Koach.net Podcast
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In an age of increasing complexity and exponential change, it is not always clear what you need to do to achieve your goals and reach your full potential. Eventually everyone needs some help, and when that time comes, the perfect coach is waiting for you at Koach.net.
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The 11 Cognitive Biases your Career Coach Wants You To See
The 11 Cognitive Biases your Career Coach Wants You To See Being aware of cognitive biases is an important first step in shining light on unconscious parts of our thinking, allowing us to bring more awareness and cognition to important questions, especially those regarding other people. When...
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Slaying the Dragon: Facing Resistance Like a Pro
Slaying the Dragon: Facing Resistance Like a Pro So how do we overcome resistance and achieve what we were put on this Earth to do?
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Presence, the greatest gift a coach can give you
Presence, the greatest gift a coach can give you Our minds change our bodies, says Cuddy, but can our bodies change our minds? Her TED talk answers this question by showing that the physical assumption of high or low power poses significantly impact an individual's sense of what is possible.
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One question and one answer critical to success
One question and one answer critical to success It's no revelation that the pressures and expectations of 21st Century life are growing increasingly difficult to manage. The competition for our attention is overwhelming at times, and poor management of mental, emotional and physical resources can...
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The Leadership Coach
The Leadership Coach While a life coach works with a broad array of topics related to many different areas of a client's life, a leadership coach, as the name suggests, works directly with topics related to individual's role as a leader.
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The Mentor
The Mentor The original Mentor was the 'wise and trusted counselor' of Homer's Odyssey, but the role of mentor has been around since long before Ancient Greek times. In its general sense a mentor describes someone who is willing and able to pass on their experience and guidance to someone who is...
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The Life Coach
The Life Coach A life coach reflects back to you, supports you, challenges you, motivates you and guides you, but the process is always yours. What is almost always revealed in a successful coaching programme is that you had the answers all along, the life coach just helped you access them.
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The Health Coach
The Health Coach Where all coaches are interested in helping clients shift limiting patterns in order to achieve their goals, health coaches do so by focusing specifically on health and wellness. Their work is not on principle divergent from the work provided by doctors and other healthcare...
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The Career Coach
The Career Coach For most of us, our work will account for a significant portion of our time on this planet, second only to sleep. It seems critical, then, that we should find value and meaning, even joy, in the work we do. Sadly, the well-known truth is that most people instead find themselves...
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How the right work can help you find your purpose
How the right work can help you find your purpose Despite the endless challenges of unifying individuals into a cohesive whole, organizations are capable of achieving significantly more than any single person.
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Cultivating agility in the face of exponential change
Cultivating agility in the face of exponential change Anxiety is on the rise. The World Health Organisation calls it an epidemic, reporting a more-than-50% rise in anxiety and depression between 1990 and 2013. Though these feelings are complex in nature and cause, it is intuitive that the rise in...
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Do you have these 10 qualities of mindful leadership
Do you have these 10 qualities of mindful leadership What defines a strong and connected leader? Science suggests it has something to do with the human brain.
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Why energy management is key to successful leadership
Why energy management is key to successful leadership It has never been more important for leaders to practice effective energy management – not just for themselves, but for the benefit of everyone they impact.
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How to use your personality type to make better decisions
How to use your personality type to make better decisions One of the reasons that Frozen is the most successful animated movie of all time is that its characters are each significantly shifted by their experiences, drawing on courage to access new, previously unseen aspects of themselves.
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Make your brainwaves count
Make your brainwaves count With the help of radically new technologies, neuroscience has taken interstellar leaps forward in the last few decades, with the result that we are now able to see what happens when people are in different states of consciousness. And brainwaves are the key.
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Is a new career part of your hero's journey?
Is a new career part of your hero's journey Understanding the patterns of the Hero's Journey affords a unique perspective on one's own life experience, especially when one feels stuck in a rut.
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Why your inner critic is your worst enemy
Why your inner critic is your worst enemy Overcoming the inner critic and its seeds of self-doubt is one of the biggest challenges on the path to self-development, and one of the earliest you'll encounter. So, what can be done about it? Here are 3 suggestions.
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Does internet coaching really work
Does internet coaching really work There are some fairly universal pros and cons to moving your coaching online.
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Confidence – Stop Looking and Start Acting
Confidence – Stop Looking and Start Acting Confidence isn't something that you suddenly feel, it accumulates over time with practice – constantly being maintained, stretched and repeated (but it gets a lot easier the more you practice). Some days you might fail. That's ok, it's all part of the...
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Why do you work?
Why do you work? Here are some suggestions if you find yourself seeking work that will pay you well enough and provide you with meaning.
