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Executive Coaching Approaches to Politics. Make the Misery, Torment and Despair of Losing - your constant companion, colleague, ally, associate and coach.

Project Management Approaches for Executives using the medium of Executive Coaching. Project Management has its own set of strong principles and various schools of practice built up over a number of years. Similarly for executive coaching but much less so. An Executive Coaching session that focuses on not just business strategy but the implementing of these strategic and business related approaches using the principles of project management closes the circle. There are some other benefits of this approach to Executive Coaching (see below).

Are life coaching or executive coaching fees tax deductible? This is the Australian experience. My comments from a life and executive coaching perspective rather than from a taxation consultant perspective (which I am not). It seems to make a connection between executive coaching (as an enabler?) and project management (as the doing?) for some reason.

Words of Wisdom 4U. A collection of motivational thoughts,stories,quotes and poems!

Coaching Expectations. There are or should be expectations set in a coaching relationship and they should be set early in that relationship. But is that necessarily true? A convincing argument can be made for the opposite. In a coaching relationship there are no nor should there be expectations set.

Coaching and Fear. Fear is a paradoxical subject with immense contrasts. The nature of fear or is it the fear of nature? It is in our evolutionary makeup to fear so why is it such a problem in coaching?

Difference between mentor and coach. Is a coach also a mentor? Is a mentor also a coach? Are they separate approaches? Used in different contexts? Some food for thought.

Virgin Atlantic Offers Upper Class Passengers the Feel Good Factor. Virgin Atlantic is offering its upper class passengers life coaching. Great innovative use of life coaching. But you don't have to pay first class fares to talk to a first class life coach. This web site is all the great life coach you need written in easy to use style with lots of tips and techniques.

Life Coaching Fundamentals and the Retreat from the service excess. Once you remove the "in" element of any service such as a mobile phone (call it vogue or fashion or must have) - you remove 80% of the cost of anything and are left with the 20% of the value to you. So the question is should you pay $100 for something where the value to you is only $20. Evidently no but there are other factors at play as discussed. Once you pare down the value of anything (to you) down to 20% of its cost you are one step closer to realising a more productive use of your time and money.

Life and Executive Coaching Search Terms. An occasional review of search terms used to find this web site.

Professional Support Group for Unemployed Professionals. Gilbert Labour, a Life and Executive Coach based in Sydney, Australia announces a support group for unemployed professionals.

Annihilation of Creativity or the Tyranny of 100,000 Spreadsheets. A white paper outline that advocates selective roll-back of IT outsourcing deals world wide to deal with the problem of sparking, identifying, fostering, mentoring and coaching for creative outcomes in large organisations. Creating an internal group with its own superlative IT&T capability, creative geniuses and product driven zealots is a development in the right direction. Outsourcing of the IT&T capability in this instance is the death knell of product and service focused creativity.

Static v Dynamic Goals. Is there a difference? Does it matter? Are goals the enemy? Are we fixated too much on them especially life coaches? Should there be goal-less life coaching? Can life coaching be purely defensive?

Life Coaching cannot commence if any aspect of your life is out of control. Keys to stabilising your situation. Accept that no learning takes place unless the pain of failure is intense, immense, unrelenting, strongly negating self worth and deeply disturbing. It must be a strong spur to humility. Without these elements it will just wash off.

Losing Weight Gilbert Labour Style. A kernel of truth buried inside a piece of fun.

Turning Dreams and Visions into Reality. How to turn a 35,000 feet dream into reality using the glue of everyday life. An intelligent approach using life coaching to work with the day to day and the routine to make dreams come true.

Review Centre Read my review of my stay in about the cheapest hotel in Mauritius (Le Capitaine Hotel in Baie Du Tombeau). Write to the owner direct and save broker fees.

Disaster at some point in our life is predictable, inevitable even but is it preventable?. Can we make it through life without any disasters? Perhaps we can say here that you have not lived if you have not made catastrophic mistakes. But do you need to stop to live to prevent yourself from making at least one catastrophic mistake in your life. Most people repeat the same mistakes multiple times before they learn.

Birthday, Wedding, New Birth or Engagement Gift. Guess which Australian born girl received intensive life coaching to prepare her for a royal life? Give the gift of a better life - Give the gift of one month's intensive life coaching. This will turn around your recipient's life for the better and it will directly/indirectly better and benefit yours. Is someone you know going through a particularly painful and difficult relationship breakup or separation? Give them the gift of understanding and salvation. Purchase a Life Coaching Gift Certificate for someone special or a special someone.

A review of the key search terms used by people seeking life and executive coaching services, advice and products. For example, executive media coaching (I think this is about coaching company executives how to work with and use the media effectively or something like that. I think this is a bit misguided as the media is its own untamed beast and no executive no matter who can tame it or use it unless of course they own the media source itself! QED) I don't as much use or tame the press as work with it to produce stories that have a hook (I have three examples of this in Australian media).

