http://www.innerzine.com/feed/ http://www.innerzine.com/ Daily articles, free tips and advice on motivation, self improvement and success. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:37:39 +0200 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:37:39 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/personal-development-life-coach http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/personal-development-life-coach These days having a personal life coach seems to be a trend nowadays, don’t you think? People even talk about how great and amazing their spiritual guru is. As I was walking on my way home, I even heard two people discuss how their coaches guided him the way to success. That’s good, I thought to myself. So you ask, can you really benefit from a personal development life coach? Personally, if you ask me, I would definitely say yes—but that’s not to say because I also do self improvement coaching. We coaches are getting paid to help make our clients’ lives better. To consider if you truly can benefit from getting one, well, all you have to think about is to understand some essential stuff about what a personal life coach does and what it can offer you. Now, another question—is it for everyone? Okay, this is another story. You got to bear in mind that having a personal life coach isn’t like magic like pulling rabbits out of hats or making it a panacea to all your problems. Admittedly, getting in touch with our reality is something which most of us struggle with as we go about in our day to day living. And here’s the thing—your coaches would only be able to be of significant help to you to grasp where you are in your circumstances right now, and help you find out to realize where you want to be in the future. Several approaches to coaching are utilized for the main intention of having someone to tell them candidly about their present circumstances in their lives. Aside from that, coaches are also there to give advice (if they have to) what sort of action to take not just to get moving, but move forward. That’s why, you really have to work it out and communicate with your personal life coach to make sure that both of you are getting what you need. Now that you know what they do, it’s truly up to you if you want to get those kinds of services. In the end you still get to decide what’s best for you, and it’s your own choice. If you think you’re okay on your own, if you think you’re happy right now and you know where you’re headed, then perhaps it’s not time to have a personal life coach. However, if you think you need a professional to help you, then maybe you need to hire a personal life coach. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Wed, 27 May 2009 09:42:08 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/effective-coaching-techniques1 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/effective-coaching-techniques1 These days, more and more people need some practical advice to improve their lives. There are also a lot of businesses and corporations wanting to stay strong and are willing to pay the price in order to succeed. Some are also looking for ways and means to carry on and maintain with whatever they started. And these are just some of the situations which could be resolved via effective coaching techniques known to man and this is what I am going to discuss in this article. However, what if you’re only a newcomer in this realm? Though you’re only a greenhorn still in the struggling process, surely, there are still ways which would make your clients choose your services instead of others---and how do you go about that? Now this is where you need some effective coaching techniques. Well, you should at least have a formal education in life coaching as your support. Let’s face it—most people would more or less doubt you if you simply act as if a know-it-all if you don’t back it up with solid accounts of your experiences. That’s why you must be convincing and believable to demonstrate and attest this to your clients; you must have considerable know-how and education to sustain what you’re talking about. And that’s the essence of a lot of coaching techniques--continuous learning even if you’re already well-known and recognized. Then, you can focus on the “absolute necessities”. What I mean by this is that you have to concentrate on that certain area which your client really needs assistance with. Also, observe how other companies and businesses are flourishing. Think about it—their coach works with simply the best in their fields. And the result is…they learn more than what they bargained for. Now of course you want that also! When we talk of coaching techniques, it’s very important to pursue and complete it wholeheartedly. Make it a point to have a feel of everything and everything is going well as planned. You just can’t leave everything to fate and sit there. You got to be proactive and complete all your plans regarding the number of your clients, your production goals, etc. It’s understandable that starting and establishing this kind of business could at times, be quite tough and challenging. Nevertheless, it doesn’t have to be that way and with this article, I hope it can help you enhance your coaching techniques backed up with your own coaching skills. