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  • Where Will Life Coach Training Course Take Me?

    It has been studied that Life coaches are in uprising demand worldwide. In today’s world of hassled and fast modern living, people who care to keep progressing and desire to achieve the best, look to get a life coach.

    As they care to get coached from reliable, authentic and qualified coach, our InnerMost Shift Life Coaching will qualify you to get accreditation from ICF, International Coach Federation.

    So it becomes easier to start up as a self- employed life coach, earn decent income and at the same time help individuals, professionals, business owners and people from all walks of life achieve their dreams.

    With us at AlphaStars, your accreditation as a ICF Certified life coach and  NLP Practitioner dual certification means you get equipped to handle variety of issues that people bring to you.

    Thus you will be trusted for your authenticity when you start up on your own. As your clients will get better results, a word of mouth about you will keep you working at a comfortable pace, may be less or more hours, whatever you decide from home or business premises.

    As our course is designed to follow framework, structure and tools, you will be able to coach clients face to face, skype, over the telephone, by email or on the Internet. You will be equally effective over any communication channel you choose.

    Of course keeping in mind that internet coaching is becoming more and more popular, as this saves cost, time and whole world become accessible, we ensure that you become good at distance coaching. So what all you need is a working Internet connection, a computer or laptop to be able to take on more clients and have respectable income.

    As you also get qualified as NLP Practitioner, our ICF approved InnerMost Shift Life Coaching will give you an edge over the others in market to get insights, knowledge and understanding to help people get unstuck and stay motivated. Thus you can even mentor or advise clients who need guidance in a critical time of their lives.

    You can be competent to take sessions individually as well as in settings. Life coaches are often assigned the responsibility, by corporate houses and senior leaders, to help employees improve their lives, be more productive and bond stronger relationships at work and in their personal situations.

    By now may be you have realized that earning potential for an authentic, ICF Certified life coach is limitless. Just care to get right kind of training as people are willing to pay but only for an authentic professional to help them take up challenges, solve problems, take decisions and resolve day-to-day issues.

    So write to me if you want to know more about life coaching and what can it do for you.

    Siri G P Kaur Khalsa

    ICF PCC InnerMost Shift Coach
    Marshall Goldsmith  Executive Coach
    ICF InnerMost Shift Coach ACTP and NLP Trainer

  • The increasing demand for Certified Executive Coaches

    Want to be Certified Executive Coach?

    Lots of people call me up and ask, “what is the way to go for Executive Coaching Certification?”
    “Executive Coach” is very prestigious identity where primarily a coach is engaged to coach the top Corporate leaders, managers, executives, CEO, CXO, CFO, Presidents, Vice Presidents, etc. What the sponsors and stakeholders expect that the corporate executives get better in their behaviors and performance than currently they are doing. An Executive Coach facilitates the corporate leaders to tap into own resources to get outstanding results for themselves as per the parameters set by the organization.
    An executive for whom an accredited Coach is hired to coach, the stakeholder can be a any one – Senior Leaders, Team Member, Managing Director, Department Heads etc. who expects executive to perform as per the organization’s expectations. The agenda set for coaching can be to bring an Executive Coach to reach to strategic decisions, design creative ways to increase market share, optimal use of available resources, manage time effectively, priorities or tohelp top leaders to enhance their productivity etc.

     

    A point worth considering here is, usually an Executive Coach gets selected by corporates on the basis of their corporate background. This is true despite of the fact thatthough corporate experience has nothing to do with coaching as competency, yet the current market demand is to have a Senior Executive working or retired from a corporate to be hired as an Executive Coach. This is why most corporate people end up in opting it as second career. Those working at middle level positions are getting future ready to cater the rising demand of executive coaches and those who are ending their innings are getting new start.

     

    Next important thing to consider is what sort of Coach Specific Training the Executive Coach must have.  This is where prestigious bodies like International Coaching Federation – ICF have gained reputation in many countries. Indian corporates have accepted ICF as very professional and ethical body and supporting it whole-heartedly. The ICF has set certain standards, norms, competencies and ethics that a Coach Training Providers and a Trained Coach must follow. JK group had pioneered in implementing ICF accredited coach approach and their case is highlighted on ICF website (www.coachfederation.org). IBM worldwide hire ICF accredited coached for their executives. Thus trend is that you need to have taken a Coach Specific Training, which is approved by ICF. This is where while you need to be careful. There are programs with approved coach specific training hours- ACSTH and there are programs as accredited coach training program- ACTP.  These are two different things.

