Excellence is a habit - Aristotle

From my point of view, in this phase of my life, I am most interested in assisting people to advance in their personal and professional development.

In my experience, people enter into a relationship with a life and business coach because they are not completely satisfied with what they achieve and they are not sure what they really want out of life.

What helps people most in their quest for change and clarification is to become more aware of their own assumptions so that they can communicate more effective with all the people they deal with, at work and at home. When people are willing to examine and share their own assumptions with others, they become more flexible in their behaviour and their responses, more capable of embracing difference in other people, and they accept and effect change in a more competent and harmonious way, in accordance with their desired goals.

Clarifying one’s own assumptions is at the heart of getting to know what you want and how to get it.

I believe that NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) offers the technology to achieve these goals in a most do-able, elegant way.  More on ‘What is NLP?’

Because, in my experience, NLP delivers unsurpassed results, in building communication skills and in effecting behavioural changes, in a do-able elegant way.

I have used NLP methodology in my teaching and coaching since 1990 with remarkable results, especially in the areas of information learning and retention, conflict resolution and cross-cultural communication, and with children and adults presenting motivation and learning difficulties.

My coaching and teaching style includes a mix of practical exercises, demonstrations, examples, listening attentively, discussion and information so that participants learn through their own experience in a fun and relaxed atmosphere, while applying the techniques to their own life situations. I am also often called to give presentations focused on specific topics to special interest groups.

Presentations are tailored to the needs of the participants and the group in question after consultation with the initiator, using appropriate examples and games to increase effectiveness both in the learning of the life skills and the application of what has been learnt.

As an example, here are some topics mostly required by businesses, support groups, schools, etc. for staff development, business goals and cultural change, etc.:

• Teaching strategies for the introduction of new technology in the work place;
• acculturation to work practices and new cultural directions;
• matching values of the individuals and (values) mission statement of the business, thus developing the most fruitful synergy for the benefit of all concerned;
• clarifying individual career goals and developing strategies for these to be nurtured and supported by the group;
• conflict resolution at all levels;
• issues of self-esteem; bullying, health, motivation; group identification etc… time and stress management, battle fatigue; post-traumatic stress