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Online Coaching Course for Confidence and Motivation

Coach Yourself – Online Coaching Course

Interactive activities; Videos, Presentations, E-book and Audios

Start taking control of your own life TODAY with your very own e-coach

I recently met a young lady named Michelle, who was waking up each morning feeling depressed and desperate, to the point where she had stopped going to work and stopped going out with her friends, she felt at the top of the downward spiral. Michelle told me she had no self belief and would often tell herself “I’m a horrid person who will fail at everything I try, people just don’t like me” it was this limiting belief that was stopping Michelle from moving forward with her life.

 

Do you ever feel like this, sad, lonely or depressed? Do you ever give yourself any negative self-talk that’s stops you achieving your goals? I told Michelle about the wide range of help she could receive from counselling to life coaching, she replied “I know a life coach can help me, but I can’t afford the hourly sessions!”

    • Ask yourself on a scale between1-10, with one representing your life is at an all time low and ten representing your life at its best; where on the scale would you place your life today?
    • Where on the scale do you want to be? Pick a number
    • What need to happen for you to move towards that higher number on the scale?

Because I know Life Coaching is value for money, I often ask myself “how much would you pay to have a more fulfilled life? What price would you pay to achieve your goals?” But, I have never thought about the people who need coaching sessions to make life changing decisions, but can’t afford one-to-one life coaching sessions.

Because I know anyone can achieve anything that they want to do, I gave myself a new goal “how can I offer affordable life coaching sessions to people who want to make real changes but cant afford face to face coaching sessions” after first thinking about offering discounted session, I realised after a couple of discounted sessions the cost would still add up and then it hit me, people can coach themselves as long as they have the tools – as I coach myself everyday.

    • The interactive online coaching course will give you over 36 coaching sessions to put you back in control of your life
    • Interactive activities; Videos, Presentations, E-book and Audios

Coaching sessions often cost between £50-£500 a session and many people will want 4-5 life coaching sessions; there are many advantages from having face to face coaching sessions but you know there are disadvantages too; limited sessions which means limited techniques, you can achieve one goal with face to face coaching sessions, but you will have more than one goal throughout our life which means you can re-use the online coaching course as much as you want throughout your life

The big advantages of an online coaching course are:

    • Having access to a wider range of tools and life coaching techniques
    • You will have a mixture of coaching session styles; e-book activities, videos, presentations and audios
    • Imagine being able to reuse session and techniques that I will teach you, which limits the problem of forgetting what happened in a face-to-face session
    • The activities can be used again and again, building on top of your confidence and achievements
    • You can share the course with other people, getting real value for money (some people share the course which means they can share the cost)

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The truth is, I can give you more tools, techniques and exercise to help you get away from the pain you feel about your current life and limiting beliefs and to help you achieve your goals, to be more successful and really believe in yourself, by offering the large online coaching course material which is full of MORE interactive activities than you would get from several face to face sessions.

    • Imagine you could build up your self esteem and confidence, picture yourself right now, achieving all your goals and making real changes to your life, make this image big and colourful. If you had the courage to make a life changing decisions now – what would be your first decision be to give you a better life? What changes would you make today? See yourself making these positive changes now.

By now, you know you want to make a change with your life which means you first have to make the decision to change – don’t just say I want a great life, you have to put yourself out there and change your life, you need to be committed, make the commitment now by ordering the online coaching course and I would add you need to use the techniques I will teach you that I use to get real results for my professional coaching clients .

    • We are only selling this course for a short period of time, to help people like you, who cant afford the cost of face-to-face coaching session – BUY NOW as this course will soon be taken off the market soon

It won’t always be easy, when you learnt to ride your bicycle for the first time, you probably fell off the bike a couple of times and then on a certain day it all came together you could ride the bike on your own, without the help of a parent holding the seat, remember how good it felt to be in control, to ride in any direction you wanted to? Coaching is the same; you will be given the tools to ride through your own life, after a couple of sessions, you will take the life stabilisers off your bike and feel free and in control of where you want to go. You might fall off the coaching bike but all you have to do is get up, brush the dirt of your pants and get back on the bike.

