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Perceptual Positions - Click To Read Article
Perceptual Positions is an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) technique devised by founders John Grinder and Richard Bandler. Its origins are rooted in the theories of the various psychologists which Grinder and Bandler modelled while developing NLP, including Milton Erickson, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir.

The Inner Game - Click To Read Article
In 1971 Tim Gallwey, founder of the Inner Game, was working as a tennis coach. Having captained the tennis team at Harvard, he was on sabbatical before finding a serious job. One day he noticed that when he left the court briefly, a student who had been stuck with a technical problem had improved, without his help, by the time he returned. He began to realise that people could teach themselves better while working alone than when being given conventional sports instruction by a coach.

Coaching and Coach Training in the Workplace - Click To Read Article
• How the workplace is changing from authoritarian bosses and jobs for life towards self directed learning and portfolio careers. • How the Virgin Empire was built using a coaching culture • Case histories of the implementation of coaching and coach training in the workplace. • Some facts and figures about Return On Investment. • Why companies introduce coaching. • A look into the future.

Bruce Tuckman's Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing Team Development Model - Click To Read Article
This model describes the phases which teams tend to go through from their inception to the successful completion of the project, and highlights the areas which may cause the team and the project to fail.

Effectiveness of Coaching in Work Life Balance - Click To Read Article
Work-life balance: why such a hot topic? How coaching can help. Some guidelines in the coaching relationship. How to select a coach.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Change Curve 5 Stage Model - Click To Read Article
The Change Curve was devised by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, a Swiss psychiatrist who worked extensively with the bereaved and dying and was a key founder in the hospice movement. She noticed a pattern of reaction to news of impending death, which went through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance.

Developing a Coaching Culture - Click To Read Article
Many organisations across the world today are putting coaching programmes in place, either hiring external coaches or training their own managers. The word is out that a ‘coaching culture’ is the goal to pursue, although there is some confusion about what the term actually means and even more about how to achieve it. In this article we will look at what coaching is, how organisations can integrate it, and what the pitfalls might be.

Return on Investment in Coaching: “But Will It Make Us More Money?” - Click To Read Article
Coaching is now widely recognised as a means of increasing employee motivation, retention and engagement, and that these will contribute to bigger profits or (in the case of state organisations) better budget management. But it is a fact that many L&D executives and suppliers have to find ways of justifying the spend in terms of concrete results. Corporate culture expert Carol Wilson looks at methods and tools for measuring the return on coaching programmes from the beginning to the end of the project, and tying that return into hard figures.

THE PERMISSION MODEL - Click To Read Article
This article was first published in Training Journal as part of the series by Carol Wilson identifying the tools and models frequently used during coaching projects, of which Learning & Development Directors and Corporate Coaches will find it useful to be aware. It is reproduced by kind permission.

COACHING FEEDBACK FOR MANAGERS - Click To Read Article
Feedback is often regarded as the most difficult part of a manager’s job. However, in a coaching culture, negative feedback is experienced in a positive way, as an opportunity for making new discoveries rather than blame. In this article we will look at four areas of feedback: Positive feedback, Negative feedback, Receiving feedback, Coaching feedback.





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