Adrian Banger's Blog

Coaching – What can it do for you and your company?

The benefits of coaching have been long established in the sporting arena. Originally, sports coaching concentrated on improving the techniques used by the athlete but now includes substantial emphasis on mental preparation particularly after the publication of “The Inner Game of Tennis”  by Timothy Gallwey in 1979.  Sir John Whitmore was one of the first sportsmen to take the lessons from sports coaching and apply them in the business arena and published the ground  breaking book “Coaching for Performance” in 1992. He defines coaching as

  “...the unlocking of a person’s potential to maximise there own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

This definition helps us distinguish between training and coaching, training invariably is a broad brush approach to teaching people new skills whereas effective coaching, combining both

Leadership mindset...

There's a Henry Ford (1863-1947) quote that's very well known amongst NLPers:

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.”

I wonder if Ford ever met Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)?

Certainly the two leaders would have agreed on this trusim; I came across this Gandhi quote today,

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”

Now that's got me thinking of that conversational game - Fantasy Guestlist...

If you could invite 6 people to dinner - dead, alive or fictitious - who would they be and why?

I'd love to know. Why not share your Fantasy GuestList by clicking on the Comments link below.

Executive Coaching Plus

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Package includes:

Full behavioural profiling
3 x 2 hr face-to-face coaching sessions  (at my office or mutually convenient location )
2 x 1 hr structured telephone coaching calls

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