Coaching and Mentoring Best Practice - Both Sides of the Coin

How to hep our clients stop their past ruining their future

Many of our clients, and perhaps if we’re honest also ourselves, desire to improve our self-esteem and confidence so we can live happier lives. But where do we begin? In this episode, podcast host, Jenny Butter, speaks to David Rahman and his client Tracey Hill. For the past 17 years, David’s helped countless people overcome their self-esteem and confidence issues, enabling them to live happier lives. He’s an international keynote speaker, an Accredited Coach and has just written a book called "Let it Go – How to stop your past from ruining your future". His client, Tracey is a highly successful sales representative within the double glazing industry. She realised that her anxiety and low moods were affecting both her work and personal relationships, so decided to work with David to overcome her mental and emotional challenges.

Goal setting - using this coaching fundamental with clients

As coaches, how can we help our clients unclutter their minds, make powerful decisions, and take inspired action? Today we’ll be going back to the coaching fundamental - goal setting. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Sunday Marbach and her client Patricia Pollow. Sunday is a life coach and brings previous experience as a lay counsellor with her, to her role as a coach. 
Patricia works as a ‘passionate’ Teaching Assistant in a bilingual school in Zürich, Switzerland. She enjoys multitasking but found it didn’t help her accomplish her goals, hence she decided to work with Sunday to get on track.

Helping clients thrive

It goes without saying that last year was a very hard year for millions of people across the globe. Hopes are high for 2021 but as coaches how can we help our clients thrive still within the parameters we face? Joining podcast Jenny Butter, are Tessa Armstrong and her client Jenny, another Jenny! Tessa is an award-winning accredited career coach and author.  Jenny worked as a Regional Fundraising Manager for the charity Help for Heroes but was made redundant due to the pandemic. Working with Tessa she now has a new vision which she is excited to achieve over this coming year.

Coaching survivors of domestic abuse - top tips to apply

Today is White Ribbon Day.  Thousands of people across the UK will stand up, speak out, and say no to violence against women. As coaches, we have a responsibility to work in best practice when coaching survivors of domestic abuse to ensure our clients move forward in a positive way.

Joining host, Jenny Butter on Both Sides of the Coin, is Louise Borthwick. Louise is a highly experienced psychological relationship coach and advocates for relationship health. She works with people who have been in difficult relationships and shares with Jenny some top coaching tips.

Remember that if you or someone you know is in distress in a domestic violence situation in the UK, you can dial 999, stay silent, then either cough or press 55, and police assistance will come to the address.

Tips to scale your coaching business

Do you want to take your coaching business to the next stage? In the current climate, what is the right stage for you? In today’s podcast you’ll find out some top tips on what you need to think about - and focus on - so your time and effort is well spent. Joining host Jenny Butter, are Ruby Mcguire and Emma Cossey. Ruby is a Business Mastery and Mindset Queen. She helps her clients to create a successful mindset and master their business. Ruby’s client is Emma, she’s a coach for freelancers and has been building up her own business for ten years.

Which coaching CPD is right for me?

Some people find it a boring necessity, others love to learn. What do you need to consider when choosing the right CPD option for you?

Joining Podcast Host, Jenny Butter, are Michelle Lucas and her client Katie Ellis.  Michelle is the founder of Greenfields Consultancy and provides coaches with a range of flexible CPD options. Her client Katie is a senior civil servant with the UK Government. Over the past year, as part of her job, Katie has been coaching staff who also work for the civil service. This prompted her to develop her coaching skills and she’s looking forward to applying what she’s learnt. 

How to coach clients with depression and anxiety

Do you or one of your clients experience depression or anxiety? The chances are that the answer is yes. Coaching on this topic can help clients uncover the reasons underlying their anxiety and help them develop tools to cope with stressful situations. Joining host, Jenny Butter, is Shari Lewison-Frisch a family crises coach who specialises in working with parents of teenagers who self-harm harm and she also coaches people with depression and anxiety. Her client Beth has recently retired from being a probation officer and social worker. She contacted Shari to arrange some coaching after she found herself suffering from depression and anxiety despite running support groups on these topics for others.

Career Coaching pointers - how to help clients improve their CVs

With so many people facing redundancy at the moment the need for coaches to have a tool bag filled with career coaching top tips is bigger than ever. In August's podcast we find out about CV best practice as well as some other vital need to know career coaching pointers. Host, Jenny Butter, speaks to Lynn Tulip a Career Development Professional who enables her clients to get jobs and to her client Kerry Dobney who works in hospitality.

Top coaching tips to enable people to build better relationships.

How many times have you wished you had said something in a different way? Relationships underpin everything at home, work and in our local communities and are key to our wellbeing and success. Today we’ll be getting some top tips on how coaching can be used to enable people to build better relationships. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, is Majella Rowe and her client Martha Lopez. Majella is based in Dublin, Ireland and is an accredited Life and Relationships Coach. Martha is from Mexico and she wanted coaching to enable her to connect and bond with her family during a stressful time.

To niche or not to niche - what is right for me as a newly qualified coach?

Both sides of the argument from two highly successful coaches who have very different opinions on whether you need a coaching niche to be successful. Curly Martin is a leading authority on life coach training and teaches her life coaching students that niche is important. On the other side of the argument is, Maria Hocking. Maria was one of Curly’s students and she had problems finding a niche so she decided not to choose one and has become very established. Hosted by Jenny Butter.