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Well, I've recently come back from a trip to L.A. Where I attended the ICF International coaching convention, I have to say I had an absolutely wonderful time.
It really was a wonderful event and I got to meet some great coaches.
It was great to see Westminster Indemnity having their own exhibition stand, so I spent a lot of time talking to Gordon (and drinking coffee)
There were lots and lots of American and Canadian coach training companies exhibiting, and what I found particularly interesting was the content of the courses and the amount of money they charged.
The average length of course was in the region of 150 hours with a price tag of $6,000 or more.
I have to say this made me feel very good indeed, when you consider that Noble Manhattan’s practitioner diploma is now 350 hours of training and coaching with a price tag in the region of £2500
($5,000) which includes all food accommodation etc (none of the others that I saw included food and accommodation)
The other interesting experience I had was when speaking to the owners of very many Coach training companies it was very obvious to me that their total focus was on making money by signing up as many students as they could. It was almost as if they looked at potential students as " biological units of production" i.e. ways to make money for themselves.
It made me realise that in the world of coaching most people fall into two quite distinct camps.
Wolves and sheep, and I couldn't help thinking that many of those lovely coaches were being preyed upon by the Wolves.
So, if most people fall into two categories, Wolves and Sheep, where does that put Noble Manhattan Coaching ? Are we wolves or sheep ?
Neither. You see I think there is a third category, called sheepdog, whose job it is to protect the sheep.
To be a guardian of the flock, and that is where I see the role of Noble Manhattan Coaching.
To look after our students, to take care of them and to give every possible help we can to enable them to build a financially rewarding sustainable business while at the same time protecting them.
Have a great month
Warmest
Gerard
As many of you know Gerard is currently the CEO of the European coaching Institute.( ECI)
There is now an opportunity to work closely with Gerard in the role of "international development coordinator"
Helping to work with the international country heads worldwide.
Within the last two months alone the ECI have appointed country heads in Australia, Slovenia, South Africa and Turkey with many more to come.
This is a volunteer role that would be very exciting indeed and would help to raise the profile of the individual dramatically.
If you would be interested in volunteering for this unique position please e-mail
Stacey Melvin at staceymelvin@noble-manhattan.com
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Practitioner Course Diploma will be increasing in price at midnight on the 31st December 2007. As yet, we are unsure as to what the price will be increasing to and what the figures will be.
If you are interested in having a career as a life coach and the coaching course is something that you are considering it may be worth paying a small deposit before the end of November/December to reserve your place on the course so you can start in the New Year at the old 2007, discounted price.
We currently have a fantastic offer on this month so get in touch NOW to see what is available to you and we will tailor make a course and payment plan to suit your needs.
Don’t forget to ask about Bursaries and the Career Development Loan to help with the funding.
You can contact our friendly customer care team now on 0800 1910100 (inside UK) or +44 (0) 1305 769411 – Or e-mail info@noble-manhattan.com
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Last chance to book onto out last introduction event of the year!
Saturday 1st December – 10.00am - 5.00pm
Dublin – Crown Plaza
This is a fantastic event where you can find out all about coaching, how it can transform lives and you can experience and receive coaching techniques from our qualified coaches?
Gerard is a really inspirational speaker and we know you'll enjoy listening to him, so do come along and attend! There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. Why not bring a friend or relative as well?
This event is worth £250 (inc vat) and you will receive a certificate of attendance. We are offering you the event free of charge to attend but we do ask for a small contribution of £25.00 for lunch, teas/coffees and coaching materials.
You will learn:
- What is a Life Coach?
- What is an executive coach? What do they do?
- Learn how Life Coaching can transform people’s lives
- The benefits of applying Life Coaching Skills in the home and work place.
- Learn the four pillars on coaching
- Take part in a highly interactive and informative coaching workshop where you will get hands on real coaching techniques.
- Learn how to build your client base.
- Plus much more
Please click here to find out all about this day + book your place securely online now!
If you would like to attend an event please contact us on the free phone: 0800 1910100 or e-mail info@noble-manhattan.com and we will send you a booking confirmation and a map to you. Places are limited
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Columbia Hotel, London, 8th - 9th December 2007
Normally £600 + VAT – NOW £400 + VAT including FREE Gift!
This action packed two-day course, using cutting edge techniques, is quite unlike anything else in the U.K. market today. Although there are many courses available covering the importance of goals and setting goals, our innovative approach takes the concept one important and fundamental step further; and reveals how to actually achieve those goals.
The course is in two parts. Gerard O'Donovan teaches the Goal Achievement and Scott Milway teaches the Primordial Sound Meditation. Gerard and Scott took time out to be on the phone to speak in depth about this fantastically life changing course. We where able to get this recorded and here is the link for you to listen to them both discussing the course in great detail.
http://www.noble-manhattan.com/audio/quantum_goal/
I asked Scott "What does the course mean and what can it do for you?" and this is what he said...........
