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When I am coaching I like to take my clients backwards and then forwards to their future. I invite them to enter a virtual time machine: my coaching ‘Tardis’ if you like – and I first invite them to seize the controls and take it back 10 years. And then I ask them, ‘How would you have introduced yourself ten years ago? What are you doing? Where are you living?’ What do you want for yourself ten years on? How would you describe your life looking forwards 10 years?

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

05 Jan, 2010

We Need To Talk

Posted by: admin In: Coaching Articles

Everything starts with a conversation and so the quality of that conversation determines everything. Small Talk is fairly instinctive, but Big Talk requires something different: the right mindset and a strategy. Let’s put aside small talk and focus on the big conversations that can change life direction.
There are many barriers to effective communication; sometimes [...]

My name is Christine Miljkovic, I am 46 years old and married with three sons. As an adult I have lived in England, Russia, The Netherlands and Singapore, where we recently returned after many years away. It will come as no surprise, then, that my core business is coaching expats, but [...]

We are fortunate to have a new approach to Wellness Coaching coming into being across the UK. I’d like to draw attention to recent unexpected research breakthroughs into what makes patients better.
Professor Kathy Sykes of Bristol University, asked in a BBC2 documentary series: Can complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) be demonstrated [...]

‘Coaching within organisations has moved beyond being ‘the latest fad’ to adding real benefits’ was the rather cumbersome title used for a recent Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) survey, which looked at the benefits coaching can, and does, bring to the workplace via HR.
I found myself nodding agreement [...]

A look at what creates entrepreneurial spirit and how to turn it into a successful mindset
Entrepreneur is a term bandied about by many these days, especially in an economic climate where it is not just desirable to be of the entrepreneurial persuasion but something to be greatly admired.
Some business people may [...]



  • Christine Miljkovic: I really liked the time travel tips Bev, thanks very much, it is always good to read new ideas and keep moving forward. Even if we have been using som
  • Amanda Doyle: Great, Thanks Bev, really good advise, I have been looking into Bob Proctor and theorys on "The Secret". They talk about picture boards, and mind mov
  • June Courtney: Thank you Bev. You are just what I need at the moment. We have someone in common,Peter Thomson. If I remember rightly he help put me on track 10 ye

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