Life Coaching Success Ideas

Research Paper By Silky Fischer-Lee (Executive Coach, SWITZERLAND) Today, we live in a fast-changing world and work in a very competitive business environment.  As organizations strive to adapt to the constant changes and reinvent the future, building the organizational ability to be agile has become one of the most popular topics among companies. This research reviews characteristic of agile transformations that many business organizations are striving for today and explore opportunities to integrate CBT in team coaching to build organizational capabilities for an agile transformation. Business Agility and an Agile Transformation Business agility can be defined as an organization’s ability to adapt and respond to market changes, customer demands, produce cost-effective cutting edge products and be a leader in the market (Agile Business Consortium, n.a.). Business agility is closely tied to employees’  ability to adapt, innovate, and be resilient dealing with uncer...

A Coaching Power Tool Created by Melanie Brown (Retirement Preparation Coach, SWITZERLAND) To hear, one must be silent. Ursula K. Le Guin, 2012 Introduction Silence as a power tool was inspired to me by a peer coaching experience. I was a fairly new ICA student and having my second peer coaching session . My peer client brought a very personal topic to the table: her estranged relationship with her sister. Every time she reflected after answering one of my (many) questions, I was already ready with the next one, rushing in to fill the gaps,  instead of just pausing and giving her the space she needed to reflect on this sensitive and emotionally loaded topic. I wanted to ensure that all PCC markers were covered and most probably also wanted to avoid any awkward silences as I was doing my best to be present, actively listening, and gaining more coaching experience. During the feedback discussion after the session, she rightly pointed out that she had Asian roots, and brought to my at...

Moving deliberately through life we often have the opportunity to choose different paths. One path might lead us quite assuredly towards disaster yet another path will most certainly lead to success. Some people intuitively know the difference. Others can benefit by a step by step guide. Change can be intrinsically frightening, but one key to successful personal development is mastering that fear. Personal development is the art of fostering positive changes in oneself. This is not an art that can be practiced without recognizing that the external world is constantly changing too. Embracing change outside can lead to better results encouraging change inside. Work on discovering your personal strengths. Try making a list of the ones you know and try making a list of your weaknesses that hold you back from being the strong person that you think you are or could be. Even opinions from others, like friends or family, can give you some insight on how to better yourself. Try using affirmatio...

A successful personal development program, will take more than a desire to improve oneself. Well-chosen goals and thorough planning are vital to getting the best out of personal development. However, it does not take a huge amount of studying to learn how to plan well for personal development. Tips like these can help anyone set goals for themselves and reach them quickly. Inside every big job are tons of little jobs. Subdivide your personal development tasks to make them easier to tackle. This task subdivision is almost infinitely reproducible, too. If one part of a bigger job is still ominously large, subdivide it again. Good task division is good time management. You can accomplish huge goals if you nibble away at them consistently. Change can be intrinsically frightening, but one key to successful personal development is mastering that fear. Personal development is the art of fostering positive changes in oneself. This is not an art that can be practiced without recognizing that th...

Once deciding that you want to go with the self help process, it is important that you have the right direction to head down. This article will help you get started on a successful and rejuvenating journey with some goals to set and tips to help you on the way. Remember that you stay focused throughout the process. Loneliness is something that many people battle on a daily basis. One easy tip to help conquer that feeling of loneliness is to learn to enjoy your own company. Learn how to be self sufficient which boosts self esteem which will then rid you of that constant fear of loneliness. When you are ready to make your dream a reality, write it down. Put in words what exactly you want to achieve. Be very specific with your goals. Writing down your dreams and goals will help hold you accountable and is proven to help those actually achieve what they set out to achieve. Acknowledge your flaws and mistakes. Don't shy away from them for the sake of positivity. Willful ignorance will w...

Figuring out how you should go about the personal development process can be puzzling. When you are dealing with personal development find out what will work for you; everyone is different and there are different things that work for different people. Be diligent about checking out tips that might help you. For example, in this article, there are a few simple,effective tips to support your personal development. Check them out. The importance of positive thinking and self-esteem cannot be overestimated. As you pursue your life goals and try to improve yourself, you cannot allow yourself to be defeated by past guilt or false, self-destructive beliefs. Replace thoughts of yourself as "a failure" or "a loser," with positive beliefs like "I am on the right track," and "I will succeed this time." A great self help tip is to not stay indoors for too long. When you keep yourself cooped up indoors, you can become quickly become isolated and very depressed...

