Author Archives: shaun

About shaun

Shaun is an experienced international performance coach, recognising that different cultures often respond differently to different approaches.

Visualise Your way to Success – Can You Picture it?

Hey everyone, I trust you’re all well.  A bit of NLP for you this time; the other day, as I was driving home from a particularly upbeat training session, I got to thinking about how important imagery was to us…well, … Continue reading

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Reframe Your Thinking – Metaphors – The Magical Bank

  NLP offers many things to its followers and practitioners.  It’s all about expanding choices; wouldn’t you like to have more choices? One way to expand thinking and to reveal other choices that might have been previously hidden from you … Continue reading

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Return on Expectations (ROE)

I haven’t written much on the L&D side for a while so I thought I’d put something together that dealt with one of the fundamentals of the L&D world.  This blog is designed for those L&D Professionals out there who … Continue reading

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In Your Comfort Zone

We hear it all the time “Doh, I’m well out of my comfort zone” and “Oh my gosh, I can’t do that”. Do you know where your comfort zone is? How do you know? Truth is…you don’t know about them … Continue reading

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NLP – Noticing and paying attention to METAPHORS (Part 2)

Hey, welcome to the second of my Two-Part Series on Metaphors.  Part 1 – Isomorphic Metaphors and Storytelling, proved so popular I was inundated with so much positive feedback I had trouble keeping up.  I thought I’d kick off 2012 … Continue reading

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NLP & Allergies

                                        Hey everyone, I hope you’re well?  It’s a busy time for me, I’ve been away for a while and so I’ve been thinking of something special to write about so that I can make it up you.  So here … Continue reading

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Beliefs and Hairdressing

As a busy performance coach, it’s inevitable at some stage in the relationship with my clients that we come up against beliefs.  It’s a massive subject area but there are those coaches out there who labour on it so much … Continue reading

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