What is Coaching?
Coaching has long been synonymous with high achieving sports teams and athletes. We recognize coaching as a highly effective approach to enable individuals to achieve and unlock their full potential. Our Coaches can draw from a wealth of experience in both individual and corporate environments. They are there to realize your potential by helping you grow and investing in your ability to over achieve.

Imagine this for a moment

• Imagine a relationship where the total focus is on you, on what you want in your life, business or career and on what you can do to achieve it.
  
• Imagine someone listening not only to your words, but what is behind them and even the spaces between them; a person tuned into receiving the messages you communicate without any judgement or criticism.
  
• Imagine someone who will hold you accountable and keep you moving towards your dreams and goals.
  
• Imagine someone who is totally curious about your fears, your values, your dreams, aspirations and what you are most passionate about.
  
• Imagine someone who could help you clear the mental debris, help you clarify your goals, generate motivation and provide you with the tools for action to get the results you want.
  
• Imagine someone who is sometimes even more committed to what you want in your life than you are.
  
• Imagine someone who knows your values, dreams and life or business purpose and who held you true to them; someone who no matter what the situation would be, they would right by your side encouraging you to stay focussed, to press on and to never give up.
  
• Imagine someone who you can be totally open and honest with, and who will always tell you the truth - someone who is not afraid to tell you how well you are doing and who congratulates you on your victories.

That person is Your Coach.

Where can Personal Coaching help you?
Anyone can decide to hire a Personal Coach. If you need help clarifying your goals and ambitions, overcoming any barriers you may find difficult and generally getting your life on track and living your life the way you want to live it, then a coach can be a valuable tool to help you getting there.

Our Coaches will help you focus on such aspects like:

• Discovering your strengths and values
  
• Getting your career back on track
  
• Making a change towards a more rewarding career.
  
• Maximizing your potential for achievement.
  
• Increasing self confidence and self worth
  
• Reducing stress and improving the quality of your life
  
• Resolving relationship issues
  
• Clearly defining goals and a focused strategy to achieve them
  
• Making difficult decisions
  
• Finding ways to achieve balance in your life.

Meet some of our Coaches

Gill Barstow

Gill has 14 years experience as a consultant and project manager and 18 years in the contact centre industry. She has a strong track record in bringing about results in a commercial environment.

Throughout her business life, Gill has always had a strong focus on people. She is an experienced communications skills trainer and public speaker. Her emphasis is on empowering people, bringing out people's real strengths and values, assisting them to lead even more satisfying and fulfilling lives and helping them to feel more confident as a result of working with her.

Gills mission is "Helping successful people and businesses to be even more successful". For the last 5 years she has been on the UK judging panel for the National Training Awards. Gill is a member of the Coaching Academy, of 247 coaching and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.

What clients have said:

"I recently had coaching sessions with Gill. The experience was enlightening and helped me clarify things. It was useful to talk my ideas through with Gill and have her reflect my ideas back to me. I made faster progress than if I had dealt with the situation on my own as there are always distractions and Gill's intuitive guidance helped me focus and take action. Gill listens well, she picked up on and remembered points I had forgotten about during the process which allowed me to see how I was progressing and also she made me feel comfortable with anything I wanted to say. That ability to make some one feel accepted and not judged is a great quality. There is a lot more to coaching than immediately seems obvious, it is a great facility to move things on in your life regardless of how skilled you are generally in doing that."
- Kathleen Saunders, Consultant and Facilitator

"During my first strand management role I found myself leading a team in a difficult, politically sensitive climate. Gill's support during this programme was invaluable to me. She coached me through difficult stages, helped me to prepare and deliver sensitive communications, acted as a sounding board and trouble-shooter. My success was largely due to Gill's expert guidance throughout. Gill has a unique blend of skill, knowledge and capability, coupled with a keen interest in people and a desire to support people in their own development. It is these qualities that make her an excellent coach and mentor. I would highly recommend her."
- Elaina Ewing, Director, Humanistics

Ian Waite

Ian is an experienced coach in both individual and corporate environments. He has built up his skill set through 19 years of wide ranging experience in one of the world's leading multi-national corporations. Ian is proud of his success in delivering a profound and positive impact to individuals and businesses alike. Your success is Ian's goal. Using Ian as your coach provides a competitive edge for anyone who wants to take their lives or businesses to the next level. Ian is a member of the Coaching Academy

What clients have said:

"Ian has coached me to better understand and realise my career goals. His approach of listening and challenging has made me realise that the key to success rests in my own hands and has helped me to find answers to specific, sometimes sensitive, issues and questions. I unreservedly recommend Ian as a coach and a personal enabler. I have benefited from his expertise in the past, present and look forward to doing so in the very near future."
- Ian Henry, Project Manager, IBM UK Ltd.

"With Ian's unique coaching talent, he has supported me to draw upon and use my own resources to better my individual performance and with his searching and thorough questioning skills, he's created an ideal environment for me to move forward in a confident and self assured manner, which as a result has brought me total business success. His accurate listening skills allowed myself to build excellent rapport very quickly and with his non-judgemental approach, enormous trust has developed. As a result of Ian's coaching my individual and overall business organisational performance has exceeded my expectations! Thank you Ian"
- Julie Britton, Reflect Consulting.

Price guide for Personal/Business Coaching:

NB. This table is based on payment in advance for all four calls.

Or 1-session rates are as follows: -

Personal Shopping and Diet Guide/Coaching - prices on request.