09 Mar

Self-Esteem Coaching in Japan

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Self-Esteem Coaching in Japan

When I tell new acquaintances that I’m a self-esteem coach and that I live in Japan, they always respond with a very surprised facial expression. Why self-esteem and why in Japan?

I didn’t choose to live in Japan just because I wanted to coach (my life brought me here for different reasons), but now that I am here I feel that I have a very important role to fill. In Japan most people don’t even know the Japanese word for “self-esteem”. This is an obvious hint that self-esteem is not a concept that Japanese people spend a lot of time thinking about. Yet, it is so obvious to me that most people in Japan, just like in the rest of the world, have a lack of self-esteem. Negative feelings are hidden and suppressed but they come back in the shape of even stronger emotions and problems.

Many people in Japan (and also in other countries) seem to think that it is embarrassing to hire a coach because that might mean that there is something wrong with them. This perception of coaching is as wrong as it can be. Getting a coach is not the same as going to the doctor. If you go to the doctor it’s because you have a health problem and you want help to fix it. If you go to a coach it’s because you want to get more out of life than you currently do. You may have a problem that you want to sort out, such as a relationship problem, fear of public speaking or bad health. A coach can surely help you with this. However, you may also feel like your life is ok, but you want to bring in even more happiness and success. You may have a flourishing business and you want your coach to help you get even more clients or even more sales. You may have a wonderful loving relationship and you want to grow with your partner even further.

The only thing that you really need in order to hire a coach is a desire to grow. A desire to make life even better. A desire to bring yourself to the next level. This is what coaching is about.

The desire to grow and to develop oneself is enormous in Japan. People here seem to honestly try to do their best at every moment and they are hungry to learn more and become better husbands, mothers, colleagues, friends etc. This is why coaching has such a potential in Japan.

Self-esteem is the essence of personal development. If you want to improve your career you need to start by raising your self-esteem. If you want to become a better parent, you need to raise your self-esteem. If you want to feel happier, raise your self-esteem. If you want to help others, raise your self-esteem! Developing a high self-esteem is the first step in any personal development journey.

In a way it seems therefore like people in Japan who care so much about improving themselves always talk about self-esteem but without realising it. Their quest for personal development will be so much easier when they discover the “lost word”: self-esteem.

Visit www.livmiyagawa.com if you want more information about self-esteem coaching!

Liv Miyagawa – The Self-Esteem Coach

Liv Miyagawa, The Self-Esteem Coach, helps people all over the world to raise their self-esteem and to reach their personal goals. She opens people?s eyes to their own strengths and helps them to figure out what it really is that they want to get out of life. Liv helps people to find out exactly what steps they need to take to reach their goals, and she supports them and motivates them on their journey towards a more fulfilling future.

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08 Mar

Building Leadership Skills – Business Leadership Coaching

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Leadership in business organizations plays quite an important role. Without effective leadership, it can prove to be extremely difficult for a company to achieve its goals and objectives. This makes building leadership skills in business organizations quite important. And in most companies today, business leadership coaching and training are quite common.

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There are many ways of building leadership skills among business leaders and potential business leaders. A leadership training and development program is just one of those many ways. Companies can also resort to business leadership coaching as a follow up to training and development programs to help build leadership skills among leaders and employees.

There are several kinds of leadership skills that need to be developed. However, among all these, the leadership style and effective communication prove to be of the highest importance. The style of leadership that goes around the company can determine the level of motivation that employees have in achieving their career goals, as well as the company goals.

On the other hand, effective communication helps facilitate successful clear transmission and exchange of information within or among employee and leaders. Without effective communication skills, leaders will find it difficult to make employees understand what the goals are and how they can get there. What is important is that business organizations should understand that there are different kinds of leadership skills and it can be quite an advantage to let leaders understand more about these concepts.

The next time you think of building leadership skills in the office, keep in mind that you will not be able to improve any skill unless you check which areas indeed need improvement. You also need to determine the willingness that the participants have toward learning something new, and applying them into their daily roles and responsibilities. At the end of the day, it would be the effective leaders that have effective leadership skills that will motivate teams to give their best.

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08 Mar

Leadership Coaching Skills – Educational Leadership

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There are many types of leadership, and each of them works best in specific situations. While we are familiar with transformation, transactional, and strategic leadership, many of us have not quite heard about educational leadership. In this type of leadership, a leader must be open to learning and helps his or her team to learn. And in this case, one would need to have effective leadership coaching skills if you seek to help develop the skills of both leaders and subordinates.

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Having effective leadership coaching skills is quite necessary, especially in organizations that are serious about having effective leaders and motivated employees. Leaders also need their share of coaching and without effective coaching skills; one can easily fail at helping leaders develop their different skills.

What makes leadership coaching so challenging is that many people get intimated by leaders. And many people think that leaders already know what they are doing and there is nothing else to learn. When this happens, it can indeed be difficult to help leaders improve their skills, and it is almost impossible for leadership coaching to take place.

