Have you ever seen a public speaker really struggle when something goes wrong? The powerpoint wont work or the food hasn’t arrived or what about if another speaker hasnt turned up and or they can’t find their notes?

It times of challenge when there maybe 5 or 1000 people waiting for the event, it is essential that there is a seemless flow and that means the speaker needs to be resourceful, yes the group may be accomodating but that may just be them being polite,but what they are thinking really is another matter.

Here in this video we cover essential tips to stay focused when the pressure is on…

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Have you ever wanted to just make an audience laugh or to tell that perfect joke and have it flow perfectly?

Using humour is an essential key when doing public speaking and can be the ideal technique to use when you need to lighten the room from a heavy talk topic

But where do you find your material? Who do you learn from? How do you tell the right

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Hello

Here is part one of the new series of essential tips of a public speak and how to get your message across to be successful

There are many other videos coming soon – Part 2 is how to use your humour so keep an eye out

If you like this video or would like to here more areas, please leave a comment

Happy watching

Paul Ryder

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This is a highly ispirational video of a man who has just gone around the world sperading fun and happiness, take a look at all of the faces of the people and the commonality is that they are all smiling. A beautiful work of art and a great deal of work by a highly inspirational man! Leave a comment and show your grattitude!

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Coaching is not what it used to be!

When you hear the word “coach”, what do you think of? Do you imagine a football team with a man or woman shouting actions and ideas while the team run about? Or perhaps a hockey team with the coach pacing to and fro and calling out the names of the players?

Coaching is no longer reserved to sports teams; it is now one of the key concepts in leadership and management. But why is coaching so important?

For Leadership

Coaching is one of the six emotional leadership styles proposed by Daniel Goleman. It is a behavior or role that leaders enforce in the context of situational leadership. As a leadership style, coaching is used when the members of a group or team are competent and motivated, but do not have an idea of the long-term goals of an organization. This involves two levels of coaching: team and individual. Team coaching makes members work together. In a group of individuals, not everyone may have nor share the same level of competence and commitment to a goal. A group may be a mix of highly competent and moderately competent members with varying levels of commitment. These differences can cause friction among the members. The coaching leader helps the members level their expectations. Also, the coaching leader manages differing perspectives so that the common goal succeeds over personal goals and interests. In a big organization, leaders need to align the staffs’ personal values and goals with that of the organization so that long-term directions can be pursued.

Coaching builds confidence and self esteem

1 to 1 coaching is an example of situational leadership at work. It aims to mentor and build up the confidence of members by affirming good performance during regular feedbacks; and increase competence by helping the member assess his/her strengths and weaknesses towards career planning and professional development. Depending on the individual’s level of competence and commitment, a leader may exercise more coaching behavior for the less-experienced members. Usually, this happens in the case of new staffs. The direct supervisor gives more defined tasks and holds regular feedbacks for the new staff, and gradually lessens the amount of coaching, directing, and supporting roles to favor delegating as competence and confidence increase.

Coaching promotes individual and team excellence.

Excellence is a product of habitual good practice. The regularity of meetings and constructive feedback is important in establishing habits. Members catch the habit of constantly assessing themselves for their strengths and areas for improvement that they themselves perceive what knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to acquire to attain team goals. In the process, they attain individually excellence as well. An example is in the case of a musical orchestra: each member plays a different instrument. In order to achieve harmony of music from the different instrument, members will polish their part in the piece, aside from practicing as an ensemble. Consequently, they improve individually as an instrument player.

Coaching develops high commitment to common goals.

A coaching leader balances the attainment of immediate targets with long-term goals towards the vision of an organization. As mentioned earlier, with the alignment of personal goals with organizational or team goals, personal interests are kept in check. By constantly communicating the vision through formal and informal conversations, the members are inspired and motivated. Setting short-term team goals aligned with organizational goals; and making an action plan to attain these goals can help sustain the increased motivation and commitment to common goals of the members.

Coaching produces valuable leaders.

Leadership by example is important in coaching. A coaching leader loses credibility when he/she cannot practice what he/she preaches. This means that a coaching leader should be well organized, highly competent is his/her field, communicates openly and encourages feedback, and has a clear idea of the organization’s vision-mission-goals. By vicarious and purposive learning, members catch the same good practices and attitudes from the coaching leader, turning them into coaching leaders themselves. If a member experiences good coaching, he/she is most likely to do the same things when entrusted with formal leadership roles.

