Juggling in 3D 359: Strictly Come Swimming
Welcome to our new subscribers this week. We've carried on the updates at the website and there's a much refined handout on CV writing http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching.phtml Remember that Juggling is now available on the blog http://3dcoaching.blogspot.com/ where we would love to hear your opinions.
Claire writes: 'Remind me never to do the advanced driving test. My current attempt at improving my swimming has left me feeling like an early evictee of Strictly COme Dancing. Since the summer, I've been swimming at least three times a week and have never really mastered breastroke. I tried to find some videos to improve my stroke on the internet, but managed to find little of use beyond the spoof Synchronised Swimming 2004 clip on youtube.com. Some things are better done in person, so my birthday present was a couple of stroke improver lessons. The teacher was great. She affirmed that my arms were doing the right thing. My legs, she said needed improvement.
We spent half the lesson focussing on my legs until I was doing them well, with a float. Then it was time to put them together. It was good that the pool was empty! Three weeks on, I am still in that in between stage where I don't want to go back to bad habits, but I can only put the arms and legs together for a moment. "You're doing twice as many strokes as you need to. You're making it too complicated" said the teacher.
Simplicity is an art. The same is true when we work with people as they develop professionally and personally - through coaching or facilitation. It's often the simplest way of working which is most effective - but it can be the hardest to learn.'
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
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Facilitation in the NHS Is part of your job about developing Foundation Trust status in the NHS? Are you concerned about how to manage changes in your PCT? Or do you know people who are? Coaching, facilitation and action learning are key tools in the development of this type of culture change. Contact Diane@3dcoaching.com to talk more... http://www.3dcoaching.com/facilitation.phtml
Looking for an innovative approach to teambuilding? Art2Motivate will draw out your team's talent by playing with paint. Working with two dimensional or three dimensional art. Facilitated by artist, Peronel Barnes and a 3D Coach (Claire). http://www.3dcoaching.com/facilitation/art2motivate.phtml
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Juggling in 3D: 358 Seeing Things Differently
Diane writes: "It is the most perfect of November days here today. The sky is clear and blue and the sun is shining brightly. As I came in through the college just now I met one of our students who comes originally from the Congo. I said what a lovely day it and he looked puzzled. "It is freezing!" he said. "Yes, but it is lovely", I replied. His face broke into a wide smile, "You English and your weather!"
The thing was he and I were coming at our experience of the weather from different perspectives. He was longing for warmth and I was glad it wasn't raining.
In coaching it is good to come at issues from different perspectives in order to gather new insight into a perplexing situation. Time management is a particular area where a new perspective can transform a situation. I love diaries and year planners and enjoy keeping them up to date. Some of you reading this will be shuddering at the very mention of the word diary. A friend of mine desperately wanted to get her working schedule organized but found wall planners a real turn off. Instead she drew a picture of a river with tributaries and a beautiful fertile delta. There were bridges, a dam, stepping stone, lakes ponds and puddles. This became her wall planner for the coming months. Drawing this picture released her creativity and unblocked her stuckness. She could see where future bottlenecks were, where the dry, barren times might come and she could plan accordingly. She had thought her problem was an inability to plan, looking at it from a different perspective showed her she can plan very effectively, but the last thing she needs to help her is a sterile wall planner.
Are you saw you are looking at things from the best direction. What could a change of perspective do for you?"
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Action Learning Facilitator Training Don't miss out... the next Introductory Course in London is FULL but we have ONE space on 16th January 2008 in London. Suitable for anyone interested in using ALS in their organisation. Also useful tool for coaches. Book now to secure your place. We are also planning a day in the North of England in early 2008 and looking at the viablity of a day in Cardiff on Thursday 31st January. Let us know if you're interested. http://www.3dcoaching.com/action_learning/train_to_facilitate_action_learning_sets.phtml
Become a Juggler If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
Executive Coaching Organisational benefits from coaching include improved teamwork, performance and productivity. What would be possible in your company if you or your staff had a thinking partner who would support, encourage and challenge as you develop and integrate your knowledge and your practice? To find out more call Diane on 0845 458 0156 http://www.3dcoaching.com/executive_coaching.phtml
NEW: Mediation Is there a problem in your organisation which would benefit from mediation? We are delighted to introduce Elizabeth Turnbull who is on the 3D Team purely to offer mediation. Find out more about Elizabeth... http://www.3dcoaching.com/more_about_us/elizabeth_turnbull.phtml
Diane writes: "It is the most perfect of November days here today. The sky is clear and blue and the sun is shining brightly. As I came in through the college just now I met one of our students who comes originally from the Congo. I said what a lovely day it and he looked puzzled. "It is freezing!" he said. "Yes, but it is lovely", I replied. His face broke into a wide smile, "You English and your weather!"
