Coaching is for you if you’ve hit a barrier or you’re feeling drained by your current situation.  We fix the immediate problems and re-ignite your emotional energy.  We’ll get you back into success mode, help you set new goals and work with you on an action plan.

Coaching is for you if you can see a long road ahead – especially if you have responsibility for other people.  We help you define the task and the goals, keep you on track, give you an opportunity to download regularly and offer the support or encouragement you need.  We’ll deal with each week’s issues as they arise so that you can continue to support others without burning yourself out.

Coaching is for you if you feel that you’ve lost your way.  We set new goals and work out the strategies to achieve them.  As well as developing your plans, we’ll run some problem-solving sessions tailored to you and equip you with the mindset tools to go forward successfully.

The first step is a meeting between you and your coach to establish where you want to get to and where you are now.  But the real value of this meeting is that you get a chance to chat with your coach and find out whether you think you can work well together.  Part of the success of coaching comes from the chemistry between the coach and you, the client.

As a result of that meeting, your coach will estimate how long it will take to close the gap between where you are now and where you want to get to. Some of that depends on how intensively you want to work and how long you’d like each session to last.

Some people like to take their coaching in half-days, some in full days, some in 2-hour sessions and others combine all three.  Your coach will discuss with you the various options and help you decide what will work best for you.

In the first session we usually spend some time ‘taking stock’.  What’s going on now?  What has happened in the past?  What are your strengths and major achievements?

Next, we focus on your outcomes and purpose for the coaching.  It’s important to be clear about how you’ll recognise success.

Then you’re ready to start work on the changes you want to make:

• Ditching old habits that hold you back and waste your time
• Overcoming mental blocks or limiting beliefs that prevent you from succeeding
• Getting past the emotional baggage that underlies procrastination and doubt
• Adopting new habits that support you in achieving your goals
• Building your confidence in new approaches
• Finding your unique style as a leader

Many of the changes in behaviour are achieved through the use of NLP techniques.  Your coach will guide you through the processes you can use to re-programme your thinking or behaviour.  You are then able to achieve your goals in ways that are natural to you and are aligned with your values and beliefs.

The NLP techniques are neurological processes.  This means that the work happens during the coaching session.  There is no ‘homework’.  You don’t have to practice or add extra tasks to your daily workload.  In fact, your coach will often suggest that a good night’s sleep is your most important follow-up to the coaching.

That is the real value of this kind of coaching – once the work is done, it’s done. You don’t have to remember to do something differently, you don’t have to force yourself to do things that don’t come naturally, you don’t have to struggle any more. In fact, many people simply forget that they ever thought it difficult to achieve their goals.

Working with a coach can have multiple benefits too.  It’s not just the value of someone to talk to.  When you work with a coach:

• You are not the only person committed to your success
• You have clear goals because you work on them with your coach
• In fact, a lot of important strategic activities happen because you spend time with your coach working on them
• You have help to get back in the right mindset when something knocks you off balance
• You don’t have to make every decision alone – your coach provides you with useful processes to shape your thinking
• Your commitment to your coaching sessions means that nothing is allowed to distract you from working on the ‘too hard’ issues with your coach
• You can ‘download’ when events start to cause you stress
• You learn new habits and techniques that you can use outside of the coaching
• You achieve more with less effort

When you work with me, Dianne Lowther, or one of my team of highly effective coaches, you can be sure you will achieve results.  We use cutting edge neurological techniques to help you achieve clarity of purpose and to support you in your progress.  We can help you overcome mental blocks, build good habits (or eliminate bad ones) and gain greater choice and control over what goes on in your mind.

If you’re serious about being the leader your team needs, you owe it to yourself – and your team – to make this a priority.  There may have been times when working with a coach might have appeared to be a self-indulgence.  Now, when the world is wrestling with major changes and you may feel your mental health is being assailed on all sides, your best chance of being a successful leader and effective role model is to enlist the support and encouragement you need.

If YOU can’t admit to needing some extra help at this challenging time, how will anyone in your team be able to admit they’re struggling – until it’s too late?

If you haven’t worked with a Brilliant Minds coach before, let me reassure you – you’re going to love it!  Your sessions with your coach will be enjoyable, fun and productive.  All you have to do is schedule the time and turn up.  We’ll do the work that’s needed in the session and – most of the time – you won’t need to do anything more.  You just go back to work and notice how much easier it is to achieve what you want to achieve.

This is because we use neurological techniques to help you embed new habits, ditch bad habits and maintain your mental energy for the important stuff.

Because not everyone can travel right now, you have a choice of sessions conducted via zoom or face-to-face (we come to you).  With minimal interruption of your working week, you can raise your effectiveness immediately.

I know that many organisations are rethinking priorities just now and investing in development programmes may not seem important.  This is not development.  It’s essential maintenance.

If you’re serious about being the leader your team needs in this time of upheaval, you owe it to yourself – and your team – to make this a priority.  There may have been times when working with a coach might have appeared to be a self-indulgence.  Now, when your mental health is being assailed on all sides, your best chance of being a successful leader and effective role model is to enlist the support and encouragement you need.

If you’re a business leader with major responsibility I think you need a coach.  You need extra resources at this time because everything is a bit more difficult – motivating staff, motivating yourself, making decisions, keeping in touch with everything, switching off, switching on again – it’s all taking a toll.  If you’re still committed to getting results in the face of all this upheaval – you deserve a coach.  A Brilliant Minds coach.

Your first step is to book a 30-minute call with me.  We’ll talk about your situation and your reason for wanting to work with a coach.  As a result of that conversation, we’ll be able to agree on the type of coaching programme and the specific format that will work best for you.

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When you commit to working with a coach, you’re taking the first step toward  working at your very best.  If you’re working at your very best, you can lead your team to success easily.