Your Total Coach

It’s a day that I hope will empower everyone who appreciates the value of coaching across the UK and the globe to become an even more successful and powerful coach, wherever you happen to be in your coaching journey.

With much celebration the first copies of the new book I’ve written have just arrived in the office. You might just notice mention of it on the site, with a nod of thank you to our marketing team!

Your Total Coach – the book - is inspired by every coaching session and training course the team here has ever run; every book on coaching we’ve read and all the advice and feedback received from those we’ve been fortunate to work with, many thanks.

Of course there’s great depth inside but the passion behind the book is simple. The team here at YTC believe (in fact we know from experience) that powerful coaching, whether delivered by us or by you, will continue to be the most potent and fastest growing tool in the ‘training and development’ armoury.

If you share our passion for coaching to develop. grow and maybe even transform your business and your life then please read more, and let me know what you think.

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The central philosophy of our business is that coaching is the single most effective tool for raising performance - and our focus is to use coaching approaches to create high performing individuals, teams and organisations. 
Your Total Coach uses coaching approaches as part of our broader consultancy role, providing options for businesses that want to improve performance across their range of products and services.
As an Accredited centre for the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) we deliver a range of accredited training programmes up to and including Level 7.

There were nine delegates altogether - an Englishwoman living in England, two Indian men who had moved to England, an Englishman now living in Germany, a Greek woman, a Spanish man, a German woman, an Argentinean woman who lives in Holland (but is about to move to Denmark) and a New Zealand woman who lives in Australia.  As I drove the relatively short distance to my home, I was left to reflect upon the cultural richness that all ten of us had enjoyed while together.

I and my colleagues are currently doing a lot of facilitation (and developmental work) around coaching and mentoring across cultures and the event served to reinforce the benefits that can be gained from creating a truly diverse environment within which to learn and work.

It never ceases to amaze me what can be achieved when people are open to learning and prepared to be open with and share experiences with each other.  So, if you are one of the nine delegates who attended - thanks, your presence was inspirational.

Not long ago I enjoyed listening to a senior director make a presentation to staff from another organisation who were being merged into his company. It's probably not the easiest of presentations to make at the best of times.  He gave a very honest, understated and humble presentation on the work that was ongoing, what had been achieved what needed to be achieved. It was very successful in getting a lot of buy-in because his audience, a group of highly intelligent people, were connecting with him as an individual. He wasn't trying to over-sell, he was just telling it as it was. He connected so well that, at the end, he was given a well-deserved round of applause.

It has been said that there are two kinds of people: victims and leaders. Victims have things done to them. People who take responsibility make the choices, hold themselves accountable for their actions. We can all be leaders.

Remember, you are making choices all the time. I like the old saying that if you have only one solution, then you have a problem. Two solutions, and you have a dilemma. Three - and you have a choice! Make the choice and take the responsibility!