Coaching and Mentoring Best Practice - Both Sides of the Coin

At some point in our lives, every one of us will experience grief. Be it the death of a family member, a friend or pet, a divorce, an estrangement from parents, or a redundancy, there will be times when coaching can be the key to creating a new future. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter are Lisa Heacock and her client Ellouise. Lisa is a grief and life coach and Ellouise came to Lisa after the loss of her brother. 

As a coach, do you have clients who need something more than you can currently offer, to enable them to achieve their desired breakthrough? If so, have you considered upskilling and training as an embodiment coach? Embodiment uses both the body and mind in coaching sessions. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are  Mark Walsh and his client Flouer Evelyn. Mark has trained over 2000 coaches in over 40 countries and one of the people he trained is Flouer Evelyn, a dance instructor and now embodiment coach.

In this episode, we learn about the saboteur within and how coaching can turn these tendencies into positive thinking. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are John Rice and his client Jim Hartshorne. John coaches people to enable them to improve their mental resilience. One of his CEO clients, Jim, has over 25 years of global experience in the Supply Chain industry and he is now an MD of a major 3rd Party Logistics Company.

When you coach clients, how often is there an underlying issue that blocks them moving forward? It doesn’t matter whether the person is a C-suite or junior staff, until the root is found and the paradigm shifts success doesn’t occur. In this podcast, host Jenny Butter, learns from the pioneer of transformational coaching, Keith Merron, and one of his clients, Shane Emmons, about how this process positively alters lives.  

How self-aware are the people that you coach? Do they live their lives, purposely? In this episode of Both Sides of the Coin, we get some top tips on how to coach our clients so they can intentionally, live a life of purpose. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Dr Barbara Mutedzi' and her client Dr. Tinashe Johnson. Barbara is a Conscious Leadership & Neuroscience-Based Coach who works with business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs to achieve greater impact. Her client Tinashe, is dedicated to providing evidence-based, world-class dental experiences and philanthropically expanding this to populations who have never had the opportunity to meet a dentist before. 

Do you have clients whose partners are often away with work? Many couples experience short periods apart, however, there are a lot of professions that mean partners are away for longer periods, often months and years at a time. In this podcast, as coaches, we get some top tips about how to work with couples and families who live in split locations. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Rhoda Bangerter and Florence Reisch. Rhoda is an expat coach who works with people whose partners are often away from home, helping them navigate the stress and use the distance to their best advantage. Florence, also a coach, received coaching from Rhoda to help her prepare for her husband living in another country while she and her children lived in a third country.

Negative self-talk, most of us know what this feels like and how it can hold us back. As coaches, how can we help both our clients and ourselves, reprogramme the negative thoughts in our head for good? Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Paul Boehnke and his client Mary. Paul is an experienced Life Coach with a demonstrated history of helping those who let self-doubt and self-judgment hold them back. His client, Mary, is a musician based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Whether you are a newly qualified coach or have hundreds of clients under your belt, there are always things to learn, and quick tips that we can implement, to improve the coaching experience for our clients. In this episode podcast host, Jenny Butter, is joined by coach Niroshan Silva and his client Irfan Ahmed. Niroshan has over 12,000 coaching hours and has transformed the lives of over 530,000 people. Irfan has been a client for several years and he shares what within the coaching process he has found particularly helpful.

Today we find out about systemic coaching and how it can help our clients. In essence, systemic coaching delivers value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, these include those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, family as well as their local community. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Marina Anchevska and her client Meglena Dimitrova. Marina is an Accredited Fellow Coach, an Accredited NLP Master Trainer, a Systemic Coach, a Holistic therapist, a Somatic Coach, and a Yoga teacher and Trauma healer. She is based in Macedonia and founded the first accredited systemic and NLP centre in South East Europe. Through her coaching, she works hard to ensure her clients are able to use the tools learned to ensure success in both their personal and professional lives. Her client Meglena, has over 10 years of experience in the field of human resources and currently works in the biggest bank in North Macedonia as an HR Officer. She has been a coaching client of Marina’s for around two years and feels it this time was pivotal for her transformational journey.

Do your clients need to identify and clear stuck emotions and limiting core beliefs? In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how they can do this by using words. Host, Jenny Butter, is joined by Amanda Peet and her client Mandi Simms. Amanda is the founder of ‘Mind Your Mind’ a technique that provides the words you can say - to yourself - out loud - to instruct the subconscious mind to release old emotions and outdated limiting beliefs.  Her client, Mandi has been featured on the Channel 5 TV programme 'Hoarders: Buried Alive' where she spoke about how her hoard has taken over her house. Amanda is helping Mandi release stuck emotions and limiting beliefs so that she can move forward with changing her house from a hoarded house to a happy home.  

