My coaching information link on my website is posting here at the moment as my base page is being updated with a new look and new links - part of a gradual website overhaul which is my Christmas Project. So here's the information in the meantime (although I'm going to edit it heavily - it's so easy to write too much on the web!)
"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never"
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I help people fufil their creative potential through:
* Life Coaching
* Workshops
* Public Speaking
LIFE COACHING: I work with busy professionals who feel driven to do well in every area of their life and are juggling a range of activities including work, family, and creative pursuits. Often, they feel they should be making more progress or achieving more than they are. I help them to take a realistic look at what they have achieved, and to set goals which energise rather than depress them. I work with my clients to identify and implement small changes which make a big difference to their energy levels, their feeling of achievement, and their overall enjoyment of life.
WORKSHOPS: I am currently developing workshops and like to present training to groups, drawing on my background as an improviser, juggler and coach to make the training creative and fun.
PUBLIC SPEAKING: I'm an experience public speaker and trainer. I am happy to speak to groups on topics including,
* Having more energy, using time better.
* Finding time in your life for creative pursuits
* How to work out what you really want to do and find time to get there.
* What is Life Coaching?
MY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE : I have been working as a coach since August 2002. I trained at Coach U and am a graduate of the Coach Training Programme. I am building client hours towards the International Coach Federation's PCC Accreditation.
I have degrees in Commerce (management and marketing) and Law from Canterbury University, and was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1994. I’ve spent 11 years working as a lawyer in Wellington and London. My roles also included training, and establishing a development programme for Councillors.
I’ve also trained in Acting and Improvisation, and Juggling, and worked as a vegetarian cook at a Yoga Centre.
22 December 2006
11 December 2006
Cultural differences
I'm back in New Zealand now, having visited friends in Athens, Genoa, Berlin, London, and Oxford on leaving Greece. I plan to be in Christchurch for a few months, to devote some time to building my coaching practice, through public speaking and workshops.
I'm especially looking forward to honing my speaking skills at Christchurch Toastmasters. One of the benefits of being a toastmaster (apart from improving my skills) is receiving the excellent magazine, The Toastmaster.
My favourite recent article was written by Jeanne Feldman, a business communication trainer and coach based in Paris. Jeanne wrote about how cultures vary in how they give and receive information.
Culturs can vary in how much background information surrounding an event (or context) will be given. In a high context culture, such as France, most of the background information to a situation is assumed, so it isn't repeated (unless you are explaining something to a child).
In a low context culture, such as the US, the assumption will be that it is normal to explain the background information so that everything is clear.
Jeanne went on to point out that explaining all the details to a high-context audience will only serve to irritate them, and make them feel patronised!
This immediately made sense to me, and its applications are limitless. Knowing the context of a communication is important to me not only in training, public speaking and coaching, but also in every-day interactions in different countries, and within different communities.
For example, if you are speaking to a roomful of people on the Privacy Act, it helps to know what training they've had in the past. If you pitch your message too high, you run the risk of people misunderstanding or making false assumptions. Pitch it too low, and you irritate them.
I'll be on the look out for more examples I'm sure.
If you're interested to find out more, check out Jeanne's website. She drew upon the book Understanding Cultural Differences by Edward T. Hall. To buy the book follow these links: (Amazon US
) (Amazon UK) .
She also wrote on the difference in cultures between the expectation of friendliness and formality, but I'll blog that later.
I'm especially looking forward to honing my speaking skills at Christchurch Toastmasters. One of the benefits of being a toastmaster (apart from improving my skills) is receiving the excellent magazine, The Toastmaster.
My favourite recent article was written by Jeanne Feldman, a business communication trainer and coach based in Paris. Jeanne wrote about how cultures vary in how they give and receive information.
Culturs can vary in how much background information surrounding an event (or context) will be given. In a high context culture, such as France, most of the background information to a situation is assumed, so it isn't repeated (unless you are explaining something to a child).
In a low context culture, such as the US, the assumption will be that it is normal to explain the background information so that everything is clear.
Jeanne went on to point out that explaining all the details to a high-context audience will only serve to irritate them, and make them feel patronised!
This immediately made sense to me, and its applications are limitless. Knowing the context of a communication is important to me not only in training, public speaking and coaching, but also in every-day interactions in different countries, and within different communities.
For example, if you are speaking to a roomful of people on the Privacy Act, it helps to know what training they've had in the past. If you pitch your message too high, you run the risk of people misunderstanding or making false assumptions. Pitch it too low, and you irritate them.
I'll be on the look out for more examples I'm sure.
If you're interested to find out more, check out Jeanne's website. She drew upon the book Understanding Cultural Differences by Edward T. Hall. To buy the book follow these links: (Amazon US
) (Amazon UK) .She also wrote on the difference in cultures between the expectation of friendliness and formality, but I'll blog that later.
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