The Coaching Panel

Hi dear friends,

Time is flying by and this week we have our last guest of the month, as next week we have The Coaching Panel’s panel. But that is for next week. Let me introduce to you this week’s guest: Maggie Currie.

Maggie was born in Braintree, Essex, an illegitimate baby left in a children’s home. She was adopted and brought up in Barkingside, Essex and was sent to a private school at age 11 and achieved all the qualifications necessary to be a secretary. Her first job at the age of 16 was with the Legal & General Assurance Society in London where she started out as a shorthand typist, progressing to personal secretary by the time she left to have her family at age 22. She married at age 19 and had three children. Unfortunately this marriage did not last and she remarried at age 32 and moved to Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Returning to work when the children were old enough she worked for the NHS as the secretary to a Professor of Thoracic Medicine at The London Chest Hospital and subsequently for a Consultant Psychiatrist at Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, where they had moved to from Southend-on-Sea in Essex when the children had all left home.

She relocated to the Isle of Wight in 2003, having had a holiday home there since 1998, which was intended to be a retirement home. The move was prompted by the premature death of their next door neighbour just before her 60th birthday.

She started her own secretarial business on the Island aimed at small businesses who could not afford to employ another person. This has built up from just 1 customer in 2004 to over 60 currently.

Whilst on a Business Link course in 2004 she met someone who was undertaking a Life Coaching course with Newcastle College, and it was free at that time. It sounded interesting to her and she had nothing to lose, so she took their free Certificate and Diploma courses as well and successfully qualified as Personal Life Coach. Maggie also discovered that she loved coaching.

She bumped into Jonathan Jay, who she remembered from his stage hypnotic act some ten years before in the holiday camps on the Isle of Wight, at a Small Business Exhibition at the NEC in 2005 and he suggested that she joins him at the Coaching Academy to gain even better qualifications, which she did and successfully qualified as a Corporate & Executive Coach.

She met Dawn Breslin through the Coaching Academy and loved the work she did and the way she did it, and trained with her to become a Confidence Life Coach Practitioner and Confidence Group Trainer. She loves this even more than just coaching.

More recently Maggie has been licensed by Susan Jeffers to present her workshops based on her book “Feel the fear and do it anyway”. This is just fabulous.

She is on a mission to inspire everyone to find and live their passions - to be their authentic, true self. She feels her job is to be responsive, flexible and enabling, to draw out the star in people. In particular, she is skilled in rebuilding people’s self-esteem and confidence, enabling them to develop to their full potential. To do all this requires a holistic, lively approach to personal and professional development, from the delivery of the training and coaching through to on-going support. And she is interested in results – no ifs, no buts.

She has articles published in:

• European Coaching Institute Newsletter June 2006 – Is it cool to be happy?
• Hearing Concern Magazine 2006 - "Benefits of Thought Field Therapy in adapting to loss of hearing"
• Business Vision Magazine - September 2006 - Do you want your ideal work/life balance?

Maggie has recently started writing her first book on life coaching which she plans to have finished and published by the end of this year.

Maggie and myself are looking forward to welcome you as listener during the LIVE interview this coming Tuesday September 23rd 2008 at 20:00 UTC, which is: 21:00 GMT - 22:00 Brussels/Madrid - 16:00 New York.

If you may have any question for Maggie, feel free to use the comment section here below this post.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear friends and colleagues,

Unfortunately, the show of today, July 1st 2008, is cancelled due to a personal emergency of our guest Jen Buscher-Lalley. Instead of the live interview, you will be able to listen to the previous recorded panel that took place last week. The topic of that panel was: "What does a potential coaching client needs to look at when selecting a coach?"

I am really sorry for this late notice, but I hope that you enjoy last week’s panel.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear friends,

This week we had an awesome panel with the three guests that I interviewed during the month. Next week, we start the fourth round of The Coaching Panel. And my first guest of the fourth round is Jen Buscher-Lalley.

Jennifer Buscher-Lalley is the Founder of InnerVisions Coaching & Training. She works with people from all walks of life who want to learn to tap into their inner wisdom and create a life from the inside-out. She feels that everyone has the right to live a life by design.

Jen has been Coaching for 5 years and is a Founding Member of the International Associaton of Coaching (IAC). She is currently working on her Master Spirit & Life Certification through the Certified Coaches Alliance (CCA). Jen is the InnerVisions Coach for people from all walks of Life who want to tap into their inner wisdom and create a Life from the inside out. She founded InnerVisions Coaching & Training on this premise, and continues to support all of her clients in living a passionate and purposeful life.

