How to help your client overcome their fear
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
As a life coach you may need to work with your client to help them overcome fear. Here’s how.
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
As a life coach you may need to work with your client to help them overcome fear. Here’s how.
By Robert Holmes | executive coaching
Tim Ferris (author of The 4-Hour Work Week) makes me look bad. I mean this guy… this GUY! So many hacks, so many short cuts, so much productivity and so many outcomes. It is high time someone decided to start copying him right? On reflection though, whilst I can look one way and feel bad […]
By Mark Setch | leadership
The Attributes – 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance By Rich Diviney Literally hot off the press, this insightful book by retired US Navy Commander and former Navy SEAL Rich Diviney is a must-read for coaches and anyone interested in personal and professional development. As one directly involved in the selection of candidates to be […]
By Robert Holmes | business
A few years ago ‘bespoke’ was the buzzword. Last year it was ‘ramp up’. Nowadays agile is quite the term, but as always with such words, it has a very fuzzy meaning. So let’s be clear, I am not going to be discussing the Agile Movement (an alternative to project management), software development, a management […]
By Robert Holmes | business
Workers in the military have been wearing uniforms since before written history. Today, many vocations insist on a uniform: hospital nurses and doctors’ scrubs; public sanitation officers; bus, train, taxi and tram staff; military, police and security forces; mechanics, stevedores and crane operators; construction workers, infrastructure and mining operators; the hospitality industry and the subtler […]
By Robert Holmes | business
I’ve been dining on a sumptuous “Buffett” lunch (yes you wordophiles, I misspelled that on purpose :-0). The book “The Real Warren Buffett” is a winner in my opinion. Warren is the fourth wealthiest man on the planet and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the giant conglomerate of investment, banking, insurance and other diverse business interests. […]
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
What’s it like to serve public servants? What does it take to lead among the nations’ leaders and coach them? Executive coach and mentor Lindy Bryant, co-founder of YellowEdge based in Canberra tells us all about it in this podcast.
By Sue Hefren | business
Many people imagine the perfect life to be one where it is all smooth sailing, a tropical paradise, simple peaceful and fun. Unfortunately, that is not the way most of us experience life. Storms come, clouds block the sun, the wind whips us and things turn ugly – its just the way it goes. Life […]
By Robert Holmes | business
We need to carve out our area of expertise for a number of reasons. Primary among them are to pitch our unique angle or take on things to media. Everyone is an expert in something, and we all have a story to tell. Becoming perceived by the industry as an expert has beautiful side effects […]
By Sue Hefren | business
Carol Roth has more than 18 years of business advisory experience and has worked with hundreds of companies, ranging from a single entrepreneur with an idea to Fortune 500 businesses, on all aspects of business and financial strategy. She is a media personality and business expert in her own right. Why is this important? Well this week […]
By michellefreebody | business coaching
Matt Waldron has been a personal leadership coach for over 15 years. He has worked in a variety of executive leadership, program management and frontline case worker roles within the community service, whilst simultaneously building his private coaching business, SHIFT Life Coaching. Matt’s passion is to inspire, empower and equip people to unlock their potential […]
By Robert Holmes | business
People all have different reasons for starting their own business. Some of them do is for lifestyle – they want to get out of the nine to five grind. Some people want control back, they want to go solo and be at large and in charge. Whilst my business gives me great life style benefits, […]
By Robert Holmes | business
I was pitching a media company who had asked me for tips on increasing productivity. I started out with my CV, which is really the only reason I can speak about productivity to them. I’m: – Husband of one and same wife, married for 21 years; – Father of seven kids, which demands military organisation; […]
By Robert Holmes | business
I met with my dragon business mentor recently, right after he had been interviewed by the Australian newspaper and then done a spot on National TV. I wondered what he was doing that for, apart from the PR grandstand opportunity (and getting his company seen). It was a lot more compelling than that, as I […]
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
Business Growth I met with my business mentor “Dragon” last week. We discussed business growth. According to him, there are two basic approaches to business growth:
By Robert Holmes | coach mentoring
Get great tools for lasting change and breakthrough!
Listen to Alison Cameron, overcoming immunity to change expert and coach who learned from Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (Harvard) as she shares insights for living and building better teams.
By Mark Setch | business coaching
Yes, it’s that time of year again. Christmas will soon be upon us. After the hype settles down, we will be into 2014, and some of us will make New Year’s resolutions. On this note, I want to share some great news with you: you CAN make amazing New Year’s resolutions that will have a profound […]
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
Stuck in the detail? Planning too indistinct? Learn to think strategically! Brigadier General Jim Wallace (ret) of the SAS talks modes of thinking in coaching with Robert Holmes.
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
Got trouble at home? Mixed up kids? Well “Don’t Bring it to Work” says Listen to Dr. Sylvia LaFair. Robert discusses the importance of dealing with origins and the learned patterns of behaviour (the relationship game).
By Robert Holmes | business coaching
Build resilience into your business, strengthen your leaders. John Sautelle, one of Australia’s finest Action Learning coaches discusses the resilience model he is working with, and how to implement it in coaching.