Executive coaching tip - Do your friends support your ideal or authentic self?
Posted 07 Oct 2013
Real friend support our authentic self. So how do we know who our real friends are?
Read articlePosted 07 Oct 2013
Real friend support our authentic self. So how do we know who our real friends are?
Read articlePosted 23 Sep 2013
Whether it's a people or teams, there are 5 reasons why we find it difficult to overcome problems. Identifying the cause is the first step towards a solution, and this is one of a coaches or trainers key tasks.
Read articlePosted 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.
Read articlePosted 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.
Read articlePosted 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.
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