Join Jen and myself on Tuesday July 1th at 20:00 UTC - 22:00 CET - 16:00 EST. We both are looking forward to have you as live listener on the show.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

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Dear friends and listeners,

Another month has passed and this means that on May 24th, the last Tuesday of the month, there will be the next panel on The Coaching Panel’s show.

The topic is the following: "What does a potential coaching client needs to look at when selecting a coach?"

There are more and more coaches getting on the market, which is really good, because this means that coaching is still growing and will stay forever. But on the other hand, it could get potential clients confused which coach to choose. I believe it would be an excellent idea to provide the listeners with your views about what is important for a client to look at before selecting a coach. It is a very pratical topic, but it will give the listeners and the general public a base which they could use to select a client.

The guests that will join me in on this month’s panel are Jackie Walker, Susan Bagyura and Joanne Mallon.

If you want to participate in the discussion, you have three possibilities:

- Chat live with me and my guests tommorrow during the show

- Discuss with other like-minded people in the forum of The Coaching Panel

- Leave your comment here at the end of this post.

My guests and myself are looking forward to have you as live listener to The Coaching Panel’s Panel tommorrow on Radio Coaching.

Have an outstanding week!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear friends and colleagues,

Another week has past and I have for you the next guest lined up. Her name is Joanne Mallon.

Joanne is one of the UK’s most well known life and career coaches. She’s been featured in The Guardian, The Independent, Evening Standard, Woman’s Own, BBC Parenting Magazine, Health & Fitness, Zest, She, Asda Magazine, Healthy Magazine and numerous other publications and websites. She has also appeared on TV and radio all over the world, including BBC and Sky News.

Joanne’s niche is media - she specialises in coaching people in the media and creative industries.
She also runs media training courses for small businesses and loves helping other coaches attract publicity easily. Prior to training as a coach Joanne worked as a freelance television journalist and producer.

Joanne is originally from Northern Ireland and currently lives in Brighton, UK with her partner and two children.

Join Joanne and myself on Tuesday June 17th at 20:00 UTC - 22:00 CET - 16:00 EST. We both are looking forward to have you as live listener on the show.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

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Hi dear friends and colleagues,

In this week’s show, I have the pleasure to interview Susan Bagyura.

With over twenty-five years of sales and entrepreneurial experience, Susan Bagyura represents a viewpoint that covers several perspectives. Experienced in the environment of corporate America, Susan has also lived and worked in Zimbabwe, Ireland, England, and Austria. She works with small business owners and entrepreneurs helping them define and implement strategies and processes needed to create quantum leaps. This experience has given her a unique ability to analyze businesses and develop strategies that will quickly and effectively change the direction of those businesses.

Susan believes that success in every area of business and personal life is all about the mindset. The economy is all about mindset. While one person complains about how bad business is, someone else in the same industry and the same marketplace is experiencing their greatest growth. Instead of teaching people what to do, Susan shows them how to take the lid off their thinking and go after what they really can do! If you want your company to perform at optimum levels, then you must change the thinking of your people, starting at the top. It is critical to work from a higher level, not a lower.

Whatever is happening in the business is a reflection of what is happening in the mind of the top person. Mindset comes first…behaviors and results follow. Change the mindset and be prepared for quantum leaps in performance.

Blue Danube is a coaching, consulting and training company whose innovative service delivery model takes the best of products, skills and techniques to help clients achieve better results. Seminars, programs and products as delivered by Blue Danube Coaching will show how one can BE more, DO more and HAVE more.

Susan brings her expertise from years in sales, marketing, and the corporate world to a new level. Her solid experience as an Executive Leadership coach and a LifeSuccess Consultant give her book a combination of information and guidance that can make a good, successful business person into a stellar success living an abundant life. The Visionary Leader is a great first step to working with Susan and changing your business, your life and the world around you for the better.

Join Susan and me LIVE on Tuesday June 10th at 20:00 UTC - 22:00 CET - 21:00 GMT - 16:00 EST.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

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Hi dear friends,

I have the honour to interview tonight Jackie Walker. Jackie is a Divorce Coach.

During her own divorce and the aftermath, Jackie recognised the need for specialist help in this time of major change for most. She has devised a unique 6 step system to enable others to identify the real emotional blocks they need to overcome in order to rebuild their lives and move on with confidence, hope and clarity choosing who and what they want to be. Drawing from her teachings in NLP, Coaching, Huna and Spirituality she has created a model to target each client’s individual needs and entry level.