It is important to note that coaching is not a one hit wonder, it is a continual source of motivation and something that requires dicipline, dedication and effort and sometimes things do not go the planned way, but in times of challenge we just need to continue with focus. Yes it requires effort, but the rewards are many and well worth working for!

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One of the most powerful quotes in recent media is from the new Sherlock holmes film starring Robert Downey jr and is the “This mustn’t register on an emotional level” in the scene where Downey Jr was in a bare fist fight for money.

However though before we go into the film scene, we need to look at the reason as to why he actually says that this must not register on an emotional level.

The scene opens as explained where Downey Jr is fighting, but then something happens and he wants to leave the fight, his aggressive opponent though has other intentions though and wants to continue the fight, Jr tries in vain to leave when his opponent tries to humiliate him by spitting at the back of his head.

At this scene the film time stop and we see Jr saying “This mustn’t register on an emotional level” …why? because in reality our emotions can become very erratic and therefore cause us to lose focus, liken to that of somebody drowning, who flails and flaps in a blind panic.

In a situation which we need to take action, panicking or being erratic is a guaranteed way to lose control. This is why in the film Downey Jr does not allow his opponents insult to go into the emotional mind and toy with ideas as “what does the crowd think of me?” “Am i good enough?” but instead he keeps his thoughts conscience and in his control of which in his emotional mind he would be the controlled (by his emotions.

Please watch the video below for this scene and watch him take action while remaining calm and focuses when it matters most, a highly valuable skill!

***Click here to watch the film***

Also here is a video on the two minds and an additional extra to compliment why the emotional mind can be challenging when in a panic.

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Have you ever needed really professional work but do not always have the budget?
or have you ever been looking for a support or add-on for you business such as advice or a portfolio video and when you have enquired you seem to be paying over the odds or will be waiting for ages?

When looking through the internet for professional work for either your business or even personal life it is quite challenging to know where to start and then even if you find the right site there is always other factors to consider such as

1. How professional are they?
2. Will they keep their word once you have paid?
3. If your finished work is not to standard will it take months to change?

Fiverr.com is a nice little website to provide you with supplemental work for your business and or promotional work.

The structure is as follows … each member of the fiverr community puts up a GIG on the site, these gigs are of various areas which you can buy for only $5 (dollars). The gigs may be from videos to facebook promotion to radio voice overs and many others.

Please hold in mind though that you are not paying very much for these gigs so the owner will just provide what you see is what you get, but in my opinion some of the gigs on there are fantastic, true some are a little random to say the least but even the quirky one are great for a cute present for a friend at work.

Here is a video we had made a while ago to promote our affiliate site “The Science and Psychology series” where each affiliate can earn 50% of each sale – to see our affiliate site click here

This is the video we had made on fiverr.com

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Happy hunting

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Today we have been sent an email by Louise from Manchester in the UK and she has asked “Why is it that positive affermations are not working for her?”

Louise has been practicing using 6 phrases 3 times a day sometimes up to 20 minutes at a go and even after 1 month she still does not feel very motivated and or changed in any way.

Louise – You have my total admiration as not many people last a month, so your dedication is great!
But you are right when you feel they have little impact and here is why…

If you would like your question answering please message us here We do our best to answer all questions but due to the high number of messages we may not be able to answer all of them.

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In this “your questions answered” podcast, we cover a simple and effective exercise to support one of our members Johnathan (from Canada) who needs extra motivation during his weight loss plan. He has lost one stone and has two to go.
Please note that although this exercise can be very powerful, it should not be relied upon for long-term results and is just for temporary motivation, please visit our main 1 to 1 coaching page for full details on permanent results

All the best Johnathan and keep up the great work!

If you would like your question answering please message us here We do our best to answer all questions but due to the hgh number of messages we may not be able to answer all of them.

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Please find here all your questions answered by our coaches, in audio!

This section is full of hints and tips and although we do aim to answer all of your questions, due to the high number of emails we get, unfortunately we are unable to answer them all.

The podcasts for this section has been supported with the music provided by Peter John Ross (www.sonnyboo.com)

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