The thing was he and I were coming at our experience of the weather from different perspectives. He was longing for warmth and I was glad it wasn't raining.
In coaching it is good to come at issues from different perspectives in order to gather new insight into a perplexing situation. Time management is a particular area where a new perspective can transform a situation. I love diaries and year planners and enjoy keeping them up to date. Some of you reading this will be shuddering at the very mention of the word diary. A friend of mine desperately wanted to get her working schedule organized but found wall planners a real turn off. Instead she drew a picture of a river with tributaries and a beautiful fertile delta. There were bridges, a dam, stepping stone, lakes ponds and puddles. This became her wall planner for the coming months. Drawing this picture released her creativity and unblocked her stuckness. She could see where future bottlenecks were, where the dry, barren times might come and she could plan accordingly. She had thought her problem was an inability to plan, looking at it from a different perspective showed her she can plan very effectively, but the last thing she needs to help her is a sterile wall planner.
Are you saw you are looking at things from the best direction. What could a change of perspective do for you?"
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Action Learning Facilitator Training Don't miss out... the next Introductory Course in London is FULL but we have ONE space on 16th January 2008 in London. Suitable for anyone interested in using ALS in their organisation. Also useful tool for coaches. Book now to secure your place. We are also planning a day in the North of England in early 2008 and looking at the viablity of a day in Cardiff on Thursday 31st January. Let us know if you're interested. http://www.3dcoaching.com/action_learning/train_to_facilitate_action_learning_sets.phtml
Become a Juggler If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
Executive Coaching Organisational benefits from coaching include improved teamwork, performance and productivity. What would be possible in your company if you or your staff had a thinking partner who would support, encourage and challenge as you develop and integrate your knowledge and your practice? To find out more call Diane on 0845 458 0156 http://www.3dcoaching.com/executive_coaching.phtml
NEW: Mediation Is there a problem in your organisation which would benefit from mediation? We are delighted to introduce Elizabeth Turnbull who is on the 3D Team purely to offer mediation. Find out more about Elizabeth... http://www.3dcoaching.com/more_about_us/elizabeth_turnbull.phtml
Monday, November 19, 2007
How big is your carbon footprint?
Find out at www.wwf.org.uk/oneplanetliving Definitely food for thought. I thought we were quite environmentally friendly, but we are living as though there were 2.96 worlds.
Find out at www.wwf.org.uk/oneplanetliving Definitely food for thought. I thought we were quite environmentally friendly, but we are living as though there were 2.96 worlds.
Juggling in 3D 357: Valuing intuition
Diane writes: "A couple of weeks ago I needed to contact one of our coaches. I called her home number, work number and mobile. Moments after I had left my last message my phone rang and it was the person I had been trying to call. She had just thought it would be good to talk with me - she had no idea I had left three messages! This is something that happens to me very often. A person comes into my mind and moments later they ring. I wake up thinking about someone, drop them a card and then find out that the card arrived at just the right moment for them. This is intuition.
Some people have trouble believing in intuition. They think it is about guessing or getting lucky. The same people have even more difficulty in trusting intuition. Facts are tangible, real and verifiable; intuition is hard to get hold of, perhaps even a bit fluffy.
I want to encourage you to use and develop your intuition. Listen to your own inner voice and to the other messages your body is sending out about the people you meet and speak with. I am not advocating using intuition alone; intuition needs to be backed up by facts. Intuition is an important way of knowing.
