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February Newsletter
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A great 5 Step Strategy to Achieve your Goals in 2010!
The key that will unlock a successful year is not what you stop doing but what you start doing. -
Integrative coaching: the low down
What is integrative coaching – and why should you care? -
Latest news from the Smart School
Bursary, and Coaching Matters -
A special offer to train as a coach in March 2010
Half-price Offer
Make 2010 a year you’ll look back on with pride
The key that will unlock a successful year is not what you stop doing but what you start doing.
Every year millions of people set New Year’s resolutions. Sadly, these often fade faster than the heartburn from Christmas lunch! Does that sound familiar to you?
There’s a reason for this. Most of the time you’re trying to stop doing something! Stop eating chocolate, stop drinking so much, stop spending so much!
How depressing stopping something!
So here’s a simple five step strategy to make 2010 a truly great year. And you can do this, you know. It’s within all our own hands to make this the best year ever or just another one to get through…
Your 5 step strategy for an amazing 2010!
- Decide what you want to be, to have or to do. DO NOT decide what you don’t want to be, to have or to do! Make it real in, give it detail and clarity. What will you feel like when you have it? What can you see when you achieve it? Is it clear enough that anyone you tell would understand precisely what you want?
- Check that you really believe you can achieve it. If you don’t believe it, then work out what would need to happen for you to start believing it or whether what you actually believe you can achieve is good enough. Big dreams can be inspiring but many people get stuck because the dream seems TOO big and they can’t get going. Make sure you believe you can achieve the goal you set.
- Keep a journal or start a private blog on your journey to achieving your goals – use www.blogger.com or a similar service. It’s completely free! You can set the blog to author permission only for privacy. You’ll be amazed at how reflecting on what you’ve done and your feelings around where you’re at can spur you on, reinvigorate your determination and inspire new ideas. Make sure you update it every couple of days. Just stick with it and you’ll see what a difference it makes.
- Work out what resources, support, facilities and so on you need to get where you want to be. Whether it’s a health and fitness goal, a business goal, a personal goal of anything else, there will be things you need to have. It might be time, new knowledge, training shoes, a business plan – there will be things you need to have in place. Make sure you have them.
- Finally, you need to take action. Sounds simple doesn’t it but most people fail to achieve their goals because they don’t take the right action at the right time at the right frequency. Make sure you do!
There is nothing that we can’t achieve (within the Laws of Nature) if we really put our minds and body to action. So your key decision is whether you want this year to be just another year or something special! You can do it!
Integrative coaching – why it really is the only style that matters now
What is integrative coaching – and why should you care?
Traditionally, most forms of coaching are built on certain approaches to human behaviour. So whether it calls itself NLP, behavioural, cognitive behavioural or any other type of coaching, it is based upon a set of beliefs about how people act and what will change them.
But let’s face it, people are complex and don’t fit neatly to patterns of behaviour. Integrative coaching starts from the position that the coach must be flexible and responsive to the client and draw from a full range of coaching skills. For anyone serious about coaching this is where you need to be.
Integrative coaching is about taking the best of all styles of coaching and being able to seamlessly utilise different styles to get the very best results for your client.
The Smart School’s is an enthusiastic proponent of this cutting-edge approach and produces coaches with a range of models and approaches at their disposal and the ability to move effortlessly from one approach to another as needed.
Our Diploma was created to reflect this style of coaching and is recognised for the depth of the skills it delivers. By the time of qualification, our coaches feel completely comfortable moving between models and styles and this is reflected in the results they gain for clients and the testimonials they get as a result.
I’m delighted that this is now in place and the Smart School is uniquely positioned to deliver one of the UK’s very few recognised coaching qualifications. Awarded by the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning, a UK awarding body, our diploma is now a genuine qualification rather than just an accredited course. It’s been a long journey but worth every second!
News from the Smart School
Bursary
The Smart School launched a bursary last year to support individuals to train as coaches. So far, the bursary has supported 26 new coaches to take the qualification.
For further details of the bursary, go here…
Coaching Matters
The Smart School supports Coaching Matters, a not-for-profit group offering supported coaching to people interested in improving their lives through life coaching. Our coaches offer excellent low priced coaching to the members and the Smart School sponsors the meetings. For further information go to our Meetup page here…
Special offer for March 2010
For subscribers to this newsletter, we’re making three places available on our March 6th and 7th intake of coaches for half-price. That’s right – for £1750*!
Be one of the three people to secure this special offer. Hurry to the Smart School March offer page…
*The bursary support which means the course costs £2000 does not apply in addition to this offer.