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By nlpcoach on Nov 16, 2014 in Uncategorized |

Executive Coaching as an alternate career for Senior Executives There comes a point in every professional’s life when they feel that they are tired of the daily rut at work. It has been seen that there is a tendency among successful Executives to move towards Executive Coaching, Peak Performance Coaching, and Business Coaching as an alternate career track. Here one can leverage Business experience, Networking skills, as well as Sales and Marketing knowledge gained through corporate experience. Senior Executives have an added advantage – their natural tendency to get into good Rapport with their Coaching clients, as they would relate to the Life experiences of these high profile Coaches, who once were Senior Executives. This feeling of being an Entrepreneur, being in control of things, is what provides Satisfaction to such Senior Executives. Senior Executives have lot of things going in their favor when they take the first step towards becoming a Coach. Senior Executives are financially stable, and will have a financial cushion to sustain while they are establishing their brand in the market.  Generally speaking, Senior Executives have a very good educational background, and that would provide a good starting point to create an impression with potential clients. They have very good interpersonal skills, considering they are successful in their corporate careers. They would have attended many networking events, and hence can easily leverage their existing network to set up a Coaching Brand. Senior Executives as a Coach would get buy in from Corporates to coach their Managers, Senior Manager, and Executives. Becoming a Coach is a very good option for Senior Executives to explore one’s entrepreneurial journey while still being employed full time in an organization, as one can avoid financial pressure that usually happens with start-ups with limited cash flow. A person can easily start as a part time Coach, and can utilize Personal Time after work and during weekends to get his/her feet wet and establish oneself as a Coach. This way a person gets enough experience before they take a call to quit their full time job, and become a full time Coach. It usually takes 3-4 years to establish oneself as a coach and gain recognition in the market.  Also, this is...

By nlpcoach on Jul 22, 2014 in Uncategorized |

  “You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … You turn to me to feel your own emotion” — Rumi NLP is widely regarded as a powerful approach to personal development, promoting positive growth and reducing negative emotions. A number of different healing therapies have been developed, all variants of NLP, many of which have proven effectiveness. The concept of a Timeline invariably comes up in most of these therapies. It emphasizes learning from our past events and the associated emotions in order to not only overcome them, but to use our new found knowledge and insight in the future to deal with similar negative emotions. Its popularity is increasing in the field of psychology because of its effectiveness, brevity, and permanency in positive behavior change. Timeline is being used in Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, and Peak Performance Coaching etc. What is a Timeline? Our “Time Line” is our unconscious memory storage mechanism, which not only stores events, but also emotions linked to the events, causing us to later project assimilated emotions to similar negative events such as the first. You can refer to these memories and behavioral patterns as schemas, mental maps, or Gestalts which are continuously formed throughout our lives. It helps you master your negative emotions by releasing them and allowing you to replace them with positive emotions. This is done by focusing on eradicating the negative emotion from the root instead of just focusing on the event. This results in you being able move toward building a more positive mindset and ultimately a better life.  Trained NLP Practitioners use Timeline often during Coaching or Therapy sessions. Negative Emotions Harvesting negative emotions can lead to detrimental health problems, both medical and psychological. Our perception and response to stress is ultimately influenced by our past unresolved emotional baggage, which can distort our ability to reason and logic, and cause us to react counter productively. The therapy is most effective with problems related to anxiety and depression, including fear and anger, which are linked to poor quality of life, disturbed relationships, lack of ambition, and even failure. Limiting Decisions When you embark on a new venture, do you ever find yourself...