So, what do you get as part of this great deal?

    • Over 100 pages and 36 e-coaching sessions, including:
    • 25 e-coaching techniques
    • 5 videos
    • 8 audios
    • Over 3 presentations and audios
    • In addition you will receive an individual 12 page personality type e-book document
    • FREE BONUS – Phobia Removal Session

The online coaching course has been design using all the interactive successful techniques the most famous coach’s use and we have improved these techniques which means you will achieve your goals quicker than before. Let me ask you this, how will the online coaching course help you?

    • Learn how to be in control of your life
    • Make better decisions
    • Set yourself real goals and learn how to achieve them
    • Learn how to reduce negative self talk
    • Access instant confidence whenever you need to
    • Feel good about yourself everyday
    • Gain self belief
    • Eliminate phobia, fears and negative emotions
    • Truly understand yourself and become the best you can be

In addition you will:

    • Understand how your body and mind work as one
    • Discover how your minds filter information which leads to your decision making process and motivation strategy
    • Learn how your personality type can help you achieve your goals
    • Gain a coaching diary to monitor your progress and record your success

The online coaching course is completely interactive and will make a real difference in your life, if you continue to do what you have been doing for years you will carry on getting the same results, if you do something different you will get a different result. Ask yourself what can I do differently?

    • You can probably already think of hundreds of ways the online coaching course can help you succeed in your life, your career and your future

For a real change you need to complete all the online coaching course activities, don’t just read them and doing nothing, absorb the information, take on board the lessons you are learning and enjoy the outcome to the new changes you are making. You can use the online coaching course to improve all areas of your life

    • Build new Confidence
    • Increase personal belief
    • Improve your career progression
    • Make better business deals
    • Enjoy longer lasting relationships
    • Have better health
    • Become stress free

Full Course breakdown

  • The Scales of Life – audio

  • Big Decisions, Big Changes

  • My Pain and My Pleasure

  • The Power of an Image

  • Wheel of life

  • Goal Setting

  • Life is on a Logical Level

  • Finding Happiness
  • Picture Plan – presentation
  • What Do You Like About Me?
  • Eliminate Negative Voices – audio
  • Daily Diary
  • The Future You
  • Picture Confidence – audio
  • Picture Frame – audio
  • How We View the World
  • Changing your Beliefs
  • Miracle Question – audio
  • What are your Limiting Beliefs?
  • Reframing your Negative Beliefs – presentation
  • Life on a Timeline
  • Timeline – video
  • Timelines; Destroying Bad Decisions
  • Your Imagination – audio
  • Image Board
  • Is there a Positive Intent? – video
  • Are You Unconsciously Competent?
  • Donut; is the taste in the jam?
  • Dancing your Problems Away
  • Scaling
  • What’s Your Mission
  • Metaphor Story – audio
  • Success; where to find it
  • Your Personality; Faults and Gains
  • Commitment Card – presentation
  • Spinning – Video
  • Finding Role Models
  • Life from a Different View – Video
  • Spinning – Video
  • The Wheel Keeps Turning
  • Your Next New Goal
  • BONUS – Fast Phobia Removal Video

You will receive different segments of the e-course every couple of days throughout a 3 month period, giving you the time to complete the e-coaching activities and check what you have already learned. We have purposefully not sent you the whole course in one go as the course content is massive and this would be an information overload, the course is sent to you in a certain order to keep building on the activities and the success they will bring, giving you time to take in all the new learning you are gaining.

What are our Customers Saying?

