The Coaching Academy Blog

Unless you are one of those lucky people who love your job, then changing career can be a daunting challenge. If you have heard yourself say: “I must get out of here”, “I hate my job, I’m stuck-in-a-rut”, or “I’d like to find a more satisfying job, but I don’t know what I’m good at”, then you maybe at a career crisis point.

We love hearing about success stories from graduates of The Coaching Academy. Jag Shoker became an accredited coach with us almost 10 years ago and has recently had his first book published – well done Jag!

There is an awful lot of nonsense written about whether good sales people are born or made. Anyone, yes I mean anyone, can be taught how to be a good self promoter, to follow a process, to negotiate and close like a well seasoned sales person.

Virginia Taylor qualified through The Coaching Academy programme and has enthusiastically agreed to share her coaching experience, so we have put her in the Coaching Hot Seat. Here is Virginia’s story:-

My journey to becoming a successful coach started back in 2005, while considering what options I had for creating a different lifestyle to the one I had then.