Posted 16 Sep 2013

Acting 'as if' is a coaching technique. It's used when a coachee is developing the confidence to be bolder but they first need to try on the coat and feel what it's like to be a certain way. And in fact, Lequin uses actors in it's customer service training programmes.

Posted 10 Sep 2013

Personality profiling tools can be helpful to understand working preferences and how you can expect them to behave. But to truly understand someone's motivations and to know where they might be in 5 to 10 years' time, you need to understand their values. At Lequin Leadership Development we've developed a method for helping people identify and explore their values.

Posted 09 Sep 2013

“My parents weren’t just poor – they thought and acted poor as well.” John Bird, Founder of The Big Issue. Self image is a key component of our self-belief, and it's one area that Lequin's executive coaching often addresses when dealing with coachees struggling with low self belief.

Posted 05 Sep 2013

Almost exclusively, the people we coach, and this includes CEOs and MDs of some of the world’s largest companies, grapple with low self belief and the detrimental effects it has on them. This is why self belief sits at the core of Lequin's Russian Doll coaching model, and why coaching someone to greater self belief can often be the most effective coaching. It is also the most difficult of coaching assignments as low self belief is so entrenched. This piece looks at a key concept of self belief - the ideal self.