I got back very late last night, almost midnight from a most wonderful and educational three-day trip to Poland.
I’ve spent the last three days with the Board of Directors of one of the biggest and most respected business development Institutes in the whole of Europe.
In particular I was working with the PhDs in charge of their research department.

It’s interesting that in the world of coaching although there have been a number of studies done on the effectiveness of coaching and measuring elements of ROI ( Return on investment), I have never been overly impressed with the quality of that work.

I am delighted to say that I have now come to an agreement with this prestigious organisation, their research department is now going to work very closely with Noble Manhattan coaching worldwide, conducting a number of very sophisticated in-depth research programmes into how effective coaching is

• With Executives
• With Teams
• Within Divisions
• and within corporations as a whole

The investment is going to be quite substantial, however I feel that it will really be worth it in the long term.I think we will be able to provide the world of coaching with outstanding results showing just how effective coaching can be.

Here below is a short video I took just outside the Institute:

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.

In fact one of the most hectic times in the last year. I am currently at the residential training course at Eynsham Hall near Oxford .(http://www.eynshamhall.com/)  

We have fantastic men and women who have flown in from all over the world, Deborah from Canada Lavinia from Romania, Monica from the south of France,Lukasz from Warsaw in Poland to name just a small few.

As well as our intensive coaching residential program we also have a large exhibition happening at the Olympia in London being run by Emma and her team

while at the same time Vali and her team are running a five day exhibition in Bucharest.

The head office team are also preparing for our five day exhibition in Orlando in Florida which starts the day after tomorrow so I have to fly over early tomorrow morning with Gordon and Christopher and others to oversee that.

I have to say though that I am really looking forward to it. I am bringing my family with me so that we can also have some holiday time together and possibly go to Disney World etc.