"The main point is that everyone should have goals to work towards - worthy goals if they are going to align with their values - and to propel those goals into reality. We can help by aligning them with their value and belief system, ensuring that they get placed in their intention system, and thenceforth by using the meditation as a catalyst, to give more power to their intentions, which will then be grounded in the field of infinite possibilities. As long as their attention is then placed correctly (affirmations help here) then they will not fail!”
Places are limited so please be in touch with me as soon as possible to assure your reservation and to benefit from the discounted rate also.
Please follow the link below to learn more & book on this great 2 day course:
http://www.noble-manhattan.com/courses/quantum_goal_achievement/
Alternatively call the office NOW on: 0800 191 0100.
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Well here they are at last. I promised back in July that we would be launching a series of new coaching support groups in the Autumn. These support groups will be unlike anything that is currently available in the United Kingdom or anywhere else in the coaching world. It is our aim to launch at least 50 of these throughout the UK and Ireland and many more further afield.
If you would like to be involved in setting up and running one of these groups then please listen to the conference call we did a few weeks ago
Here’s that link for you http://www.noble-manhattan.com/conference_calls/Coaching Support Groups - R3300 - 26 Sep 07.mp3
After you've listened to the recording if you would like to become involved please contact Stacey Melvin on 01305 769411 or e-mail at staceymelvin@noble-manhattan.com
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Would you like to find out more about coaching? Why not come along to one of our band new support groups!
West London Support Group
Tuesday 4th December at 6.45 - 8.45pm
The Holiday Inn - Heathrow, Bath Road, Corner of Sipson Way, Heathrow, London, UB7 0DP
If you would like to attend please contact Yasmin via e-mail on emailyasmin@tiscali.co.uk or e-mail Noble Manhattan on the free phone: 0800 1910100
Midlands Support Group
Thursday 13th December at 7.30pm
The Lyndon Public House, Marn Lane, Solihll, B92 7LY
Put the postcode into www.multimap.com for the exact location. The public house is 10mins from M42 junctions 5 or 6
If you would like to attend please contact Paul via e-mail on knightoftherealm@blueyonder.co.uk or e-mail Noble Manhattan on the free phone: 0800 1910100.
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It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that from early in the New Year our coach training programmes will be endorsed by the Institute of L earning and Management ( ILM)
This will mean that every student who does our courses will not only receive the Noble Manhattan diploma, and the ECI international accreditation but will also now receive the accredited endorsement from the ILM and be able to put the relevant letters after their name .
( mind you, what with Noble Manhattan's letters DIPnm, and the ECI letters PECI and now ILM's
There just won't be room on your business card :-) )
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 Spend A Day With Moray McGuffie
For those of you who don't know, Moray McGuffie is considered to be one of the best sales and marketing trainers in the whole of the United Kingdom. I have personally known Moray for 20 years.
I met with Moray at the very beginning of August and somehow have managed to get him to agree to devote a day of his time to helping Noble Manhattan's students and coaches to build their business . In fact at my request he has put together a special day which is specifically designed for coaches to help them get in front of more clients.
Here is what the day will cover.
"Psychological Selling" You don’t have to be a Doctor to understand how the mind works
One of the biggest challenges to businesses people today is marketing and getting in front of people to let them know about their product or services. This seminar explains how recent research into Neuro Linguistic Programming has led to the discovery of easy to use sales strategies to more effectively understand what your customer really wants. Secondly these discoveries will allow you to present your product or service in a way that is almost irresistible.
- Subliminal Selling Techniques
- How to increase the power of closing by up to 300%
- How to dramatically increase the power of diagrammed selling
- How to get a customer to remember important points
- Intimacy versus power. Why men and women don’t communicate in the sales process
- Proxemics (Buying distances)
- Understanding handshakes
- The most powerful words in written communication today
- Non verbal communication (body language)
- How to triple the response on prospecting mail
- How to convert mail into appointments
- Understanding when you customer is feeling stressed
- And much much more!!
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH MORAY
The seminar includes course materials, tea, coffee and snack breaks. Investment only £145.00 inc VAT per person Learn how to effectively market your business, make appointments and how to get in front of potential clients This one spectacular day will pay for itself many times over Sat the 1st December at the Columbia Hotel, Bayswater Road London. It's the day your business really starts to take off
If you would more information on this magnificent day please e-mail Stacey Melvin at staceymelvin@noble-manhattan.com
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technology can help us make "deposits," or cause us to make "withdrawals," in another person's emotional bank account. A deposit would be keeping a promise, being kind and courteous, clarifying expectations, making apologies, being open to feedback and being loyal to those who are absent.
Stephen Covey
Distinction: Love Vs. Listening
Definitions
- Love - The sovereign preference of myself for that of another (O. Chambers).
