Recently I spoke with someone who manages to get jobs easily, even in this economy, but cannot keep a job long-term. Lack of interest, scheduling problems, transportation, daycare needs, getting fired, layoffs and numerous other excuses were given as the cause for constant short-term employment.
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The Importance Of Assertiveness
Throughout 15 years of assisting people with their relationship issues I’ve become increasingly aware of the importance of assertiveness.
Assertiveness is the ability to express our feelings, opinions, beliefs and needs in a direct, open and honest way. It is a communication style that enables us to speak ‘our truth’ in a non-offensive and respectful way that allows others to maintain their right to a different opinion and their personal integrity.
After my last article on confidence I had to write a related follow-up. I was attending a networking event and I overheard some say when asked what they did…”I’m just a…salesman”. I thought wow. How many times did I say that myself. I’m just a… It shook me to my core. So I started listening to everyone who I had the pleasure of meeting. Without fail approximately one in three started their introduction when asked what they did with, “I’m just a…”. Which was then followed by a weak and less than pleasant hand shake and eyes looking at the floor shuffle.
Holistic Lifestyle Coach’s role is to strengthen the way of life habits of their consumers and encourage different good conduct. These people inspire their customers to create techniques and provide learning and support to sustain progressive lifestyle adjustments that greatly reduce long-term wellness dangers. As a holistic lifestyle guru, you perceive the overall body as a full living thing and get to improve the three pillars of great long-term wellness: diet regime, physical fitness, and a robust sentimental phase. These people are not a trained dietitian or medical nutritionist unless of course they have earlier fulfilled the different and crucial degree. Holistic lifestyle mentoring is not proposed to remedy or diagnose health problems. Their clients should approach their primary-care medical doctor before rendering any long-term alterations in what you eat and/or exercise session.
Accounts of the effectiveness of executive coaching have proven returns on investments of more than 500%. No like studies have been done regarding life coaching and quite honestly, a human life has fewer valued metrics than business so that anyone could measure coaching. However coaching executives have little more to do with business than coaching people on their lives does – even executive coaching in essence comes down to life coaching – so there’s no reason to imagine the ROI in life coaching, if it were calculable, would be any different. In truth when it comes to coaching, clients’ lives change impressively. I have seen it over and over again. How does is it possible? One could compose novels on the topic, but here I will expand on a few high-level reasons.
Why do bad things happen to good people? Bad things don’t just happen to good people, they happen to every single one of us. Good things happen to us all too, but we tend not to remember those because we want them to happen all the time. It’s just that when bad things happen we tend to remember them for longer.
People feel trapped by their circumstances and complain about their situations. You might not have the ability to change your situation right now, but you sure do have the ability to change your thinking, your meanings, and your attitude towards the circumstances. Dr L. Michael Hall calls these meanings ‘frames’ and he suggests to de-frame any unhelpful frames and references and create better meanings in our lives.
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Performance is the thing. We are all aware of it, concerned about it and striving to achieve it. It is important. It is one of the ways we measure our success in this world. As coaches we help our clients improve their performance to achieve their goals. We support them as they work to improves their performance. We celebrate with them when they increase their performance. And, we leave them with action plans to keep up the work of continuous improvement of their performance.
Language allows us to step out of our current situation and imagine alternatives. It is a working model of life that provides an elegant way to bring concepts and experiences together in stories that haven’t happened and may never happen. People who do not have choices in their situations can still have freedom in their thoughts.
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The media is one of those things that always seems to get into an athlete’s head. And you know what? It does the same thing to employees, managers and just about everyone else.
As a woman entrepreneur, my vision is for work environments that support and sustain life; that invite health, humor, compassion and truth. We succeed without having to sacrifice our integrity or anyone else’s. We take part in creating something greater than ourselves; be part of something where the whole is more than the sum of its parts; a place where magic and miracles are a part of life. We are able to grow and expand; to stretch; and finally, to spread our wings and fly. Our experience of flight stands as a model of what’s possible and a testimony to our courage to take the risks that will bring joy, vitality and delight back into the realm of day-to-day living.
Bruce Schneider, the founder of iPEC, defines the slingshot effect as “a unique phenomenon that occurs when a significant amount of pressure builds up within and around us. Simply learn how to release this pressure and you can be at the cause of your life and create a ripple effect of extraordinary results.”
How can a GOOD coach help you?
I see “your” good coach as a person who had parallel experiences to yours, who will be able to relate to what you are experiencing in the present moment and who through personal development can see life through a bigger perspective.
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Desire is both healthy and natural. The most natural thing we can do is to have a desire. Desire is the impulse and intention that propels the entire Universe. Quantum Physics and Spiritual teachers are all telling us that the nature of the Universe and the nature of God is ever expanding, boundless. And the nature of God is boundless in love, creation, freedom, joy, compassion and so on.
Extroversion-Introversion is a dimension of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI). The labels introvert and extrovert refer to each individual’s preference for how and where we get our energy. This terminology does not refer to social traits and one type is not more socially desirable than the other. Both types have strengths as well as weaknesses. Knowing your type can be beneficial in increasing awareness of how you approach change.
Many doctors don’t really understand what Coaching is, what it can enable them to achieve and how quickly it can make a difference.
There is also the belief in medical culture that you have to deal with challenges yourself and working with a coach might be regarded as a sign of failure. Quite the reverse in fact many doctors who decide a coach might help are amazed at how quickly they can turn things around.
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Do you give yourself the gift of silence at some point in your day? Or is every moment filled with external “noise” ~ words, email notifications, television, music? Are you able to turn down the volume or do you welcome the distractions as a way to avoid your “self”?
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This week, the world is remembering that a great artist lost his life, Michael Jackson. We also lost other celebrities, family members and friends. Do you remember where you were a year ago today?
How to improve work performance? This is a question regularly asked by senior executives, as they seek to improve the performance of their staff. However, the question is one that everybody should be asking themselves. One of the most popular and successful ways of dramatically increasing your performance, is to employ a performance/executive coach. This article will investigate what coaching does and how coaching can increase your work performance.
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