Restorative Power of Deep Breathing and Meditation

By |2020-05-18T13:47:30+00:00May 18th, 2020|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Self Management|

Restorative power of deep breathing and meditation By Catherine Hamilton and Karen Tidsall Crisis, uncertainty and fear all trigger our limbic system which is involved in many of our emotions and motivations, particularly those that are related to survival such as fear and anger. When triggered, we move into survival mode, and our [...]

Building Resilience and Sustaining Health

By |2020-05-12T11:26:25+00:00May 12th, 2020|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Self Management|

Building Resilience and Sustaining Health By Catherine Hamilton Crisis and challenge can exert pressure on our whole system - emotional, mental and physical – so it is a time to pay particularly attention to our well-being. Here are some tried and tested tips to help you: 1. Build positive beliefs in your ability [...]

Mindfulness

By |2020-05-05T15:50:11+00:00May 5th, 2020|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Self Management|

Mindfulness By Catherine Hamilton and  Karen Tidsall Mindfulness is the awareness, which arises through bringing your full attention into the present moment without judgement, without the mind commentating.  Mindfulness is about coming to your senses – what you can hear, see, smell and touch and then becoming totally absorbed in the sensation – [...]

Responding well in unprecedented times, sustaining well-being

By |2020-04-28T11:55:36+00:00April 27th, 2020|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Self Management|

Responding well in unprecedented times, sustaining well-being By Catherine Hamilton and  Karen Tidsall Being thrown into leading a remote team whilst still managing yourself is bound to create some tensions and frustrations. Structure, sense of community and attending to own and others’ needs are always important and even more so now. Structure  comes [...]

Setting Limits: Improving Quality of Work and Life

By |2017-10-20T10:58:41+00:00October 15th, 2017|Categories: Coaching Tips, Self Management|Tags: |

Setting Limits: Improving Quality of Work & Life By Karen Tidsall, Founder and Director, InterCHANGEpd Our world is frantic, busy and fraught with crisis. Whether its natural disasters, political tumult due to volatile world leaders, or the UK navigating unchartered waters as we attempt to leave the EU, these issues whir in our minds. Doubtless, [...]

Mind the gap between stimulus and reaction

By |2017-09-06T09:54:54+00:00September 6th, 2017|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication|

Mind the Gap – between stimulus and reaction By Claire Gold: InterCHANGEpd Associate If you’ve ever ridden on the London Underground, you’re familiar with the famous phrase, “Mind the Gap” — a caution to rail passengers to be careful while crossing the gap between the train and the station platform. There’s a lesson there: Potentially [...]

Mentor advice – Igniting the entrepreneurial spirit!

By |2017-08-15T11:54:36+00:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Mentoring Advice|Tags: , , , , |

Mentor advice – Igniting the entrepreneurial spirit! By Karen Tidsall, Founder and Director, InterCHANGEpd According to economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), entrepreneurs are not necessarily motivated by profit but regard it as a standard for measuring achievement or success. Schumpeter discovered that entrepreneurs: greatly value self-reliance strive for distinction through excellence are highly optimistic (otherwise [...]

What Drives Our Mindset

By |2017-08-15T11:54:36+00:00March 27th, 2017|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Training|

What Drives Our Mindset? By Karen Tidsall, Founder and Director, InterCHANGEpd Definition: ‘Mindset’ - the established set of attitudes held by someone. Ever seen someone and made an instant decision that you did not like that person? Or, have you been in a situation where you feel you have understood what’s happening, only later to [...]

open questions open minded

By |2017-08-15T11:54:37+00:00March 27th, 2017|Categories: Coaching Tips, Communication, Mentoring Advice|

Open Questions, Open Minded By InterCHANGE Associate Catherine Hamilton “I can’t believe that using an open question has made so much difference” This was the comment from a participant discovering the impact of being asked open questions during a coaching session.  Up until that point she had firmly believed that closed questions helped the talker [...]

Four Steps to Improved Confidence

By |2017-08-15T11:54:39+00:00October 18th, 2016|Categories: Coaching Tips, Self Management|

Four Quick and Easy Steps to Improved Confidence By Marisa Angelillo, InterCHANGE Associate trainer ‘Confidence is a skill that can be learnt, as long as we simply try.’ Suzy Greaves, ‘Real Confidence’ Have you ever wondered why some people with average intelligence achieve extraordinary results?  Or wondered why some people who initially showed so much [...]

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