Want to know more about Jackie? Or are going through a divorce yourself at the moment and are you looking for some bright light? Join us LIVE on Radio Coaching at 20:00 UTC.

Have an excellent afternoon.

Coach Erwin

Dear friends and listeners,

Another month has passed and this means that on May 27th, the last Tuesday of the month, there will be the next panel on The Coaching Panel’s show.

This month’s topic is ‘What impact can coaching have in the growth of the world?’ The field of coaching is each day growing bigger and bigger, which means that it’s impact in the world is growing and has/can have a positive influence on the growth of the world as a whole. With my guests, I will explore this question during the second panel of The Coaching Panel.

The guests that will join me in on this month’s panel are Martin Cornes and Baiju Solanki.

If you want to participate in the discussion, you have three possibilities:

- Chat live with me and my guests tommorrow during the show

- Discuss with other like-minded people in the forum of The Coaching Panel

- Leave your comment here at the end of this post.

My guests and myself are looking forward to have you as live listener to The Coaching Panel’s Panel tommorrow on Radio Coaching.

Have an outstanding week!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear friends and colleagues,

After having last week Martin Cornes as the first male guest on the show, I have immediatelely set up a second male guest on the show. This week’s guest is Baiju Solanki.

Baiju is Ei (Emotional Intelligence) Performance Coach. He runs his own company called Performance Coaching and Training Ltd. After Graduating in Psychology, he was in Lecturer in Psychology for 4 years, while at the same time completing his Masters in Sport Psychology. After teaching he went into Sales and worked for a company dealing with marketing solutions for Universities looking to attract International Students. The last 4 years he was Sales Director running the sales team, leading sales training and coaching. In 2001 he took a Coaching qualification and in 2006 Accelerated Coaching qualification specialising in developing emotional intelligence.

What he has found during his time teaching, in sales and coaching is that the key to peak performance is the emotional state you are in at any given moment. The emotional frame you are in will have a direct impact on your results and the level at which you are performing. The way to change your thinking is to change the way you look at things in your life. If you are not getting the results you want in your life you need to look at your beliefs. Your beliefs have a direct impact on the results you are getting in your life so if you want different results, address what are your limiting beliefs.

I will explore more in depth with Baiju about his coaching and the emotional intelligence. Join us on Tuesday May 20th 2008 at 20:00 UTC - 22:00 CET - 21:00 GMT - 16:00 EST.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear friends,

I hope that you are doing excellent. weel, I am.

Finally it is so far, we will have the first male guest on the show, and the honour goes to Martin Cornes.

Martin Cornes is an expert in Business and Personal Development. He has twenty five years experience of individual and team development in Retail Management. He is qualified as a Corporate & Executive Coach (Distinction) CA, Master Practitioner NLP CH, Performance Consultant CH & Master Results Coach CH. 

Business & Personal Development Coaching achieves fantastic results for you as an Individual or for your Business that will last a lifetime. Following a series of coaching sessions, you are left with all the skills you will ever need to deliver outstanding results as an individual or as a leader of your people and your business.

"My personal goal is to provide the support, assistance and guidance to as many Individuals and Business people as possible in the pursuit of their highest goals"  - Martin Cornes

His interests in coaching developed in his late teens when he became a qualified swimming teacher and club coach. These skills gave him the foundation to begin understanding individual and team development.

Since then he has spent 25 years in Business Management where his personal focus and passion has been to help others maximise their true potential. He has worked in many different locations, spent time project managing new developments and experienced the coaching of teams across many different formats in the retail field.

His skills are now continuing with professional coaching which allows him to utilise the experience he has gained in the management of people, process,  projects, strategy, structure and business finance, but most of all fast tracking people to achieve their highest goals.

He can offer you a calm and consistent approach along with a great sense of fun when achieving your future plans and goals. He totally believes that you can deliver the future that you really want. He is continuosly updating his knowledge and pass on his learning’s to as many people as possible in order to achieve hsi personal goal.

About Martin’ Niche:

His focus on Values and the significant shifts they can make is key to his current work. People generally do not understand that their values can be changed. Once they believe this is possible and their awareness is raised they always move on to greater levels of achievement.

Many problems associated to performance are related to the values that people are currently holding on to. This is exciting ground to break. By developing goals that are directly related to values results are far more likely to be achieved.

Join Martin and me LIVE next Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at 20:00 UTC - 21:00 GMT - 22:00 CET - 16:00 EST on Radio Coaching.

Have an outstanding week!

Coach Erwin