Coaching acknowledges that everyone has the capability to achieve what they set their mind to is what drew me to coaching in the first place. Everyone has a potential, some of us have just enabled it more than others. Another thing coaching taught me is that sustainable change only happens within. You might be told to do something and be successful at it for a…
Develop Your Emotional Intelligence To Be A Happier Human Being
If there was only one thing you should take away for your personal development, it should be the notion of Emotional Intelligence. It encompasses all the skills you need to develop and nurture great relationships, take the right decisions, grow in your career, face challenging situations with calm, have a positive influence on others, and be happy. Basically everything everyone has ever wanted. The term…
What Is Your Learning Style?
Knowing your predominant intelligences is a great first step towards increased self-awareness. You can now see why you prefer doing certain things in certain environments, rather than others. Now how do you apply it to new experiences? You combine your knowledge on intelligences to your preferred learning style. Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Learning styles were developed by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford, based on…
What Are Your Main Intelligences? Yes, There’s More Than One
For a very long time, IQ was the only measure of intelligence that people paid attention to. Its standardised test on logical, spatial, and linguistic abilities determined who was intelligent, and who wasn’t. Education was wildly based on the approach that every child was a blank slate that you could fill with these intelligence-based abilities through learning. The theory of Multiple Intelligences Now imagine a…
Do You Need A Coach, A Mentor Or A Therapist?
The lines between coaching, mentoring, and therapy are blurry and very unclear at times. Their purpose and focus are different. It’s important to understand them before working with a professional so you can make the right choice and discuss the right subject with the right person. Coaching vs. therapy Coaching focuses on the now and the future, where the person is and where they want…
The Only Tips You’ll Need To Develop Your Active Listening Skills
Active listening is one of these skills that make communicating and connecting with others a lot easier. When people want (or are told) to improve their communication style, they very often focus on being more diplomatic, more concise, less direct – everything related to how they express themselves (the outbound). How they listen (the inbound) is rarely under their radar. Yet you don’t communicate effectively,…
Replace New Year’s Resolutions With Intentions
Happy New Year everyone! I wish you a lot of happiness and a good health to you and your loved ones. I hope this year will bring you success and luck in all that you undertake. So how are you going to create opportunities for yourself and change or improve what didn’t work last year? Let me guess. New Year Resolutions Let me start by…
2017 In Review | Building The Foundation
As 2017 is coming to an end, I am reflecting on all that happened this year. This was, by far, the most challenging yet exciting year ever for me. I started it angrier and more unbalanced and impatient that I realised, and it didn’t put me on the right path for the first few months. I got a reality check before the summer, and the…
Ask More Questions
You do not have to be a trained coach to start asking powerful questions. In fact, if you want to have an impact on your friends, family, and colleagues, it’s best to stop talking and start asking the right questions. Knowing who takes decisions and who communicates You first need to understand at any given time who is talking within yourself, and who is talking…