Executive Coaching is more than brilliance it requires emotional stability and strength. If you keep sending a good car on a road and it repeatedly falls into pot holes do you blame the car or the road? When you stop blaming the car and take ownership of the road, you're on your way to understanding what it takes to be a brilliant and emotionally strong Executive Coach.

Literals --->>> Analogists --->>> Alliterationists --->>> Metamorphists --->>> Mixed Metamorphists --->>> Poets --->>> Geniuses --->>> God. A great coach has an instinctive feel for this classification and a deep understanding of each of these types and how to use this knowledge to achieve outstanding coaching outcomes in the shortest period of time. A coach can teach rapidly by cutting out the inconsequential. Knowing the difference between the inconsequential and the consequential takes a great coach of infinite power combined with subtlety and humility.

Coaching is an act of pure love. A great coach has a certain ethereal quality that is a sum of all the qualities outlined here. What this sum looks like, feels like to an outsider is like being touched by a god.

Abdication of the Heart. Giving oneself totally to someone else, is it an act of self-less generosity or recklessly irresponsible of one's own safety?

World Make Your Own Burger Day Press Release. A moment fixed in time where our thoughts and actions come together.

How to reconcile your life balance sheet. What are you balancing? On which side do each belong? What value do they have? When do you do it? Who does it with you? What can you expect out of it?

WHERE IS THE SANITY IN THIS-THE WORLD WONDERS An Open Letter to Vladamir Putin. This is no longer about a war between the opposing forces. This is about two peoples that need to come together to resolve the situation. The people must be given the right to speak as they are the ones doing the suffering here. Russian leaders have a habit of making their own peoples suffer now has come the time to disengage the apparatus of force and begin to create a climate of dialogue, friendship and frankness. Call To Action. I intend to make 3 October 2004 World Make Your Own Burger Day. On that day make your own burger and the money you save between the burger you make (say for 50 cents) and for which you can buy it (say $3) donate to your favorite children's charity and if you so wish advise them to donate your contribution to the children victims of the 3 September 2004 hostage incident. Don't know how to make your own burger? Here is my favourite recipe.

A partnership is the toughest form of co-operation between two people to make work. Why? Read on.

Reasons for the Poor Performance of the Group in Executive Retreat Programs. The group dynamic is a powerful force if harnessed and controlled but it can go awfully wrong when you consider that in a group of executives you will have all types of personalities that each possesses every other's self-destruct button. This is the price for raw power. Part of an executive coaching study running in the Portal.

What is the difference between power and influence? Influence is the earned right to make changes in your life and the privilege and natural invitation to make changes in the life of others. But there is no influence without power and no power without influence. Influence is a very delicate thing built on solid bedrock.

Advertise on my Web Site. If you want to advertise on my web site, please drop me a line. Your advertisement should preferably be a banner that changes with time, is interesting/entertaining and advertises your brand.

Do ethics matter?. Letter to web statistic company placing ads from major corporates on my small business web site. WHY WHY WHY. Why are you running ads from major corporates on my one person small business web site where I am seen to be tacitly supporting them? I am sure these billion dollar businesses would not be supporting me for free so why am I supporting them for free? In life there must be a two-way exchange of goodness. It is only just, fair and equitable.

Ginger to Garlic. "Great life coaches are born into families that have a wonderfully rich and caring emotional life. Gilbert Labour." I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion, or which planet you happen to live on, But I couldn't disagree with you more. Ginger. Follow this link for my response to Ginger.

Every Othello has his Desdemona. What makes this situation tragic is that the seeds of the destruction are derived from the protagonist himself. Danton's arrogance and popularity/charisma made him dangerous to Robespierre who had him executed.

Business as Art. You may not associate business and the art of writing together but the connection between great poetry, prose, aphorisms and a business letter is seminal. This is especially so if the letter is to the CEO or MD or Director of a large company. This is an example of such a letter written to the Chairman of a large company which has undergone 117 iterations to get it perfect. The work/art involved in creating/crafting/perfecting such a letter is part of an executive coaching study running in the Portal. Update: This example has finally been perfected and sent after iteration 138. Part of the process involved in great work/art is letting it go.

Southern Africa Soccer Development Program (SASDP). A program for exceptionally talented but troubled young soccer players between the ages of 16 and 18. Apply in person to get into the program. It combines financial and life coaching support in one support and development program to get your brilliant soccer career back on track.

What are you looking for? Perhaps a better question is what might you find here? Advice to turn your life around, salvation, forgiveness, moving forward after being blocked for 10 years. I think that's overestimating the impact of a web site but you can find here some of the reasons why people think they want to come here. This is based on an analysis of the search terms used to find this web site. As this web site is rated No. 1 in www.google.com currently for the words Life and Executive Coaching I thought this was a relevant bit of neighbour navel gazing and fun.

Tips to prepare an executive coaching proposal for a Small to Medium Business (SMB) Owner. What are the keys to preparing a killer, devastating and incredibly compelling executive coaching proposal for a small to medium business owner? If you want a Mt Everest like executive coaching challenge this is it. A executive coaching study running in the Portal.