In coaching we use intuition a great deal. Good coaches offer insights from intuition to their clients without attachment. If the insight lands, the client can pick it up and develop the idea. Last week I was working with a client who was struggling to find a way forward. Suddenly the word - systemic - came into my mind, I held it back until I felt I had to offer my intuition to the client. 'I am wondering if this problem is systemic?' Pause and then the light came on for my client, 'Yes! That's it!' and off she went into exploring her ideas for organisational change. How can you better value intuition?"
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Become a Juggler: If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
Are you getting the interviews and then not getting the job? Spend two hours with an experienced interviewer who will help you be the best you can be. No spin. http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching/interview_coaching.phtml
Executive Coaching: Organisational benefits from coaching include improved teamwork, performance and productivity. What would be possible in your company if you or your staff had a thinking partner who would support, encourage and challenge as you develop and integrate your knowledge and your practice? To find out more, call Diane on 0845 458 0156http://www.3dcoaching.com/executive_coaching.phtml
Facilitators: Are you looking for excellent facilitation which allows you to get the best out of a meeting or away day without imposing a package? Outside facilitation brings an independence to an away day which can bear more fruit that doing it yourself. Out first question to you all is: What do you want to be different by the end of today? http://www.3dcoaching.com/facilitation.phtml
Diane writes: "A couple of weeks ago I needed to contact one of our coaches. I called her home number, work number and mobile. Moments after I had left my last message my phone rang and it was the person I had been trying to call. She had just thought it would be good to talk with me - she had no idea I had left three messages! This is something that happens to me very often. A person comes into my mind and moments later they ring. I wake up thinking about someone, drop them a card and then find out that the card arrived at just the right moment for them. This is intuition.
Some people have trouble believing in intuition. They think it is about guessing or getting lucky. The same people have even more difficulty in trusting intuition. Facts are tangible, real and verifiable; intuition is hard to get hold of, perhaps even a bit fluffy.
I want to encourage you to use and develop your intuition. Listen to your own inner voice and to the other messages your body is sending out about the people you meet and speak with. I am not advocating using intuition alone; intuition needs to be backed up by facts. Intuition is an important way of knowing.
In coaching we use intuition a great deal. Good coaches offer insights from intuition to their clients without attachment. If the insight lands, the client can pick it up and develop the idea. Last week I was working with a client who was struggling to find a way forward. Suddenly the word - systemic - came into my mind, I held it back until I felt I had to offer my intuition to the client. 'I am wondering if this problem is systemic?' Pause and then the light came on for my client, 'Yes! That's it!' and off she went into exploring her ideas for organisational change. How can you better value intuition?"
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Become a Juggler: If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
Are you getting the interviews and then not getting the job? Spend two hours with an experienced interviewer who will help you be the best you can be. No spin. http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching/interview_coaching.phtml
Executive Coaching: Organisational benefits from coaching include improved teamwork, performance and productivity. What would be possible in your company if you or your staff had a thinking partner who would support, encourage and challenge as you develop and integrate your knowledge and your practice? To find out more, call Diane on 0845 458 0156http://www.3dcoaching.com/executive_coaching.phtml
Facilitators: Are you looking for excellent facilitation which allows you to get the best out of a meeting or away day without imposing a package? Outside facilitation brings an independence to an away day which can bear more fruit that doing it yourself. Out first question to you all is: What do you want to be different by the end of today? http://www.3dcoaching.com/facilitation.phtml
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Juggling in 3D 356: Reframing the Picture
Diane writes: "Recently I was working with a client who had become really stuck with a particular situation. She said it was impossible, she could not possibly find a way through that would enable her to make progress with what was a very complex and difficult issue. I had tried several different approaches through my questions in the hope she would find a way of unlocking her stuckness. Then I remembered something that one of our coaches had told me only the day before. It was a way of reframing the issue so that one could look at it and work with it from a different perspective.
Imagine yourself as a character in a film. In the film you are yourself, at this moment, with the issue you are feeling you can make no progress with. Change your role. Now you are watching the film from the projectionist's booth. As you watch tell the character in the film what she should do.