     

    You could be attending an Executive Coach certification with 10, 20, 30, 40 or less than 60 hours as minimum approved by ICF for a certification but the institute may be not making this clear to you. Language plays a big role here and until you ask specific questions, you won’t get to the facts.

     

    The first option is a, economy option, if a person wants to attend an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program –ACTP (require min. 125 hrs. of training + ACC/PCC Mentoring + Coaching Session recording evaluation + few more requirements) , may go for, to begin with, a 60 hrs. or more than 60 hrs. Approved Coach Specific Training Hours–ACSTH. Here too there are few institutes offering ACSTH as part of ACTP. Most of the institutes have only ACSTH not ACTP. In this case person who has taken 60 hrs. or more ACSTH will have to go to another institute to go to PCC level which require one to complete 125 hrs. of coach specific training, and may have to learn new methodology which my not be inline or addition to the first choice they made. This may leave on lurking in search

     

    Another most important thing to consider here is what methodology, tools and process is being taught that will help an Executive Coach to actually deliver results and bring Change and Transformation. What will give an Executive Coach the confidence to work with the issues of corporate leaders? Neuro –Linguistic Programming- NLP, is proven technology that help Executive

    Coach to assist leaders to achieve the best.

    NLP has proven an edge over other methodology for and Executive Coach. The world renown Business and Executive Coaches such a Dr, Richard Bandler, Tony Robbins and John La Valle to name few have successfully used NLP as basis for coaching.

    ICF approved executive coaching certifications in India and world over, which have NLP as basis during the coach specific training.

     

    You might ignore or consider it fully that rather than running here and there, learning things in bits and pieces. You could be running a risk of getting a certificate but no authentic model to back up your learning.

     

    Most ethical and competent federation, ICF approves NLP methodology based Coaching Specific Training Hours and Programs.

     

    This while perusing ACC / PCC level credentials, NLP based coaching programs earns you an additional certificate – NLP Practitioner or NLP Master Practitioner,

     

    There are multiples benefits of NLP methodology as coaching model. A person can literally ideal with all sort of practical situations. You get trained to Navigate session in a flow state, pacing with clients requirements being equipped with techniques, frameworks, models and language patterns you even perform coaching without any written script. You also learn to design coaching tools, procedural formats and own model of coaching. All of this makes you a NLP Coach who is very confident in terms of selecting a right approach, tools set, calibrating change installing new strategies while working on real issues of client.

     

    Why delay in vain and search for anything else when NLP based tools, concepts and ready to apply framework of Coaching Executive to live excellence is right before you. After all it is question of self-respect and honor when people are waiting you to improve their productivity and bring prosperity as an Executive Coach.

  • Erase Your Bad Past Create Future Of Dream – Part 4

    Erase Your Bad Past Create Future Of Dream – Part 4 (Create a Magnificent Future)

    Power creating a magnificent future lies in ability to ask appropriate questions. The questions as you know determine mental focus and focus determine emotional state.

    Try asking yourself possibility buildingquestions such as:

    “How do I get unparalleled success?”

    “How to live a Lifethat bringsto me greater satisfaction?”

    “How to live in abundance and earn more money, be financially free?”

    “How to find a loving life partner?”

    “How to excel in life and be a model of excellence?”

    “How to become a world class cricket player?”

    “How to get selected in reputed management school?”

     

    Compare, contrast and do everything possible to create quality questionsthat you as Professional, student, homemaker etc. you ask yourself about creating future.

    Then write your answers in more details by asking lateral thinking questions such as:

    What else?

    What more?

     

    Next step is to change your aspirations into ‘Well-formed Outcomes’ using NLP methodologies, ask following questions:

    How will I know when I get it?

    What evidence will I see?

    What words will I hear? Who will say so?

    What will be different?

    How will I know the difference?

