Russell Atagootak has spent his 23 years of life in the artic. The slideshow featuring Russell’s own words, shows pictures taken by the Adventurer Alistair Humphreys. Russell’s main job is being a polar-bear monitor, including fixing trip-wires alarms to protect encampments. 23 years in the artic is a longer life than many have in 50. When Russell says he is not sure when he goes to bed whether he will wake up in the morning, you have to believe him. Be moved. But his philosophy, though simple, is contemporary and would serve many of us well. He lives in the moment, looks for what is similar among peoples and is content.

Coaches can make the mistake of measuring the success of their coachee’s by accomplishment only. This is not right and is not sustainable. Coaches need to coach for repeated success but also for wellbeing. Success should not come when it brings damage into the world of the coachee. Invariably then, the outstanding coach will be checking the sustainability of stated objectives and facilitate the shedding of the coachee’s tasks, so they can focus on specific outcomes, including the quality of their existence.

Watch Alistair’s slideshow of Russell at this link.

Angus McLeod, 17 May 17., 2012.

Part of our ‘Human at Work’ Series ©.

More and more organisations are taking initiative to upskill their senior teams. Down-sizing is mostly complete and there has been a year or two of minimal ‘training for performance’ in many parts of the economy. Now is the right time to get more performance from top layers of management.

Typical errors include upskilling to target new behaviours and performance and members of the Board rejecting these new behaviours and performance. Find out more about best-practice in setting out leadership development journeys.

Self-coaching Leadership – from Manager to Leader

New Kindle book launched from John Wiley and authored by Angus McLeod.

This 5/5 star reviewed book is a practical treasure of tips for the modern manager wanting to up-their-game. Realistic, and understanding that most managers are over-busy, over time-stressed and fighting fires, the book goes straight to the heart of these issues with working fixes. If you want to know how to commit less time to work and be more impactful at the same time, then this is the book for you.

Meet Angus McLeod and Amechi Udo near the Barbican, evening of Tuesday 13th March!

How To Attract and Keep Attracting The Clients You Want

Workshop hosted by The Barbican (City of London) Coaching group.

Date/Time:Tue 13 March at 7 pm-9pm.

Agenda: How To Attract and Keep Attracting The Clients You Want with Amechi Udo & Angus McLeod

• Don’t know how to get paying clients?
• Unsure how to communicate with confidence so people will take up your coaching? services?
• Unable to breakthrough the barriers stopping you being paid regularly to do what you love?

It’s a fact that there are far too many coaches, passionate about coaching but, daunted, confused or just plain frightened of marketing the benefits of what they do.

This interactive workshop is designed with only one aim, to develop your confidence and ability to attract the clients you want consistently.

During this interactive, 90 minute session we’ll introduce you to:

1. Practical, proven client attracting approaches used by successful coaches
2. An easy to use 7 -step process you can learn to apply to regularly secure coaching clients
3. The opportunity to put into practice what you’ll learn with each other before you use it in your coaching practice, and
4. The chance to get your most urgent marketing questions answered by two coaches with a combined 30 years plus of effectively marketing their coaching services to individuals, groups and corporate clients in a variety of areas.

Who is this workshop for?

Coaches like you who love to coach and want to know how to be paid to do it.

You have decided that you need to do something different if you are going to improve your coaching income.

You feel now is the time increase the number clients you coach.

Your Facilitators

Amechi Udo and Angus McLeod are part of the coaching business development team of the AMA Coaching School.
They share a commitment to ensuring that people not only become well trained coaches but also well trained in generating an income from coaching.

Amechi has been coaching in the areas of business and career for over ten years.
His professional background is in human resources, executive search and learning and development.
He holds a Masters in Human Resources, a Diploma in Performance Coaching (Business) and is a certified NLP Practitioner.
Amechi has written several e-books on coaching as well as co-ordinating conferences for coaches.

Angus has been coaching for over 15 years. Angus is an international renowned coach, author, speaker and facilitator.
He has published four books on coaching, leadershi, NLP and management as well as over 50 articles on these topics.
Angus is the founder of the AMA Coaching School and MD of Angus McLeod Associates (Learning and Development Consultancy).

VENUE: Golden Lane Community Centre, Great Arthur House, London, EC1Y 0RD. See contact, below.

Tube: Barbican (on Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith lines).