My client did this exercise and within a few moments she had seen from this objective perspective exactly what she needed to do. She became very animated and very directive with herself! She had asked me before the exercise to write down what she said to her celluloid self, which I did. She was very excited about what she had seen and about the advice she had given herself. Now she is busy acting on it!
We often wrestle with issues and feel there is no way forward. The way forward might be to take a step back and look in from a new perspective."
(This is shared with the permission of the client)
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Become a Juggler
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NEW: Mediation
Is there a problem in your organisation which would benefit from mediation? We are delighted to introduce Elizabeth Turnbull who is on the 3D Team purely to offer mediation. Find out more about Elizabeth...
http://www.3dcoaching.com/more_about_us/elizabeth_turnbull.phtml
Want to find out what are your transferable skills?
It can take just two hours to turn your life around. Know it's time for a new direction and don't know what it is? or how to do it? Kick start your thinking with a Career Makeover. Call Claire on 0845 458 0154 to book the start of your new path. Now booking for December. These spaces can also be used for Executive Coaching.
http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching.phtml
Supervision for Coaches/ Facilitators
If you are among the 85% of coaches and consultants who think that supervision is important... but not among the 40% who receive it, call Claire to talk about how we can work with you as you transform your coaching. As part of Claire's development as a supervisor, we are offering FOUR supervision slots at reduced cost.
http://www.3dcoaching.com/mentoring_and_supervision.phtml
Diane writes: "Recently I was working with a client who had become really stuck with a particular situation. She said it was impossible, she could not possibly find a way through that would enable her to make progress with what was a very complex and difficult issue. I had tried several different approaches through my questions in the hope she would find a way of unlocking her stuckness. Then I remembered something that one of our coaches had told me only the day before. It was a way of reframing the issue so that one could look at it and work with it from a different perspective.
Imagine yourself as a character in a film. In the film you are yourself, at this moment, with the issue you are feeling you can make no progress with. Change your role. Now you are watching the film from the projectionist's booth. As you watch tell the character in the film what she should do.
My client did this exercise and within a few moments she had seen from this objective perspective exactly what she needed to do. She became very animated and very directive with herself! She had asked me before the exercise to write down what she said to her celluloid self, which I did. She was very excited about what she had seen and about the advice she had given herself. Now she is busy acting on it!
We often wrestle with issues and feel there is no way forward. The way forward might be to take a step back and look in from a new perspective."
(This is shared with the permission of the client)
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Become a Juggler
If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week
http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
NEW: Mediation
Is there a problem in your organisation which would benefit from mediation? We are delighted to introduce Elizabeth Turnbull who is on the 3D Team purely to offer mediation. Find out more about Elizabeth...
http://www.3dcoaching.com/more_about_us/elizabeth_turnbull.phtml
Want to find out what are your transferable skills?
It can take just two hours to turn your life around. Know it's time for a new direction and don't know what it is? or how to do it? Kick start your thinking with a Career Makeover. Call Claire on 0845 458 0154 to book the start of your new path. Now booking for December. These spaces can also be used for Executive Coaching.
http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching.phtml
Supervision for Coaches/ Facilitators
If you are among the 85% of coaches and consultants who think that supervision is important... but not among the 40% who receive it, call Claire to talk about how we can work with you as you transform your coaching. As part of Claire's development as a supervisor, we are offering FOUR supervision slots at reduced cost.
http://www.3dcoaching.com/mentoring_and_supervision.phtml
Monday, November 05, 2007
Juggling in 3D 355: Taking up the role
Welcome to all our new subscribers. From this week, you can read Juggling in 3D from our blog http://3dcoaching.blogspot.com/ There's also a chance to post messages and read about new information and ideas. If you like what you see, please forward the link to others you know who will be interested.
Diane writes: Last week I took part in an exercise where I was given a sheet of paper with five concentric circles. Between the edge of each circle and in the very centre there was space to write. I was invited to write words in each of the circles that describe me. The facilitator pointed out that each time we do an exercise like this we will put words in different places, those closest to the centre are the most important descriptors each time we do it. I really enjoyed the exercise and was interested to see which words were closest to the centre. Suddenly a new word leapt into my brain, "Mother-in Law".
