The Coaching Academy Blog

Pam Lidford, The Coaching Academy trainer has been an integral part of the tutor team for a number of years, presenting Accelerator days as part of the Personal Performance Coaching Diploma, Youth Impact Coaching Diploma and the CPD for Coaches program. We’ve put her on the coaching hotseat to answer your questions:-

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Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships
By Ken Blanchard (Free Press, 2002)

I have long been a fan of the One Minute Manager series that Ken Blanchard is most famous for, and am rather disappointed that Whale Done dishes up a refried version of Blanchard’s now famous wisdom.

This time our narrator is Wes Kingsley, and Blanchard uses training Sea World animals as the theme, drawing the comparison between co-workers and family in the analogy.

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If you find people glazing over at networking events when you tell them “I’m a coach“, you haven’t found your coaching niche. When you find it, and you tell people what you do, their eyes will light up and they’ll say “That’s me! I need some of that!” or at least “I know someone else who needs some of that!”. And you’ll get work as a result.

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Dawn Harvey, The Coaching Academy trainer is part of the Small Business Coaching Tutor team and we’ve put her on the coaching hotseat to answer your questions:-

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Life Coach Jenifer Harper shares her thoughts on why, NOW, at the age of 70, she decided to take up the idea of becoming a Professional Coach…

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As a sought after speaker and workshop facilitator, Mike Blissett has worked in the UK and Europe, and has also helped train thousands of new coaches in his position as trainer with The Coaching Academy. His unique style, wit and intuitive knowledge of the human psyche has helped many hundreds of people develop better ways of working together, as well as living a more fulfilling life themselves.

 Mike shares his top 5 Coaching Questions:-

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Striving to be a professional Coach involves maintaining your continuous professional development (CPD). The Coaching Academy are proud to have developed the CPD for Coaches 10 individual CPD for Coaches Days designed to enhance your professional development.

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Duncan Gee, The Coaching Academy trainer as part of the Youth Impact Coaching Diploma and creator of “The M.A.G.I.C Programme” shares his top 5 Coaching Questions:-

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Kris Robertson, UK’s leading Coach Mentor/Supervisor and Operations Director of The Coaching Academy shares his top 5 Coaching Questions:-

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Mark Lane seeks advice on selling your goods and services to potential customers with help from Chamber members. As a junior journalist working on trade magazine more than a decade ago, I was once asked to accompany one of the advertising sales team -let’s call him Jeremy – on a ‘pitch’ to a prospective client – who we shall call Mr X.

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