The importance of Emotional Intelligence in achieving success at work and in our day-to-day lives has been discussed in many books over the past twenty-five years however, few of the books have shown how to actually develop your skills so you can become more Emotionally Intelligent. In this podcast we get some top tips on how to develop our own skills and how to bring emotional awareness into our coaching sessions. Podcast Host, Jenny Butter, is joined by John Parr and his client Geanina Rindasu. John has developed seminars and training for people who desire to live an emotionally fulfilled life and his organisation teaches coaches and professional trainers who want to help people to become more assertive. Geanina is an HR consultant, trainer, and coach and has been John’s client for around 18 months. She has trained in the process communication model and uses this in her coaching so her clients can achieve a deeper self-awareness, and belief, in their own capacity and potential.

Do your clients, choose to live? Life can be beautiful, exhilarating, and full of possibilities; yet it’s also complex, challenging, and inherently uncertain. In this podcast, we get some top tips on how to allow our clients to experience the whole spectrum of what life has to offer, not merely endure life, but enjoy it in all its facets. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Yannick Jacob and his client Jane.  Yannick is an existential life and leadership coach, a coach trainer and supervisor, and a mediator. He works with people who choose to step out of their comfort zones and make the most out of life. His client Jane is based in London and wanted some coaching to support her in her leadership position in the education sector.

 As a coach who works with clients from across the globe, I have found that many of them want to also consider their faith and belief systems when it comes to making and taking decisions. Whether their belief is in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, or they are part of the new age movement, with 84% of the world’s population having a faith, as coaches, we need to be mindful of this, especially when we are coaching on life, career, and finding purpose. In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how to bring faith into Career Coaching. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter are  Katie Conley and her client Lisa Robertson. Katie is a career coach and like 2.4 billion others, believes in the world’s largest religion, Christianity. As a Christian and a Licenced Career Coach, Katie has a particular interest in how faith interacts with career choices. Her client, Lisa who is Head of Operations at i61m, has worked in a number of different sectors including retail, IT, digital, design, marketing, healthcare, education, and charity. At a time in her life when she wanted to explore what was next career-wise, it was important to her to also consider things from a faith perspective.

Do you or any of your clients have a creative brain? Those of us with ‘creative’ brains, when in full flow, can be intuitive, instinctive, quick, and brilliant. But on the flip side, sometimes the simplest of things just seem to overwhelm us and can be debilitating. In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how to coach creative brains. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Julia Caddick and her client Rebecca Duckworth. Julia is an accredited coach and specialises in coaching creative brains. Her client, Rebecca is a professional musician, choir trainer, and vocal coach.

As a coach, how aware are you of the signs that a client may be considering suicide? Do you know what to ask and, what not to say? In this month's podcast, we get insight and top tips. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Dr Michael J Marx and coach Donnalea Barber. Michael is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and he has founded a non-profit called Coaching Suicide Awareness. Donnelea Barber has trained under Michael and specialises as an ADHD coach.

To stay ahead, todays’ leaders at all levels of an organisation find they must do all they can to develop high-performing workforces who deliver world-class products and services, and that is where coaching has proved to be vital. Today, we get some top tips on executive, corporate and leadership coaching. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Monica Jonsson and her client Alberta Brusi. Monica is the author of a recently published book called: The Complete Corporate Coaching Toolkit - The Quintessential Guide for 21st Century Business Coaches and Leaders. Her client Alberta Brusi is Country Head for Citibank Luxembourg. 

Do you work with clients who feel unseen, stuck or are no longer advancing at work? How as coaches can we help them take positive steps career-wise? In this month's podcast we get some top coaching tips. Joining host, Jenny Butter are Hulya Kurt and her client Jane. Hulya is a career coach based in Geneva who works with her clients who want to get promoted or make a positive change. Her client Jane has been working for the same corporation for several years and wanted some coaching to help her find a new role and direction.

Are you a perfectionist? What about some of the clients you work with? How much of their judgment by the inner critique or overwhelm comes from perfectionism? Today, as coaches and mentors, we get some top tips on how to coach people who are perfectionists. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Aylin Webb and her client Elizabeth. Aylin combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR Therapy, NLP and Coaching to enable her clients to learn to trust themselves once again. Her client, Elizabeth, is a teacher and over the last 9 months has felt anxiety on a variety of scales. 

How confident do you feel when speaking in public? Whether running a group session, a webinar, a training day, or giving a presentation, public speaking is something that we, as coaches and mentors, need to do from time to time. And it can be scary! So how can we increase our confidence and know that what we say and do engages our audience in an inspiring way? Joining podcast host Jenny Butter, are Toby Wilson and Lenka Pagan. Toby is president of Worthing Speakers club in Sussex, UK, which is a part of Toastmasters International. Lenka is a Nutritional Therapist, a Senior Yoga Teacher, and Health Coach and she joined Toastmasters to improve her confidence and ability when speaking in public.  

Today on both sides of the coin we get some top mentoring tips from the best in the business. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Kerrie Dorman and her client Kim Gowing. Kerrie is the founder of the Association of Business Mentors and was voted 2019 ‘People’s mentoring champion’. She trains professional business mentors and one person she trained is Kim Gowing. Kim is the Chief Change Officer of her own change management consulting firm and alongside this currently professionally mentors seven women.