Self Leadership Coaching Blog

(first published May 2005 as part of Self Leadership International’s monthly newsletter)

Self-esteem podcast

How’s your self-esteem today?

Are you feeling super-good about yourself?

Or do you feel like yesterday’s take-out food that has been left out in the rain?

Have you been judging or criticising yourself? Or have you been considering yourself less ‘worthy’ than someone else?

If you are not feeling super-good about yourself right now, or you know someone suffering from low self-esteem, then read on and discover the keys to building a healthy self-esteem. Continue Reading »

In coaching and NLP there is a presupposition (principle) that states, “behind every behaviour is a positive intention.”

What this principle enables the coach to do is to track back from a behaviour to the frames of mind (mental map) that generated it. By labeling the intention as ‘positive’ we do not make our client wrong and are therefore able to build rapport and leverage change. Continue Reading »

Imagine you could open the control panel of your own brain; what would you see? Just like your computer you would see what software is installed, you could get a handle on how the hardware is configured and ask yourself if it is running at maximum speed and efficiency.
Now consider how the world would look and sound if you could open up other people’s control panel and work out how to best interface with them.

NLP allows you to do jut this because NLP (Neuro linguistic program) is an instruction manual on how to run your own brain. It also allows us to communicate effectively with others even if they have a different software configuration. Continue Reading »

At Self Leadership International we aim to provide the latest information and advice on living and working with meaning and purpose.

Previously I (Andrew Bryant) wrote an article each month on topics such as leadership, communication and coaching; in a web 2.0 world I have now chosen to blog this information.

Watch this space…