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Fri, 3 Apr 2009 05:21:05 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/professional-fitness-trainer http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/professional-fitness-trainer Hiring a professional fitness trainer used to be reserved only for the elite, wealthy and celebrities, but now, even average Joes and plain Janes can hire one. These days, having a fitness trainer can be as ordinary as carrying gym bags and having a good pair of rubber shoes. Nowadays, even individuals with a toned body could already call themselves a professional fitness trainer by printing calling cards and then let you hire their services. To help you on your quest for your own fitness trainer, here are questions to ask them before hiring them. 1. Through what organizations or associations are you trained and certified? Certification is an official document provided by a certain institution with its own standard and testing processes. Normally, they consist of oral, practical and written examination factors. The fitness trainer must be trained in First Aid or CPR to ensure safety of execution of exercises. Some of the highly regarded certification organizations are: the ACE (American Council on Exercise), ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine), NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association) among others. Having certificates from these associations never guarantee coaching superiority, but merely prove that the individual has passed the minimum prerequisites for certification with flying colors. 2. How do you look like--looks are definitely not everything though you believe in someone who practices what they preach (in good shape). Your fitness trainer doesn’t have to look like beefcake (though it doesn’t hurt if he does), since he must primarily teach you how to perform exercises carefully and safely and more importantly, how to attain your fitness goals. 3. Could I get some references from you? Any potential fitness trainer must be willing to provide you with even just 3 clients whom you could get in touch with. Ask the references about the trainer, how and if they reached their goals and how the instructor helped and assisted them. In this way, you can obtain an honest opinion. And oh, one more thing—if the fitness trainer declines to give the names of references and gives some excuses not to do so, then look somewhere else. 4. How much do you charge for your fees? Get the lowdown on professional fees and payment matters. The prices for personal fitness training differ widely based on instructor experience and credentials. You can also talk to other people who hired personal instructors. There are some personal trainers who accept credit cards and checks, while there are some who accepts only cash. Some offer discounted rates and other packages for particular pre-paid sessions, while some charge per session. A caveat before signing below the dotted line: be careful of those instructors who reply to queries about fees with an answer like, “Okay, how much could you afford?” Now, they don’t have your health goals in mind, but how much they can take from you. 5. Now ask yourself just how comfortable you feel about this person? Aside from having the desired credentials, experience, and knowledge, it’s highly important you feel at ease and comfy with that person since you entrust your health and body to him and of course, you pay him. Try to find out if you like his personality and comfy enough to ask questions about your health goals. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Thu, 5 Mar 2009 05:24:44 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/effective-coaching-techniques http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/effective-coaching-techniques For a coach to be successful, you should be efficient in informing, teaching, and influencing your clients or trainees to attain their objectives and purposes. So here are the following effective coaching techniques to enhance your training skills. Coaching technique 1. Listen attentively—as a coach, you have to give ample time to listen to your clients so that you can offer them what they really need. At least on the initial parts of your session, allow them to have their own attention and focus. So avoid doing all the talk so that you won’t be struggling getting through your trainees. Let them discuss about their goals or the things they want to accomplish in life and their problems or dilemmas that bother them. And more importantly, some other stuff which you think can help or support them to get a clearer view to whatever they’re going through and how to attain their targets. Coaching technique 2. Demonstrate the steps and show them the hows—if you truly want your clients to recall those steps or procedure you’re training them, try to give them a demo rather than merely providing them with instructions verbally. This is done so that you can be certain that your trainees will be able to digest and understand without difficulty all your directions. And not only that—you do this also to make them do things right the first time. For instance, you have this coaching technique about fitness and health and if you really want your people to carry out and execute the exercises, then you got to show them how to do the correct way to perform them. Coaching technique 3. Establish high and admirable expectations. Of course, you want your people to push themselves further and better to maximize their fullest potential possible. And so as their coach, what’s your coaching technique—well, this is the time to go and pressure them a bit; it’s for their own good anyway. For example, as a coach for weight loss program—you never want to advise your trainees to shed off only 2 lbs for every 3 months, right? If you want your clients to do their exercises/work outs on a regular basis and if you want them to reduce their food intake, then it’s high time to motivate them to higher and admirable expectations. Coaching technique 4. Give some tailored coaching programs. Given the fact that you may be helping the audience with a single intention in mind, you got to be aware that they have distinctive needs, wants, goals and requirements. Still taking the weight loss coaching program as an example, you have two clients who want to lose weight. Now, you do not want to provide them with similar action plans if they have different causes or explanation for their weight gain, right? You still have to find out and identify if the first one has a medical condition and the other one has eating disorder like bulimia or anorexia. Therefore, it’s a must to generate tailor-made coaching programs for each to make certain that you can deal with their different needs. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Fri, 6 Feb 2009 05:36:56 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/online-coaching-programs http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/online-coaching-programs Are you looking for some other ways to double and maximize your earnings or online profits? Then not to worry though, since there are just too many ways and means out there available most especially if you are selling and marketing info-based products. You can increase your audio products’ prices or even add up the number of your e-books online. Nevertheless, have you ever considered providing online coaching programs to a quicker way to thicker paychecks? Well then, why not? These coaching programs would also necessitate you to share and impart your know-how and expertise to the Internet-savvy netizens just like in audio products and e-books. And the best thing about this whole coaching programs thingy is that you get to sell them up to $12,000! Woah! Now, isn’t that synonymous to achieving financial success not to mention financial independence that we all desire? So how can we go about in pursuing more about coaching programs? 1. Go where your heart is—flow with your passion. If you think that you can choose topics based on their big demand online alone, well, think again. Since most Net users these days are knowledgeable enough to know if your online coaching programs are based solely on research and not on experience. This is actually one of the golden rules in online success. Therefore, if you really want Internet users to view you as a reliable and valuable source of good information, then you should choose subject matter which truly ignites the passion in you and in which you’re also knowledgeable about. 2. Always learn from the pros and the mentors. If you want to generate some of the productive and saleable coaching programs, then you have to learn from the experts in your niche who are already a success in their own right. You could benefit from their high-priced info products like their teleseminars where you get to “invade” some comprehensive data and useful information. Want more tips and the tricks of the trade? Well then, why not take the time to browse their websites and read their blogs and take a peek on their articles? It’s just a click away to online treasure trove of information! 3. Brush up on your communication and language skills. Go and enhance on those communication skills first and foremost prior to even thinking about your coaching programs by reading helpful books and also joining seminars. You could be the most trusted and well-informed in your chosen field, yet if you’re not able to express or convey your ideas well, then you may have a tough time getting in a lot of attendees. 4. Enhance your presentation proficiency. It will greatly help if you can be present at some coaching programs of other marketers and observe how they perform their presentations and apply some of their ideas to your own. So you got to be sure that you have all the required tools to be effective in your chosen niche in order for you to be a success in your coaching programs. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:18:43 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/self-coaching http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/self-coaching The capacity to equip awareness to oneself with outside knowledge or facts to create favorable and essential changes in one’s life and performing at your best is called self coaching. In this process, nobody will teach or train you anything. In due course, you could just acquire facts and data from a teacher and convert it into your own personal strength. It’s interesting to note that most of the peak performing professional speakers all over the world commonly seek help from various gurus, reading materials, coaches and other resources. Nevertheless, all the knowledge and wisdom in the world will not be of great benefit if it’s not converted into functional and practical form. And this is where the realm of self coaching takes place. Successful and seasoned speakers find creative ways for their own wisdom and formulate different tactics and techniques to put their wisdom and learning into use. So here now are some of the best kept secrets which top speakers regularly utilize in trying to develop and enhance their self coaching skills and abilities. 1. Nurture a mindset of a novice. The self coaching speaker recognize that a clear and open mind that seeks learning enables new and varied experiences to arrive and enter into our awareness. It is said that in order for the mind to learn and welcome new stuff, it has to be empty. The logic behind this is, if we already know everything, we could no longer be very open and welcoming to new and information and experiences. 2. Always learn from your mistakes. When we only see our mistakes or errors as failures or disappointments, our feelings of negativity and destruction camouflage the important feedback or response behind each mistake. Notice that poor performers lock themselves inside their pessimistic feelings after each blunder. On the other hand, top successful and first-rate performers value their mistakes and eventually learn from them. The experienced self coaching performer is an open-minded fellow and embraces all feedback and criticisms. 