Presenting Magically: Transforming Your Stage Presence With NLP
by Tad James and David Shepard (Crown House Publishing, May 2001)
Reviewed by Jan Springthorpe
Anyone who is serious about promoting their coaching business needs good presentation skills. However, we all know the fear that the thought of this triggers! If you want to overcome these fears and get to grips with preparing and delivering Read the rest of this entry »
When I saw PS On line today asking for success stories I just had to write.
My company is one year old today! It’s our birthday!
Two years ago I got a bank loan and invested in the Personal Performance Coaching Diploma with The Coaching Academy. I was working in the NHS, a nurse by trade but had not been a ‘bedside’ nurse for years, yet still introduced myself as a nurse/midwife to everyone I met.
The first two days Read the rest of this entry »
Focus on a great future from wherever we are today. The futures so bright I have to wear shades! This is the only way to start the day, that’s not only thought and feeling its fact!
How many articles, newsletters, TV stories and just general presentations and conversations are focused on how awful things are today? Well I believe it’s too many. Remember the phrase: If you complain about Read the rest of this entry »
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002)
Reviewed by Joanna Sargent.
Although essentially a children’s tale, this future classic will nevertheless leave adults mesmerised by its magical quality.
Stargirl is a modern day messiah who comes into the lives of a small high school community and turns it upside down. At first everyone is enchanted Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t always consider medicine as the best way of getting better… but I do think that laughter is the best.
Often when people are stuck in a rut, out of options, lacking in self-esteem and self-confidence their sense of humour ebbs away. Our clients may think it is still there but listen to what they are saying and how they are saying ‘amusing’ things. What are they laughing at? The TV? Others? Themselves?
Laughing at other people Read the rest of this entry »
Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port
(John Wiley & Sons 2006)
Reviewed by Colin Edwards.
Michael Port brands himself as ‘the guy to call when you’re tired of thinking small’. His easy-to- read principles to growing a service business or practice are equally applicable to start up enterprises.
Even if you think you have a pretty good grounding in sales and marketing, you will find that Port offers some helpful reminders and many of his original approaches can deliver valuable insights about client creation Read the rest of this entry »
In Rules for Renegades, entrepreneur — and runaway success story — Christine Comaford-Lynch says people have a hard time asking for what they want, thinking they don’t deserve it or will be considered pests. Flip it around, she says, don’t think of getting what you want – think about how you can help them.
First, learn to love networking. As you meet people Read the rest of this entry »
Performance Coaching by Angus McLeod, Ph.D. (Crown House Publishing, 2003)
Whether you’re a novice or veteran executive coach, HR professional or manager, Dr Angus McLeod’s Performance Coaching provides a wealth of information, practical examples and tools with which to advance your abilities and handle almost any situation in the workplace with elegance and finesse. The examples, where Dr McLeod uses NLP techniques with such ease and achieves such superb outcomes, are not only educational but also delightful to read. This is a must-have book for everybody involved in corporate coaching.
October has proved to be yet another incredible month for attendance of the UK’s leading, FREE 2-day introductory coach training course. Venues for November are starting to fill very quickly so we now have a total of 11 events running throughout November and December all over the country online ready for you to book! So don’t delay!
“I found this amazing course incredibly inspirational and have learned so much for my own personal self-development.” - Emma Parry
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With the the official Coaching Academy Blog hosting a few book reviews now (more to come) we thought we’d share some pearls of wisdom on writing your very own book from writing coach Jurgen Wolff.
As a coach you have the knowledge, experience, and possibly the desire to write a book that could help people as well as adding to your professional credibility and marketability. Yet very few coaches ever actually write their book. Let’s look at how you can be one of the few coaches who does share his or her knowledge and reaps the benefits of having written a book. Read the rest of this entry »
