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About Frances Coombes

Frances Coombes is a NLP Master Practitioner, Performance Enhancement Coach and expert journalist in the fields of motivation and employment. She runs NLP courses at the Mary Ward Centre and City Lit in Central London on NLP in the Workplace and other NLP subjects and is an independent workforce trainer. Her book Get Motivated and Reach your Goals, will be launched in May 2010. To find out more about NLP course dates please contact Frances on Tel: 0207 609 1617; info@francescoombes.com   www.francescoombes.com


Articles by Frances Coombes

  • Creating the Circumstances for Success
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    In this article the author suggests ways in which we can create success in our lives and achieve our goals. She stresses the importance of being finely-tuned to our feelings, and doing things in a very specific way in order to create magical results.

  • Developing Mental Muscle
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    The author points out that we are very much influenced in the ways that we think and communicate by the use of computers, managing our time in chunks and conversations in sound-bites. Knowledge is obtained and tested through questionnaires and tick-boxes, all of which tends to limit us to analytical and process type thinking, limiting creativity and exploration of other possibilities.

  • Does Changing Pictures Motivate You?
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    In this column, the author, an NLP Master Practitioner and Performance Enhancement Coach, presents a case to demonstrating how she motivated a client into doing something she felt unmotivated to do.

  • Intuition at Work
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    This article focuses on intuition, which can be complementary, providing leaps of imagination, gut feelings or flashes of insight into strategies and timing of actions. The author says successful negotiators, like American multimillionaire hotel owner Donald Trump, who tend to weigh situations logically, also listen to their hunches.

  • Mind/Body Talk: NLP as 'Software for the Brain' - Chunking
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    The author expands the subject of chunking, a relatively straightforward concept taught in NLP training, and shows how it can lead to very powerful interventions in the context of coaching, negotiating, team-building, problem solving.  We all memorize long sequences of digits – phone numbers – by chunking them into small groups.

  • Mind/Body Talk: NLP Talking Therapies - The Brooklyn Program
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    The program is unique because it is non-confrontational and non-directive. Instead of addressing the problem behaviours the program at first helps participants to learn new skills.

  • Motivation and Personal Mastery
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    In this column on Motivation and Personal Mastery, the author says many of us have problems in this area because of the tendency to move through life with a few goals and objectives but without a real sense of purpose. 

  • NLP and Confidence Building
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    This article points out that lack of confidence comes from negative beliefs which we have often formed in childhood as a result of experiences at home or in school. The author takes the reader, step by step, through the NLP process of anchoring a resourceful state, practising keeping that feeling with us, and also keeping that feeling as we inspire ourselves with images of successfully attaining our goals, creating strong motivation to strive towards those goals.

  • Success Strategies that Work
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    This article focuses on success strategies that work, based on NLP’s most powerful tool ‘modelling’, such as a practical skill, what to look for in  the people who produce successful results and how to go about replicating their actions.

  • The Power of Pre-Supposing
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    This column focuses on our mental pictures and beliefs and how they work for and against us. She examines the value of knowing how we think and provides an exercise to help us identify which of our beliefs support us.

  • Tips for Staying Motivated
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    In this column the author provides some useful tips on how to stay motivated when working for oneself, or when things are not going according to one’s plans.

  • When Did You Last Check Your Values?
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    This column focuses on the importance of Personal Values, how it differs from Beliefs and how to use them to decide what’s important for you.

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