How to use 2011 to kickstart 2012

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I hope you’ve enjoyed the festive season and are looking forward to the new year ahead. I’d like to wish you all health, happiness and success for 2012. Before you forge on into the promise of a brand new year, it is worth taking just 15 minutes to pause for thought and reflect on the […]

This Week Liz Gooster …

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… Is still reading Who Cares Wins by David Jones … Is looking forward to the festive season! … HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! AND HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH, SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN 2012. Thanks for reading and I’ll be back with more posts next year.

It’s All in the Mind – Neuroscience & Coaching

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Neuroscience. The word carries an air of the unfathomable, a whiff of science fiction. Yet scientists are making bounding advances in peeping into the windows of, if not our souls, our brains. Piquantly described by Dr Geoff Bird as a ‘sloppy bag of disgustingness’, the adult human brain weighs in at 1.4 kg and has […]

Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done, by Oliver Burkeman

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As the title makes clear, this book doesn’t offer the holy grail of happiness, productivity, time management or work-life balance. Help! is a tongue-in-cheek swoosh through the morass of self-help advice that assails us from the heaving shelves of the popular psychology sections of the bookshops.

Legends of the Coaching Turf: Sir John Whitmore

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‘Coaching should be more whisky and less water.’ This for me was the standout quote f Sir John Whitmore’s presentation at the recent Meyler Campbell fishbowl event. Rightly famous as one of the founding fathers of coaching, in business, sport and life, Sir John has also been a champion racing car driver, a ski coach […]

Kickstart Your Business

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This post is slightly different from usual, in that it’s about a forthcoming event rather than a reflection on something I’ve already done. The event is ‘Kickstart Your Business’ and my contribution will be to use my coaching skills to help people clarify what they want from their business, focus on achieving their goals and […]

Personal branding wins out

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The polls are now closed, your votes have been counted and verified, and the final result is: change my website address to www.lizgooster.com. 59% of you plumped for this option, while 32% voted for www.businessclasscoach.com and 9% for other (with a couple of people suggesting I use both urls). It seems that the concept of […]

My website branding: I need your opinion

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Time for a blog poll – I love them! I need to do some back-end technical work on my blog/website and am taking the opportunity to look again at my brand (see how I avoided saying ‘relook’ there!). I’m still defining my coaching niche, and who knows where my pretentious portfolio career will take me […]

Review of Nancy Kline’s ‘Time to Think’

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‘Create a particular environment and people will think for themselves. It is that simple.’ This statement encapsulates the underlying precepts of Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment, elaborated in her marvellous book, Time to Think, which has become a classic of non-directive coaching. I make no apologies for beginning this review by saying I love this book. […]

Want to start up a business? Go to the library!

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Ask most people what you need to do to set up a business and chances are they’d say things like: come up with an original idea; write a business plan; raise some capital; get a website – maybe even apply to go into the Dragon’s Den or into the boardroom with Alan Sugar! But how […]

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