- Listening - Close personal focus on what another is saying and how they are saying it.
Comparisons
- A high level of devotion to another vs. A high level of concentration on the other's communication
- Paying attention to another in a way that is good for them vs. Paying attention to what another is saying
Example
John listens to his clients with such compassion and integrity that they feel heard. Jan waits for an opportunity to give an opinion, or give advice, so while it is worthwhile to talk to her, one does feel sometimes that she has not heard them.
Key Point
Paying attention to what another is saying, i.e., listening to them empathetically and intuitively, can hardly be distinguished from love.
Benefits
Paying attention to people, primarily by listening to them intently, occurs so infrequently that it is a surprise to find it happening to them. In coaching, as in other fields, listening is vital to the process. To listen carefully, is to enter that realm of communication where love is.
Related distinctions
Love vs. Attend to
Listening with your eyes vs. Listening
Listening with vs. Listening for
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Charles Powell, Professional Business Coach, who can be reached at coach@coach-charles.com
WordZ: Synonym for straying
is the word that describes something which is wandering from its path? This could be someone or something which has no fixed direction or someone who is misbehaving or making an error in judgment.
The _____ teenager was returned to the care of his parents.
Synonym: straying
Opposite: virtuous
Did you guess it?
Page down to check your answer!
ERRANT (ER-int)
In a sense, any time we are off course and off purpose, we have made a mistake. When we are fully oriented around what we do best and we are free of unhealthy influences that we can most easily fulfil ourselves and contribute to others.
Other Examples: an errant knight, an errant husband, an errant taste in dress, an errant Frisbee hit him in the head
Close, but no cigar: ROVING. Roving doesn't have the double meaning that errant does. Roving means wandering, without the connotation of doing wrong. For example, you might refer to a roving pack of dogs but to an errant gang of teenagers.
Interesting Titbit: Errant comes from a root meaning "to wander about."
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Isabel Parlett, Coach, who can be reached at Isacoach@aol.com.
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Why Men Marry
Men can be captivated by sex for a while, but in time they hear the call of a deeper hunger, a more primal need.
I awoke one too many mornings with a stranger... feeling isolated, disconnected and alone.
I had lost contact with myself, my purpose and the deeper significance of life.
The thrill of sexual carousing reveals itself an empty promise in an arena without dignity or reason.
It's an expensive activity with no final achievement where empty promises have ever fewer takers.
Men that marry too young often miss this lesson and some end up having affairs.
To be a husband and a father doesn't come naturally to a man. They are acquired skills and most men are simply not inclined to give up all women for a single woman that requires his loyalty and generosity for the rest of his life.
Men that master these skills do so through honour, discipline and self control. This is a transformation of man's natural drives and deserves our respect.
Men marry for many reasons and most of them lead to divorce.
But it's not just a desire for companionship, sex or even a genuine realization of their pointless existence that transforms the single man.
No.
In the end when men marry for life. They marry for love.
When I fell in love with my wife, and I do again almost everyday, a deeper level of spirit sprang up through my life and transformed my relationship to the world.
I became a Spiritual Warrior at war with my own unconsciousness.
My own detachment and emptiness had served me in the past but now they are my most persistent adversaries.
My only weapon is Love that constantly demands I surrender to a higher cause in the chaos of ever changing emotions.
This transformation is essential. For it is the passage from man to gentleman that forms the foundation of civilized society.
Women cause evolution when they transform male sexual desire into love.
Her values of exclusivity, longevity and stability spark his love and bring a deeper meaning to his life.
Love, marriage and childbirth are fundamental physically defined emotional experiences.
The significance of these experiences for a woman are the source of her moral strength.
Today's "Cosmopolitan" woman with short-term vision tries to 'quick-fix' relationships by getting him sexually addicted. Never considering the transformation of masculine nature she undermines her own foundation offering sexual gratification as an alternative to love.
She thinks: I'll get him 'hooked' and he'll change. They are wrong.
An "addict-able" man is not a "committable" man.
Men change slowly but transformation is immediate.
In a shallow world that is pulling and pushing you to be like it, holding out for a higher purpose feels pointless. Quick fix women think "If I don't sleep with him some girl will" and they're right.
But women cannot avoid the impact their sexual choices have on the outcome of relationships.
Sexuality is one of our deepest sources of identity, emotion and energy. Its connection with loves deeper meaning is essential to lifelong relationships. Successful societies are base on customs intended to channel male sexuality into productive, long term relationships. Men are attracted by sex but they stay for love. And women are simply better equipped to know the difference.
A woman's grace is eternal. Her beauty and sex appeal are fleeting. Use them wisely. Men might say I love you for sex. But in the end they marry for love. Gregory Morgan 11/4/07
Warmest Regards
The Noble Manhattan Team
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