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Reviewed by Dr Peter Stokes, principal lecturer/division leader, Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire.

This is straightforward, nut-and-bolts “how to” guide to coaching. The book takes the reader through the necessary basis of the coaching process and options. It is well-written, sticks to the business at hand, and is true to its “Essential Handbook” title.
However, don’t overlook the sections “Coaching – The Larger Issues” and “Coaching and Beyond”. These create a platform from which readers can progress to further reading.

One of the more intriguing and interesting sections of the book is “Being Impeccable”, which brings a moral and ethical dimension to the subject area. Coaching has been considered as a novelty and has, like many fashions, clearly attracted its fair share charlatans. The aspirations and code of conduct discussed here are worthy and valuable aspects of the coaching world.

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The Coaching Bible can be purchased from the ITS site by clicking here.

The NLP Conference in November, 2006 received tremendous feedback from delegates and presenters alike. Last years event featured over 40 presenters, including many International Trainers including Michael Grinder, Robert Dilts and International Teaching Seminars’ Director Ian McDermott taking a Master Class detailling “How Change Becomes Possible”.

Many thanks to Ian Grove-Stephensen, author of the NLP Marketing Blog who reminded us that the NLP Conference 2006 photos were available for viewing, some of which we will share with you on our blog!

Ian McDermott

Michael Grinder

These are only two of over a hundred photos taken during this conference. The NLP Conference 2006 photo set can be found at the following link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cantabrigensis/sets/72157594386007628/

Christian Lattanzio, 35, was born in Rome and moved to London 9 years ago.

Christian’s main interests lie in sport, particularly in how athletes learn and achieve peak performance. He is also a certified NLP Master Practitioner, attending programmes run by ITS. Over the last few years he went on to apply his studies and research on how people communicate, learn and achieve excellence when coaching sport; concentrating on football in particular.

Graduating with a degree in Philosophy and Linguistics from the University in Rome, Christian has a background in sport having played Football and Futsal in Italy both at Academy and semi-pro level. He currently delivers his Mental Skills Training Programme to the Under 18 squad of Tottenham Hotspur and West Bromwich Albion Academy, delivering a similar programme to the Under 18 squad of West Ham United the year before.Christian has affiliations with and has been invited to present his work by a number of professional clubs and associations such as The English FA, Inter FC, FIGC (The Italian FA), Manchester United, West Ham United, Hellas Verona, West Bromwich Albion, AS Roma and Udinese FC.

Christian also trains the mental strength of a number of professional and semi-professional athletes ranging from Football to Rugby, from Running to Swimming, from Basketball to Tennis, from Golf to Boxing. He also writes articles on Mental Strength Training for magazines such as “Movimento” and “Cycling Weekly”, as well as for European websites like www.basketnet.it, www.calciatori.com, and BBC Sport.

ITS recognises Christian as a dedicated mental strength coach, if you would like to ask Christian any questions please use the comments link below.

International Teaching Seminars is pleased to introduce “Coaching and NLP”, a workshop run by Henley Management College that introduces new NLP techniques and reveals their effective use in a coaching context.

Understanding patterns in thinking and behaviour can have considerable implications for the success of coaching situations. The workshop is presented by Ian McDermott demonstrates specific techniques for successful executive coaching.

Benefits

• Achieve an understanding of what NLP is, and how it can be used in the course of mainstream executive coaching.
• Gain new confidence in how to credibly incorporate these approaches into your coaching work.
• Experience key techniques in action, working with the acclaimed master of NLP Coaching.

About Henley Management College
A business school established 60 years ago by business, for business. High pragmatic and relevant programmes are readily applied back in the working environment, to make a real difference to individuals and organisations.

Is Coaching with NLP for me?
You don’t need to be NLP trained to be able to benefit from this workshop - and it will be invaluable to professional coaches, and to managers coaching in the day job.

Date
31 October

Time
9.30am - 4.30pm

Dinner can be booked at 7pm - at a cost of £19, payable at time of booking.

Fee
£555 (€840) plus VAT.

How to Book
To book online go to www.henleymc.ac.uk/coachingworkshops.
For further information please contact executive eduation on tel: +44 (0)1491 418767 or email exec@henleymc.ac.uk.

Please note: This is not part of the International Teaching Seminars course structure, this is offered by Henley Management College.