     

    Once you have attained mental clarity, think about future and calibrate how do you organise future events in your Time-Line in your mind. Calibrate mental placement of future events by asking future oriented questions:

    Where do I see picture of doing something tomorrow?

    Where do I see a picture of doing something a week ahead ?

    Where do I find one month, two months, three months and six months in my mind, at what distance from now are pictures?

    How far do I see one year, two years and three years from now?

     

    Now place your goals on your timeline in “sensory rich distinctions”, the pictures, sounds, feeling, smell and taste of ‘As If achieved’

     

    A BestLife NLP practitioner is trained to help anyone in making goals clear and certain, thus creating a magnificent future.

     

    Conclusion

    Successful living involves in your ability to identify and resolve the past images relating ‘being unsuccessful’ on your lime line in your head that show up as:

    What went wrong?

    What sort of voices you hear?

    Where the voices in your head come from?

    What quality of inner voices makes you feel the way you do?

     

    We refer such events as ‘decision points’. As soon as you raise your awareness about such ‘decision points’ in the past and get curious to be able to learn from them, you have terminated and resolved the continuation of such times.

    There after revivifying the memories stored on your timeline that demonstrates your resourcefulness and strengths, makes you feel in control over your thinking.

    This is how Timeline related NLP interventions work at resolving the problem from the root.

  • Erase Your Bad Past Create Future Of Dream – Part 3

    Erase Your Bad Past Create Future Of Dream – Part 3 (Using Time Line to deal with Lack of Initiative and Drive)

    Lack of Initiative Drive

    Whatever happens in gets stored as memory in your mind. All memories get placed sequentially in achronological manner and you recall these memories by time, date or year. Your mind also organizes these memories as events, emotions and experiences. Some of these memories remain in your conscious awareness and others you remain quite unconscious.

    When something triggers array of similar memories and you generate a response that you can’t really figure out, it is then your unconscious storehouse has assimilated the response that has pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised you.

    In this article I will explain the impact of unwanted memories on you initiative and drive.

    What happens when you want to venture into something new? Do you struggle to shut the inner voice that stops you “It is difficult” “ Success is not easy” or “Don’t risk”? if you are  wondering why do end up thinking this  way? Here’s a possible cause: these may not be actually your conscious awareness or thoughts.

    Check within chronologically or think back to trace emotionally charges event affecting you.

    Do you have some one-time and intense experience triggering feelings of being a failure?

    Have you experienced time and again like this and you have many of such memories changed into a generalization.

    Next step is to challenge your conclusion. Is it true that this time too the same results will show up? What thought is keeping you thinking this way? Do you know someone or somewhere the outcome was or will be different than you are imagining?

    You will find that by all means there could be no solid evidence that you might indeed be a failure in present circumstances. Work out what have you learned from this? What can you change in your approach this time?

    This will relieve you from the burden of memories holding you back from taking initiative or moving forward.

    Timeline coaching will lead you to re-represent the event and reframe  your experiences and release the emotions.

    So many people we have witnessed who resolve to settle for nothing less than whatever they aspire and move forward to create a magnificent future.

    In the next article I will explain about creating a Magnificent Future

  • Erase Your Bad Past Create Future Of Dream – Part 2

    Limiting Beliefs

    In the last article we learned how to deal with negative emotions or bad past using timeline. This time I will talk about changing the negative belief imprints into new and empowered one.

    Let me first explain the process of belief formation and then learn how to change them.

    Limiting beliefs generally operate out of memories held in your unconscious about unfavourable past experiences.  All such memories get embedded on timeline. At times one or several of memories linked together in some way form into a strong belief.   Thus some pictures, sounds or feelings that made you believe that you’re not “capable or competent enough”.

    Sometimes there are several of such experiences and other times there could be one of so significant event intensely formed into belief. Such beliefs imprints in to your Time Line or array that obstruct your ability to reach your potential outcome goals, or a simple behaviour you want to exhibit. You know them as negative or limiting beliefs.

    When such beliefs remain buried in the unconscious can lead to unfavourable mental and emotional conditions & if not dealt become almost unshakeable.
    Timeline techniques help anyone to get rid off Negative Beliefs. This is why Timeline based interventions have gained popularity the field of Life Coaching, Executive Coaching, and all sort of Coaching.