3. Be eager and enthusiastic to grow. Chances are if you want to succeed or even improve on your self-coaching, it means that you really want to grow as an individual. Any self-coaching performer understands that in order to develop and mature proficiently, personal development is necessity. This aspiration is evident by your experiences which aid you in advancing personally, as well as career-wise. 4. Generate and expand a lofty sense of self-awareness. Being aware is all about what is—and not what should be. It is in fact the best skill or aptitude to enhance when it comes to coaching. The speaker become conscious that self-learning could be about the past or the present and he puts a top priority on self-awareness. Also, successful performers utilize self-meditation to get a deeper understanding of their various experiences, since they know too well that a life devoid of introspection spins out of control. Only by our examining of our personal experiences can we acquire some level of consciousness about who we really are and what have we done. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:26:56 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/intelligence-quotient http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/intelligence-quotient A brief history on Intelligence Quotient. The earliest and foremost IQ test was intended to identify children who required unique help in dealing and coping with their school and studies. The first IQ test was ascribed to Alfred Binet (French psychologist) in the year 1905 who also published the initial modern intelligence test. A modification of the primary IQ tests was published in 1916 in Stanford University by Lewis M. Terman. In 1936, David Wechsler published the foremost IQ test and was clearly considered for the adult population. This scale was named the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, or also known as WAIS. Ever since the publication of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was further developed then coined WISC---which is still in the general usage. Wechsler’s scales divided the performance and verbal IQ scales. This made it less dependent on general verbal aptitude than the early versions of the Stanford scale. Some remarkable and interesting good IQ range guide: • IQ ranges from 0 to 250 for kids • IQ ranges from 0 to 200 for adults. • Individuals with low IQ below 75 (around 5% of the population) are typically difficult to train. • 10% of the population has below 80 IQ So what’s a good IQ range? It is measured as IQ=(mental age/chronological age)*100. It means that the average population IQ must be 100 (1/1*100). Some IQ truths and myths. • Breastfeeding has very little to do with an individual’s IQ levels. • Several researches have united on the scientific observation that the brain frontal lobes are very crucial and vital for one’s intellect. • Generally, males and females have similar average Intelligence Quotient. Nevertheless, there are more males with low and high IQ levels than women. • Mental age which is the divisor of the Intelligence Quotient equation ends at age 16. • Modern researches and studies using MRI images have revealed that the size of the brain has a correlation with IQ. • Good Intelligence Quotient range and its connection to race have been controversial. • Studies have exposed that there’s an association between an individual’s structure of the cortex and the IQ scores. The IQ levels—an Intelligence Quotient level of 130 of a 10 year old child ((13/10)*100=130) means that his or her mental age is 13. Hence, the current version of the Intelligence Quotient is a mathematical conversion of the rank which is the principal result of an IQ test. Definition of IQ tests could aid in identifying particular criteria for the future of the individual. You can refer to the table below with a grain of salt. It should only be used as a guide and certainly has no conclusive evidence. IQ level=probable job or occupation=% of population Above 120=professors, lawyers, dentists, physicians=10% 110-120 (good enough IQ range) =teachers/instructors=20% 90-110=typists, clerks, front line receptionists=50% 80-90=fast food attendants=10% below 80=lawn mowers, trash pickup service=10% Having a high IQ may be good for highly complex jobs. Nonetheless, any normal individuals will need a normal range of Intelligence Quotient around the 100 bracket. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:58:42 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/emotional-intelligence http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/emotional-intelligence Emotional intelligence, when identified and incorporated could turn your universe around. In ancient days, psychologists stated that Intelligence Quotient (IQ) levels were the only aspect that could determine an individual’s failure or success in their life, for that matter. The concept of emotional intelligence is a rather new one to the arena of education and the learning process. Nevertheless, researches on emotional intelligence tell us that the human emotions function as significant a part, if not greater then IQ levels in a person’s success or failure. Emotional intelligence fosters us to accept and acknowledge the emotional states of mind of other people around us, and of our own also. When already struck to perfection, this could aid us in relating better with other individuals as well as with our own selves. Now, this accelerates success and triumph levels by leaps and bounds. This article deals with some of the various ways you could boost your emotional intelligence levels. This would absolutely help you to cope better with yourself and also those people around you. A person lacking in emotional intelligence may find himself with such an empty feeling, and might resort to different counselors and courses to make him cope with his feelings of emptiness. Nonetheless, book materials or courses could only provide you so much teaching. Living itself is by far the greatest and the most effective teacher, but whilst some fortunately possess the inherent talent of facing and coping well with other individuals and with life itself, while other human beings could focus their attention on these stuff in order to live a more successful and fulfilling life. 1. Don’t try to blame other individuals for your state of mind. It is true that some people are just so damn good at letting you down, but your emotional state is totally under your control and if it isn’t, it must get that way. If you allow other people to let them run or rule over your life, you would never have a life of your own that you could truly be proud of. 2. Utilize Emotional Energy-- everyone feels angry sometimes, and it is just normal—and it is just a normal reaction and emotion. Anger lessens energy, and this could be utilized negatively or positively—and that’s entirely up to you. Never feed that anger, instead, throw it by doing something useful. Instead of controlling your angry feelings, find some ways of trying to release it in a positive and efficient manner. 