FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

WHAT IS COACHING?

Coaching is for those looking to improve themselves or for those who feel stuck, who may want external help to make lasting change in their lives. Whereas a Therapist looks back into your past, a Coach looks forward, examining your present and your future. Your coach works on goal-setting with you, to help you unlock the answers that are already within yourself to help you be your best possible self. Want to find out more? Click here to access our Individual Coaching page.

WHAT IS EQ / EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?

Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient or EQ, is the ability to use, manage and understand emotions. This can be used to improve your communication, reduce anxiety, relieve stress, empathise with those who are different from you, diffuse conflict and overcome personal and professional challenges. Having a high EQ can be hugely beneficial to success, whether at home or at work, and helps you build stronger relationships and achieve your goals. Although people are born with innate EQ, it can be vastly improved and built upon with the right Coach to yield excellent results.

NLP, or Neurolinguistic Programming, is the study and practice of excellent communication, both with yourself and others. It is all about examining our language (linguistic) to change our brains (neuro-) to get different results in our lives (programming). It was based on the study of excellent communicators to create a methodology with tools and techniques to unlock answers already within ourselves and train our brains to help you understand what your sub-conscious needs and wants.

MBTI, or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, is ​a  personality profiling method that provides a shortcut to explain where people prefer to get their energy, how they prefer to take in information, how they prefer to make decisions, and their preferred tactics for dealing with the outside world. It is an extremely robust methodology for understanding complex team dynamics, 'team personalities' and is highly effective in businesses that have high levels of client interaction. Myers-Briggs is 75 years old, but continually updated and with over 4,000 scientific papers published on its efficacy.