“To get straight to the point here, thanks a huge amount for the online coaching course” Barnaby – Greater Manchester

“Wow I Feel So Positive Now – Amazing Course” Phil – Manchester

    • What goals do you want to achieve within 3 months or sooner?
    • How much would you pay to feel confident and in control of your life?
    • What would be the best possible outcome from completing the online e-coaching course
    • What would you be missing out on if you didn’t buy this e-course today?
  • How would you feel is you missed this opportunity to change your life?

For over 36 e-activities, sent over a 3 month period

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Using NLP to Write Your CV

  • Using NLP to Write Your CV

You can use NLP techniques to write and improve your CV; the techniques you will learn today are simple, effective and are often NOT used by other job hunter’s which means you will have the upper hand on job applications.

We recently delivered an Interview Techniques Training Course using NLP techniques to secure you more job offers. During the course I was asked about using NLP on your CV and thought I would write this article to help you improve your CV

Today you will learn about influencing language and anticipation loops, but more on that later.

  • What doesn’t work?

Well, first if you are applying for a large number of vacancies with your current CV for positions you know you can do and you aren’t securing job interviews then you need to change your CV, as we say in NLP “if you want a different result, do something different” as a good CV is a CV that secures you job interviews.

Thinking about NLP, I would stay away from using hypnotic language patterns from the Milton Model technique, as these suggestive language patterns are to vague for CV’s and wont really make sense to the employer.

  • The Power of CV Words

Words are powerful because each word has a different meaning and emotional attachment. Take these following statements, which statement has more power?

  • “I don’t like my job”
  • “I hate my job”
  • “I detest my job”

They all have the same outcome, but the wording has different emotional attachments, “detest” feels stronger or more emotional than “don’t like” this works for positive sentences to:

  • “I am a good team player”
  • “I am a great team player”
  • “I am an excellent team player”

Remember the words the employer reads on a CV helps them create an image of the person who wrote the CV, it is just the same as when you read a novel and the author describes a character, you quickly form an image of this character in your mind, from the words you read – the trick here is for this image to be powerful, the more powerful words you use the more powerful the image of you will be.

Down the FREE CV Writing e-book for more CV Power Words

  • Employer Values

Now you understand the power of words, you can write your CV and then edit the words replacing weak words with powerful phrases, but what will really get you noticed is when you meet the employers Values and Beliefs.

When applying for any position, you will generally receive the initial job advert, followed by the job specification and you will also have access to the Company Website

By reading these documents and visiting the company website you can get a real feel of the company values and beliefs (some websites will even show you the company mission statement or list their core values)

Write down a list of company Values

Company Values example Company Values
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Delivering exceptional value for our stake holders
  • Encouraging Creativity
  • Accountability
  • Consistency in Quality

If you know what values the company value, you can add these to your CV and Covering Letter, as an example:  “throughout all my roles I have had a consistency in the quality of my work” – you are now speaking the employer’s language

The job speciation will be full of company “key” words, ensure all the job skills and qualities especially from the “essential criteria” section are referenced on your CV and Covering Letter. Also don’t use abbreviations’ that are unknown to your future employer.

It’s like when you go and buy a car, nowadays most new cars run well and have air-con, stereos and electric winders etc. and you generally will have a car type in mind; sports car, family car, which matches your budget.

But instead of buying any new car, you will also have a list of criteria that you require; I want a Blue car and it need to have an IPOD holder or The care must be red with a big boot, you wont just except any car (even though they all run well and cost similar in petrol and tax) as you want a career that meets your criteria and this is true for employers they wont just take on anyone even though they have the experience needed, they will want to recruit someone with A, B and C criteria, which means you need to highlight you have A, B and C criteria on your CV and Cover Letter. We call this in NLP Matching and Mirroring

  • Anticipation – get the employer to want to know more

Why do TV soaps always end on a cliffhanger? Because you want to know what will happen next, so you tune in next week to find out. Imagine you could use the same anticipation on your CV; this would lead to an increase in job interviews as the employer will want to know more about you.