Realistic Life Coaching Expectations. You have to come to life coaching with realistic and achievable expectations based on your personal achievements to date, your capacity and capability even considering its untapped potential and what your innate physical, intellectual and spiritual gifts are. Life coaching excels at working with raw material and fashioning excellence out of exceptional raw material and just sheer hard work. It cannot create if there is nothing there to create with, it cannot work if there is nothing there to work with and it cannot excel when there is no untapped potential there to excel.

The Wrong Journey. When you're in the wrong job, wrong relationship, wrong house and wrong support structure with no mentors or coaches and relying on alcohol and illicit drugs then you're a lone traveler in a endless land. A life coaching study running in the Portal.

The Almost Impossible. If you feel you have no clear goals in your life and you feel your life stagnating there is only one way to get you moving again and that is to make a list of the Top 20 Almost Impossible the top 20 things you find almost impossible to do. There is nothing like giving yourself a target to get you moving again. A life coaching study running in the Portal.

Corporate Survival Kit, an Executive Coaching Journey. A free course and program running from the Portal covering the essential requirements for surviving and indeed thriving in the corporate environment. An executive coaching study running in the Portal. This covers understanding when you're in above your head and how to get out and start thriving.

What is a business coach?. People visiting my web site are often asking this question. A business coach works with the front line staff and managers to improve the way they interface to their stakeholders, primarily their customers and the way they do business in terms of their culture and approach. Their reputation matters and improving it is critical to future goals such as increasing market share, developing innovative quality products and services more cheaply and quickly and then delivering those product and services even cheaper still.

What is the current capability and reach of this life coaching business? It goes without saying that this web site is probably the most useful life coaching web site in the world in that it not only provides the usual information about life coaching services and products but it is a guide in a self-help fashion for people willing to spend the time researching the information on this web site (400+ pages) pertaining to the service itself and service delivery. This web site can be used to coach oneself.

Outsourcing of personal services for busy executives. We will act as the single point of contact (SPOC) to all your third party personal service providers and provide coordination and administration services.

Anatomy of Failure. What are the characteristics of failure and indeed its corollary success? To know Cain is to know Able. Do you believe you know it all in your line of business or in your life. If so, then you're heading for a future catastrophe. Humility is so hard to be but essential for those who have a lot to be humble about. That is most of us.

Memo to Person in Florida, Boca Raton, United States. Using the search terms Easy Ways to End Your Life in www.google.com. STOP. THINK. REFLECT. DO NOT ACT. Follow this link for further advice.

Current problems are only past problems deferred. Future problems are merely current problems deferred. There is no reason to consult a life coach if you have no intention of doing anything about your current situation or your life in general especially if you are perfectly happy being in your current comfort/discomfort zone.

Life Coaches are Management Consultants of the Mind. A life coach is paid by the hour and each hour charged must be seen by the client to be an effective use of their resources. There are many alternative uses a client can put his money towards and for life coaching to be up there as a choice perhaps even the no.1 choice some of the time and relevant at all times takes a great life coach to quickly articulate for someone the return on investment (ROI) of an investment in life coaching.

Coaching Vision and Mission Statement. What are our aims and goals? How do we propose to achieve these? The vision of Tarmace Pty Ltd is to be a world thought leader in life and executive coaching principles, approaches, practices, methods, tools and techniques. It aims to do this by using this web site as an enabler of thought and discussion about life and executive coaching.

Free Life Coaching Session on ICQ. This particular ICQ session is a general forum that anyone in the world can attend and ask questions about life coaching, executive coaching and becoming a life and executive coach. It will last for one hour and will take place Tuesday and Thursday AEST 10:00pm - 11:00pm. Please invite yourself to ICQ# 671412. It's that simple. Follow this link to find out what time that is in your part of the world.

Technology and Life Coaching - A Synergy?. Does technology usage make sense? In coaching situations? In coaching support situations? Is the use of video conferencing, video phones, SMS gateways, WIFI hotspots and wireless technology generally applicable in a coaching situation?

Executive Coaching For Politicians. Politicians recognise and realise that the way to the top is lined with many dead bodies, some of their own doing. But intelligent politicians realise that having on board their campaign, their camp, their ministry a highly intelligent and practical Executive Coach could meaning getting to the top quicker, with less (though still some) dead bodies and with more alliances and associations intact. A crucial advantage in the political numbers game.

Successful Executives Kill Themselves. I have known of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in the eighties weighed down with four or five suitcases of files and associated work and readings on their way home every night and more on the weekends. This particular CEO I have in mind actually died of cancer shortly after retiring (which they did earlier on the grounds of ill health). This type of stress is not treated by pills but by fundamental lifestyle changes and choices.

New Life Coaching Service Model - All Inclusive Platinum Service. One new low totally all inclusive monthly fee ($400 AUS) - currently this is $500 AUS. Saving $100 AUS per month. No contracts whatsoever, pay as you go month by month. Start when you want, stop when you want. No questions asked. No need to furnish more than your first name. No notes taken during any sessions and no personal identifying details asked for, required or noted down. Coaching can take place exclusively by phone and/or internet but it is preferred that an initial one on one session take place but this is not essential.

