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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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Dorothy, an inspirational role model…let us learn from her…

In the book ‘Whispering in the Wind’ [John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St.Clair] the view is propounded that there are no preset beliefs or knowledge that are necessary for NLP to be effective and that the only true measure of NLP is whether or not it actually works.

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All for Grace is selected from thousands of entries into the TOP 250 worldwide books for the Next Top Spiritual Author Competition. Click here for a sneak preview, and where you can vote for the novel in this challenge.

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We’re very excited to announce that Bev James, MD of The Coaching Academy - the world’s largest coaching organisation - and Founder and MD of the Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy is now a new regular columnist for Startuptv.co.uk, an innovative new platform to find the products and services that will make your business thrive.

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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.

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Coaching Academy graduate and Home and Office Organising Expert Rachael Ross helps people to escape from the clutter so they can get clarity on what they really want in life.

Being a Home and Office Organising Expert is a slightly unusual career and one that people seem fascinated by. Whenever I meet people for the first time they want to know what I do and usually, once I’ve told them, they say, ‘I (or my wife/my sister/my friend) could really do with your help!’

They usually ask me then how I became a Home and Office Organising Expert. In the Read the rest of this entry »

I am now in the fortunate position to be employed F/T as a Personal Performance & Development Coach within Student Health at the University of Otago, New Zealand. To my knowledge, I am the first life/study/work coach to be employed as a coach within a New Zealand university.

I have been seconded from my role as student counsellor until the end of the year. If,  this new service to students is successful, there is the strong likelihood my position will be made permanent.

What an opportunity for me to demonstrate the benefits of coaching!

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Coaching Academy graduate Maritza Duncan has presented radio shows for Sunny Govan Radio, across Glasgow, guest presented on Westside Radio, London and is currently producing and presenting "Be Inspired" shows across SW Scotland. Maritza has interviewed celebrities, Olympic athletes and world class coaches including Olympic athlete Sir Chris Hoy, Entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, Supercoach and author Michael Neill and TV presenter Matthew Wright.  She has also worked in TV production for MTV and STV amongst others. She is a Success Coach trained in NLP.  Maritza has also been featured in print media including The Sunday Post and Evening Times.

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Rebecca had a few areas of her life she wanted to work on and identified ‘career’ and ‘confidence’ as the focal points. Career-wise she wanted a new role, but doing what? That was the question. She’d been aimlessly applying for jobs here and there with no real sense of what this new position should bring her. Confidence-wise Rebecca felt like she was missing out on things that she would have jumped at doing in the past because she kept over-analysing what might go wrong in a situation and thus talking herself out of doing it. She believed that unless her involvement in an activity could be seen as perfect in every way she should avoid taking part, and this, she felt, was damaging her social life and her possibility of personal growth.

I know what I don’t want

The first thing we did, on Rebecca’s request, was to explore in what direction she could take her career. Rebecca was very clear on what she didn’t want in a Read the rest of this entry »