On your covering letter a CV use bold statements that sell your skills and experience without giving too much away, you want the employer to read your statements and think “wow that’s amazing – but how did they do that?” as an example one client I knew wrote “in my past three roles I have took over the management of underperforming restaurants on the verge of closer and within 12 months turn each of them around increasing profit to 125%”

Explain how you can easily complete the task on the job specification by giving real life examples, builds up the anticipation by keeping the example short and to the point, which also helps to keep your CV to the required two pages.

  • See it form the employer’s point of view

So, by now you have written your CV, change the wording to make it more powerful. You will have read the job specification and looked on the company website and used your research to edit your CV to match the language and the values the employer uses, making your CV even more targeted and personalised.

Finally you have added real life examples to match the required essential criteria without giving too much away adding anticipation loops.

Often people write the CV from their point view, recording what they want the employer to know about them and their achievements, we are generally proud of certain achievements and want other employers to know about them, but you need to ask yourself – are they relevant?. People can easily get caught up in their own view of world when writing a CV adding down the details of what they feel is important, not what the employer feels is important.

To add real value to your CV, clear your mind and imagine you are the employer (you can get an insight to the employer’s world through their website, linked-in profile and news articles), imagine you could see the world from the employer’s eyes, seeing what they could see, hearing what they could hear and feeling the emotions they feel. How do you act as the employer? What do you say? How do stand and tilt your head? Become aware of your gestures and body language? Notice how you – the employer would act and what you would say to yourself?

As the employer, ask yourself, what type of person do I want to employee? – write this down. What skills, qualities and experience do I require? Again write these down. What personality am I looking for in my new employee? What attitude, values and beliefs do I want this person to have?

By looking at the potential employee from your employer’s point of view will give you a better understanding of what the employer requires. Ensure you have described the side of you that matches the employer’s specification, record what skills, experience and qualifications the employer requires and don’t be tempted to record other achievements that are not relevant.

NLP techniques can help build up your interview confidence as described in The Secrets of Employment, with CV writing it is not about feeling confident it is about knowing what the employer requires and values in their employee, if you can match these few elements on your CV you will win more interviews.

Take your time and target each application; short term this is more work and I would add long term this work will pay off with an increase in job offers, this means if you cant be bothered targeting your applications use a CV writing service to target the applications for you.

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Career Coaching Questions

Career Coaching Questions                                               

 

“You can only have an answer, if you first ask a question”

 

Current Position and Company

 

  • What do you want to change or improve in your current role?
  • How important is this change to you?
  • If you had this change now, how would this benefit your current situation?
  • What needs to happen/or what is the first step needed to make this change?
  • Ideally how do you want your current role to play out?
  • What is important to you in your job?
  • What other options do you have?
  • What is the first thing you can do to make a positive change?

 Career Coaching Sessions                                                                            

 

Career Goals

 

  • If you could have any job you wanted and it didn’t matter about qualifications or experience you had and all jobs paid the same salary, what position would you pick?
  • What do you value in your career?
  • Is your current career meeting your values?
  • What is your career goal?
  • How important is achieving your career goal to you?
  • Are you willing to take a pay cut or attending new training to gain your career goal?
  • If not, why not? How can you overcome this barrier?
  • If yes, what will you be losing by doing this?
  • What resources do you need to step on to the career ladder?
  • What do you believe will happen when you achieve your career goal?
  • Can you get this outcome any other way?
  • What is the first thing you are going to do to move towards this career goal?

 Career Advice Sessions                                                                               

 

Career Mistakes                                        

 

  • What have you learnt from making this mistake?
  • How will making this mistake improve your knowledge and future activities?
  • What changes can you make to your strategy to have a more effective outcome?
  • What would someone you admire do in your place?
  • How can I turn this mistake around?

