Coaching and Mentoring Best Practice - Both Sides of the Coin

Whether you are a newly qualified coach or have hundreds of clients under your belt, there are always things to learn, and quick tips that we can implement, to improve the coaching experience for our clients. In this episode podcast host, Jenny Butter, is joined by coach Niroshan Silva and his client Irfan Ahmed. Niroshan has over 12,000 coaching hours and has transformed the lives of over 530,000 people. Irfan has been a client fo...

Today we find out about systemic coaching and how it can help our clients. In essence, systemic coaching delivers value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, these include those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, family as well as their local community.

Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Marina Anchevska and her client Meglena Dimitrova.

Marina is an Accredited Fellow Coach, an Accredited NLP Master Train...

Do your clients need to identify and clear stuck emotions and limiting core beliefs? In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how they can do this by using words. Host, Jenny Butter, is joined by Amanda Peet and her client Mandi Simms. Amanda is the founder of ‘Mind Your Mind’ a technique that provides the words you can say - to yourself - out loud - to instruct the subconscious mind to release old emotions and outdated lim...

The importance of Emotional Intelligence in achieving success at work and in our day-to-day lives has been discussed in many books over the past twenty-five years however, few of the books have shown how to actually develop your skills so you can become more Emotionally Intelligent. In this podcast we get some top tips on how to develop our own skills and how to bring emotional awareness into our coaching sessions. Podcast Host, Je...

Do your clients, choose to live? Life can be beautiful, exhilarating, and full of possibilities; yet it’s also complex, challenging, and inherently uncertain. In this podcast, we get some top tips on how to allow our clients to experience the whole spectrum of what life has to offer, not merely endure life, but enjoy it in all its facets. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Yannick Jacob and his client Jane.  Yannick is an exis...

 As a coach who works with clients from across the globe, I have found that many of them want to also consider their faith and belief systems when it comes to making and taking decisions. Whether their belief is in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, or they are part of the new age movement, with 84% of the world’s population having a faith, as coaches, we need to be mindful of this, especially when we are coaching on...

Do you or any of your clients have a creative brain? Those of us with ‘creative’ brains, when in full flow, can be intuitive, instinctive, quick, and brilliant. But on the flip side, sometimes the simplest of things just seem to overwhelm us and can be debilitating. In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how to coach creative brains. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Julia Caddick and her client Rebecca Duckworth. Julia is ...

As a coach, how aware are you of the signs that a client may be considering suicide? Do you know what to ask and, what not to say? In this month's podcast, we get insight and top tips. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Dr Michael J Marx and coach Donnalea Barber. Michael is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and he has founded a non-profit called Coaching Suicide Awareness. Donnelea Barber has trained under Michael and speci...

To stay ahead, todays’ leaders at all levels of an organisation find they must do all they can to develop high-performing workforces who deliver world-class products and services, and that is where coaching has proved to be vital. Today, we get some top tips on executive, corporate and leadership coaching. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Monica Jonsson and her client Alberta Brusi. Monica is the author of a recently publish...

Do you work with clients who feel unseen, stuck or are no longer advancing at work? How as coaches can we help them take positive steps career-wise? In this month's podcast we get some top coaching tips. Joining host, Jenny Butter are Hulya Kurt and her client Jane. Hulya is a career coach based in Geneva who works with her clients who want to get promoted or make a positive change. Her client Jane has been working for the same cor...

Are you a perfectionist? What about some of the clients you work with? How much of their judgment by the inner critique or overwhelm comes from perfectionism? Today, as coaches and mentors, we get some top tips on how to coach people who are perfectionists. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Aylin Webb and her client Elizabeth. Aylin combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR Therapy, NLP and Coaching to enable her clients to ...

How confident do you feel when speaking in public? Whether running a group session, a webinar, a training day, or giving a presentation, public speaking is something that we, as coaches and mentors, need to do from time to time. And it can be scary! So how can we increase our confidence and know that what we say and do engages our audience in an inspiring way? Joining podcast host Jenny Butter, are Toby Wilson and Lenka Pagan. Toby...

Today on both sides of the coin we get some top mentoring tips from the best in the business. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Kerrie Dorman and her client Kim Gowing. Kerrie is the founder of the Association of Business Mentors and was voted 2019 ‘People’s mentoring champion’. She trains professional business mentors and one person she trained is Kim Gowing. Kim is the Chief Change Officer of her own change management consu...

As a coach, have you ever addressed menopause and its wider impact on wellbeing or work performance, with a client? Today we get some top tips on how to help our clients manage mindset through menopause. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Gail Gibson, Ruby McGuire and Amanda Peet. Gail Gibson and Ruby McGuire co-authored the book, ‘The Working Women’s Guide to Menopause, When The Heat is On, Don’t Sweat It!!' Amanda Peet loved...

How important is spirituality for you or your clients? Have you ever considered bringing it into your coaching practice, or having it as your coaching niche? In this month's podcast host Jenny Butter is joined by Andrew Dee and his client Wendy McKendrick. Andrew is a psychic, spirit medium, author, teacher, and retired British military officer. Andrew uses his previous life experience, his intuitive abilities as well as his connec...

Switching off both physically and emotionally is vital for well-being. But when taking time out to reflect, assess and plan, how beneficial is it for our clients to be in a beautiful environment? Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter are coach Karen Liebenguth and her client Adeline O’Keeffe. Karen offers 1:1 coaching in one of London’s parks and green spaces, as well as coaching immersion days in nature on the south coast of the UK. ...

Top-class football players such as Ronaldo, Sancho and Kane, are known and revered across the globe. But what about the staff who strive hard behind the scenes? How can life coaching help them to perform and live well?  Joining host, Jenny Butter are Floss Andrews and her client Steve Weaver. Floss has worked within the sports industry for the past 20 years and currently provides life coaching for people who work in football. Her c...

Do you work with clients who are from a different cultural background to you? In this episode of Both Sides of the Coin, podcast host, Jenny Butter, gets some top tips on how we, as coaches, can develop our cultural intelligence, thus improving our coaching technique. She is joined by corporate executive coach Norman Grant and his client Henry Seals. Norman developed and runs courses on cultural intelligence and developing a global...

Do you and/or your clients live and breathe a 'can do' Attitude? Today we get top tips on how we, as coaches, can help our clients step up, shake it off and shine! Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Gail Gibson and her client Delia Zanatta. Gail’s, CAN DO coaching is a simple, yet incredibly effective coaching technique which has led to life-changing transformation for business and corporate leaders across the globe. Gail’s cl...