And this brings us to thinking that effective coaching skills stem from having an open mind towards continuous development and training, which is quite true and important. Without a firm conviction about continuous development and training, leadership coaching would not exist. And if you cannot find a good leadership coach within the office, there is still an option left – seeking help from career development firms that have experts in leadership coaching.

Improving leadership coaching skills apart from leadership alone is quite important in every organization. It is not always that you will need to bring in help to improve the skills of your leaders. In many cases, the very help you need is lurking within the organization and simply needs to be motivated to come out of their shells.

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01 Mar

Leadership Coaching Vs Leadership Training Vs Classes – Find Out Which Is The Clear Winner

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In this recessionary period, many business leaders across the world are turning to a variety of solutions to help them build a solid set of leadership to help them (and their business) weather the recession as well as possible.

Leadership isn’t just a simple case of charisma + confidence + likeability. It’s a complicate web of factors and past events that create a unique culture in every single organisation. Leadership won’t just help protect the jobs of senior managers – but also employees as well. This is because better led companies are more successful, and thus have a higher chance of surviving the recession.

Now that we’ve concluded that good leadership will certainly benefit companies in the long run – lets look at the different solutions available to senior managers to choose from.

There are public leadership classes and larger seminars, smaller leadership training courses, or one on-one leadership coaching. As a simple rule – the methods become more expensive as the service becomes more personal. Each type of leadership development comes with benefits and drawbacks, so lets look at each one in turn.

Leadership Seminars and large leadership classes.

Good leadership seminars carry a cost of between £70 and £500 to attend, and this can be far higher if the class comes as part of a larger conference. The motivational speakers are usually publicly acclaimed, but their speeches won’t be targeted at your industry, never mind your individual company, and thus despite the high ticket price – a lot of work needs to be put in afterwards when the senior manager needs to convert what they’ve heard into a practical strategy to implement in their organisation. Many managers will find it hard to allocate enough time to this activity, and hence the benefit of the seminar will be all but wasted.

Leadership Training Courses

Leadership training courses generally cost between £800-£2000 for a course that will last several days. The manager will clearly be ‘out of action’ for an extended period during this time, and such, there is the added cost of having to find a temporary replacement just as if they had gone on holiday.

These courses deal with fewer individuals, and there is two-way communication between the students and teacher in such a way that the inherent value of the course is far greater. Not only are ideas and facts more likely to spark imagination when they can be discussed and debated, but some personalised advice can also be gleaned from these discussions.

Leadership Coaches

Leadership coaches charge around £100 per hour and travel to your office and thus creates a small problem for HR than the other two options. Leadership coaches I would describe as being a cross between a leadership speaker and a consultant, because of the way they will analyse the specific issues at the company, and tailor leadership skills and solutions to deal with them directly.

This means leadership coaches oversee some of the implementation, which ensures a higher success rate, but they can also provide critique on the managers behaviour and current initiatives, and this feedback is valuable.

In conclusion, these different solutions vary in cost and value to the company. For a proactive manager – a seminar could perhaps be all that is necessary. But for large companies where marginal increases in performance equate to very vast sums of money – it’s worth spending the extra money to hire a leadership coach/consultant who will maximise the benefit of leadership to the company.

But of course, you must always bear in mind, that the coach cannot run the company themselves – and thus if the CEO is sceptical and unwilling to comply with the coaches recommendations – the benefits may be limited.

Simon Oates writes about leadership coaching, leadership and other leadership development topics on his website ‘leadership-expert.co.uk’.

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27 Feb

Leadership Coaching for Executives

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One-to-One Leadership Coaching for Executives

Transactional leaders use conventional reward and punishment to bring on board the people they lead.

Transformational leaders offer a purpose – a vision – that those they lead can identify with.

Leadership Coaching for Executives are about Transformational Leadership. Leaders who go beyond the short-term and focus on something bigger.

It’s no holiday. First one must home-in on the strengths and weaknesses of your leaders to discover what’s needed to take them to the next level of their business and personal development. What they need to help them become transformational leaders – the people who make things happen.

A senior leadership coach is required. One that has experience in coaching, mentoring and leadership development. Using unique methods and approaches to get a message across

“Put at its simplest, transformational leaders are:

Charismatic – behave admirably; have a clear set of values; lead by example.

Inspiring – challenge those they lead with high standards; optimism; purpose. Give meaning to the job in hand; provide energy.

Stimulating – challenge the assumptions of those they lead; encourage creativity.

Thoughtful – attend to the needs of those they lead; mentor; respect the team.”

Do your Executives measure up?

Learn more about how a senior leadership coach can help at www.workingvoices.com

Working Voices’ one-to-one Executive coaching is tailored to fit whatever the client wants, but our 60 or 90-day front-end loaded programmes are the most popular: the diagnostic, remedial

and developmental stages, followed by the support. Visit www.workingvoices.com and click THE TEAM.

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