Building Confidence / Holiday Season / Personal Coaching / Potential / Values and Beliefs

Why are New Year’s Resolutions so darn hard to keep?

It’s easy to make a laundry list of New Year’s Resolutions and many of us optimistically make the same ones every year.   So why does all that good intention and enthusiasm peter out and what can we do to keep it going? As professional coaches, we’re all about helping people to make significant change in their lives and to reach achievable goals so we’ve seen a…

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January 2, 2019
Coaching Skills / Holiday Season / Learner Mindset / Personal Coaching / Trust Environment / Values and Beliefs

Coaching Nuggets for the Holiday Season

With the craziness of the season upon us, we wanted to offer some coaching “nuggets” to keep handy for when you need a moment to reflect, restore and re-energize. Choose to be “in choice”.  It’s easy to become frazzled and overwhelmed by everything that HAS to be done for holiday events.  Take time out to think about what’s important to you.  Then, even if you are…

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December 5, 2018
Aha! Leadership Moments / Coaching Skills / Conflict Resolution / Customer Service / Leadership Skills

A connection between electronic voting and coaching?

We hope you'll find this election story both an amusing and a poignant summertime read. By Jill Pillon, Staff Writer for The Coaching Lens Earlier this Spring, I helped to train 300 poll officials to use our province's new electronic elections process, all of which had to be accomplished in the dizzying space of two and a half weeks.  It was exciting, learning firsthand just how…

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July 16, 2018
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Coaching for Confidence: Perspective for Performance

Although the closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympics are behind us, the 2018 Winter Paralympics are still underway as we share our third and last story in this series about Coaching for Confidence. We hope you've enjoyed reading them as much as we did putting them together for you. Warm Regards, The Coaching Lens Coaches Most athletes will tell you that at some point in their…

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March 14, 2018
Building Confidence / Coaching Skills / Feedback / Performance Coaching / Personal Coaching / Potential / Uncategorized / Why coaching?

Coaching for Confidence: Whose journey is it?

We’ve all seen the caricature of the out-of-control parent at their child’s hockey, soccer or baseball game, yelling instructions and criticism, hurling invective at the ref and generally making the entire experience unpleasant for everyone around them.   If the role of parents and coaches is to unleash potential and remove interference for their child to deliver their best performance, what possesses them to get (pardon the…

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February 24, 2018
Building Confidence / Coaching Skills / Performance Coaching / Personal Coaching / Potential / Why coaching?

Coaching for Confidence: How should we perceive Failure?

Whoever said failure was not an option was clearly not taking into account how often it happens and how important a part failure plays along the road to success. Take for example, our tale of two figure-skating siblings, both lacing up skates almost as soon as they could walk.  Candace was a natural, twirling and leaping gracefully around the ice and winning almost every time she…

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February 23, 2018