Your Coaching Journey

Are you a people pleaser? It’s a topic that definitely comes up in the coaching room and many in some cases, be getting in the way of our coachees’ growth, development, career, wellbeing, and even possibly happiness. In this episode we explore what people pleasing is, how it might impact individuals and how we could work through it with clients to help them find a new way of being?   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 listener 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)

***Before listening, please see the warning below   In this episode we discuss how Helen uses meditative visualisation with her clients. Find out when it might be a useful technique to employ and why. Helen also shares her top tips on how to get started in using visualisation in the coaching room so, if you fancy trying it out yourself, listen to this episode.    During the podcast Helen will also be leading us through a guided meditative visualisation so that we can all experience it first-hand.    ***IMPORTANT*** This podcast includes meditative techniques designed to relax you. Please do not listen to this while driving, operating machinery, (or operating for that matter) or are engaged in any activity where you need to be fully aware of your surroundings.  We want you to listen, but please come back to it when it is safe for you to be in a lovely relaxed state, and potentially falling asleep.   Resources: The background music used in this visualisation has been purchased with the rights of use from www.melodyloops.com   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.   Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin: www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/ www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

In this episode we are interviewing our first coaching doctor, Dr Sarah Goulding. Sarah was a participant on our very first Transformational Coaching Diploma, and now has a portfolio career which includes her role as Head of Coaching for The Joyful Doctor. Sarah is also an appraiser and mentor within the NHS.   Find out what inspired Sarah to start learning about coaching, and how she uses it in her different roles now.    We will also explore her favourite coaching tool and find out what question she asks to encourage a coachee to reflect on the coaching conversation.    Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 listener 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)

In this episode we introduce Cognitive Behavioural Coaching or CBC. It’s an approach that brings together the practice of coaching and the concepts and methods that underpin Cognitive Behavioural Psychology.   CBC offers a number of distinctive models and techniques that help coaches to understand the barriers that coachees may be placing in their own way.   Engaging with CBC allows coaches to support their coachees in increasing their awareness of their limiting beliefs and unhelpful thinking and looking at ways in which they can overcome and change them.   Resources: You can find the models that we refer to in this podcast here:  https://yourcoachingjourney.com/cognitive-behavioural-coaching/   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 listener 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 will be regularly discussing some of the widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and challenges around coaching that are often pondered and debated. In this episode we will be exploring the differences between coaching and mentoring, and how conflating or combining the two may cause issues in the coaching room. We’ll also be asking, is it ever ok to mentor during a coaching session?   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts:   Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 listener 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)

In this episode we answer some questions about coaching that we’ve had from our listeners (details of how you can submit your questions are below).   We discuss ways in which you might stop thinking about what comes next whilst you’re coaching; ways that you might go about introducing tools into the coaching conversation; and our views on the topic of interrupting your coachee.   Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.   Here's the link to Episode #2, which is mentioned in this episode.   Contact Details Find out about our coaching training programme for doctors by clicking here  Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma To access our offer of free coaching for medical professionals visit: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/coaching-practice-clients/ (Please note: numbers are limited and we may need to put your details on a waiting list)   Connect with the hosts:   Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 produce an episode where we answer listener 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)

In this episode we are exploring a topic that we both notice showing up a lot in the coaching room. It’s also a phenomenon that we have both found ourselves experiencing at various times. There’s also a very good chance that you have some experience of it yourself. We’re talking about Imposter Syndrome.    Research suggests that between 70 and 84% of people engaging a coach experience feeling like an imposter.  It’s therefore helpful to reflect on what is meant by the term ‘imposter syndrome’ and to consider what approaches you might adopt to support your clients when they bring it in to the coaching room.     Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here. (link to apple podcast)   Contact Details   Find out about our coaching training programme for doctors by clicking here Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts:   Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 listener 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)

In this episode we discuss a new coaching model that we have introduced in our training programme. Having used and taught the GROW model for many years we have long recognised that it has its limitations, especially when coachees don’t come to the coaching room with specific goals.    We’ve created a model that flows with the natural rhythm of a coaching conversation and provides the coachee with the opportunity to reflect on the importance of the topic they have brought to the coaching room; the change that they would like to see; and the new thinking that they have generated during the session.    Resources: You can download a PDF : https://yourcoachingjourney.com/toms-code-pdf-download/ You can listen to recording of Tom using TOMS CODE in a real life coaching session in Episode 33      Enjoying the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.  Contact Details Find out about our coaching training programme for doctors by clicking here Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts:   Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 produce an episode where we answer listener 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)

In this episode we continue with our series of interviews with coaches by introducing and exploring the coaching journey of one of our podcast hosts, Helen Leathers.    We find out what led her to coaching; the reasons why she had never really wanted to be a coach; how she approaches coaching and what keeps her busy now (apart from this podcast). We will also explore her favourite coaching tool and her most useful coaching question!   Helen would like to add that somehow, she completely forgot to mention her love of dancing and how she is soon to embark on a course of adult tap-dancing lessons!   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.      Contact Details Find out about our coaching training programme for doctors by clicking here  Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts:   Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 produce an episode where we answer listener 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)

In this episode we introduce solution-focused coaching. It’s an approach that is particularly popular in organisations as it seeks to move the coachee quickly to a solution and a way forward. It’s also a coaching approach that doctors tend to feel comfortable with as they are very used to taking a history, considering symptoms, diagnosing a condition, and offering advice on a way forward. Within a coaching conversation the challenges for doctors include refraining from offering advice, allowing the coachee to generate their own options and deciding for themselves how they might move forward.   You might recognise some of the elements of the solution-focused approach that we discuss and perhaps even use them in your own coaching without realising where they originated.   Enjoy the podcast? It would be great if you left us a review here.    Contact Details Find out about our coaching training programme for doctors by clicking here Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma   Connect with the hosts: Tom: www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/ Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Helen: www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/ Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk   Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram, Twitter 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 produce an episode where we answer listener 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)