Coaching Chronicle by Gerard O’Donovan

Hi everyone I just returned

Late on Sunday night from our most recent residential coach training programme held at Eynsham Hall near Oxford. 

http://www.eynshamhall.com/

It was lovely to meet so many people in such a wonderful atmosphere. We had a group from Poland, people from Romania, Ireland, France,Scotland, Spain and South Africa. In total about 30 people and 7 staff.

And just imagine how pleased I was to receive this e-mail the next day. It really does make it all so worthwhile.

 To: sadiehargreaves@noble-manhattan.com

Subject: RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND 26/02/-28/02/10

Hi Sadie,

 I attended the recent residential weekend and I feel that I really must express my gratitude to Gerard and all at Noble Manhattan for the hard work that went in to making it an enormous success.

From the very first day when I stepped into the training room, I felt like I was transported back to my childhood, the happiest period of my life. All the wonderful memories of love, care, attention, joy and laughter were bursting out from inside, so much so, that I was struggling to contain them.

 The entire three day training course was packaged and delivered, with such thought, care, attention to details and to the needs of all the students, that it reminded me of my happy childhood.  he select these David, Aina and Cherry did their jobs exceedingly well, from day one right through to day three and the facilitators, John and Chris were right up there with them. They made themselves available, approachable and willing to answer our questions and help us to overcome our anxieties and self doubt. But, most importantly, they were willing to share their knowledge and experience with us. I felt blessed.

 I think that Gerard is an amazing human being. I love his passion, energy, kindness, attention to the smallest detail, his giving nature, but above all, I love his massive heart. He is unique and a great inspiration.

 I made a lot of friends at the residential weekend and I am looking forward to keeping up with them and sharing our experiences for years to come.

 Thank you Noble Manhattan.

  Kindest regards

 Lyn

 This coming Saturday we are doing a one day ” Introduction to Coaching” in London for people who are considering training to be a professional coach and the next day Sunday we are going to be doing a very special day indeed.

A “ Build Your Coaching Practice” one-day training course in London. If anyone is interested in spending Sunday with me and learning the most incredible techniques on how to build your business then just let the Office know 

info@noble-manhattan.com

 or call  01305 769411

 Looking forward to seeing you all soon

Lots of love

Gerard

Writing this from my hotel in Warsaw in Poland.. Had a good meeting today with Lukasz our general manager in Poland.

 It was cold when I arrived at the airport this morning, -6° and has continually got colder throughout the day

.So I did what any good self-respecting life coach would do, I took myself off to my favourite café in Warsaw,

The Karma café just off Konstitution Square and had a couple of hot mulled wines while I read my latest book.

 Come to think of it my meeting today was spent in a nearby Thai restaurant. Does that mean that most of my business life revolves around restaurants and coffee ?? And if it does is that a bad thing ?

It’s snowing outside now, my first snow of the year, in fact it makes it feel just like Christmas. I’m looking out of my hotel room window down the length of Konstitution Square and it looks really lovely and festive with all the Christmas lights.

Tomorrow I’m doing a large introduction to coaching event here in Warsaw, looking forward to it very much.

Noble Press Release

Noble Manhattan the leaders in life coaching and mind shift therapy have launched their operations in Canada on July 4, 2009. A full fledged office was opened in the town of Windsor in Southern Ontario.  Speaking on the launch of the new office, Mr. Gerard O’Donovan the founder and C.E.O. said that Canada offers a unique opportunity to launch specialized programmes in coach training and personal development. He also announced Allan Wilson as Noble Manhattan’s new licensed distributor in Canada.  Allan will be responsible for making the Noble’s coaching programmes popular across different parts of Canada and North America and also managing the operations. The first “Introduction to Coaching” seminar was formally launched to a full house, marking the start of operations. Many questions from aspiring coaches were answered by Mr. O’Donovan who is a leading figure in the field of Executive Coaching and life development.

The Canada office will be staffed by experienced coaches, having many years of experience. Coaches from Noble Manhattan’s UK office will be frequently visiting the new center to share knowledge on the latest programmes. New Executive coaching programmes will also be developed out of the Canadian office.  All the coaches who have joined Noble Manhattan’s operations in Canada are trained as per the company’s training programme for coaches. Mr. O’Donovan has taken personal interest to ensure that all the coaches who operate out of Canada adhere to the highest standards of coaching practices. The first batches of students have already started with their coaching sessions which are being delivered by experienced coaches from UK as well as Canadian coaches.

After the launch in Windsor, Introduction events and Training will be held in different parts of Canada on a monthly basis. The schedule of these trainings will be published in advance. Soon after the launch of operations, there has been a flood of queries from many aspiring coaches across the country. Mr. O’Donovan expressed confidence that executive coaching and life development programmes will have a new definition for the Canadian people. Noble Manhattan as one of the leading coaching organizations continuously researches on developing new programmes which benefit thousands of people across the globe. Investment will be made for improving infrastructure, coach training and in developing high quality coaching programmes. It will help to establish the Noble Manhattan brand in Canada.