3 –minute walk from Barbican tube station:

Come out of a single exit, turn left, keep walking straight ahead until you will see the Shakespeare Pub on the opposite side of the road. Behind the pub you will see a tall building with yellow panelled cladding (Great Arthur House). Cross the road (be careful).

Then walk down some steps under archway of the Great Arthur House to a double-door way directly facing you (Golden Lane Community Centre, a one-floor building). The room for our meeting is straight ahead as soon as you go in.

Caring for Your Success!

CONTACT:
Nelia Koroleva, MAC

Leadership / Personal Performance Coach
Owner / VSEI Coaching

M: +44 (0) 789 63 20 900
E: nelia@vsei-coaching.com

Angus McLeod’s latest book, Slay That Dragon – Life Just Got Easy!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0079KSNFS

This self-help book helps anyone to recognize the blocks to human passion and energy for life. The Dragons in the title refer to these blocks. In my work over almost 20 years as a counsellor and coach, many Dragons have been chased out of hiding with delightful consequences!

I’d like to see this run as a course for people; sales of the book will raise the profile of the Dragons and enable me and others to help people to find their own energy and passion, and when things go wrong, to have self-resources to heal themselves.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0079KSNFS

With all these internet-based initiatives, ‘sooner and together’ is better than later, so if you can read, review, tweet all weekend I will be very grateful indeed – and do please let me know, so I can thank you personally for your help along this way,
With thanks

Angus

Launched 16th February 2012, by Amazon Kindle.

Announcing that about 30 of Angus McLeod’s coaching papers are now downloadable from this site including one written with Olympian, James Cracknell. If you want to know more about Emotional Intelligence, the use of Reflective-Silence, Mindsets or developing coaching in organisations, here is your resource. And there is much more! Take a look now.

Remember too that we have a lot of free video-shorts available for both coaches and managers – see  ‘Coach Smarter‘ and ‘Manage Smarter‘ (links also at the top of the page).

A coach gets very attached to life and change but for over five years I have also enjoyed the regular and predictable visits to my tyre-fitter and other local retailers. My tyres have been fitted by ‘Nod’. First from his garage in Malvern, then near Upton. The routine of these visits was pretty standard, but Nod was fine about talking while at work and we exchanged small talk. Over time we learned more and more about each-other’s issues, aspirations and history because we were both expanding the box, rather than trapped in the safe stuff. An hour ago I called in and Nod was not there. When I asked his son how he is, Matt said that Nod is not well, in fact “he has cancer and does not have long to go”. The routine of tyre-fiting was the same but the experience was diminished, not only because of the fact of Nod dying, but because the level of human interchange I’d enjoyed with Nod was gone forever.

I have been talking and writing about my ‘Human at Work’ (©AngusMcLeod2011) theme for over a year and Nod’s final illness has lessons for coaches and everyone. Its not enough just to perform at work – when we risk to bring our humanity into work, the value, trust and warmth that humanity engenders creates deeper, more productive co-work. And it does all that without the political agendas that suck the life and productivity out of organisations. Nod had this ability to bring his humanity into work in spades. Its for the rest of us to step-up and bring these qualities into our work too. It’s for coaches and managers everywhere not to be fixated just by targets, but to recognize that great coaching/management is also about engendering focus on people-well-being and the development of the soft-skills that make all of us more impactful, authentic and team-players at work.

Angus

AMA Coaching School starts the 2012 Coach Mastermind launch on TUESDAY the 17th of January at 18:30.

The Coach MasterMind Group is the second one we are running to support coaches who want to grow their business from coaching in 2012. Your mentors are marketing and experts in coaching-businesses including: Angus McLeod, Amechi Udo, Martin Cornes and Beth Sobiloff. Each Mastermind Group is limited to SEVEN coaches so the coach gets real focus marketing and business strategy. There will be FOUR sessions of an hour each.

FREE extras include: a Coaching Tool booklet with 15 coaching tools (written by authors Angus McLeod and Will Thomas)

PLUS a coach’s ‘Business and Marketing Development’ Programme (stipulate life or Executive when you enrol). You get all FOUR sessions and the all the extras as well for less than £25 a session! Go to this page and choose LIFE or EXECUTIVE to catch this fantastic chance quickly or BUY now below!

Buy Life- Development Programme and ALL Mastermind sessions, now £97.00

Buy Executive- Development Programme and ALL Mastermind sessions, now £97.00

N.B. The link page above also includes a video of the recent ‘Market or Die #2 Webinar with FREE information for coaches wanting to boost their coaching business in 2012! Link Page