By nlpcoach on Jul 3, 2014 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

How to get more Life Coaching clients If you are reading this article, then congratulations. You went through the rigor of getting trained and are now a certified coach. The easy part is over. Whether you got trained with an ICF/IAC accredited training provider or a general NLP coaching program, you are now a coach.  Now you might be perplexed and thinking about how to get more Life Coaching clients, or coaching clients in general.  Even if you are among the select few who completed a niche certificate program like Licensed NLP Coach (which is under the aegis of Society of NLP, wherein participants get a certificate personally signed by Richard Bandler himself), you are still a novice coach whose journey has only just begun. You should have begun thinking of your brand as soon as you enrolled in your Life Coach certification program in India. At a high level, you can go vertical and super specialize. Or you could go horizontal and be a generalist. Here are some vertical options available to you, before you delve into how to find more Life Coaching clients: Corporate coaching Working with corporate employees, you could become an Executive Coach, Performance Coach, Transformation Coach or Leadership Coach. Sports coaching Here, you will be a Sports Performance Coach or Sports Psychologist, working with athletes. It helps if you have first hand understanding of this field. Entrepreneur coaching As the name suggests, you will be working with mostly start-up leaders on the cusp of greatness. Your label in this case could be Success Coach, Sales Coach, Business Coach or, quite simply, Entrepreneur Coach. Alternatively, you could be a generalist and give yourself the simple label of Life Coach.  Also, read marketing for NLP coaches to get marketing savvy.   How to get more Life Coaching Clients – Where to begin? Now that you have determined your brand position, it’s time to seek clients, and do a deep dive into How to get more Life Coaching clients. Look around. No, you won’t find clients by looking around, but you are bound to come across an endless array of books, articles and workshops devoted to the subject. A cursory glance at them will tell you that you...

By nlpcoach on Jun 19, 2014 in Blog |

Myths related to Life Coaching Many myths cloud the realities of life coaching as a profession. Get your facts straight before you enter this competitive and alluring arena.  Demystifying the myths related to Life Coaching is an attempt to bring a spotlight on some of those myths, especially if you are looking for How to become a Life Coach  The gladiators of ancient Rome hardly ever knew who their next opponent would be. Would it be a mighty, nameless Moor or a ferocious, untamed beast of the jungle? They only found out in the arena. In a sense, they went in blindly. And tragically, their ignorance led to the downfall of many a celebrated hero. Life coaching is like gladiator sport. You enter the arena with some expertise, some skills, some awareness, and great expectations. But do you know enough to survive and achieve extraordinary success? Unlike those fallen gladiators, you have no excuse to enter the area blind. Unlike then, you live in a privileged world with easy access to information and technology. This means you can be armed and ready. You can ascertain the true nature of the beast before you fight it.  Demystifying the myths related to Life Coaching is the need of the hour, as more and more coaches are joining the bandwagon of Life Coaching, and hence myths around Life Coaching and Life Coaches is an urgent topic to address. The essentials ~ Demystifying the myths related to Life Coaching If you’re serious about establishing yourself as a coach, the first thing you must do is to separate fact from fiction, and read demystifying the myths related to Life Coaching, and be clear with them. Fiction#1: A degree/diploma/certification is all it takes to make you a coach Fact: A degree/diploma/certification qualifies you to start coaching. But you’re still a long way from becoming a coach. You need to first start with believing in your skills and abilities. You need to make a small beginning. And to keep learning. Because a little knowledge can be dangerous. But continuous learning as you go along, can make you wiser and more grounded in your knowledge. At the same time, you don’t need years and years of preparation to...

By nlpcoach on Jun 15, 2014 in Blog |

Neuro Linguistic Programming for Kids India is a land of believers. A great number of Indians make their lives using the strength of their beliefs or break their lives due to flawed beliefs. Some beliefs are more harmful than others. Like, for instance, illogical beliefs that are used to determine the future of our children. Their futures are not ours to play with, and we have the immense responsibility to use logic and rigor while helping them decide their vocation of choice. Neuro Linguistic Programming for kids is one such program where they get to experience powerful beliefs for themselves and learn and design strategies and set goals for the future. Even today, many of us in India feel compelled to consult our astrologer, pundit or some other revered guru figure before making crucial life decisions. These people tell us whom we should get married to and what profession we must undertake. Who knows how many Virat Kohlis never got to pursue their dream careers because of an illogical approach to career planning? In the modern age, the problem is compounded by the emergence of concepts that sound scientific but are new forms of superstitions. One system claims to divine the most suitable careers for a child by studying his or her fingerprints. The process uses computer algorithms and sophisticated-looking reports, but the result is no more accurate than palmistry. It just costs more. A lot more. Even many “assessment” reports that claim to determine the child’s IQ, EQ, strengths, and weaknesses, etc may not be scientific. Only a few players in the market devise accurate assessment tests. Fewer still know how to scientifically interpret the results of these tests. With so much confusion in the air, it is no surprise that established NLP Coaches get dozens of calls from super-anxious parents of adolescent children. They usually want somebody to wave a magic wand and reveal to them what their children are best suited to do. We coaches have to be patient while answering these calls. We try and educate them about NLP and Peak Performance Coaching. For us, this call is an opportunity to help them make better choices on behalf of their children, instead of dooming them...