 

Solution Questions

 

  • On a scale of 1-10 how happy are you in your job/career?
  • What makes you X number on the scale?
  • Have you ever been lower on the scaled? What did you do to move up the scale to the number you are today?
  • Have you ever been higher up the scale, what were you doing when you were higher up the scale?
  • What can you do differently to start moving up the scale?
  • What number do you want to be on the scale?
  • How will you know when you have reached this number?

 

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Do you Value Your Career?

Do you love or hate your career? Do you wake up excited about going to work to face a new challenge or
do you have the Monday morning blues? Why is it, that some enjoy work while others hate it?

When I started out giving careers advice, learning why some people enjoyed going to work, while others didn’t was my mission and the
answer is Values! If you have a job that matches your values and your personalitytype – you will enjoy your successful career; Today you will learn what Your Career Values are.

Values

What is important to you in your career? Write down your answers below

Example Values Your Values
  • Money
  • Career progression
  • Working with others
  • Seeing the end result to my work
  • Working close to home
  • Having targets
  • Feedback
  • Personal development
  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • Ongoing support
  • Variation

Now you have a list of your career values; you need to put them in order of importance, which of your values is more important to you? If you had a choice would you take a job that had value A or value B?

Your Values in Order of Importance

    Once you know your career values and the values you most require, ask your self could I have a job that didn’t have Value X? – Answer this question for all the values on your list.

    People who accept a job offer with a company who don’t have the same values will soon become bored, agitated or stressed which will lead to them quitting their job or becoming depressed and ill.

    Take your top 3 values and ask “why is it important to me to have X value?” as an example; variation – because I get bored quickly and when I am bored I constantly have time off work, which often leads to me being sacked. This will you understand your values in more detail and is an insight to what motivates you Pain or Pleasure?

    I was once working with a client who was quickly becoming depressed due to his job, when we looked at his Values, his number one value was “helping other people” when asked what his job was, he said “sales” whenwe discussed that his career values were opposite to his role, he originally disagreed as he had been working in sales for 10 years and only felt like this in the last 12 months.

    After we explored this we found out that even though he had been in sales for 10 years for the past 14 months, he had been a new sales job selling what he said was “unnecessary insurance policies” – this is the opposite to his Helping people Values. His previous job was selling Medical Machinery to hospitals which was proven to save lives – BIG Helping People Value’s, he felt the machines he sold would help save peoples live, he sees himself as someone who helped other people (his number one value)

    Your values drive who you are (your personality), for a successful career pick a role and a company that have the same values that you require – what you believe is important to you.

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    Instant Confidence for Interviews and Presentations

    Instant Confidence for Interviews and Presentations

     

    Imagine you could instantly summon up the confidence to perform a skill of task to the very best of your ability.

     

    If you had a technique that would allow you to access a resourceful state to overcome your fear of fear of public speaking, before a job interview or to give you he confidence to contribute during an important meeting; how would this technique benefit you?

     

    Today you will learn how to access a resourceful state such as confidence, by using a famous NLP technique; The Circle of Excellence

     

    The Circle of Excellence is an anchor whereby an imaginary circle is drawn on the floor, which is ‘stepped in-to’ to install new and additional resources relative to a situation where different behaviour or thinking is required

     

    I have used this NLP technique to give people the confidence during job interviews, to perform well on stage, while giving presentations and help a sports person perform well during Olympic events

     

    Confidence Coaching Sessions

     

    This technique requires using your imagination and your ability to visualise events in your mind, when visualising events you will need to shut out the outside work and go deep into your unconscious mind, imagining you are there again, at the place you are visualising – this must feel real, like it does when you dream.

     

    First read through the technique before completing it three times.

     

    The Situation.  First think of a situation (interview, public speaking etc) when you would like to feel your best and most resourceful self. Draw an imaginary circle on the ground in front of you.  Make it a generous circle of about three feet in diameter. 