3. Be selective with your crowd. If you surround yourself with people who never really cared about other individual’s feelings, beware—for some of that can rub off on you. In general, when you relate and mingle with the right crowd, your mind would be in a healthy and positive state. Keep in mind that people who don’t give a damn about their own feelings could also never care about your emotions. 4. Emotional Literacy—just like everything else you acknowledge, you have to name to each emotion that you feel. This would allow you to identify them even better, and hereby assists you in mastering them as well. You would be surprised on the effects or results this could have on your state of mind. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:03:03 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/wellness-coaching1 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/wellness-coaching1 Unlike exercise gyms or Weight Watchers which motivate and encourage you to change only a single unhealthy habit or lifestyle, wellness coaching helps and supports you in putting all the pieces together: the nutritional, health, fitness, stress and weight management aspects altogether for a vision of overall wellness. Borrowing from executive coaching models of change and hand in hand with psychology, wellness coaching is booming as a whole new approach to our long-term well being and good health. So before, do you spend a lot of energy, time and guilt thinking about food? Or do you feel disconnected and alienated from yourself, unsure, undecided and unhappy—why? And have you ever tried to lose weight in the past, just to throw the white flag after a few weeks, or even days—and why is that? Okay, so try to push the pause button on that self-defeating tape recorder playing in your mind and right now visualize a new and blissful life for yourself from now on. In it, you’re totally energized by your work, passionate, inspired and absolutely at peace with yourself and free from worries regarding your weight. Now, sit still with that scene for a moment. Looks and feels fantastic, huh? Wellness coaching is not merely for individual adults, yet also for teenagers, couples and even families in need of guidance on nutrition. Most clients usually say that time and again that they did not quite know what to expect, however, once they got started already, it all just made so much sense. And most of them normally consider wellness coaching to lose weight. Wellness coaching also aids people in dealing and addressing relationship and career issues, get more sound sleep, manage stress better, start working out, quit smoking, re-connect with one’s faith and even minimize clutter. Wellness programs generally run in 3-month duration and are comprised of a set of conversations on a weekly basis (most sessions are performed by telephone) between the coach and the client. Wellness coaching does not take a sudden approach to weight loss; your struggles are entirely different and distinct and so your solutions would be, too. Thus, the man-to-man individualized attention. Prospective clients are typically surprised whenever they hear what wellness coaches will not do: they would not force or compel you to exercise, plus they will not tell you to diet. Wellness coaching is after all, is not just an ordinary weight loss program, and it is a well known fact that weight loss is not that simple and easy. But rather, your personal coach would—guide you and listen to you, to make a plan and create a vision, and take action every week toward building and developing better behaviors which would be realistic for you to continue on your own. Your wellness coach will point out your strengths and support you to accept yourself with goodness while also challenging you to get hold of the best life you deserve. They will not do the work for you, but they would be there each step of the way, ensuring your life’s triumphs along the way. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:36:21 +0100 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/bridal-consultant http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/bridal-consultant When we talk about bridal consultant training, they are generally referring to the sort of training which results in wedding consultant certification. In bridal consultant training there’s a considerable amount of detail that involves into preparing how to be a bridal consultant. You have to bear in mind that a soon to be married couple is entrusting their very important day of their lives together to you, so when you decide to take your bridal consultant training, always remember that learning all you could is of the paramount essence. The lesson they teach and train you in training to be a bridal consultant is finding the great and best package deals in order for you to save the most time and hassles of preparing stuff. Normally, these packages deals mostly about the reception hall and those services they offer. If you could look for reception halls which provide a myriad of wedding reception themes and moods and services and you could count on the dependability of that hall to give you the highest and best quality every time, then you just saved yourself tons of work load. Where To Network Is Extremely Significant. There are so several ways in how to look for service providers and training how to be a bridal consultant—and it would show