So now I’m a certified NLP practitioner, my next step to who knows where is a coaching qualification. I start in a couple of weeks and I’ll be doing a Level 7 Diploma in Leadership Mentoring and Executive Coaching. Level 7 what you ask? Well Level 7 of the UK National Qualification Framework, which means it’s a Masters level qualification in coaching. It’s going to be hard work and I will have to put a lot of coaching hours in, but it will be worth it, and hey you can never have too many Masters’ qualifications, can you?
How? Hmm yes interesting one that, because although I have an idea where this will take me, it’s not set in stone, as a minimum it will make me a better boss, and if \ when I go it alone it makes me a hireable executive coach. I used my Jedi mind tricks to get the company to pay and support the course so it will also be a valuable distraction from my day job.
I’m really looking forward to the course, it’s not particularly NLP, although there will be some aspects to it, this is more about learning a framework within which I can work with people to help them enhance their performance, identify areas for improvement and make positive change in their professional and personal lives. I hope that it will give me more tools in my toolbox to go with all the whizz-bang NLP stuff like phobia and compulsion cures that are so much fun.
The other thing I’m looking forward to is meeting some new people with similar views and ambitions. The NLP Prac was a real eye opener for me, because the nature of the course was working together to support personal change, I went through some quite personal journeys with (initially at least) complete strangers on that course, and I feel I’ve made some very good friends, and although the course has only been finished for a month, I’m already missing their company and the thought that I won’t see them all on a monthly basis. I don’t expect this course to be quite so ‘connecting’ but I’m open to meeting and learning from a new group of people.. increasingly I find that the courses I attend are less about the content and more about how I can enrich my map of the world by meeting more interesting people and learning from their life experiences.
Whoa that got a little open and trippy towards the end. Think I had better get a cup of British tea down me and stiffen my upper lip before I run out of my office and hug someone…