     

    Relive Confidence.  Stand up and let yourself go back in your memory to a time when you were very confident, abundantly confident.  Go back to it strongly; see what you saw through your own eyes at the time, hear what you heard and even remember all the smells and taste that you smelt and tasted when you originally felt confident. Notice what you are feeling and how good it feels reliving that moment, feel that confident feeling rushing through your body; beware where the confident feeling starts and the direction it is heading, the speed the confident feeling moves at through your body and what the temperature of that feeling is.

     

    In the Circle.  As you feel this confident building up, double it and step into the C.O.E.  What colour would you like the circle to be?  Would you like it to have a sound like a soft hum that indicates how powerful it is? What is your power sound like? How does it feel?  Are you feeling relaxed, excited, strong? How is your posture and breathing right now?  Notice the position of your feet and hands, the tilt of your head.  When the feeling of confidence is at its fullest, step out of the circle, leaving those positive confident feelings, colours and sounds inside the circle.

     

    By being aware of your posture, your breathing, how relaxed you feel, where the confident feeling starts from in your body, the temperature of this feeling, what positive self talk you give yourself when you feel confident – you now understand which elements make you feel confident, this allows you to use this experience to re-access you confidence when needed by anchoring all these different confident elements to the COE, you will automatically access them when “stepping into the COE” without even having to think about it

     

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    Repeat the exercise with a second and third experience if you want to add further resourceful states to the circle or if the circle doesn’t feel strong enough.  Repeat as many times as necessary.  The circle is limitless and you can keep adding more confidence and power resources to the circle over time.

     

    Selecting Cues.  Now think of a specific time in the future when you want to have that same feeling of super confidence.   Imagine yourself in this future event, see and hear what will be happening just before you want to feel confident.  How will the scene unfold?

     

    What is the cue to knowing that it is nearly time to step into the C.E.O.?  It could be the opening of an office door or stepping onto a stage or being introduced to an audience…put the CEO in the place you need it to be so you can access your confident state; this could be in front of a microphone or the interview chair.

     

    Step into the Circle of Excellence!  Feel the confidence there for you again, the colours, the sounds, the positive self talk, the confident breathing and posture.  Imagine the scene unfolding exactly the way you want it too, with you feeling extremely confident with all your confident feelings and resources fully available for you. Play this future event out fully with you acting at your best, see this future event from the eyes of the YOU in the future.

     

    Check Results.  Now step out of the circle again, leaving those confident feelings there in the circle.  Outside the circle, take a moment and think again of that upcoming event or situation.  You’ll find you’ll automatically recall those confident feelings. 

     

    NLP Life Coaching

     

    This means that you’ve already reprogrammed yourself for that upcoming situation and you are already feeling better resourced for it.  When the time comes you will naturally feel more confident and if you want to add more power to those positive feeling, your circle of excellence is only ever one footstep away.

     

     

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    Cover Letter Writing Service

    Cover Letter Writing Service             

     

    Our research has shown that some employers don’t even read your CV if you application is not sent with a covering letter.

    “You now have
    30 seconds to make a difference”

     

    Many people write good CVs only to let their application down by not targeting the covering letter to the position they are applying for. Often employers spend only 30 seconds initially skimming through your Cover Letter and CV, which means your Cover Letter needs to stand out from the crowd.

    For £19.99 Employment King’s Qualified Careers Advisor will write you a Winning Cover Letter; all you need to do is send your CV and Job Specification and we will target your cover letter to the position you are applying for

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    Cover Letter Template

    Our research has shown that some employers don’t even read your CV if you application is not sent with a covering letter. Many people write good CVs only to let their application down by not targeting the covering letter to the position they are applying for.

    As part of our CV Writing Service and CV Template Pack we give away a Covering Letter Template Pack, with:

    • 4 Cover Letter Templates
    • 12 Opening Lines

    • 16 Evidence Paragraphs

    • 6 Personalise your Letter Paragraphs
    • 11 Closing Statements

    To help you gain more job interviews from your application we have attached a FREE Cover Letter Template for you to instantly download.