you the ins and outs of looking and finding the right people for the job. In bridal consultant training, you would be trained and taught how to spot those right and dependable service providers and then it would coach you the very vital skill and ability of background checking in order to see the quality of what the service providers may offer. There is absolutely an art when it comes to networking with all those right service providers and bridal consultant training coaches and teaches you that art. A certain wedding reception hall which has acquired a reputation or image for being great at giving discounts just because mainly of the mistakes they make is most likely not one you might want to work with. And one of the very significant aspects or areas of bridal consultant training is networking with some of the service providers. These service providers are the individuals which you would call on to provide the cake, photography, music, gowns and all the other kinds of services for the wedding of your clients. If you don’t know how to select your service providers, then you would end up planning bad weddings and your list of clients certainly would not grow and thrive. You would then gain a reputation for working with undependable and inconsistent individuals and you yourself would have that reputation of being unreliable. But in this training, they coach on how to search for and find reliable service providers in order for you to establish a stable business and develop a good image to let you take on the most exclusive and special clients around. In this business, your fee is directly associated to whom you have worked with before. If you have a pretty impressive list of clients, then so is your fee. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:49:43 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/driving-instructor http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/driving-instructor There is no requirement for an individual to learn via accredited driving school. So basically, it also means that anybody could teach another person how to drive. Nevertheless, all good and competent instructors took and passed the 3 examinations which permit them to display a certificate of registration inside their learner vehicle. And this also means that they could charge for giving lessons. Okay, so where do you learn how to become a driving instructor? Whatever training school you select, be sure that they display the ORDIT symbol. It means that they have been approved and certified by the Driving Standards Agency, and ORDIT means that they are on Official Register for Driving Instructor Training. So if a certain school cannot show proof of this, then look somewhere else. Normally, you have to pay around 1500 pounds to take the necessary training to become a driving instructor, so it is always better and practical to be certain to entrust your money with the best instructor school that you could find around. Some of the bigger training schools also provide some courses for individuals who want to become instructors, however, there are also some committed schools who just teach and train would-be instructors all the necessary skills they need in order to pass the 3 mandatory tests. So what are the skills you need to have to become a certified driving instructor? Well, first and foremost, you need to be patient, a good working know-how of driving practices and a good and positive rapport with persons of all ages. You need to have been a good and competent driver yourself with untarnished license for a minimum of 4 years within the last period of six years. Meanwhile, having a motoring conviction will not necessarily blacklist you from being considered, but if ever you do have any, they would be looked at (as with any other convictions, anyway) prior to deciding if you are a fitting candidate for learning to be an instructor. To make sure that you will be able to teach and instruct your students and the members of the public competently and confidently, it is compulsory to take and pass these 3 tests. 1. A driving test to see how competent and dependable you are as a driver yourself. 2. An instructor’s test to uncover if indeed you’re the right kind of individual to teach and train other people how to drive. 3. A theory test to determine your general knowledge in all aspects of driving matters, including your savvy of the Highway Code and the driving test itself. Luckily, you could always retake all the tests if required, so try not to worry so much if you failed on your first attempt. Each part of the entire process is evenly significant. In the year spanning 2006-2007, the part where some would-be instructors failed on was the examination that tests your skills and capacities on how to instruct other people. Only less than a third of individuals who took this test passed within that 12-month period. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:27:34 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/enneagram http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/enneagram What if humans had spent many centuries contemplating on the trends of motivation which sit outside the awareness of individuals and support the choices they make? The Enneagram is a system with profound origins which has been built and evolved through several years and several frameworks. It is more than just an exercise in personality typing: it is actually a method of identifying center patterns of behavior and motivation in order for you to make modifications and alterations that work. So have you ever coached someone who seemed to be at least 2 entirely different persons? The Enneagram provides a distinctive context on how individuals advance on to varied types of personalities under dissimilar circumstances. It is a dynamic paradigm which represents the intricacies we all have felt and experienced when we relate to ourselves and to others. If you have ever coached both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—or