The Primal Fear of Coaching or Living For the Moment. Life and executive coaching is not for those who fear success and succeeding in their own name, in their own right and on their own terms. A fear of success mixed with effective life coaching will drive you insane as a tidal wave meets an immovable object. Coaching is for those individuals who understand their fears will melt away as they approach it and that it only takes a moment longer to hold on to the fear than it takes to let go. It is in that incandescent searing moment that the fear is conquered. It stings for a moment then disappears forever. Are you ready to live for that moment?

The Best Getting Better. Life and executive coaching is about working with people who are the best or consider themselves the best or have expectations they will one day be considered one of the best. I work with these people and make them exceptional, brilliant performers capable of magisterial work of the highest quality and merit. If you are the best or think you can be the best then I would like to hear from you. Whatever your field we can enhance and make you go further and achieve more. There is no limit to your self belief provided it is backed up not just by sheer hard work, for that is merely the minimum price of entry, but if you also have talent and raw potential then you are a prime candidate for high performance coaching.

Life Coaching is a metamorphosis for only the very best current and potential performers. Only the most intelligent and aware people use coaching voluntarily. Are you one of them? Will you make the next six months the most super charged of your life, your body, your relationships, your career, your business, your contribution to society. Are you prepared for life altering change?

Annihilation of Creativity or the Tyranny of 100,000 Spreadsheets. A paper outline that advocates selective roll-back of IT outsourcing deals world wide to deal with the problem of sparking, identifying, fostering, mentoring and coaching for creative outcomes in large organisations. Creativity cannot be created, cannot be mandated, cannot be created by law or statutory authority. The best an organisation can do for creativity is to create the conditions that foster it. Creating an internal group with its own superlative IT&T capability, creative geniuses and product driven zealots is a development in the right direction. Outsourcing of the IT&T capability in this instance is the death knell of product and service focused creativity.

Press Release Preparation for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs). A press release forces you to sit down and formulate exactly what is different, special, interesting or newsworthy about you, your product or service. Unfortunately if you do it, it will either be overblown or understated. To seek help from a PR firm might be overkill. Now there is a much cheaper alternative. Does effective business writing work? Well you're reading this aren't you?

Guidance for Executive Coaches. Situational opportunities and scenario analysis for executive coaching. There are eight (8) presentations altogether. Four scenarios are canvassed and each scenario has two presentations. One to guide the executive coach as he prepares for the coaching session and the other to use, if he so wishes, as the presentation to the client or to guide him as he coaches the client.

Sh_t Happens. Planning to be you. Everything that happens to you is important in understanding your potential, your potential that can be realised, your expected reach and your dream and wish fulfillment. Every intelligent, alive, aware and on the ball person in the world should (and probably already does) have a strategic, tactical and day to day view of themselves, totally integrated into a big picture that makes sense and that they are comfortable with totally in all its aspects.

Great Leaders Born or Made. SOS (Substance over Style) Leadership. What does it take to be a great leader? What is great leadership? What does great leadership require? What does great leadership not require? How does Executive Coaching contribute to identifying and working with potential future great leaders? Leaders in politics, industry, business, the arts, sciences, government, the corporate world, non government organisations, charities. Leaders are everywhere. What makes them so? Is a title just about enough?

An Executive Coach in a company in trouble is an endangered species. How does one go about coaching an executive or even a small business owner in a business that is in trouble? Are there protocols for dealing with out of control and highly stressed individuals (which they normally are in a thriving company) but which danger of the extinction of the company renders more acute.

PMSA 2004 in South Africa. Why am I going to South Africa? I am going to South Africa to introduce a wider audience to my Executive Coaching approaches and also to provide a vote of confidence and support to what is happening in South Africa and the fundamental changes required. An Executive Coach walks the talk and my going to South Africa in the face of comparative danger provides ample evidence of my willingness to work with leaders where required to provide a favourable outcome even in the face of the most difficult circumstances and danger, which is the essence of Sane Project Management (SPM). The purpose of SPM is to introduce change in the most insane and dangerous of environments where corporate madness and out of control organisations thrive over the casualties of intercine warfare.

Three wins from 64 starts is always hard to get enthusiastic about. Not learning from repeated failures. In some cases no matter how prolonged the failure, how prolonged and deep the pain, how abject the failure these is no learning and the same learned catastrophic behavior is repeated over and over again in the faint hope luck that there will be a different outcome this time, it will only take the 65th start for the win to occur. This type of non learning is at the heart of life coaching problems. When these learned failures and required failure behaviours is repeated with no consideration for the multiple failure outcome then the habit becomes entrenched and extremely difficult to target and root out. By the way at its 65th start the horse in question ran 4th. Out of the money and ready for pasture I think at least for a 7 year old horse.