    The solution involves going exactly into that memory and learn from it. Then being in a resourceful state reframe and recode the memory as you allow the images, sounds and feelings to change.

    In a simple sense it is called revivify, relive, release the negative charge and re-imprint it.You can ask our BestLife NLP Practitioners or NLP Coach to assist you in this regard.

    Next time I will explain how to overcome lack of initiative and drive using timeline techniques.

     

  • Erase your bad past Create Future of Dream – Part-1

    How do you organise time & emotions?

     

    Do you want to master your emotions by releasing the negative and lead a happier life by replacing them with positive emotions? A BestLife NLP practitioner is trained to do this by exterminating the negative emotion from the root of the event or memory.

    Given a choice anyone would want to move towards a more satisfying life, design a more positive mindset and live ultimately a better life. So how do we do using ‘Time Line’?

    Our “Time Line” is our unconscious memory storage mechanism, which not only stores events, but also emotions linked to the events, causing us to later project assimilated emotions to similar negative events such as the first. You can refer to these memories and behavioral patterns as schemas, mental maps, or Gestalts, which are continuously formed throughout our lives.  Trained NLP Practitioners use Timeline often during Coaching or Therapy sessions.

     

    Most people know that NLP is highly appreciated technology for personal development. It promotes positive growth in many ways and help in reducing negative emotions.

    Some people have developed interventions and given different names, these are all variants of NLP, so either way NLP technology has given relief to people in variety of ways

    One of the concepts in NLP is popularly known as Timeline. Expert practitioners to help people release their time related emotions held as memories invariably use it.

     

    ‘Time Line’ is a simple way to understand how one organizes memory of even and related emotions. One is asked to mentally visit the events and draw learning and understand the associated emotions and gain profound insights. This is done in order to not only overcome them, but to constructively utilize our new found knowledge and deploy the insight deal with likely similar future situations.

    Everyone knows garnering negative emotions can lead to unfavorable health conditions &if ignored become almost untreatable, both medically and psychologically.

    Timeline interventions help anyone to get rid off Negative Emotions. This is why Timeline based interventions have gained popularity the field of Business Coaching, Life Coaching, Executive Coaching, and Peak Performance Coaching etc. It is simple to use, effective, versatile and bring in permanent positive behavior changes.

     

    Fact remains that our memories of unresolved issues filter our perception. As all our memories stored in the form of emotional baggage, which ultimately influences response to stressful situation. All such memories distort our ability to reason and logic, and thus cause us to react counter productively. We get disturbed in our relationships, reluctant to act, shy away from ambitions and live unsatisfactory quality of life.

    Timeline interventions are most effective with problems related to humiliation, hurt, and anxiety, feeling low and depressed. You can also use it to remove hiddenfears, anger and reactive behaviors.

     

    Simply become watchful of your present perceptions and unwanted responses to certain situations. Seek help of a qualified NLP Practitioner Travel on your timeline to trace back similar emotion and release the negative charge.

     

    In the next article I will talk about how can you use Time Line to deal with your limiting beliefs.

  • Mind that never fails

    As kids, we have all learnt the process of filtration, right? And we also apply that every day in our life in simple day to day activities like having tea. While we follow the process of filtration everyday every moment in life in making tea, think:

    What are you actually doing in the process of making tea?

    You are actually passing the liquid tea and solid tea particles through a filter and thereby separate the liquid tea from the solid tea particles, right?

    So now, think again, what do you make use of?

    What do you retain?

    And what do you discard?

    Normally the liquid tea is taken for consumption and the solid tea particles are discarded as not been used.

    Now think again, if you have to make the best use of the tea, having the liquid tea is satisfying and meeting the purpose of making tea, simultaneouslyhow would using tea particles help you?

    Yes you can make use of solid tea particles as a fertilizer for plants instead of discarding away as failure, when you train your mind to never give up and think there is no failure only feedback.

    Realize the moment we began to see the benefits of all the things, then how would life be?

    In life too, everything that we do, our mind constantly follows the process of filtration and filters something in and filters something out.

