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Earlier this year I attended a two day sales course with Blair Singer.
Selling is not my strength and I have signed up for the rest of the course in June.
On the Saturday night we had to buy one of his books and then go out and sell it during our dinner break.
I decided that selling [...]

Training in UK, India and Asia
My intensive twelve month personal/professional development programme is coming to a close. In January I studied with Blair Singer and Joel Roberts, both in preparation for the launch of our coach training programme in India. This is progressing well and I expect to announce dates very soon.
We shall [...]

With 15,000 members, of whom 5,600 are credentialled, and with members in 91 countries, the International Coach Federation is clearly successful.
Once again, more than 1,000 members attended the annual conference in North America. In addition, there the ICF holds major conferences in Europe and Asia.
The ICF sets out to be the professional organisation for [...]

Welcome to the 200th edition of CorporateCoach newsletter.
It’s Thanksgiving in the USA, and I am celebrating my 200th editorial. So, it’s definitely time to look back and give thanks.
It seems that this issue of CorporateCoach is going to be a series of lists. But never mind, because they are all links to valuable resources [...]

This editorial is part of my 199th CorporateCoach newsletter.
The first issue was published in February 2001. By total coincidence, I have just discovered that it featured a ‘tools note’ on Setting Well Formed Outcomes. It also included a book review of Built to Last, which I still think is probably the best management book [...]

The weather in the UK has suddenly turned cold after a wonderful ‘Indian summer’. And as we pass the equinox, the nights are drawing in faster, too.
Fortunately for me, I am off to warmer climes for a while. But, when I return, the clocks will have gone back and we shall be plunged [...]

I have long understood that the greatest improvements in the world’s health did not come from doctors or research scientists. They came as a result of building sewers and clean water supplies.
We have just recorded the death of the man who is widely recognised as having saved more lives than anyone else in history. [...]

Welcome back. I might be a frustrated academic, but it has always seemed to me that the real new year is September.
After a long break for rest and recreation, schools and businesses come back with fresh ideas and renewed energy. Time to act and plan for the future. Many companies have financial [...]

In the last issue of CorporateCoach I included my Demartini inspired mission statement summary.
I had been able to develop this as a result of seeing John Demartini’s own mission statement, and my example last week was well received.
This week, therefore, I am repeating the exercise.
For several years I was tempted to write some [...]

I once heard talent defined as: “Easy to learn, easy to do.”
The result is that you do not value it, or even notice it. So, I have another definition. “Talent is what causes you to get irritated by other people’s incompetence.” It is not that they are incompetent, rather that they lack your [...]

I have been watching a programme called Mary Queen of Shops.
It is about a project by Mary Portas to turn a charity shop into a successful business. She comes up with a variety of strategies to change both the image of the shop and the business model.
However, what was interesting to me was [...]

This is an unusual newsletter, so I hope that you will bear with me.
You might have noticed that it is some time since I last produced a CorporateCoach newsletter. My excuse is that we have been working very hard on several launches associated with the Birmingham Young Professional of the Year (BYPY), which was [...]

I shall be writing to you in a couple of weeks about a three book marketing campaign to establish me as an Amazon top ten business author. I am sure that you will be pleased to participate when you hear of the fantastic package of goodies that will support the promotion.
As part of the [...]

Are you a case study?
We are living through a challenging, possibly unique, historical period. For years to come, historians, economists and business writers will be looking back at the period 2008-2010, trying to discover what happened and why.
They will be wanting to compare organisations that succeeded with those that failed. Which one will [...]

About ten years ago, my son was touring South East Asia and I was working for a client in London where I spent a lot of time waiting for meetings and had access to the Internet.
I started sending him short e-mails. These were commentaries on things going on at that time. I remember writing [...]

Nothing has changed in the last week. The world is still facing environmental catastrophe. The world is still facing financial collapse. The world is still at war.
However, everything has changed. The inauguration of a new American president, who is new, intelligent and clean. In fact, a new American president who [...]

New Year is a time when people are supposed to make resolutions. I have never been an enthusiast for this. If something is worth doing, it is worth resolving to do in the moment – not waiting for a new year.
However, life does have a rhythm, evolving in seasons and years and it [...]

I recently attended a tantra workshop. This was not religious, but focused on communication between men and women.
It mainly involved meditation and silent communication exercises in pairs. However, one group exercise separated the men from the women and then asked each what they liked about the other – as a group. The [...]

I am a systems thinker and my coaching focuses on such matters as vision, mission and values, sorting out structure and strategy.
I like the coaching model because it is very logical; as we increase someone’s awareness, they see the structure and are able to make better decisions. As we help clients to clarify [...]

I attended a workshop at the ICF Annual Conference last week by Shirlaws. Shirlaws is a business coaching company that was started in Australia in 1999 and now has coaches in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA; they have 90 coaches in the UK alone. They believe the best results [...]