Two weeks ago we celebrated our younger daughter's wedding. It was a truly splendid affair which everyone tells me they enjoyed immensely. There was a very moving piece in the ceremony where the officiant helped my husband to hand over our daughter into the new relationship. There was all kinds of symbolism to be seen in the way each person's hands were linked. For me at that moment a new family unit was created. I became a "Mother-in-Law" and I have to work out with our daughter and her husband what that role will involve.
It is not often that we are reminded in such a wonderful and dramatic way about taking up a new role. It made me stop to reflect how often in the past I have failed to notice I am taking up a new role and perhaps not given it the attention it deserved. I feel it is worth asking ourselves the question everyday, "Who am I today? What roles do I need to prepare for?" I shall certainly be paying attention to how I take up my new role as "Mother-in Law"; it is one which needs to be worked at!
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Up to the minute information... discussion at our blog.
http://3dcoaching.blogspot.com/
Are you getting the interviews and then not getting the job?
Spend two hours with an experienced interviewer who will help you be the best you can be. No spin.
http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching/interview_coaching.phtml
Strengthen your management team
Find out more about how we can help you to train managers in your organisation to use coaching skills and strengthen your team.
* Bespoke to fit your organisation
* Based on ICF Core Competencies
* Cascade through your organisation
* First Steps to ICF Portfolio Accreditation
* Include supervision to develop the skills your team are developing
To talk more about this , call Diane on 0845 458 0156 or email info@3dcoaching.com
http://www.3dcoaching.com/manager_as_coach.phtml
Become a Juggler
If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week
http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
Welcome to all our new subscribers. From this week, you can read Juggling in 3D from our blog http://3dcoaching.blogspot.com/ There's also a chance to post messages and read about new information and ideas. If you like what you see, please forward the link to others you know who will be interested.
Diane writes: Last week I took part in an exercise where I was given a sheet of paper with five concentric circles. Between the edge of each circle and in the very centre there was space to write. I was invited to write words in each of the circles that describe me. The facilitator pointed out that each time we do an exercise like this we will put words in different places, those closest to the centre are the most important descriptors each time we do it. I really enjoyed the exercise and was interested to see which words were closest to the centre. Suddenly a new word leapt into my brain, "Mother-in Law".
Two weeks ago we celebrated our younger daughter's wedding. It was a truly splendid affair which everyone tells me they enjoyed immensely. There was a very moving piece in the ceremony where the officiant helped my husband to hand over our daughter into the new relationship. There was all kinds of symbolism to be seen in the way each person's hands were linked. For me at that moment a new family unit was created. I became a "Mother-in-Law" and I have to work out with our daughter and her husband what that role will involve.
It is not often that we are reminded in such a wonderful and dramatic way about taking up a new role. It made me stop to reflect how often in the past I have failed to notice I am taking up a new role and perhaps not given it the attention it deserved. I feel it is worth asking ourselves the question everyday, "Who am I today? What roles do I need to prepare for?" I shall certainly be paying attention to how I take up my new role as "Mother-in Law"; it is one which needs to be worked at!
Email info@3dcoaching.com or call Diane on 0845 458 0156 if a coaching conversation will help you to take this forward.
(c) 2007 3D Coaching Ltd
Up to the minute information... discussion at our blog.
http://3dcoaching.blogspot.com/
Are you getting the interviews and then not getting the job?
Spend two hours with an experienced interviewer who will help you be the best you can be. No spin.
http://www.3dcoaching.com/career_coaching/interview_coaching.phtml
Strengthen your management team
Find out more about how we can help you to train managers in your organisation to use coaching skills and strengthen your team.
* Bespoke to fit your organisation
* Based on ICF Core Competencies
* Cascade through your organisation
* First Steps to ICF Portfolio Accreditation
* Include supervision to develop the skills your team are developing
To talk more about this , call Diane on 0845 458 0156 or email info@3dcoaching.com
http://www.3dcoaching.com/manager_as_coach.phtml
Become a Juggler
If you're a new reader, welcome! Click here to receive Juggling in 3D every week
http://www.3dcoaching.com/php/members.php?id=11
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