A Coaching Model Created by Silky Fischer-Lee (Executive Coach, SWITZERLAND) Introduction As organizations are dealing with constant changes in a highly complex and competitive market, many have fallen into a tendency to find quick answers. As an HR professional, working for a multinational company, I see today, more than ever, that we need transformational leadership to reshape our future. Transformational leaders with high emotional intelligence can adapt to changes effectively, motivate, and engage people. This helps them to focus on the long-term vision. They are genuine and have a great awareness of themselves. They also hold themselves accountable for their actions with integrity. In many business organizations, coaching has been perceived as a consulting service that provides solutions to immediate needs, however, coaching is not a consulting service. It is “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and ...

Research Paper By Silky Fischer-Lee (Executive Coach, SWITZERLAND) Today, we live in a fast-changing world and work in a very competitive business environment.  As organizations strive to adapt to the constant changes and reinvent the future, building the organizational ability to be agile has become one of the most popular topics among companies. This research reviews characteristic of agile transformations that many business organizations are striving for today and explore opportunities to integrate CBT in team coaching to build organizational capabilities for an agile transformation. Business Agility and an Agile Transformation Business agility can be defined as an organization’s ability to adapt and respond to market changes, customer demands, produce cost-effective cutting edge products and be a leader in the market (Agile Business Consortium, n.a.). Business agility is closely tied to employees’  ability to adapt, innovate, and be resilient dealing with uncertainty, comp...

A Coaching Power Tool Created by Melanie Brown (Retirement Preparation Coach, SWITZERLAND) To hear, one must be silent. Ursula K. Le Guin, 2012 Introduction Silence as a power tool was inspired to me by a peer coaching experience. I was a fairly new ICA student and having my second peer coaching session . My peer client brought a very personal topic to the table: her estranged relationship with her sister. Every time she reflected after answering one of my (many) questions, I was already ready with the next one, rushing in to fill the gaps,  instead of just pausing and giving her the space she needed to reflect on this sensitive and emotionally loaded topic. I wanted to ensure that all PCC markers were covered and most probably also wanted to avoid any awkward silences as I was doing my best to be present, actively listening, and gaining more coaching experience. During the feedback discussion after the session, she rightly pointed out that she had Asian roots, and brought to my at...

A successful personal development program, will take more than a desire to improve oneself. Well-chosen goals and thorough planning are vital to getting the best out of personal development. However, it does not take a huge amount of studying to learn how to plan well for personal development. Tips like these can help anyone set goals for themselves and reach them quickly. Inside every big job are tons of little jobs. Subdivide your personal development tasks to make them easier to tackle. This task subdivision is almost infinitely reproducible, too. If one part of a bigger job is still ominously large, subdivide it again. Good task division is good time management. You can accomplish huge goals if you nibble away at them consistently. Change can be intrinsically frightening, but one key to successful personal development is mastering that fear. Personal development is the art of fostering positive changes in oneself. This is not an art that can be practiced without recognizing that th...

Let's. Talk about focus!  I'm talking about this focus, which I think is the true source for success. This thing you can had a CD dry, and that was the time when I saw one of the first YouTube videos out there. One part, let me quickly show you and since then, for the past 52 years, I've, looked in the mirror. Every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life, what I want to do what I am about to do today, remembering that I'll, be dead. Soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. He's talking about a part of his life. That, obviously, to me was about the ability to focus, to strip everything away and focus on the essentials, of course, and you Steve Jobs by then. But I didn't, know his background, his story and when I started researching, I found out that he was very close to the concept of Zen, which is like more practice for everyday life. How you live your life by researching that I sa...

Research Paper By Michèle Smole (Executive Coach, SWITZERLAND) How coaching can support a people-centered approach to organizational change management When you meet people where they are, you can take them where they want to be. Why Change Initiatives Fail The human resistance to change A global survey by McKinsey & Company concluded that only by changing constantly could organizations hope to survive. However, the McKinsey survey also claimed that some two-thirds of all change initiatives failed.[1] Why? Although myriad factors are cited in the change literature, the inability to engage people is the factor noted longest and most often. As organizational behavioral experts Kenneth Thompson and Fred Luthans noted, a person’s reaction to organizational change “can be so excessive and immediate, that some researchers have suggested it may be easier to start a completely new organization than to try to change an existing one.” This phenomenon, often referred to a...