Life and Executive Coaching course 2009

Who can benefit from this training?

 

This life transforming training is especially suited for people who want to master the paradigms, principles and practices of Coaching. If you contemplate a career change this course possesses the potential to initiate a new and exciting season in your life.

 

This course is focussed on potential Coaches who want to start a coaching practice as a Life- or Executive Coach.

 

Are there more than just the course?

 

Additional to the 20 full day teaching sessions you will receive 8 one hour coaching sessions for your own personal and professional development with me, Nico Liebenberg. Your coaching sessions form an integral part of your development as a Coach.

 

How can I register for this course?

 

You can register or indicate your interest in this course by sending me (Nico) an e-mail to nicoliebenberg@gmail.com or post a message in the block below.

 

Thank you. Look forward to meeting you soon? 

Executive coaching enhances quality of life

Executive coaching is a common leadership development practice among business leaders all over the world.

Coaching can be defined as “an ongoing relationship that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance and enhance overall quality of life.

A well trained coach is good at facilitating the process of change–helping people make the changes they want for themselves and their organisations. A coach can assist you to face all kinds of challenges and create new ways of thinking.

A coach is trained to “actively hear and discern”, to listen for fears and to see self-defeating beliefs that get in the way of your success.

A coach will brainstorm possible problem-solving approaches with you, challenge you to step out of your comfort zone and hold you accountable to do what you actually should do.

“In a 2001 study of 100 executives, mostly from Fortune 1000 companies, Manchester Inc. found that the average return on investment was almost six times the cost of coaching. Participants report rich learning environments and improvements in decision making, team performance and motivation, and highly recommended coaching.”

To learn more about the services I present as an Executive and Life Coach click on the page “COACHING” (above).

Seasons of waiting

I recently sat with a couple of friends discussing the season of waiting. Oh, what dread this is for a person encapsulated by the fast pace of the modern world. One of the guys came up with the remark that in such a season one should not be passive, but be like a ‘waiter’ that serves a customer in a restaurant.

The true good waiter doesn’t stand around bored. He observes his customer’s every move, looking for any indication of what he (the waiter) should do next to meet his customer’s needs. He is actively observing (beholding) his customer in order to get an indication of what his next move should be.

This friend remarked that when a christian goes through a season of waiting, he should be like this good waiter. Beholding his Lord to see what he should do next, not a passive waiting, but an active beholding (observing) of his Master.

I think it was Jesus that said, ‘if you see (behold) me, you will become like me’.

Nothing like South Africa!

The burning sun,
radiance in bloom.
Africa, you are my home!

Change comes with patience

 Change is not static, passive or just a ‘once of’ event. Change is not an incident; it is a process. Process implies something is started, set in motion and given power to move forward. Process stimulates constant states of growing and becoming. All living systems, including you and all your realtionships, are captured in this constant state of becoming, this process called ‘change’.

Desire what you have!

In my recent readings I picked up on something which really inspired me. The author said that one of the keys to successful living is to desire what you have! What a profound truth. How many of us will enter a peaceful place of rest when we can get to that place where we (once again) desire what we have.

 

Objectivity? What’s that?

My eye caught a post in some blog that debated how objective, objectivity really is. My understanding of objective and subjective is slightly off-beat compared to most in the scientific world.

When you hold a ‘pure scientific’ paradigm, especially in ’subjective sciences’ like psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. you believe that you can do your science objectively. Now that I don’t believe.

It is totally impossible to be ‘objective’, since the moment you start to observe anything, you are involved. Your paradigm is involved. All the knowledge your paradigm holds get involved in your observations and eventual interpretations. You might think your paradigm is more ‘objective’, but that is not possible, because you will eventually use YOUR (subjective) paradigm to interpret what YOU are observing. YOUR observations and YOUR interpretations will become clear, not necessarily what you observe.

What pictures are you looking at?

Let me tell you a story that might encourage you to understand that your paradigm determines what you see, irrespective of what you look at.

Two (separate) American shoe manufacturing companies send their top marketing specialists to investigate the market for shoes in Africa. After two weeks both of them reported back to their respective head offices.

Albert Einstein was right again

Albert Einstein once said, “You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”

We all run into problems (or challenges as I like to call them). In our journey in life we get to these challenges mainly because of the way we think. The way we think (our paradigms) brought us to where we are today and if today has a challenge it could be attributed, amongst other reasons, to the way we thought yesterday and the day before that.

Expand your thinking, think differently, shift your paradigm, but don’t use the same thinking to solve the problem. It is that “same thinking” that caused the problem in the first place and what makes you think the “same” thinking is (now) suddenly going to solve the problem? “You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”

Black and white bowl us out, no?

I recently had an awakening about my paradigm (mind-set) of why I find it difficult to hear certain people and why it is so easy to hear others.

Last week I negotiated my future with a good friend of mine. Now, I remarked to him that I find our styles and ways incompatible. Before I continue, let me remind you that I find it very difficult to think in terms of right and wrong. This said, neither my friend nor am I right or wrong.

Change is no small money

We live in a world of change. It is everywhere and here to stay. The older our planet gets, the more we understand our lives are soaked with change.

Change like God, is a constant. A constant never changes; it is established and stays the same forever.

God will always be true to who he is. He is God and that is who he will be, forever. His character and identity is not influenced by anything in the universe. He will never become someone else and no one can stop him from being God.

This same principle applies to change. As said, change is also a constant. What will not change is that everything will change. Although we are unsure of many things, we can be sure that everything will change. We might not know exactly what the future holds, but we know it holds change. It is pregnant with change and every now and then gives birth to the life in its womb. We cannot escape the truth that everything in and around us is changing – constantly!

Author of this blog

Nico Liebenberg. Husband, father of five, lover of the Way, Psychologist, Life & Executive coach. Loves the Creator, His people and all things He has made. Chooses simplicity above riches and status.

“When I was young I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older I decided to change only my country. As I grew into my twilight years I settled for changing only my family. And now as I lie on my deathbed, I realize, if I had only changed myself first…”