if you have ever marveled, “was that truly me”? –then you would be very curious about the paradigm provided by the Enneagram. As a coach, you foster and promote change in your clients. And some of those changes or modifications adhere but some of them are difficult to maintain. Individuals could stick to similar trends of attitude and behavior for varying reasons. Enneagram is a way in thinking about which changes work and why the design of change that worked for one client could have varying effect or outcome for another client in just about a similar condition. The better your tools and devices for recognizing the motivations which are driving attitude and behavior, the better your chance or opportunity of generating favorable and sustainable change. Learning and understanding about the Enneagram possesses the similar advantages as other learning which takes you deeper into the human mode. It lets you accept some of your own inadvertent choices and to dig deeper more regarding the implication you are having on other people. For some individuals, the Enneagram even has spiritual elements. But for coaches, there are more particular reasons to add this system to the tools and contexts they provide to their clients. Coaches who learn and understand the Enneagram would be able to: 1. Change behaviors and motivation concurrently. 2. Retain a portrait of the total person whilst affecting certain behaviors and attitudes. 3. Reveal the advantages of certain attitudes of personalities for a person; no one really changes a behavior or characteristic except they know they could resume to gain similar benefits in another method. Yet maybe, most importantly, the Enneagram acknowledges that our greatest strength might also become our zone of biggest vulnerability (and likewise, that our problems or difficulties might hold the key to new opportunities). It enables us to be cognizant that we have to live with all of our qualities and characteristics. We just can’t merely take off qualities; we should reframe them in order to let them work in our favor. Utilizing the Enneagram aids coaches and also their clients to be more open minded and forgiving of a variety of characteristics and to detach the points at which change is possible and favorable. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:41:18 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/personal-trainer http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/personal-trainer Often, the fitness motivation and health knowledge that we offer for ourselves is not just enough to acquire the kind of results which we all know our bodies deserve, therefore, getting a personal trainer could be a fantastic way to get some more enduring and better results. And getting the services of a personal instructor is sure an effective method to get in shape—and stay in shape. But when it comes to hiring personal instructors, we tend to be less experienced than we are with the entire health and fitness stuff. Well, that’s fine, though; take some time to review the most usual mistakes which people make when they hire personal trainers and learn from them so that they will not happen to you. 1. Not Considering Your Personal Trainer’s Appearance. Whilst it’s a reality that media is working on getting past the entire nature of surface issues, but when it comes to choosing your personal instructor, you just have to be quite superficial. A fitness instructor must be strong, fit and athletic in all the right places. Not considering appearance for a fitness coach is like not thinking about style when it comes to choosing a stylist—truly makes no sense at all. 2. Not Meeting the Fitness Expert In Person Before Starting. If you think about it, it is a joint and collaborative effort between you and your personal trainer. So one of the worst things that you could do when using the services of a trainer is failing to meet him beforehand. And what happens if you and your trainer don’t have a certain level of chemistry? See, it would be too tough to get your desired results that you wish from the experience, agree? Therefore, it is very significant to make sure to at least make a conscious effort in meeting personally with your trainer prior to signing anything. 3. Not Considering The Recommendations of The Gym. Your gym in your area has your best interests at heart; they like you to be satisfied and happy with your results that you can gain from them so that they could count on your business in the long run. If you find yourself unhappy and dissatisfied with the fitness trainer that you hired and you disregard to consult the gym’s recommendation that you work out at, then no one is to blame but you. 4. Not Taking A Trainer’s Experience Into Consideration. We’re all for giving people a fair shot to get started in the business, but if a personal trainer failed to show that they can deliver the results, they are of no use to you and might be just a waste of your hard-earned money, time, not to mention all your efforts. Having an apprentice is good—but no way if price is involved. It’s nice to give individuals a fair chance, but except you have the cash to burn rather than fat, this might not be the best time. So, do not make these mistakes when getting your personal trainer-- your health is very important to you. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:44:54 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/personal-coaching http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/personal-coaching The central concept in personal coaching is that of self improvement. A personal coach finds to make an individual’s life much better through specialized skills and strategies. Okay, so let us take a look at the outline of personal coaching. Nowadays, you would find more and more people are going in for programmes in personal mentoring, so that they could deal with problems and various challenges in both their professional and personal lives with greater efficiency and effectiveness. There are in fact many types of coaching programmes on hand these days, but the fundamental standard of self improvement remains the same throughout all programmes. Considering With The Proper Coaching Process. When a personal coaching programme is already being considered, a particular process is being followed. The initial step in the procedure is a private interview between the coach and the client. This in-depth exchange of information makes the current circumstances clear and transparent. During the whole process of personal coaching, the client has to commit himself to attain particular goals which would aid him in achieving his ultimate objectives, whilst benefiting from his own potentials and bringing out the best in himself. The agreed targets or objectives are recognized and talked about, and methods and tactics for accomplishing them drawn out by both the personal coach and his client. Growing And Developing With Self Improvement. The entire procedure of self improvement occurs whilst the personal coaching is ongoing. While a person is undergoing a individual coaching programme, he would really learn a lot about himself, his attitudes, reaction, behavior, shortcomings and abilities. He would then learn to study and assess himself and take the initial step onwards self improvement—sans this sort of study and understanding, self improvement will not be possible. Each person would feel a noticeable improvement in himself, as he begins to apply his knowledge regarding himself, understanding what areas he has to make certain modifications and where he could do things in a much better and more effective way. His plans on reaching his objectives would succeed better if they are established on detailed information about oneself, and the process of self improvement activated and pushed forward. Some of these personal coaching programmes can be extended if so required; an evaluation would be carried out and goals redefined or new goals recognized. An assessment like that is extremely useful for the learner who would gain a self-awareness and insight on his behavior that set him on the way of improving oneself. Effective And Improved Communication Through Coaching. Most programmes for personal coaching handle and deal with various clients in a specific way, pursuing a specific course of action. Techniques and different methods are talked over and chosen, and a rapport starts to be set up between the coach and the client. Clear channels for communicating which are needed for the process of personal coaching are predicated. The different ways in which the client could achieve his goal are recognized, and the great ways to solve problems and meet challenges are finally decided upon. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:04:56 +0200 http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/career-counseling- http://www.innerzine.com/coaching/career-counseling- Just like everything else in life, if you want to do something the right or proper way, you have to know the basics in order to succeed. You cannot add up 100+100 until you know that 1+1=2. The same goes for finding your first job in high school; you got to have the basics. A friend of mine has been a headhunter and career counseling for more than 2 decades, and she has come to a realization and conclusion that if appropriate career counseling is done or attained successfully in high school, career change or job loss in the near future will not be as traumatic as it has been for either experienced executives or teenagers. Networking is just a natural part of life-- for instance, when you go to a movie and tell your buddy how good it was, your friend will go to see it based on your recommendation. Now, after your friend sees the movie and likes it too, your friend tells another pal and so on. In a sense, they have “spread the word” about such a great movie and have gotten lots of their buddies to go and see it too. You actually have lots of people who have “networked” with one another. That is a very easy explanation and description of what networking is all about. When you attempt to look for your first job, your initial source to call on or consider is career networking. A good high school career counseling program must provide hands on training where it is mandatory for a student to make a cover letter or resume from scratch and learn the value of building and developing a networking file. So if you have a high school program that is dedicated to offering you with career counseling for teens then you clearly have the edge or one step ahead of everyone else who doesn’t. They should also be trained or taught how to dress appropriately for success and more importantly, how to respond in an interview. All of these things are considerable, yet the most noteworthy factor or key to one’s success is the network they build while they are still in high school. The art of networking could simply start as writing down the name and contact details of the first person that you interviewed with when you are trying to apply for a job. Fortunately, if you do get the job, you now have a precious source who might be able to lead and guide you to other individuals or to certain positions that may prove to be a great advantage or will be beneficial to you in the future. However, if you do not get the job, that’s okay, you still have the person’s name as character reference or point of contact in the near future should the need arises. Therefore, when giving career counseling for teens it is highly crucial that you help and support the high school student develop or enhance this essential skill. About the author. Amy Twain is a successful Self Improvement Coach who has been helping and coaching individuals for many years. Amy now decided to share her knowledge through this site, Innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free weekly newsletter and learn how to become more self confident and successful.