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Derby Business Show

What a great morning spent at the Derby Business Show. Inspiring talk from Jenny Procter on Marketing for small business with loads of “steals” from big businesses to take away and implement immediately. Great to catch up with Jonathan Leach,Director of Indigo Drum Communications, Andrew Deighton, Maria Hanson MBE, and Pauline Roessler MCIM. 

March 12th, 2020

Yearly Goals

Have you set yourself a goal this year? How are you managing with working towards achieving that #goal? Have you thought about how #coaching can help you smash your goal?

Have a read of our Busting the Myths article below and browse our Coaching Services.

March 11th, 2020

An Insightful FSB Speaker

Daksha Patel provided new reading material “Man’s Search for Meaning by Vicktor E Frank, taught us about the 4 domains of resilience, explored emotional landscapes and where our emotional home is as well us showing us how to practice Heart Focused Breathing. Thank you Dawn Edwards for warmly hosting the event. Great to catch up with Louise Startin and make new contacts, Aga Kelly.

March 9th, 2020

A Warm Welcome

I love the warm welcome I always receive when I visit Loates HR to use their facilities for Coaching sessions following our tasters together Matilda Swanson Assoc CIPD and Lucy Sherwin. Although some people, Corynne Clarke and Dr Kevin Marks, do prefer to stay behind the camera.

March 6th, 2020

Tea and TED at 3

I will think of you, you think of me, when we have Tea and TED at 3!

Today we are watching ‘The clues to a great story‘ by Filmmaker Andrew Stanton.

March 5th, 2020

Inspiring and Powerful

An inspirational 2 days this week delivering Coaching and Mentoring Training in Leicester on behalf of Roundhouse Thinking.

We took our listening to level 3 and felt the power that brings to coaching and mentoring conversations. We explored different coaching and mentoring environments from the classroom to the sports field to the changing rooms. We practiced the GROW Model, the SCORE Model, Positive Intentions, Re-framing and Positive Outcomes in individual, group and peer sessions. The delegates agreed what their Coaching and Mentoring offering will look like internally. Finally, I conducted a coaching session using The Way it is Model with … Read on

March 5th, 2020

Influencing and Persuading

Really looking forward to training the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) at University of Derby on Influencing and Persuading this evening. It’s been a popular topic with the Institutes this year. We will cover styles of influencing, the push and pull approaches, power levers and how to say no.

Why not read our blog on the subject?

March 3rd, 2020

Article – Busting the Myths Around Coaching

It was my pleasure to co-host our Myth Busting event with Philippa Bowen who runs the Business Ignition Group on Monday 24th February. I had two goals in mind; to inform the people around the table, none of whom are coaches, these important messages.

Firstly, coaching is very much a skilled activity; whilst many of us will ‘coach people, especially if we are line managers, actual developmental coaching is most effective with qualified people.

I’m a level 7 qualified coach, what does this mean? Simply put, it is the highest level of coaching qualification you can obtain in the UK. … Read on

March 2nd, 2020

Tea and TED at 3

My recommendation for today’s cup of tea and TED talk at 3pm is how to view stress positively, presented by Kelly McGonigal – How to make Stress your Friend, have a listen.

February 27th, 2020

Busting the Myths Around Coaching

Really excited to be delivering on Busting the Myths Around Coaching and Consulting with Philippa Bowen this morning. Looking forward to great energetic discussions on different approaches and how useful they are.

February 24th, 2020