What's on Your Mind?
What are you thinking?
At any given moment, are you aware of the complex interplay of thoughts and feelings that drives your behaviour?
How conscious we are of our thoughts and emotions has an enormous impact on our lives. The success we experience in our personal and professional lives depends on our ability to both understand and manage the workings of our mind.
Unless we are in the driver's seat in relation to our minds, this extraordinary instrument won't function at its most effective. Instead, it is likely to drive us in unhelpful ways.
Fortunately neuroscience, together with decades of research into the workings of psychotherapy and coaching are available to make brain-based coaching a powerful tool for personal and organisational change. >Read more
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Do businesses and leaders really need coaching?
The best performers, in sport, theatre, music and business - in fact any area where performance is crucial - continue to receive coaching, even when they have reached the peak of their discipline. They do this, because our abilities atrophy when we don't exercise them. A commitment to the continued learning that coaching offers allows them to continue to achieve and face new challenges.
Effective performance requires an involved third party to stand alongside and guide the performer. Whatever the field of endeavour, the coach is there to challenge and influence the mind of the performer, since ultimately it is the mind which determines our success in any area of performance. Influencing the mind is vital to sustainable leadership development.
Coaching the mind is both a science and an art. In brain-based coaching, the science involves the application of soundly researched methodology. The art draws on decades of experience in a broad range of disciplines including psychotherapy, sport, and the performing arts, and, of course, coaching. More recently, neuroscience has provided ways of seeing the workings of the brain and showing ways we can influence our minds, allowing us to target coaching more effectively.>Read more
Who's Running Your Business?
Before we can answer the question: 'How do we run our business?', we need to ask: 'Who's running our business?
As humans, our mind functions by assigning different tasks to different parts. These neural pathways allow us to more efficiently deal with a wide range of situations and demands. When we are able to bring the appropriate part to bear on the task at hand, things go well. However, if the wrong part is brought into play, or we have little access to a part, we can get into trouble.
At this point, knowing who in us we need to have on board and how to do this becomes vital. >Read more