Communications Coaching

Coaching Philosophy – It’s All About Your Message

Communications coaching is about exploring your needs, stretching your skills and reaching new goals. This where communications coaching differs from traditional training. In the standard teacher-learner relationship the trainer is often teaching you a standard to repeat in a variety of situations. The result is that you learn to sound just like everybody else: average, acceptable but nothing special*. Through coaching I can help you to say what you want to say in the way that fits your unique circumstances, your personality and your audience.

Shaping your message and image

The aim of  communications coaching is to help you shape your message. To achieve this I will work with you to help design, prepare and practice for specific situations. Coaching sessions are usually one to one, however occasionally small group sessions are called for when the organisation needs a team to work towards a common goal such as a group presentation, forming an interview panel or planning an overseas business trip.

Practice and Feedback

They say that repetition is the mother of skill, and there is a great deal of truth in that statement. However, good practice is more than just simple repetition. Good practice requires attention to detail and immediate feedback. To do this we will break your task into small pieces and intensively work on each of these. This is what psychologists call chunking and this has been shown to be one of the most effective ways of rapidly developing a skill.

Flexible approach to fit your time

The two main reasons why traditional training often fails to deliver is that the timing  and location of training sessions is inflexible.  My coaching takes place either in person, on the phone or via the internet. I recommend that the first session and the final rehearsals take place in person, especially for presentations and recruitment coaching.   Other sessions can be conducted over the internet using Skype and buy viagra stories for our conference calls. This flexibility helps ensure that you get training when you need it.

*Note that Medlock Coaching levitra prescription information differ from most standard courses in that we teach you NOT to sound like everyone else.