You will gain new profound insights on any topic, whether it is your personal development, your situation at home or at work, your field of work, technology, leadership, project management, quality, collaboration, organizational structure or culture or any other subject. You bring in the topic and the questions you want answered.
I coach in the fields:
Independent Thinking
Listening to others
Inspiring and Convincing
Cultural Awareness
Communication
During your thinking session, we will first clear our own minds for a few minutes, come to peace, free from rush and noises and focus. Then you bring in the topic of your choice, which is important to you. You will think deeply as yourself, for yourself and I am with you, asking you the right question at the right time to generate your thinking.
During the session, assumptions about yourself, others or the situation may arise that are holding you back from moving forward and achieving your goals. Assumptions influence our thoughts, feelings and actions, so it is good to be aware of them. You will understand your assumptions better, examine them and replace them with neutral or more positive assumptions so that you can see possibilities and solutions again.
Generative listening is a technic used to ignite your mind, to bring out and use your full potential, to get answers to your questions and challenges, to make decisions and achieve your goals.
Your own thinking will deepen in a listening environment, with the right conditions, such as the attentive presence of me as a listening coach, silence, no interruptions, no directing, no judgements, no opinions and the right open-ended questions at the right time. It is listening in a way you may never have experienced before.
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The coaching is of interest to anyone who wants to find solutions and answers. The coaching sessions will be in English or Dutch.
The sessions will be one-on-one. We have 6 x 90 minute coaching meetings focused on your relevant outcomes. 4 x 60 or 6 x 60 minutes is also possible. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office, somewhere else or if you like during a walk in nature.
Do you want to further develop your listening skills to allow others to find their solutions? What pearls of thought will your family members, colleagues, vendors, customers come up with?
First you will experience what it is like to think deeply yourself in a listening environment, then you will practice to create the right conditions for others.
By promising not to interrupt, by being attentive, by asking open-ended questions and other skills and principals, you will stimulate the thinking process of others and therefore your own. By creating a thinking environment, they will add enormous value by tapping into their resourcefulness and wisdom, using their skills better and concentrating better. They will save time, make better decisions, be more productive and creative.
This is of interest to anyone and especially to leaders. We all lead by example as a parent, manager, colleague, teacher, etc. The sessions will be one-on-one. We have 6 x 90 minute coaching meetings. 6 x 60 minutes is also possible. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office.
If you want to apply your listening skills in your team and/or develop your team’s listening skills, we will practice that as well.
In order to inspire and convince others, you need to know where their minds are. You can do this by listening well, asking the right open questions, by understanding their needs, values and background and then by translating your message into terms that they care about, so they can decide quickly. You will learn how to interpret their reactions and how to respond to that.
You will learn how to get airtime. You will apply different techniques of persuasion. You will examine and replace your assumptions about the other person and the situation if needed. Assumptions influence our thoughts, feelings and actions, so it is good to be aware of them. If necessary, you will learn how to calm your nerves by breathing correctly.
You will be able to get your message across effectively, tailored to what the recipient needs to know in order to proceed or decide. You will be able to increase their confidence in you.
During each coaching session you get theory and exercises to practice and anchor your new skills in a fun and positive way. If applicable, you will receive a checklist so you know what practical steps to take to apply the new behaviour.
This is of interest to anyone who wants to have more impact with their message and body language. The coaching is for everyone, regardless of education, position, cultural background and amount of experience. The coaching is available in Dutch and English.
The coaching sessions will be one-on-one. We have 6 x 90 minute coaching meetings or 6 x 60 minutes. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office.
Our cultural background often influence what we see, what we think and what we do, so also our way of working, communicating and cooperating.
In order to better understand, communicate and work with people from different cultural backgrounds, motivate, inspire, convince them and satisfy customers, we need to better understand their culture so that we know how to interpret the meaning behind the words and their actions or lack of actions. Then we will understand why they do what they do and how we can act and react appropriately and adjust our messages, feedback, questions and actions accordingly to build a more mutually trusting working relationship with them. The coaching prevents you from making cross-cultural missteps, it prevents misunderstandings, unnecessary conflicts and ultimately failure. It makes cooperation much more enjoyable.
You will better decode and understand your and others’ culture(s). You will improve your cultural knowledge and awareness and turn it into deep cultural understanding. You will prace your new skills to further enhance your effectiveness in dealing with people from different cultural backgrounds.
The topics we will cover are the most common problems in business communication arising from cultural differences. The topics are feedback, persuasion, leadership, decision-making, building trust, disagreements and planning. You will see how the cultures involved (including yours) score on these topics, what the bottle necks are and how to tackle them. You will learn to listen carefully and read between the lines. You will get advice on how to adjust your communication and leadership style.
The coaching sessions will be one-on-one. We have 4 x 60 minute or 6 x 60 minute or 8 x 60 minute coaching meetings, depending your learning needs. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office.
Do you want to personally discuss your answers in the workbooks of the online training course ‘Inspire and Convince Americans‘? Do you have additional questions about your work with Americans, such as how do you keep the attention in a multicultural group? How do you avoid talking about problems and disadvantages, but still discuss what needs to be discussed? How to avoid an irritated reaction? What to do when they hardly react at all? How to give feedback? How to interpret their feedback? I am happy to help.
The coaching sessions will be one-on-one. We have 6 x 60 minute coaching meetings. We will meet via video conference, or in my or your office.
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