EXECUTIVE COACHING - THE PATH TO EXECUTIVE HEALTH. Solutions for dealing with executive health before it becomes a life and death issue. Corporate death is a type of renewal and manuring of the corporate environment but does it need to be done over your prone and dead body? This is probably the easy part it is the long and lingering death throes within your own self knowing that the outcome is inevitable no matter what you do. It is that realisation of the inevitable consequence once you start a 35,000 feet fall to the bottom that provides the terror component and turns this situation into a one of good v tyranny. This is the modern version of the tyranny of the Committee for Public Safety. Robespierre rides again.

GRIEF DISBELIEF SHOCK PAIN. Dealing with death. Death that affects someone who is key to one's continued happiness survival even. Death that occurs suddenly inexplicably without explanation without a farewell how does one begin the reconciliation process?

USERS OF LIFE COACHING SERVICES. Do you sometimes wonder who uses these services in real life? Do you think people who really need help use these services? Then you would be wrong.

RESTORING EXECUTIVE HEALTH AND SANITY - AN APPROACH. There are no easy answers to restoring and maintaining executive health but this is a theoretical and practical approach to managing and maintaining the health of project managers, one of the most stressed out corporate professions. Please download the presentation and use for your own needs. There is no explanatory text with the presentation but there is a dialogue with some slides.

EXECUTIVE HEALTH & SUCCESS - AN OXYMORON? There are so many people out there who are searching for the executive health nirvana. There is no such magical space. Executive health is not something to be trifled with. Lack of focus on it can cause serious mental and physical illness and can result in death. But is chronic stress the price to pay for continued executive success and achievement?

Welcome Haere mai Bienvenue Willkommen Bienvenidos Benvenuto Kalos orisate Tervetuloa Witajcie. Welcome to all my visitors from around the world especially to the New Zealanders, Australians, English and Canadians. You are most welcome to visit, read and take away any material you like for your own benefit and personal growth. If you are using this material for your work and university studies, please seek my permission for its use.

Goodbye Easter 2004. Now what? Post Easter time is time for a stocktake? Where are we? Is it where we want to be or wanted to be on Jan 1 04? What risks have we taken in the last four months? When was the last time you felt the adrenalin rushing in your body?

Easter Blues. Why is Easter a time of introspection and contemplation sometimes also sadness and depression? How do you conquer the Easter sadness? How does one use the holiday time gainfully to setup for resolution not despair?

Executive Coaching Training Program. Fast Track to Becoming an Executive Coach in 3 Months. If you're already a top corporate performer with line, operational and project management experience matched by training and relevant qualifications you could be on the fast track to becoming one of the world's most in demand professionals right now, a highly paid and in demand, worldwide, Executive Coach.

DEBT COLLECTING or how not to accrue debts your body can't repay. Do you find a rainy Sunday afternoon helpful for introspection? Do you operate sometimes beyond the tolerances of your body? Just to meet a deadline or to just get you over the line? This program understands the aftermath of this type of on the edge behavior and shows you how to not accrue debts your body can't (doesn't want to and shouldn't have to) pay but still get the job done or the goal accomplished.

Next week for discussion in the Portal. These topics will be run in a collaborative fashion using ICQ and MSN Messenger. The age of experience or the experience of age. A discussion of the mechanism behind lessons learnt. When is leaving, walking out, quitting, getting the hell out of there the right thing to do. Stalin worked closely intimately with a number of people then killed them. How to stop those who you have stepped over in order to fulfill your ambition and destiny coming back to haunt your success. How to remove the shadows from your success.

This week for discussion in the Portal. These topics will be run in a collaborative fashion using ICQ and MSN Messenger. Learning to fail rather than failing to learn. Sometimes a failure is more valuable than an uninterrupted period of success. This session will show you how to learn to fail. Program a failure in your life as a valuable learning exercise. Failure is brilliant for those who learn from it. Fail now and never cease to succeed. We also be discussing the Life Coaching Portal as an appliance of the millennium. A plug in plug out solution which allows the client to log in, tune in, get what they want and log out again quickly and with no fuss.

Coaching Services and Products Preparation Session.This session will concentrate on the Life Coaching Portal, the most popular link on this web site containing perhaps 100 links in total. It will also provide general information required to make informed decisions and choices about life and executive coaching sessions, coach selection, program selection and working approaches. It will also discuss logistics of life coaching - the where, when, how and duration of sessions.

Why is executive coaching so sizzling hot right now?.This is the new avant garde for those leaders, executives, elite sports people and politicians of the future who not just want to succeed but who have a burning desire to succeed at whatever cost personally or otherwise. Executive coaching is the performance enhancing drug of the corporate animal. It is the anabolic steroid equivalent for elite corporate performers and just like anabolic steriods it works and works brilliantly. Executive coaches create the pauses just as in a fast piece of music and fills those pauses with self-reflection leading to insights and self knowledge. This combination provides an extremely well targeted success missile. The only question is how to do so safely and avoid a costly reckoning (family, breakdowns, stress, ill health, death) when the music stops.

