Coaching circa 21st century

The worlds of sports and business often borrow practices from each other to enhance their skills. Sports metaphors and lessons in dedication and perseverance often make great training material in corporate seminars and team-building camps. Meanwhile, measuring increments in or improvement and setting goals transcend corporate planning and seep into coaching programs for the playing field. The two worlds, it seems, are inescapably intertwined.

In the past 30 years, training has been discovered to be one of the keys to enhanced performance. But more recent data show that its value to a person, sports team, business or company can be multiplied by the right type of coaching. Harvard Business Review revealed that although training can increase employee productivity by 26 percent, with coaching, productivity increases by 88 percent. But since hiring outside coaches can be quite prohibitive in terms of cost and feasibility, the next question is how to make the leaders within the group more effective as coaches themselves.

This month, the creator of a new trend in coaching will be coming to the Philippines. Dr. L. Michael Hall, founder of Meta-Coaching and Neuro-Semantics, will be conducting a two-day Group and Team Coaching Workshop (GTCW, named after his book of the same title) at the Ilustrata Residence events venue along Boni Serrano Avenue on Jan. 21 and 22. Hall is coming off a highly successful training in Hong Kong last December, and is teaching in the Philippines on the invitation of a handful of visionary Filipinos who have experienced his breakthrough leadership training overseas.

Hall is the founder of International Society of Neuro-Semantics and the Meta-Coaching Foundation. Their website declares “Neuro-Semantics enables you to win the inner game so you can achieve peak performance in your outer games of everyday life.” The Institute has branches in more than 40 countries, and is rapidly expanding.

Hall, who started out as a psychologist, is the author of at least 50 books on leadership, coaching, communication, relationships, human excellence, emotional intelligence, fitness, wealth, and self-actualization psychology. He teaches individuals and companies to add meaning to what they do, and therefore give themselves additional fuel and momentum for what they face in their lives. His GTCW will teach groups how to align their team members towards achieving high level goals, reduce interpersonal conflict, and raise the members’ quality of engagement and ownership of results.

Hall builds on ground-breaking discoveries in the cognitive-behavioral sciences, neurolinguistic programming, and Neuro-Semantics. He also has programs for giving presentations and improving personal skills as a tainor. His training is known to provide immediate feedback in real-time that you can use to shape your platform skills and take them to a new level. This is what sets Hall apart. Whereas other coaching may deal with emotional concerns and vague concepts, Meta-Coaching’s hallmark is its precision. Every step of the way, you have a measure of where you are and how well you are doing. Your performance and improvement can’t be faked or fudged. That kind of discipline would be especially helpful not only to corporations, but even sports teams, where statistics never lie.

The other signature of Meta-Coaching and Neuro-Semantics is the enduring effect it has on teams and organizations. In the decades he has been teaching, Hall’s track record has been remarkable, and his teachings have left sustained improvement on his students and coaches, as well.

Dr. Hall will also hold a by-invitation-only dinner on Jan. 21. Workshop participants will be given a discount to the dinner, where Hall will elaborate on Neuro-Semantics. Interested parties may contact +63920-9502863 or [email protected].

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World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els has signed a multi-year contract with Adams Golf, maker of the most commonly used hybrids on the PGA Tour for the last six years. 

“The Big Easy” has won two US Open and two Open Championship titles. His 70 professional global victories include two World Golf Championships and a record seven World Match Play Championship crowns. The former world No.1 has won in tournaments in South Africa, Europe, the United States, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Els said he was looking for a partner who valued innovation in golf equipment.

Adams manufactured 37 percent of all hybrids in play in 2013, topping the Champions Tour count each of the last nine years and ranking as the most-played hybrids on the Web.com Tour since 2006. Adams also earned top billing on the European Tour for the first time and won the LPGA Tour season hybrid count.