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Recently I was helping a UK business develop their national field team of Area Managers. I was working one-to-one developing personal goals, ‘resistor-busting’ strategies and their personal plans to discover new knowledge through reading. We discussed useful reference points for their personal development. We explored Bateson, Bandler and Grinder, George Zalucki and the wonderful Frank…
Continue & Begin Fast Coaching® is content free; that is, the model is a framework through which we can address a diverse range of people development issues. Here’s an example of Continue & Begin Fast Coaching® in use in the context of a ‘troubled family’, a focus for local authorities across the UK. This Continue…
Grow your own C&B® internal trainers! NOW UPDATED with New Code Continue & Begin® content! Continue & Begin Fast Coaching® lends itself well to a Train The Trainer format, especially for roll-out across a national or international estate, or for large call centre operations. Train-The-Trainer helps create an internal Continue & Begin® training capability, creating…
The But Monster™ is a conjunction; that is, a word joining two sentences together. In personal communication it can also act as a destructive rapport breaker. In therapeutic contexts the word ‘But’ is acknowledged as potentially damaging to a counsellor-client or therapist-patient discussion. What about in the workplace? Imagine a scenario – Pam, a customer…
Questions within the Can’t to Can Belief Busting™ model are carefully crafted to stimulate changes in thinking. I often refer to two specific Can’t to Can™ questions as ‘Freedom Questions’ as they encourage the coachee to think about possibility and opportunity. These questions are: “What would happen if you could?” – a stimulus to think…
When we focus on what’s wrong in our lives we shut out positivity and opportunity. Transfer this reality to the world of coaching others and we create stunted thinking and limited possibilities. Recent research analysing brain imaging patterns highlights how important it is think productively about potential outcomes rather than current limitations. This is the…
Some of you will know my admiration for Gregory Bateson (1904-1980). I discovered Bateson’s work in the early 90s when I first read Structure of Magic Vol 1. ‘Magic’ was Bandler & Grinder’s first text about what was then called ‘META’, later evolving into what became known as ‘NLP’. The book described the linguistic patterns…
A pattern which connects Can’t to Can™ and Continue & Begin® Core Questions is the tendency of coachees to respond to initial questions with a classic linguistic forward defensive of “I don’t know”. This manifests itself in communication like this: “What are you pleased with?” “Dunno” Or, “What would have to happen to make that…
This is a phrase many people have heard (or used) in an effort to encourage a coachee to perform in a given manner; to follow a process or communicate in a certain way. The challenge with ‘Tell’ is that it’s a didactic, instructional method of development and educational research highlights how inefficient this is as…
Building self-worth and self-image is a core ambition of Continue & Begin Fast Coaching®. When a person feels good about herself ambition for further personal development becomes less daunting, even appealing! Virginia Satir, the celebrated family therapist, observed similarly; “I am convinced that the crucial factor in what happens both inside people and between people…
