource - It seems that everyone is investing in some sort of coaching these days. Executives are using coaches to improve their management abilities and help them to better relate to their employees. Job seekers are investing in career coaches to help them get promotions and better jobs. Other people are getting life coaches to help them set goals and make substantial decisions in their lives. So, what is coaching? How does it work? What are the benefits of coaching? Why should you train to become a coach? Take a moment to explore this fascinating occupation. You may find a new calling. What is coaching? In a nutshell, coaching is a relationship that exists between a qualified coach and a team or an individual.
  • Coaching Skills Training - The ARROW Sequence - Reflection - The reflection stage of the ARROW sequence provides the person being coached (the coachee) with an opportunity to reflect on what's been uncovered so far.
  • Coaching compared - Coaching is just one of a number of techniques we can use to develop the skills and abilities of the people whom we manage. To understand how to move in and out of coaching with other techniques though we need to appreciate the similarities and differences.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Presenting the Coaching ARROW - We know that to be an effective coach requires us to have certain skills and knowledge. Beyond that, in order to help our coachees achieve their potential, grow, develop and become the best they can be, we need a healthy, positive attitude regarding the nature of people at work. The most effective coaches concern themselves with helping other people to raise their levels of awareness, encourage them to make positive choices and to take meaningful action. Effective coaches build trust by coaching with an open mind and with great sincerity. To become an effective coach we need to develop and practise our skills in asking probing questions and actively listening.
  • Make Big Bucks as a Business Coach - You may have heard of them - they’re the people who swoop into large companies and small businesses alike, transforming them into profitable, exciting, and motivating places to work. They mentor CEO’s as well as first time entrepreneurs, and with a detailed questioning process can put them back on track to their dreams and make them excited about what they’
  • Do You Want To Change Your Career? Don't Do It Alone - During the journey from a job that you hate to finding the work that you love, you will need lots of guidance, support, motivation and encouragement. Most of us fail to create our dream life because of trying to do it alone.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Working with coaching questions - Any acronym like the Coaching ARROW or GROW is useful only insofar as it helps us remember the underlying principles. They are not intended to suggest that asking questions in sequence is all there is to effective coaching.
  • Coaching Skills Training - The ARROW sequence - Deciding the Way Forward - "Pray for potatoes, but pick up a hoe." Anon. Notwithstanding all the energy we have put into coaching in the first four stages of the ARROW sequence, in some ways we have achieved very little.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Communication and Coaching Part 2 - In part 1 we looked at six different management communication styles: Tells, Sells, Tests, Consults, Joins and Delegates Let's now consider the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. Tells Managers who use this style prefer to manage by command and control and they are sometimes referred to as autocrats. This style means that the manager can exercise great control as he or she can be sure that work is being carried out in accordance with their detailed instructions. This style takes up far less time and also brings the benefit of ensuring a consistent approach. However, people who work for managers like this often complain of feeling put upon and unappreciated.
  • Coaching, motivation and the Hawthorne Effect - If you want to see an immediate boost in levels of motivation, fire up your word processor and create a quick questionnaire for each of your team members which asks:...
  • Alcoholism and coaching - Sometimes the problems and situations around which we coach at work are analogous with an iceberg: what appears on the surface is far from the whole concern and it may be that what lies beneath is more significant. Whilst I would never advise dabbling in amateur psychotherapy I do feel it wise that managers develop at least some degree of awareness around the main psychological problems that can be creating difficulties at work. Consider for example, alcoholism and drug addiction. To begin with, a few definitions: Addiction Repeated consumption of a substance on which the user has become physically or psychologically dependent.
  • Career Design: Identifying and Defining Your Ideal Work - Have you ever been involved with an activity and found that the time just flew by — that you "lost time" because you became so engrossed in the task at hand? How about an activity that made your energy level soar? Do you have a hobby or some other activity that you do that you find deeply fulfilling because you feel like the work you are doing really "matters" and makes a positive difference in some way? If you have experienced any or all of the above, you know what it would be like to find work aligned with your life purpose —
  • Can I be a manager and a coach? - There is no doubt in my mind that managers can coach. Whether managers should coach is a different matter. The dilemma can sometimes be resolved by appointing people with a specific coaching role.
  • NLP Training In New York Who's The Best Trainer? - NLP Training New York Bring meaning to your life or career. Well that’s what the trainers say in New York! If you look at the number of results in the search engines for NLP Training New York, you may get around 350,000 different companies or results. As an NLP Trainer myself I must admit I wouldn't train with all of them. However there are a few who I potentially would including Shawn Carson & Sarah Carson. As far a I have heard and seen from other trainers they are one of the finest in Newyork.
  • Why Coaching and why now? - We have had coaching behaviours as long as we've had people in organisations, but it is only recently that they have been given that label. In the last few years the term coaching has entered the management lexicon and become seen as an integral part of the successful deployment of people at work. Perhaps the obvious analogies with the world of sport where the coaching relationship has always been valued by even the highest performers helps to encourage managers and leaders today to look towards coaching as a means of encouraging and sustaining performance in these most turbulent times.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Coaching that uncovers Personality Disorders - Coaching questions are powerful things and I always tell the managers I train as coaches to respect that power. They must also recognize that what starts as clearly business related conversation, may lead to uncovering a significant problem outside of work. The most effective coaching managers are always keen to develop at least a little psychological awareness. Consider for example, the two main types of personality disorder, Multiple Personality and Antisocial Personality Disorder. Multiple Personality It is increasingly being recognized that it may be possible for more than one personality to exist within the same individual. This is a fascinating area of abnormal psychology but must not be confused with schizophrenia which is about divisions within one personality. In studying sufferers of this condition, psychologists and other observers may notice two or more distinct personalities emerging.
  • Dream Job Map - A Dream Job Map will help you discover what you want in your work life. Follow the steps below and create your own map. It is a very useful tool and a lot of fun too ! How much time you spend on your map is up to you. Don’t try to do it when you are feeling rushed or hassled. Set aside a quiet evening or a weekend afternoon.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Two managers' story - You never did eat your lunch, did you?" "I'd better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my manager excess acid..... Let me introduce Sam and Gene. They are both managers in a Business Development Agency. They each run teams of advisors whose job it is to interact with the business community offering advice and guidance and, where appropriate, grant funding for business development projects. Actually none of that is true; I made it up. Same and Gene are, of course, fictional, but their attributes are found in most managers to one degree or another. I think you'll recognize them too. You could find them working in any organisation; public or private, small or large; profit making or not.
  • Coaching Skills Training: Identifying performance gaps - Coaching is about filling gaps. Gaps between what I could do and what I actually do. These gaps can concern knowledge, skills or attitude and are known as performance gaps. Where the performance gap is to do with knowledge: Coaching cannot really help where a person needs to aqcuire knowledge in order to develop their performance; coaching can not tease out what is not actually there.

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