Melissa Hammond Information

"Your future begins today"

What is Life Coaching?

Life Coaching focuses on the present and the future and helps you determine, achieve and sustain your personal goals. Life Coaching helps you manifest abundance in your life.

Wanting to make a change or changes in your life is important, but there is no substitute for action. Life Coaching helps you to establish and acknowledge what you want and then put this into practice using practical actions, steps by step, creating a natural rhythm of change.

You will discover:

• What you want to change

• What attitudes are holding you back

• What it will cost you to try to make these changes

• What it will cost you if you do not try

• How your life will be improved if you make the changes

• What you will need to do to make these changes happen and move forward

How does Life Coaching work?

Life Coaching is not about me giving you the answers to a more fulfilling life. We work together to ensure your success. During our sessions we will explore the issues which you may perceive as difficulties and which are preventing you from achieving your goals. I will encourage you to find your own solutions. A Coaching session can be carried out either over the telephone or in person. Both prove very successful. I also offer unlimited email support.

How does Life Coaching differ from counselling?

Life Coaching looks forward from where you are now. Together we set goals for a more fulfilling future and put steps in place to help you achieve them. Counselling involves understanding your past. Although example situations from the past will often be relevant in Coaching, we do not analyse the past for any length of time. We focus on the present and the future.

Life Coaching to Promote Personal Development

We will work together to establish beliefs or obstacles which you may feel are preventing you from creating a positive direction in life.

The areas of personal development may include:

• Self image

• Self esteem

• Confidence

• Fear of failure

• Fear of success

• Fear of change

• Stress

• Anxiety

• Obsessive thoughts

• Negative patterns of behaviour

Life Coaching for Professional Development

Professional coaching involves us identifying your strengths, barriers, perceptions, options, interests and goals. We can then develop strategies which will enable you to confidently make choices, set goals and achieve them.

I can provide individual or corporate coaching which can help you to:

• Assess your current situation

• Identify realistic goals

• Acknowledge potential hurdles and challenges and how best to overcome them

• Identify anxieties and fear

• Prioritise short, medium and long term goals

• Feel positive about taking up a challenge

• Learn and adopt stress management techniques

• Feel confident in interview and presentations

• Learn to be more assertive

• Improve time management

• Improve communication skills

• Create a healthy work/life balance

Life Coaching for Health & Wellbeing

Most of us aspire to making healthy lifestyle choices in order to lead a balanced and fulfilled life. These choices usually include eating a good diet, maintaining a healthy weight, quitting smoking, moderating alcohol intake, taking exercise and understanding how to deal with stress. Some or indeed all of these lifestyle choices and changes may be difficult to make.

It may be good to ask yourself the following questions.

Do you want to:

• Improve your general health?

• Identify ways to change your life for the better?

• Commit yourself to these lifestyle choices and changes?

• Tackle a weight problem or eating disorder?

• Improve your energy levels and boost your immune system?

• Learn methods of relaxation?

Life Coaching for Relationships

Do you regard your relationships as problematic or a struggle? Relationship coaching can be on an individual basis or as partners, whichever is desired or feels most comfortable.

If this is the case, life coaching can help you to:

• Establish more positive beliefs about yourself and what you deserve in a relationship

• Discover the person you want to be in a relationship

• Become more empowered and confident in order to attract the relationship you want and deserve

• Remove destructive patterns of behaviour and so attract you to successful relationships

Business and Executive Coaching
I will work with you to develop a bespoke and flexible package to meet the needs of your organisation.
The coaching areas would include: team building; performance management; communication skills, leadership skills and the successful management of change.

Depending on the requirements I use workshops, one-to-one coaching and telephone coaching. I also provide unlimited post-programme email support.
Business and Executive Coaching can help to:-

• Reduce stress related sickness and absenteeism

• Reduce staff turnover

• Improve management and leadership skills

• Increase productivity through improved morale and attitude to work

• Create a happier work environment

• Reduce complaints from clients/customers

I can provide your staff with guidance and professional careers support, as well as advice on writing CVs, interview techniques, searching for jobs, identifying transferable skills and careers advice/coaching

Redundancy Support

I offer an in-house coaching programme which can help alleviate the stress on all parties during the processes of redundancy decision making, making employees redundant, and supporting and managing employees following the announcement of their redundancy.

It is fully appreciated that redundancy has numerous negative effects, not only on an individual, but also on a department of a business as a whole