Before launching the Canadian operations, a fair amount of research been done to find out the kind of coaching requirements that are most suitable in the country. The programmes being launched are aligned to these requirements but adhering to the high standards of Noble Manhattan. Feedback from coaches and students will also be taken into consideration while launching new programmes.  Certified coaches will be extended all support to launch their independent coaching business. Mr. O’Donovan said that helping coaches start with their own coaching business is one of Noble Manhattan’s milestones.

For more information please contact Noble Manhattan at info@noble-manhattan.com or on 0800 19 10 100

Get Coaching Leads

Noble Manhattan, the recognized leader in life and Executive coach training in the  United Kingdom and Europe has launched a new initiative to help qualified coaches to improve their business.

Gerard O’Donovan the C.E.O. and founder of Noble Manhattan while announcing this new initiative said that not all good coaches can become successful in developing their coaching business.  The initiative taken by Noble Manhattan is a step towards helping trained life and Executive coaches to develop their coaching business.

A key part of this successful programme is a new website, http://www.getcoachingleads.com which will enable people interested in being coached or improving their lives in any way to access 4 incredible reports which help them to understand the power of Coaching.  The reports have a combined value of over $1000.

While downloading the reports they only need to share their contact details and answer few simple questions which will help the Noble Manhattan staff to understand their coaching requirements. This information is shared with the trained coaches who can align themselves to one or more interested people and further discuss coaching requirements.   http://www.getcoachingleads.com has been designed to generate genuine enquiries for trained life coaches. A successful pilot run for the last 1 year has generated over 3700 enquiries from all over the world.

Mr. O’Donovan has also personally trained a team of 12 selected coaches over the past 2 months to help them understand the techniques used to generate these qualified leads.  They have now gone on to achieve a very high level of success using these unique cutting edge techniques.

The lead generation strategy adopted by Noble Manhattan through the new website is not a generic exercise targeting a mass audience.  The campaign has been specifically targeted towards people who are genuinely interested in personal life improvement. They can be people from any profession or industry. What is common among the group is the desire to improve their lives by taking help from professional experienced life coaches who are trained in NLP and many other coaching techniques.

The new initiative was a much publicized affair during which Mr. O’Donovan reiterated his commitment to help trained coaches develop a successful and profitable coaching business.

It is a dual strategy to inform people about the benefits of life coaching and also getting them connected to life coaches. He said that the downloadable life coaching reports are on subjects like “How Coaching Improves Lives”, “How executives use coaching to improve performance”, “The Positive impact of coaching in the corporate world” and “How coaching can be a force for good”.  These comprehensive reports have been developed by experts who have spent many years in the coaching business.

Anyone who downloads and reads these reports will understand the true benefits of life coaching. They can further have a coffee over telephone with a trained life coach or a free 30 minute Coaching session without any obligation to take it further.

This approach to generating leads will focus on a limited group of people. It will help coaches to quickly connect with the group and get their coaching business started very quickly. Mr. O’Donovan said that this program is a win-win proposition for coaches as well as people who are interested in self improvement and building a better life  but were not getting the support to start. He expressed hope that tangible benefits of this initiative will be visible within a short time with many life coaches setting up their own successful life coaching practice.

For more information please contact Noble Manhattan at info@noble-manhattan.com or on 0800 19 10 100

I got back late last night from Eynsham Hall. Where we were running our latest residential coaching programme. There were a total of 38 people on the course from 14 different nationalities. I think that may actually be a record for the number of nationalities on any 1 course . I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the course, meeting all of those wonderful student coaches. Some of them are going to be the so incredibly good when they qualify. It really is a joy and an honour to work with them. Feeling a little bit tired today. Think I’ll take most of the afternoon off may be go for a swim

Latest:  Just signing off on the creation of two new very special coaching aid memoirs. These should really help our coaches when it comes to coaching clients.  It gives all the questions for a whole new coaching model called ” the coaching Circle”

Just got back from Romania yesterday. Had a fantastic time, I have to say the Romanian people are real joy to work with. We spent one day last week training nine new support group leaders, who will now be opening up community coaching support groups in the towns of Brasov, Cluj and the second one in Bucharest.
I also met with Raluca who is the new country head of Romania for the EC I. she is a most remarkable woman and a fantastic coach.
Then on Friday we did a large ” Introduction to Coaching” seminar and workshop with approximately 40 people.
The level of interest in Romania of people who want to train to be great coaches is fantastic. I know that we will be able to help them to achieve their dreams