Your Coaching Journey

Join us today as we have a fascinating conversation with coach and paediatrician, Dr Nikki Paul.

We caught up with Nikki to find out what she had been doing since she successfully completed our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma in 2023.

As well as having a role as a paediatrician Nikki is also a mum and a widow. Since completing the coaching diploma Nikki has seen it as her mission to help widowed mums process their grief and learn to love their life. Her company, 'The Grief Coach' supports widows by coaching them as they journey through their grief and find a new path forward. Nikki is actively involved in educating the public about the realities of grief.

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You can connect with Nikki via her instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/the_grief_coach/

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

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Tom:

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Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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On our podcast we regularly explore the topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation. One such topic is 'change'; a huge topic that encompasses many different potential areas of a coachee's life.

Sometimes, the coaching might be focused on a change that is happening around the coachee or it might be a change that the coachee wants to bring about for themself.

Either way, everyone responds to change differently and there is a broad spectrum of how impactful and challenging change can be.

In this episode we explore how we might help our coachees to navigate change in their personal or professional lives, whether it's change they want to see or change that they feel is being done to them. We touch on Kübler Ross's model of change and also the work of Swedish psychologist, Claes Janssen who developed the Change House model to describe the different rooms that someone might enter as they move through a period of change.

Join us for an interesting exploration of how we might start to talk about change with our coachees.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

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"It's like Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs', isn't it?" is a rhetorical question often posed in discussions around human needs. Maslow's model of behaviour is one of the most oft-cited models of human psychology. Images of the pyramid that is usually used to illustrate Maslow's hierarchy are peppered throughout social media channels.

Very few people ever delve into Maslow's hierarchy, beyond a cursory glance at the model and a sage nod of the head, before they scroll onto a kitten being frightened by a cucumber, but the notion is worth exploring further.

That's exactly what we do in this episode of the podcast, as well as exploring an entirely different model of human needs, which may be just as valid. We'll also talk about how you might approach the model from a coaching perspective.

As we also often say on the podcast, all models are wrong, but some are useful, so have a listen and decide for yourself how useful Maslow's hierarchy of needs is within a coaching conversation.

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

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For us, coaching is all about allowing our coachees to have time to think about their situation, their desired outcomes and their ideas for achieving those outcomes.

We know that being truly present with our coachees and holding that space for them while they think to the end of their thoughts is invaluable. This is where their new thinking is generated.

'Time To Think' is also the name of a particular coaching approach devised by Nancy Kline that has some unique characteristics and a very specific structure when coaching individuals.

In this episode we explore what the 'Time to Think' approach looks like, what we see as the benefits of the approach and also what we perceive to be its limitations

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Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

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"How much should I charge for my coaching?"

This is a common question that we hear from new coaches and sadly, there isn't a succinct answer. It can feel like a minefield when it comes to pricing, and we're all looking for that 'goldilocks' amount that feels right for us, and also is acceptable to the coachees that we are attracting to our coaching space.

We can't tell you what you should be charging for your coaching, but we can help you reach your own right answer? On this podcast we talk through the different elements involved, from overcoming a reluctance to charge anything, to getting to grips with the cost of providing a coaching service, and then gaining an understanding of the true value of your coaching.

Join us for an exploration of a coaching issue that we know many coaches find challenging.

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.

In this episode we've been asked about the ideal frequency of coaching, tools or exercises to work with clients around issues relating to finances, and whether we use pre-coaching questionnaires for our clients. Listen in now to hear our discussion.

If you have a question to ask about coaching and would like us to answer it for you on the podcast, do send us your questions, or even drop us a voice note of your question, and we'll feature it on a future episode.

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin:

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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

We do like to catch up with doctors who have been through our programme and to find out how they are using coaching in various ways in the real world.

In this episode we meet up with Dr Natasha Holmes, who leads an extremely full working life.

Natasha is a locum paediatric doctor, life coach, well-being workshop facilitator and mental health advocate. She is co creator of "The Fully Well Doc Pod" podcast which aims to inspire and empower doctors to make changes in their personal and working lives for greater happiness and fulfilment whilst having genuine conversations about the challenges faced by those in the medical profession.

Listen in as we ask her how she is using coaching since she qualified with us, and find out her favourite tools and questions to use with clients.

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You can listen to Natasha's podcast here: https://thefullywelldocpod.podbean.com/

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

Coaching often revolves around helping someone to raise their self-awareness, and really start to understand their personality, their values, their patterns of behaviour, their emotional responses, their strengths, as well as their vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

Coaching is also commonly focused on the coachee's interactions with others, what they choose to share with those around them, how they are perceived by others, and how they navigate their relationships in an authentic way.

In this episode we explore a tool that might help us facilitate this exploration for our coachees. It is a model that supports coachees as they develop personal insight and become aware of how they are perceived.

Join us as we take a look through the Johari Window.

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

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twitter.com/doctorscoaching

Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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On our podcast we regularly explore the topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.

One such topic that shows up a lot in our coaching is motivation or, more specifically, a lack of it. Coachees are often asking how they can feel more motivated, or how we can motivate them.

What we often find is that those same coachees who are struggling with their motivation will provide us with evidence of actions that they do feel motivated to take.

Sometimes uncovering the motivation they say they're lacking is just a matter of increasing their awareness and developing their understanding of what's going on for them.

In this episode we journey through some of the psychological theories and frameworks around motivation and explore how they could be useful for our coachees, and also for us as coaches.

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

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Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

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Metaphors are an aspect of language that most of us will happily use until the cows come home. However, because we are so used to building metaphor into our speech it passes us by, uncovered, and we are denied the lightbulb moments that might guide us if we were to wake up and smell the coffee.

In this episode, we serve up a way of plucking metaphors from a coachee's language and putting them under the microscope, thus adding colour to our coaching tapestry. This may allow our coachees to mine a rich vein of awareness that could have remained buried without this approach. Personal transformations will bloom, hurdles will turn to stepping stones, and new thinking will percolate as we shine a light on the metaphors within our coaching conversations.

Watch Caitlin Walker's Ted Talk on the way she introduced clean language to the world of teenage education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvcU5gG4KU&t=768s

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Contact Details

Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

Connect with the hosts:

Tom:

www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

Email: [email protected]

Helen:

www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

Email: [email protected]

Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

twitter.com/doctorscoaching

Do You Have a Question?

From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.

If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

(If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)