ONE ON ONE DEDICATED LIFE AND EXECUTIVE MASTERS COACHING PROGRAM. The purpose of this program is to work with future and potential life and executive masters and future outstanding leaders and champions in their own field. The 24 hours of the program (it is assumed 8 hours or so will be devoted to sleep) will consist of intensive executive, life and fitness coaching sessions. Further details are available from the Life Coaching Portal, a one stop journey, arrival and ultimate destination for those seeking flexible and targeted life, mental health, fitness and executive coaching programs.

POWER COACHING PROGRAM. This is a program for those who don't need life coaching not think they don't but categorically know they don't. You could be someone about to make it in politics, business, corporate, government, the arts and sciences, sports, show business, small business, personal relationship, in a non-profit organisation or charity in fact any field or organisation or relationship type at all. The only stipulation for this program is you have to already be on the way there but now need guile and expert guidance. You want to work with the best in life and executive coaching. Don't blow it, most likely you will only get one chance to make it. Once you get there, maximise your time to exploit there. This program will be run from the Portal.

The best Team of People (TOP) Program. What is it? It is an executive coaching program to ultra charge small teams (< 15 people). It provides for executive coaching at a level not normally seen in small to medium organisations (if it is seen at all). The purpose of the program is to work with teams of between 5 and 15 people in an executive coaching context but also providing support in the physical/mental fitness and life coaching area.

Life Coaching v Executive Coaching. Is there any real difference? Should coaches provide advice in low level subject matter areas, such as investments and legal issues, that rightly are not the domain of coaching or life coaches?

555 Program. What is it? A very specific program targeted for an audience that is looking for a multi-faceted coaching program in the areas of fitness, life coaching and executive coaching. This program will be run from the Portal.

What's new? There is so much happening in the coaching world that it's hard to keep pace with all the developments and changes as they affect you. This page tries to make sense of all the happenings from the point of view of the client. It also provides updates about this site, the members only portal and developments in that area and also developments in life and executive coaching specifically being made on this site.

Jamais sans mon coach. Hier réservé aux sportifs de haut niveau, le coaching s’infiltre, aujourd’hui, dans tous les domaines de la société. Après avoir investi le monde de l’entreprise, les coachs envahissent désormais la vie privée de nombreux gens. Mental coach, life coach, family coach, love coach, business coach… l’ère du “Jamais sans mon coach” débarque en le monde francophone. Gilbert Labour est un ambassadeur du "coaching".

LIFE COACHING PORTAL. A totally program driven approach to life and executive coaching. The 300+ pages of advice on this free web has been reduced to a series of collaborative and instructive coaching programs which can be self-paced driven. User name and password required (see below). Further information on how to access the portal is here. For members only, a targeted and direct advice series entitled Executive Coaching Series.

2 Mar 04 Update. Please accept my apologies for the web site being down for the last three days. Problems with firewall, now all fixed hopefully.

The Engagement Model. Need to contact me confidentially and quickly? Get timely advice? Get help now? Please follow the engagement model for how to get in touch with me.

FREE INTRODUCTORY LIFE COACHING SESSION. Are you searching for the next wave? Well it's here, that revolution is life coaching.

Quick and simple start page. Do you want a quick and simplified version of this page and the whole web site supporting it? This page will eventually take over from this page.

Annihilation of Creativity or the Tyranny of 100,000 Spreadsheets. A paper outline that advocates selective roll-back of IT outsourcing deals world wide to deal with the problem of sparking, identifying, fostering, mentoring and coaching for creative outcomes in large organisations. Creativity cannot be created, cannot be mandated, cannot be created by law or statutory authority. The best an organisation can do for creativity is to create the conditions that foster it. Creating an internal group with its own superlative IT&T capability, creative geniuses and product driven zealots is a development in the right direction. Outsourcing of the IT&T capability in this instance is the death knell of product and service focused creativity.

If you only want to buy a life coaching CD product and are not interested in seeing a life coach, then follow this link to buy a CD that is all you need to get started quickly with life coaching. Coach yourself and save immense time and money with a self directed coaching effort.

If you only have 30 seconds to spend looking at this particular site for a Life and Executive Coach.

Latest Media Release - Gilbert Labour, one of Australia'a top life and executive coaches announces revolutionary new life coaching self help product

Transcript of Sydney Daily Telegraph article on Life Coaching featuring interview with Gilbert Labour dated 31 Dec 03. Plus other media engagements.

New Year's Resolutions - Don't leave home without it - essential reading before making and just as quickly breaking New Year's resolutions.

I am a Life and Executive Coach practicing in Sydney, Australia but utilising modern internet technology to service clients in most parts of the world. I offer a broad range of services and a service mix which would suit most people and budgets.

I work with a range of clients at key moments in their lives. These are the products, services and programmes that I offer my clients. A specially tailored programme to meet any other needs and requirements you may have can also be formulated, developed and implemented. This can be executed anywhere in the world you require it.

Products, Services and Programmes

Life and Executive Coaching

  • Benefits for non Australian visitors?. As a result of globalisation the concept of overseas loses a bit of its sting. This web site is universally applicable to any human being in the world without exception.