    Now, look back as you work every day and you work hard to meet your targets, the process of working is the process of making tea, the liquid tea is the result that you produce.

    While the solid tea particles instead of discarding it as failure of the goals not achieved, if used as the feedback of your actions to achieve your goals, how would your performance be?

    So, how do you train your mind to make use of everything, in the process of achieving your goals, follow the below steps:

    1. Keep your goal constant: if you are making tea, and in the process you realize you don’t have milk, don’t end up making green tea. Let your mind never fail on the goal of having tea.
    2. Differentiate between goals and results: That is the solid tea particles are not to be discarded considering it as failure rather used as a feedback. The actions you take and the intermediate results of your action is a feedback and not the final result of your actions , make a shift in your mind by finding the benefits of these result as feedback and not as a failure of your actions towards reaching your goals.
    3. Change your strategy and not goal: Once you get feedback and know for sure it is not a failure and your mind will never fail, you began to re-strategize find new alternative ways of achieving your goals.

    Apply these 3 steps to train your mind which never fails, as there is no failure only feedback.

     

  • Stress Champions

    Stress is Steering To Rear End Soulfully Seamlessly

    Yes that’s right we as human beings are champions in getting stressed and we steer ourselves to put ourselves in the dead end of life situations with our full soul into it and we can do it every time very seamlessly, right?

    Now think about it, have we been taught by our parents or teachers on ways to get stressed?

    Or is it our inborn ability?

    Realize, just the way you have the ability to get stressed, you also possess the ability to relieve yourself from stress, right?

    If there is day there is night

    The Good and the bad

    The Right and the wrong

    The truth and the Lies

    Human beings have all the potential to create something and also to destroy something, so does it hold true for our emotions, our state of being, our behavior and our habits.

    Now, let’s understand, how can we be calm from stressed state.

    Calm is Call, Alter, Love, and Mindfulness, here’s how:

    Step 1: Call of your internal state

    Hear, what do your inner voices shout out when stressed?

    What do you tell yourself when stressed?

    Does that all lead to:

    “I cannot do this ….”

    “It’s not happening …”

    “I am short of time, resources, people and lack of support…”

    Step 2: Alter your internal dialogues

    Stop for a moment and not let stress engulf you

    The moment you start feeling uncomfortable, the muscle tension increases in your body and you hear the negative internal dialogues, just give a command to your mind: “STOP” and stop all the negative feedbacks from growing and increasing inside your mind.

    Step 3: Love yourself

    With the love in your heart, change your inner dialogues from negative to positive

    Realize and tell yourself just the way I have felt this stress now, I also have the ability to be relax and calm and give these commands “RELAX” to your mind and continue telling this to yourself.While you relax, feel the love that you have for your own self and for all the people you care for. As you love yourself more the more your mind can relax.

    Step 4: Mindfulness

    Find new ways to reach your goals

    And as you feel relax, now re-visit the situation you are into , and taking stress as an indicator, a feedback of your actions, think and re-strategize other ways and means of doing your task to reach your goals in the current scenario that you are into.

    Ask yourself the following:

    • What do I need to accept in this situation?
    • What are the facts of the situation?
    • Considering these facts and the belief in myself, what new strategies can Ibuild now to accomplish my goals?
    • Apart from the resources that I have now, who else do I need to talk to, ask support for?

    Using the above four steps, you can move yourself from being stressed to being calm and remember if you know to be stressed , you also know how to be calm.

  • The Human Potential

    As I walk down the streets, incidentally came across a school friend who was doing extremely well in life. With everything going for her, from successful business, a loving husband, a very supportive family to oodles of wealth and a plush life. Making me realize, she was living a dream.

    And then in a dialogue with another friend that picture of this girl just zoomed in,exclaiming “Wow! This girl is really armed with some potential to have everything going for her.” Hearing this friend immediately jolted me up and pointed, that the human potential is not merely measured by financial status or even accorded by professional ranking. To begin with, one needs to get into the crux of the human personality and continue feeding it with intellect, physical and spiritual strength to persistently better our potential.

    While there is a very thin line that demarcates good luck, destiny and human potential. Human potential continues to be a journey of hard work and unending bouts of determination.