    Remember many employers will not even consider your job application with out a covering letter, the covering letter is designed to intrigue the employer and to summarise your key selling points, your skills, qualities and experiences.

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    Negotiating Your Salary

    Negotiating Your Salary

    Over one billion pound is spent on clothes every day in the UK, how much money do you predict is spent on shoes everyday in the UK?

    Write down your answer: _________________________________________________

    Whatever answer you recorded was influence by my initial statement; over one billion pound is spent on clothes everyday in the UK. If I used a similar question with a different group of people; Over one million pound is spent on clothes every day in the UK, how much money do you predict is spent on shoes everyday in the UK?

    The average answer for the million pound question would be different, to the average answer of the billion pound question. When we have no idea about the cost of something, our mind will look at our past experiences and for a comparison, alternatively our mind will just use the information presented, in this case “one billion pound” as a benchmark. As an example, in someone’s mind they may ask themselves:

    • ·         One billion pound is spent on clothes, people spend around 70% on clothes and 30% on shoes, amount spent on shoes is X
    • ·         One million pound is spent on clothes, people spend around 70% on clothes and 30% on shoes, amount spent on shoes is X (less than the billion pound question)

    Why is this important? Because the same psychology is used in negotiating your salary.                                                     

    Salary Negotiation

    Generally when employees negotiate their salary, the employer will first set down an offer £ xxxxx, the employee will then ask for around 10-20% increase and the employer will counter offer with a 5-10% increase – the deal is then settled, the employee is happy as they got more than the initial offer, the employer is happy as they already knew the end result salary increase (their offer plus 5-10%)

    The problem with this common salary negotiation system is the employer sets the initial offer and all you as the employee get is a small increase on that offer.

    to learn more about Price Psychology read Priceless – the Hidden Psychology of Value by William Poundstone

     How to get a bigger pay rise

     To get a larger salary YOU need to set the initial offer, £xxxxx. In many cases employers, especially in sale roles will want to negotiate with you, knock your offer down and they will use your offer as the bench mark. By setting a high initial offer (not to high so it is unrealistic) the employers counter offer will be closer to your offer then a cheaper initial offer. As an example:

    • ·         I’m worth £45,000, the employer may offer £40,000
    • ·         I’m worth £40,000, the employer may offer £38,000

    As you can see with the two examples, there is a real difference with the employer’s offers but the reductions are not the same in monetary terms and I would add, by starting with a higher and realistic initial offer will secure you a higher salary. This can make a real difference with multi thousand pound salary negotiations.

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    Stopping Your Success – Procrastination

    Stopping Your Success – Procrastination

     

    Procrastination is an avoidance of a task that needs to be accomplished, people often avoid starting or completing an important task because of their negative emotion towards the task; guilt, anxiety, inadequacy or fear of the unknown.

     

    Procrastination can stop you being successful

     

    Many people avoid success, because they put obstacles in their own path, sabotaging their own efforts. This can include small task such as not paying bills on time, missing opportunities by not using a gift voucher by the use by date, leaving the Christmas shopping until the last minute.

     

    You may be reading this and thinking “it’s not too bad leaving your shopping to the last minute or not using a gift voucher..” and I would add it’s not about missing just one opportunity, it’s about self-regulation which doesn’t mean procrastination is about time management, it means procrastinators is about your decision making strategy.

     

    If you have a negative decision making strategy that you use throughout your personal life and your career, you will fail to gain any success

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    A person with a positive decision making strategy will feel good about their decisions, starting and finishing task, learning from any mistakes and having a positive approach to starting new opportunities.

     

    Procrastinators often say:

     

    • “I will do it tomorrow”
    • “this isn’t important at the moment”
    • “I work best when I’m under pressure”

     

    Even thought procrastinators use these statements all the time, they often wake up the next morning without wanting to start yesterday’s task, they still feel the task isn’t important and they don’t work well under pressure. Instead they look for distractions and more excuses.

