So you’re thinking about becoming a coach?

We get phonecalls all the time from people who are interested in becoming coaches and are being told hundreds of different things about what training to go for. Choosing a coach training course is so confusing! To help you make an informed decision about coach training, we have developed an impartial information pamphlet . Wherever…

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Virginia Satir Video

We’d like to share these videos of Virginia Satir, whose techniques formed the beginnings of NLP and have become great examples for those of us who practice change work with clients:

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Setting the Gold Standard

At The Performance Solution® we are passionate about training coaches who can go out into the world and use their coaching skills alongside the codes of ethics and practice of the major professional bodies in our field. Coaching is being pushed to regulate itself and we are fighting the good fight to make sure that…

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ICF ACTP accreditation

Our coaching programmes can now lead to ICF ACTP accreditation. U2Coach based in Rome have joined The Performance Group so that we can ensure our European clients receive the best possible service. This also enables NLPU, ICF and Association for Coaching recognised programmes to be run acros Europe, thus providing our clients with multiple accreditations.

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Meeting the president

Last week, I attended the International Coaching Federation meeting for Accredited Coach Training Providers. We were lucky enough to have the incoming president Ed Modell attend and listen to our points and answer our questions. The UK ICF president Katherine Pope took lots of photos and I’ll be posting some photos of me with the…

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Breaking news: ILM endorsement

The Performance Solution are proud to announce that we are once again setting a high standard for coach training and showing our commitment to regulatory bodies as we have achieved the status of recognised provider of the ILM: Our Training Programme in Higher Professional Coaching Certificate Level 1 is now endorsed by the Institute of…

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Which Coaching Organisation Should I Use?

There are so many coaching associations out there now that shopping for coaching services or for coach training is becoming a minefield of acronyms. Which organisation should you choose? How can you tell who represents what? How do you know that an accreditation is really worth its salt? To help with this confusion we pinpoint…

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NLP Works.. And Now We Have Proof!

Brought to us by: We know that NLP works, right? I am assuming your answer is a big resounding yes! And yet, whilst the popularity of, and general awareness around NLP is definitely on the up, there is still some skepticism about its credibility. Improving this public perception of NLP is something we are very…

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Coaching Super-Vision: Superman or Lex Luther?

What’s coaching supervision all about? Someone watching you, pointing out your mistakes and giving you a bad mark at the end of the session? Is it designed to restrict a coach’s freedom to coach in the way that they want to? Is it to create a mainstream coach, one size fits all? We’d love to…

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