Great Coaching Quotes...

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

Mevlana Rumi

More Coaching Quotes...

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."

Ara Parasheghian

Coaching Tools: Worksheet for completing your holiday

At the end of your holiday sit down with all the people you went on holiday with and have a discussion about your holiday. The process of celebrating the good and acknowledging the difficult parts of a holiday helps to complete the event, leaving you free to move back to your everyday life. Here's some questions to get you started...

• What were the five things you most valued and treasured about your holiday?
  
• What were you doing when you had the most fun?
  
• Who did you get to spend special time with and what do you most remember about that?
  
• What did you learn about yourself on this holiday?
  
• What did you learn about the people you went on holiday with? List one thing per person.
  
• What did you do that was the most relaxing thing in your holiday?
  
• What do you need to communicate with the people you went on holiday with?
  
• What was the overriding theme of your holiday?
  
• What do you need to say to be complete with your holiday?
  
• How do you want your first day @ work to be like?

Having a conversation like this with your family, friends or partner will help you bank your holiday, so you can move resourcefully into your work mode.

Coaching Tools: Placement

Placement is preparing someone for communication.

When you place someone, you are going to tell them what's coming, how you want them to manage their feelings, what outcome you are looking for, how you want them to listen, what you want them to listen for and you ask them if they are willing to have a conversation like that. I assume you have chosen an environment that is conductive to communication ie: it's quiet, private and you both have the time and space to communicate.

Then you start the placement process:

1. Advance notice... "In a couple of minutes I want to say something to you"
   
2. The topic.... "It's going to be about how we work together and how we can improve our communication"
   
3. How you want them to feel..... "If you start to feel upset or angry, I'd like you to tell me how you feel, rather than lash out at me or attack me"
   
4. The outcome you want.... "....and why I'm having this conversation with you, is so that we can operate more like a team and improve the results we are producing."
   
5. How to listen... "I'd like you to listen to this like you were looking for a solution, you are looking for something that is going to help us both move forward."
   
6. What to listen for... "I'd like you to listen to this like you were looking for a solution, you are looking for something that is going to help us both move forward."

Ask if they are open to this...

If they say "Yes", then start your conversation.

If they say "No", then find out what they aren't willing to do and try to find a workable alternative. If you can't find one, then see if they would be willing to have this conversation at a later date or in more conducive circumstances.

For more detailed information click here or email Mike.

Blogs I like to read...

Blogs are all about running alongside of people's current thinking. It's a great opportunity to catch up with authors who have inspired you or opened up new worlds for you to explore - pretty much in real time...as well as you being able to track them back in time on most sites.

I find regular blog reading stimulating and challenging. Especially when I start to participate with comments or whatever invitation the blogger issues.

Here's some of my favorites for you to explore - enjoy!:

Seth Godin
The master of marketing, putting great ideas into action quickly - I read him for daily inspiration.
Presentation Zen
An amazing site for thinking about communicating through the various mediums of presentation. Food for thought for anyone who communicates.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Ah me! I love this stuff - love the process - love the concept - I will do one of their courses one day, until then, I read everything I can about Blue Ocean Strategy
Daniel Goleman
He's the Man. What's your emotional style?? Emotional Intelligence is a basic skill for dealing with the multiplicities and complications of the conceptual age - gotta stay up to date with what he's thinking about!
Beyond Blue
...this site is all about mental health - especially the crisis stuff - fantastic conversations about psychotherapy and Gestalt - amazing distinctions here!
Tom Peters
This man is prolific, off the wall and most of the time, spot on in pointing you in the direction of dancing in the moment in tune with the current status quo, no matter how quickly it dissolves and morphs into something else - always inspring!
Daniel Pink
Author of A Whole Brain Mind and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, Daniel dances across a range of topics such as the Japanese Manga comic, Design, The Conceptual Age, Career management - to name a few - He has opened my mind up to a whole new world and continues to do so.
Trendwatching
One of the world's leading trend firms, trendwatching.com and its 8,000+ trend spotters scan the globe for emerging consumer trends.
We report on our findings in free, monthly Trend Briefings, and in our annual Trend Report.
Springwise
Springwise and its network of 8,000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds from San Francisco to Singapore. Time to start the Next Big Thing!
Bull's eye Living
All about achieving exactly precisely what you want to do.
Authentic Happiness
Dr. Seligman's main mission has been the promotion of the field of Positive Psychology

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Coaching Quotes...

“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire
beneath them, but by building a fire within.”

Bob Nelson

How does a Coaching Series Work?

It's actually a very simple process....

• Have a chat on the phone to see if you can communicate with Mike and if you have any rapport together.
• A second conversation where you set three inspiring goals for yourself for the next 90 days.

Then if both you and Mike feel like you can work together on your inspiring goals, you embark on your journey of discovery and achievement. Mike helps you work out the measureable criteria for your goals, and you work on your baseline (where you are at now) and your vision (where you are going). That done you are all ready to begin your coaching series!

A coaching session is a structured period of time and looks a bit like this...

1. Clearing the space... what is in the background that you need to put aside while you use this time for work on your goals?
   
2. Setting the agenda... what do you want out of the session?
   
3. Reviewing and measuring the goals.
   
4. What's come up for you?
   
5. What does that mean to you?
   
6. During the sessions you will be constantly be raising your awareness of your values, how you communicate and what really motivates you.
   
7. What actions are you going to commit to this week?
   
8. What did you get out of the session? A simple question that helps you capture the essense of what you got to take with you for the following week!
   

At the end of the series you have a 90 Day review where you review what you have learnt, what you have achieved and what your next 90 days will be all about.

15 Reasons to talk to Mike Kennedy....

There are many reasons why you might want to talk with Mike Kennedy....

1. If you want to make sure your business goes where you want it
   
2. If you want to make sure you are not being sidetracked
   
3. If you are overwhelmed by expert advice!
   
4. If you have had enough of just stuff happening
   
5. If you want to identify your own set of values
   
6. If your own reasons and your own outcomes are important to you
   
7. If you want to move on but don’t know how
   
8. If you want to be actually living a life that you love
   
9. If you want to turn your problems into opportunities
   
10. If you feel stuck
    
11. If you want to work on your inspiring and meaningful goals
    
12. If want your life to be great
    
13. If you are looking to step up to the next level
    
14. If you want to really reach your potential
    
15. If you have a nagging feeling that there’s more to your life....

What are you waiting for??

Life really does begin at the edge of your Comfort Zone!

Contact Mike Kennedy...
Mobile: 021 335 908 Skype: addsvalue2 or email!