    Realizing that the human potential is not only centred to oneself but also ripples around as the person who explores human potential, will go all out to better the lives of the people around him and her. Instilling or making other people realise their own potential in turn making way to a better society. As person with higher human potential continues to be happy regardless of how they look or feel, by incessantly evolving with a learning process fostering personal growth and development.

    So, how does one better their potential?

    This is very simple: “Curiosity is the mother of all Invention”

    Continue the journey inwards get inside self and others by being curious- Understanding the “HOW” part of everything.

    We know the math of life, without any understanding HOW the formula was derived.

    Even as we are growing we are constantly told to understand things! We do! And we do so by using a quick fix way of being judgemental.

    We must keep the child-like curiosity alive to better the human potential.

    3 Simple Steps to be Curious:

    1. Think of the time when you were a child and see how were you curious?
    2. Hear yourself asking questions to parents and people around
    3. Get inside the child in you and feel how you felt curious, leading you to ask and ask more, finding out what you know and what you don’t know.

    And continue to find how you can be curious to learn and continuously develop self and people around.

  • Will NLP help me to become a Better Coach

    While talking to people, they often ask this question, “Will NLP help me to become a Better Coach?”
    So, let us explore that a little bit … won’t this be interesting?.

    Let us first understand what is coaching?

    Simply put coaching is taking a person from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’. Helping a person move from present or stuck state to a new desired state, it could be gain more confidence, define goals, improve performance so on & so forth. The agenda of coaching could vary, prime thing to understand here is that every coach will work with one common thread common in all, the solution to get the results lies with the client (coachee).

    Another amazing fact to know about coaching is, it is a very systematic approach to helping a person finds their answers within. Thus any coach must know proper and well tested tools to assist the client reach to solution at their pace.

    Because NLP is a way to systematically understand and model the success leading patterns of human behaviors and mind, so it is a safe to practice and easy to adopt intervention for anyone.  Therefore NLP tools & techniques become for many an obvious tool of choice while coaching, as the very basic premise of NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming provides one with the tools and strategies that successfully work in self and others. NLP also widens the perspective of clients to discover and change un-useful behaviors that sabotage their goals.

    Popularly known as outcome oriented and focusing on resources one has Now &ability one posses  to create Future, NLP also provides ways to specifically and objectively calibrate and identifies the physiological state, elicit mental strategies a person uses at any point in time, and then provides one to make a right choice, become resourceful enough to have all possible means to make a change and improve the present mental and physiological state of the person.

    So what would you say about such powerful and proven technology of human change? And when already millions over the world are using it? Significantly affecting the masses people like Anthony Robbins, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and CEO’s, CFO’s and CXO’s of Fortune 500 companies have found it natural way to maximize success.

    Still for you to instantly appreciate how wonderfully NLP can help anyone to be a better coach read below.

    10 most common and easily attained benefits of NLP, extremely beneficial in coaching are:

    1. Coach can use heightened sensory acuity with raised awareness to understand the client’s actual state
    1. With NLP coach can help client build a more enriched and desired map of reality
    2. The coach can understand the client’s Perceiving, Thinking and Responding mechanism
    3. Building rapport with all kind of people, is almost instant with NLP tools and a must required need for a coach
    4. Using NLP Language patterns, the Coach can masterfully directly communicate client, without offending or leading the client in any way. Thus maintaining the sacredness of coach approach.
    5. The coach can intelligently handle and manage self & client’s emotions which otherwise are difficult.
    1. Using NLP techniques the coach can articulate in a manner to make client reflect & rethink about own objections elegantly and knock them off wisely.
    2. Getting into the desired state is a very useful technique of NLP, and much useful for a coach, to be in a composed, vibrant and balanced state.
    3. Coach can help client Collapse Bad Anchors to get relief from anxiety and negative feelings or habits
    4. With NLP the coach can help client, Model in any area of life, a piece of excellence that client admires in self or others

    Hence, in our InnerMost shift Coaching model, we didn’t think twice before making NLP the basis of coaching apart from the fact that it is backed by principals of neuro-science, quantum physics, Best Practices that leads on to be outstanding, Indian value System and spiritual sciences etc.