  • What makes for great memories?. A set of guidelines for guiding the memory function in all of us and reducing the regret factor.

  • What makes for a great relationship?. A set of programs dealing exclusively with creating, shaping, developing, diagnosing, maintaining and mending great relationships.

  • Beating Monday morning blues or is it something else?

  • BEAT EXECUTIVE AND CORPORATE STRESS FAST. A set of programs dealing exclusively with confronting, understanding and eliminating executive stress and any other stress in your life. This program uses a multi threaded approach using life coaching methods, executive coaching methods and proven approaches to creating, promoting and maintaining physical and mental health.

  • Coaching Services and Products Preparation Session for KIWIs.This session will concentrate on the Life Coaching Portal, the most popular link on this web site containing perhaps 100 links in total. It will also provide any information required to make decisions about life and executive coaching sessions, coach selection, program selection and working approaches. A session exclusively for those in New Zealand.

  • A life and executive coaching program for men aged 40 to 55. An extremely vulnerable age, how can you insulate yourself from the ravages of middle age? Is death the only ultimate salvation, the savior or is there a way out before then?

  • 333 Program. What is it? A very specific program, complementary to the 555 Program, targeted for an audience that is looking for a multi-faceted coaching program in the areas of fitness, life coaching and executive coaching. It takes a multi-dimensional view of the person and personal circumstances, the corporate setting and the place of mental and physical fitness in supercharging the overall mix for heightened personal and corporate performance. It is a brilliant program for changing your life and your company in 3 months. It has a number of set goals and these must be achieved for the program to be successfully completed. If you are spending your hard earned money on yourself and your company, you expect yourself and your company to perform and you will be held fully accountable to achievement targets. This is a NO EXCUSES Program for those who will take nothing less than brilliant performance from themselves, their company, colleagues and associates.

  • The Relationship Series Program. What is it? A very specific set of coaching programs that work almost exclusively in the relationship element of life and executive coaching situations. It has a number of complementary programs such as the Executive Coaching Series, Power Coaching Program and the Numbered Series. Learn how to avoid making mistakes (that might rebound on you) when starting, when in and when finishing relationships. There are programs that cater for teenagers seeking direction, for multiple relationships junkies and for those who find relationships a bit too much and have given up albeit they tell themselves temporarily.

  • Employment Agency for Life and Executive Coaches. Providing the best life and executive coaches to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Are you an SME seeking a great life and executive coach? Are you a great life and executive coach seeking interesting and varied assignments with SMEs? Now both requirements can come together with a specialised employment agency specifically for life and executive coaches and solely targeting the small to medium enterprise (SME) space. If you're an SME and require the services of a great life and executive coach, please contact the Tarmace Pty Ltd agency or if you're a professional and experienced life and executive coach, please register for future interesting and varied assignments.

  • Life coaches for high performance sports coaches. Are you a sports coach struggling for the success formula with your team? Does failure make you sick literally? Are you on an emotional roller coaster from week to week. Does relegation and failure strike deep fear into your heart? Are you paralysed with success, with the fear of success? Does success make you nervous? There is a branch of life coaching that works with elite sports coaches to deal with these fears. Try it you have nothing to lose but your illnesses, poor health and approach.

  • Are you a corporate casualty, a corporate zombie? If not now, then shortly? Will your saviors need to mount a full-scale search and rescue mission to recover your corpse buried deep in a corporate dung heap? Are you desperate to come out dead or alive? Is your soul searching not getting you anywhere? What to do? Where to turn to? Is there a quick solution? Are you destined to die slowly in your own maze? Quitting corporate life. What are the keys to successfully leaving a corporate existence and moving on happily to something less stressful? A whole approach in 6 quick steps. Your key to your bliss could positivise your whole outlook.

  • Who are u? Are you looking for the next holy grail in job growth? Something you may be able to exploit now? Are you looking for a personal life charged with providing you with the best work and life opportunities? This page could change your life.

  • What's new on these pages? On life coaching in general? What are the areas I am following in terms of product development, services aggregation and programme focus. What am I learning from my clients? What am I doing for my clients? Insights, thoughts and call to action. This is me at my most informal and casual and I cover just about anything, any topic, any subject, nothing is taboo or sacrosanct, everything is in the pot but the exception for this page is that every item will have a call to action at the end which shows you how to act upon that information, views, ideas and thoughts. I am 45 and have had some tremendous hard lessons to learn and if you're 20 and want to save yourself 25 years of heartache and spending time in the wilderness of the emotions or the vagrancy of life, then have a look.

  • These are the life coaching services and products packages currently available and represent the quickest and easiest way to access life coaching services and products on the net.

