“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.”~ Og Mandino
Every world champion has had a coach!
Sir J
ohn Whitmore in “Coaching for Performance”, probably the best single book available about coaching, says that “building awareness, responsibility and self-belief is the goal of a coach”.
From professional athletes , entrepreneurs to political leaders, NLP techniques are used to coach people to achieve greater results in their personal life or career by providing support, highlighting limitations and
First, NLP coaching is a belief system; coaches start from a position of believing that people have the ability to address and resolve their own issues if they can approach them in the right mental state.
Second, NLP coaching is a leadership style, which seeks to keep ownership of issues and problems with the individual responsible for their resolution.
Third, NLP coaching is based on a set of tools and models ( like MPVI ™, Clare Graves’s system).
Fourth, coachees are supported throughout the coaching experience to achieve excellence in their results.
What coaching is NOT:
- a “soft option” : Effective coaching will challenge your perceptions of your role and behaviour and hold you to account on delivering the actions you commit to.
- fixing the problems for you: Coaching works best with clients who want to be coached rather than when they think they need to be coached or, worse, when someone else tells them they have to.
