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Accredited Advanced Diploma in Coach Training

By Sally Vanson

The Performance Solution are delighted to have been awarded Accredited Advanced Diploma in Coach Training status by the Association for Coaching. This award is for the combined Higher Professional Coaching Certificate Level 1 and Higher Professional Coaching Certificate Level 2 Programmes. We will  be listed on the Association for Coaching website as offering an AC…

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Locating Myself: A Biographical narrative of work by Simon Western

By tpsadmin

When coaching leaders, I often found that they felt a little dislocated, out of place in this fast moving world. The first task of my coaching work, focused on locating them, helping them re-discover their place, to feel more grounded and located in their networks. After which they were better positioned to take up leadership…

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Built on purpose: Telling your company’s story

By tpsadmin

By Steve Fuller on Feb 19, 2015 Communicating the reason your company is in business – other than to turn a profit – can transform the fortunes of your brand;  While the rest of retail banking world has been struggling, Triodos Bank has seen the number of its customer accounts grow 144% in the last four years. The…

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The Three Brains of Leadership

By tpsadmin

The Three Brains of Leadership – harnessing the wisdom of the head, heart and gut brains for generative and adaptive leadership By Marvin Oka and Grant Soosalu The complex issues and adaptive challenges facing organizations today require a far more generative response than simply devising innovative strategies and new business models. New strategies developed and…

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mBIT and mBraining

By tpsadmin

by Grant Soosalu Do you sometimes suffer from conflict between your thoughts, feelings and actions? Find yourself not acting upon or sabotaging your dreams, goals or plans? Do you have trouble making decisions or stopping unwanted behaviours or habits and don’t know why? Or sometimes feel like something is missing and you’re not fully connected…

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Credibility in the marketplace

By Sally Vanson

Business is changing at an incredible pace and we need to remain relevant and current in this fast changing world. The most important thing to question frequently relates to both ourselves and our business model being relevant to what our clients want and whether it delivers our services the way in the way clients want…

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Competition or Co-opetition?

By Sally Vanson

As big as your dreams are and as smart as you might think you are, you can’t do it alone. It never ceases to amaze me in the world of Coaching and NLP how aggressive some individuals can get about competing with each other when business is challenging. Providers revert to a 1980’s style of…

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Can you afford to start your own business?

By Sally Vanson

It’s that time of year when people start thinking about living the life they have dreamed of. We receive several calls a week from coaches wanting to start their own business (or who have started a business without thinking it through). Although not in the profession of running business start-up courses we have offered coaching…

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Dr Simon Western’s Analytic Network Coaching workshop

By Sally Vanson

We are all getting excited about Dr Simon Western’s Analytic Network Coaching workshop, 10-12 December in Bath. 20 people are signed up and we have two places left, so if this is the year you want to really up your game in coaching we will delighted to see you. Please contact enquiries@theperformancesolution.com to secure your…

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