About Frances Coombes

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Frances Coombes is a Performance Enhancement Trainer in the fields of motivation, creativity and lateral thinking, personal development and employment. She runs courses on using NLP techniques, in Education and at Work, at the Mary Ward Centre and City Lit in Central London and is an independent workforce trainer in communications, negotiations, confidence building and creativity and lateral thinking skills. Her latest book is, Motivate Yourself and Reach Your Goals, published, May 2010, by Hodder Headline in the 'Teach Yourself' series. To read an extract visit www.francescoombes.com To find out more about personal development course dates and workplace trainings please contact Frances on Tel: 020 7609 1617; info@francescoombes.com
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Articles by Frances Coombes

  1. 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 s...

  2. Success Strategies that Work

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    This article focuses on success strategies that work, based on NLPs most powerful tool - modelling, such as a practical skill, what to look for in the people who produce successful...

  3. 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 do...

  4. 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 is important for you. The author says our values define who ...

  5. 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 u...

  6. 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 objective...

  7. 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 your plans.

  8. 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. According to the author this cinematic power to run frames of thinking to construct mean...

  9. Mind/Body Talk: NLP Talking Therapies - The Brooklyn Program

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    Many of the basic techniques used in the Brooklyn Program were taken from NLP, therapy tools and strategies developed in the mid-1970 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder who modell...

  10. 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 c...

  11. 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...

  12. 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-bite...

  13. Creativity and Lateral Thinking - Use It or Lose It

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    The author has concerns that in this age of instant knowledge, familiar procedures and so much reliance on computers and the internet, we are replacing absorption of information and...

  14. Anchor Confidence and Build Self-Esteem

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    This article discusses self-esteem

  15. Notice How People Make Decisions

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    The author, a Performance Enhancement Trainer, opines that one of the most useful skills you can develop is that of noticing how people make their decisions. She states that if you ...

  16. NLP and Peak Performance

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    Motivation and peal performance come from knowing what you want to achieve in life.

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