A business woman walks in and sits down. This lady has never had coaching before and is clearly nervous. Within half an hour they have told me their life story and probably every embarrassing thing that is rattling around in their head that; Makes them feel inadequate. Stops them from taking action. Stops them for…
You look around the room and can’t quite work out what emotion it is you are supposed to be feeling. It’s all a bit surreal. There’s a magician performing up close magic on a space man. Mary Poppins is having a chat with one of the top digital media experts in the country. Usually instead of…
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I have been asked on thousands of occasions “How do I get bums on seats?” “How can I get people to turn up?” In a society where people have sussed that getting people to “see” what you do, enables sales the market is saturated with events to attend. From charity events, parties, MLM presentations, networking…
A post on LinkedIn and then in a group created a lot of “Oh yes!” and “I’m so guilty of this! comments. It led to me thinking about my clients. Already this year I’ve worked with some amazing coaching clients and because we are into February I’m starting to see people for a second time…
If you were at The BWN in January you will have seen my performance with Lisa Hardy from Responsive roles. In a room of 30 business owners only 3 people were in on the act and the rest of the audience behaved in a remarkable and incredibly powerful way. (Tell you more about that after…
A new client sat down opposite me and offloaded (nothing new there). But what was different was that no matter what I said or what coaching tools I used this person did not want to look at the things that they said was they wanted to work on! How can you help someone achieve more…
I’ve presented hundreds of presentations on powerful public speaking and communication skills although today took a slightly different angle and wow was it powerful! The irony is never lost on me that 15 years ago I couldn’t (and wouldn’t!) speak to a large audience. I was the person pretending she had a call just as…
I have just finished my tax return and that should be something to celebrate however one receipt made me sob. I had an emergency, you know those weeks when life is good and then you get thrown a curve ball that makes you wish you could reverse one week and just hold on to what…
So many of us get distracted by new ideas and opportunities and what can be even more scary is we often don’t even notice that! Clients may start coaching with me to fix a problem, grow a career or business or to build confidence however they stick around as retained clients because I keep the…