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How to stay focused on what's most important
How to stay focused on what's most important The 21st century human is subject to unprecedented amounts of daily distraction. Managing this distraction requires conscious effort and focus – a critical part of improving productivity. By when I speak of focusing on what's most important, I don't…
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Beating The Expat Holiday Blues
Beating The Expat (Holiday) Blues Despite the joy and good cheer that apparently defines the holiday season, it is at this time of the year that the distance from family, friends and one's roots is felt the most.
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What is health coaching and why does it matter?
What is health coaching and why does it matter? To be well an individual needs to take responsibility for his wellness. One of the side effects of an over-medicated culture is that people cede responsibility for their health to their doctor or pharmacists. Empowerment is key, which is why a…
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Want To Live Longer? Build Healthy Relationships
Aging is viewed as a disease or enemy, and slowing it down, or eliminating it altogether, is a burgeoning industry. Everyone wants to look younger and live longer, but the keys to longevity are not found inside a bottle. They reside in the lifestyles we lead, especially in healthy relationships....
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The Shadow You Don't See (and why it matters)
Human beings feel a strong affinity for the notion of free will – it helps us feel like autonomous beings with power over our own destiny. This is a contentious issue, but while the debate about free will continues, we can reliably point to a mechanism in our psyche that often governs our…
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Fear of Change: Your Great Teacher
Change is unavoidable – it is written into the fabric of our existence. So, it seems, is the fear of change, the opposing force that tries to keep the status quo firmly locked the way it is. Yet, far from something to be beaten back and repelled, this natural resistance needs to be embraced and...
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Accessing Your Higher Intelligence
The concept of intelligence has undergone, and continues to undergo, a massive transformation in the west. Most western readers will have a personal experience of sitting an IQ test, usually at some point in their schooling career, and for the longest time, your results in such a test were used…
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9 Types of Coaches
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) recognizes more than 50,000 professional accredited coaches worldwide. This represents tremendous growth for an industry that didn't exist in the mainstream until the 1980's, especially as these numbers do not include non-accredited individuals…
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The Art (and Heart) of Setting Goals
Anyone who has ever sought advice, looked for a mentor or hired a coach has done so because, at least intuitively, they know that transformation and success seldom happen accidentally. Often, we need help achieving our dreams, but we also need a plan. That plan inevitably includes goals, but how...
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Better listening: the gift that keeps on giving
Every leader, every parent, every spouse, every friend, every colleague, has at some point or another heard about the importance of being a good listener. It's intuitively sensible – of course we need to listen well. If we're not, we lose access to information that could be critical to our…
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Transforming Culture Through Group Coaching: The Power of We
If you view a successful organization as a well-tuned machine, then culture is the oil that keeps all the parts running in harmony; if you think of an organization as a family, then culture is the familial bond that holds everyone together; if you consider an organization to be more like a living...
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Trust: The Key That Unlocks Coaching Gold
Scottish author and poet George Macdonald is possibly one of the most influential writers you've never heard of. His work is cited as impacting greats like CS Lewis, WH Auden, JR Tolkien and even, some believe, Mark Twain. Though I'm not a personal fan of the type of fantasy literature he helped...
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Train Your Brain For Success
Were you reading this article 25 years ago it would probably be filled with 'incontrovertible' evidence of the nonmalleable nature of the human brain. But, with the recent and rapid development of technologies like CT scans, MRI and EEG – technologies that can 'see inside' the human body – the...
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6 Steps To Building Habits That Serve You
Habits are powerful. Human beings intuitively know this, otherwise New Year's resolutions – whether you believe in them or not – wouldn't be such a big deal. At some point, every individual identifies an old negative habit that they would like to break, or a positive new habit that they would…
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Is Mindfulness Another Corporate Fad?
People have become so divorced from their own condition that they don't notice it. There's a delusion at play that contributes to the 'wired but tired' state so common in high-performance results-focused cultures ('I'm operating, I'm great, no worries') – a major contributor to burnout. But it's...
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3 Things A Coach Is Not
Few people look for a coach when everything in their life is working well and feeling good. They seek a coach when they need to change something, even if they're not sure what that 'something' might be. It might be their diet, their career, their work-life balance or their sense of disconnection...
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The Happiness Factor
Happiness is a powerful emotion. It has been associated with having a healthier heart, a stronger immune system and a longer life. But the main reason we're attracted to it is because it feels so good. That's the reason it is the final objective of almost the entire bookshelf of the self-help...
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3 Empathy Blocks That Might Hurt Your Coaching Results
Human beings are hardwired for empathy. Mirror neurons in our brain are programmed to mimic the experiences of those around us, so that we literally feel what they feel. The brainstem, origin of the fight or flight response, is always scanning the environment for information about potential…
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Is your mindset holding you back from change?
Only 18 years into the 21st Century and already phrases like, 'the world is challenging' or 'life is complicated' have become platitudes. Yes, people have probably held these opinions for millennia, but in the last few decades the complexity of modern living has become considerably more visceral...
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