The 12 essential beliefs for effective coaches

What makes a good coach? These 12 beliefs, formed from the principles upon which NLP is based, create an empowering platform from which any coach can achieve excellence in their coaching skills. By understanding what makes everyone both different and unique, and how this drives behaviour, the coach can gain a valuable insight into how to develop a flexible coaching style, adaptable to best suit any individual they may encounter.

How to access a resourceful coaching state

Unconscious minds generate rapport and can influence each other at a deeper, non-verbal level. When the coach has accessed a resourceful state and is projecting positive intentions at an unconscious level to their client, the benefit to the client can be quite remarkable as they gain an empowering sense of wellbeing. The ensuing coaching session is then most likely to be positive and productive for both participants.

Sleight of mouth – how to ask ‘deeper’ questions that trigger breakthroughs

Much of the language used in NLP was developed from modelling hypnotherapist Milton Erickson. Its strength is that it goes beyond communicating at a conscious level, to reach the behaviour-driving unconscious mind. By understanding how to construct questions that communicate at this deeper level, the coach significantly enhances their questioning ability and is more likely to trigger ‘light bulb’ moments for their clients.

The ‘unstoppable combination’ that underpins all successful goal achievement and how to ensure it is in place

When a client’s lifestyle or career is incongruent with their values, they will feel dissatisfied and discontent without really understanding why. The unstoppable combination is the congruent alignment of values, beliefs and goals, which ensures that the ladder is up against the right wall and that there are no obstructions to reaching the top rung.

An ‘ideal life’ values elicitation that uses both elimination and inclusion to gain a clear focus on the future

The conventional way of ascertaining a client’s values is to ask questions about what they feel is important to have in their life. This presumes that the client is a ‘towards’ person and knows what they want in life, in their career, etc. However, if they are an ‘away from’, they may find it difficult to identify their values through this process. The ’ideal life’ elicitation method caters for both ‘towards’ and ‘away from’ people and is thus a more comprehensive and accurate method of identifying values.

Two new belief change models that deal with limiting and debilitating beliefs

A limiting belief may have elements to it that are not all bad. The first of these belief change models focuses on identifying any positive aspects of a limiting belief so that they can be retained, whilst modifying the remainder of the belief to make it better. The second model deals with beliefs that are so negative, they have become debilitating and employs a spatial sorting method of discarding the old belief, replacing it with a new, unshakeable belief.

How to attain a peak performance state that triggers goal achievement at an unconscious level

Using John Grinder’s new code method of conducting a game or task that uses the ‘whole’ brain, the individual is able to experience the feeling of peak performance from which personal empowerment and motivation emanate.

What’s really going on when a client consistently fails to complete agreed actions and how it can be overcome

An exploration of how clients sabotage themselves and how to coach the ‘mismatcher’ – the person who either doesn’t do the task at all or does something completely opposite to what they have been asked to do.

The ‘well formed obstacle’ and how it can be dismantled

Based on the principles of the Well Formed Outcome (a series of questions used to clarify a goal), the Well Formed Obstacle questions are designed to deal with resistance, culminating in a definition that goes beyond a goal. The end result is a personal propulsion system that has built-in motivation.

How to identify motivators at an individual level to ensure the client feels ‘fired up’

An exploration of individual filters and criteria, combined with anchors, designed to press the client’s ignition button and achieve lift off! Knowing your personal motivators is an essential part of being able to stay focused on a goal and to keep on keeping on, no matter what.

How to discover your ‘core state’ (beyond values), experience it, anchor it and take it forward into the future

Based on the principles of Connirae Andreas’ Core Transformation work, how to identify your core state, access it, feel how good it feels, apply it to a goal and take it forward on a timeline into the future. This provides the opportunity of experiencing in advance the exhilaration of achieving major life goals.