     

    Procrastination will believe:

     

    • If they ignore a task, it will go away
    • Lesser standards are acceptable
    • They can complete large task in a small amount of time
    • Substituting a lesser task for an important task is acceptable, saying to themselves that the lesser task also needed completing
    • Minor delays are harmless – so I can repeat them
    • Spending more time on part of the task is important then completing the whole task on time, or dramatising the commitment to the task rather then starting the task

     

    Overcoming Procrastination:

     

    • Make a list of what makes putting something off painful for you – why do you hate putting tasks off

     

     

     

     

     

    • Make a list of the benefits of starting a task straight away, why does it feel good when you get things done quickly?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    • ·         Put yourself in a positive state, remember a time when you felt good, when you were feeling really keen to get on with things
    • ·         Do the task NOW if possible don’t put it off
    • ·         Be honest with yourself – if you can only spend a certain amount of time on task, admit it, as this stops GUILT
    • ·         Brain storm what you need to do and how you can achieve it
    • ·         Set Goals and reward yourself when you achieve them
    • ·         Prioritise task
    • ·         Start with an easy part of the task
    • ·         Break any task down into manageable steps, allowing yourself enough time to complete each step or stage
    • ·         Address any problems as they arise – get help from others when needed
    • ·         Be reasonable with yourself, don’t think all task can reach ‘perfection’
    • ·         Continue to start task straight away, with everyday (and all) activities, as repetition will turn your new positive decision making strategy automatic

     

    By following these steps, putting yourself in a positive mood, breaking down each task into easy to manage steps and starting with a small task straight away will help you to quickly overcome procrastination, once you use these strategy for all task in your life and career you will soon see the difference in your attitude and how others view you

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    Overcoming the Fear of Failure

    Overcoming the Fear of Failure

    What stops most people moving forward with their life? The fear of failing – just the thought that you might make a mistake, you may get it wrong or you might fail, can stop people even trying something new. It’s not the fear of failure it’s the fear of criticism and rejection that people fear the most, which means if you didn’t fear the thought of criticism or rejection, what you can achieve is unlimited.  

    Successful people make mistakes (like the rest of us) but they don’t see a mistake as a failure but see the mistake as feedback, a learning curve a chance to move forward.

    Unsuccessful people limit themselves and only achieve a fraction of what they are capable of achieving, because they are scared that they will fail – they feel they will be criticized.

    This article will help you overcome fear and to gain your goals.                                                

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    How you view future events in your mind

    When you think of trying something new you will make a visual representation of this event in your minds eye. This image, you will create will either be positive (you will see yourself being successful) or negative (you will imagine yourself failing) which will result in you FEELING positive or negative.

    If your negative feelings are strong, you will often make the decision not to complete this task.

    To overcome this, when you think of a negative image/future event in your minds eye, change the color of this image to black and white. If the image is more like a film, pause the film and make it into a stilled picture. Put a big frame around the picture and slowly move the image away from you, further and further away so the picture becomes smaller and smaller – how do you feel now?

    As you change the submodalities of the image you will also change your emotional response to the image – you won’t feel negativity or fear. You will need to complete this exercise 2-3 times.

    Without fear will you be more willing to “give it a go” and once you start trying new activities you will get new results.

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    Keep Going

    You need to be persistent, when you want to make a real change to your life. If you want to be successful you will need to look at different ways to achieve your goal. Some ideas will work and some wont, the trick here is to never give up and after each activity ask yourself what have I learnt from this experience? Remember if you carry on doing things in the same way you will get the same result.

    An opportunity to learn.  

    When making any change you will make mistakes, think of any failure as a learning experience. What did you learn from the experience that will help you in the future? How can you use this experience to improve yourself or your situation? What could I of done to prevent the mistake? What will you do differently next time? What has been good about making this mistake – what have I learnt?

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