  • The No Coach Life Coaching Programme delivered by CD. Do you require life coaching but cannot afford to see a coach or are too afraid to see a coach or do not have enough time to see a coach, there is now a product that provides life coaching without the need to see a coach now or ever. For the price of a CD you can begin your journey into life coaching at your own pace and time. There is no need to confide in anybody, this CD provides you with the necessary start to gain a benefit from life coaching now. There is no need to make any appointments or to see anybody or to talk to anybody. This CD talks straight to you, to your inner self and begins to provide you with the necessary insights to improve your life coaching goals immediately. Further information about this CD is available including price and postage charges.

  • You can download an excerpt from the CD and also preview the track listing of the currently released CD (Volume 1) and also have a look at the Volume 2 track listing, a current work in progress.

  • Are you curious about some of the things covered in a typical life coaching session, indeed the breadth and reach of a programme. I have put together some of the things covered around a hypothetical client, a composite of a number of real clients and people so the basis of the approach is real but doesn't refer to an actual person.

  • Fear of Coaching. Before life and executive coaching can commence you must overcome your fear of working with a relative stranger (at least to begin with) in a part of your life which is very private and intimate to you. It is after all for some people an area of deep fear and regret to be talking about past failures and being unable to achieve at the level they feel their talents deserve. This aspect of coaching, the fear of coaching, needs to be faced and overcome and only then can a rational assessment and decision be made regarding the most suitable coach for you. A good coach covers not only the mechanics of coaching in terms of goals but also the preparation for coaching, of which overcoming the fear of coaching is the start.

  • You may have goals in your personal life and in your work life that have to be achieved and you need help in "getting started" in framing and achieving these goals. Sometimes the key to success is knowing exactly how to start, where to start, with what and how much to do initially? You may need to perform at your peak for a particular occasion or event or you may want to take your life or work performance to another level of achievement.

  • You may have encountered difficulties with goals in your past that prevent you getting started again. You may already be at the peak of your performance, life and goals but looking how to get down from those peaks to something less stressful but as equally fulfilling and satisfying. Life and Executive Coaching can help in all those circumstances and more.

  • People requiring work/life re-balancing (especially those in harsh or punishing corporate regimes) including those considering quitting the corporate treadmill. What are the opportunities out there? How can we identify those and take advantage of them?

  • Professionals requiring a mentor, friend and a confidant who will listen without judgement and offer advice, support and understanding. Professionals - a lot is expected of us. Excellence, service quality and the highest standards of customer service. But what about us? Who cares about us? It can be lonely in your chosen profession.

  • Students who may be just out of school or university, whether having completed their studies successfully or not, and not quite sure where they're going. Their path may have been clear two or three years ago but the world has changed a lot since then.

  • Near retirees (or even people in their 40s) who may be nearing the end of their working life and looking to transition as painlessly as possible to an alternative small business to ramp up as their formal working life comes to an end.

  • If, whatever your situation in life, you believe that there is something better out there for you and you are willing to invest your time, effort and resources to explore that, then I may be able to work with you to flesh out the possibilities/opportunities and help you prepare to face the realities of what is required for success.

  • If you are concerned about body image, then I have a page that provides a life coaching perspective on the popularity of exercise and diet programs to improve and enhance physical and mental well being.

  • People may be in a transitory phase in their lives and know or realise that great change is about to overtake them. This engenders great fear and trepidation. Leaving one's previous life and moving on to the next stage is frightening.

  • Life and Executive Coaching Live In Retreat. This consists of a 5-7 days live in retreat consisting of one on one and group sessions in three distinct but very related streams. These are in the areas of, firstly, Life and Executive Coaching, secondly in Health, Fitness, Exercise, Diet and Body Image and thirdly a Creative Stream, specialising in developing the writing process.

  • Life and Executive Coaching Training Service. A specialised, selective service for training life and executive coaches using the methods outlined here. At any one time, I will train only five people. Once this is closed, I will advise alternatives.

  • Life and Executive Coaching - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). A set of questions and answers that may provide you with some insight into what life and executive coaching may be able to do for you.

  • A Daily Approach to Life and Executive Coaching. A set of daily thoughts and ideas that may point you in the right direction.

    Executive Services for Busy Executives

    Outsourcing of personal services for busy executives

    When life gets too much for busy executives and they begin to suffer from executive stress some prefer to stay in the cauldron but still have their personal affairs and matters in order and up to date. This service is for those busy executives who are still madly trying to climb the corporate ladder, get businesses off the ground and myriad other instances where you're blocked inside an office high-rise and just too busy to do the mundane chores of life.

    Executive Coaching - a specialised application of life coaching for corporate environments

    Project Management and IT Coaching

  • Got an important job interview? Here's a few points to think about. Just a few questions to aver your mind to, not so many answers. They're for you to provide.

  • CIOs, Project Managers and other IT industry professionals requiring understanding, constructive listening, active participation in goal setting and decision making and advanced coaching from an expert in the field. IT professional positions have been disappearing since 2000. Where to from here for those who joined the boom in the 80s and now in 2003 cannot see a way forward in the industry, especially for those in their 40s and 50s.

  • I also provide help and advice in a field I have pioneered and which I call Project Management Coaching. This is a coaching service for project organisations and project managers. I do not provide this service to program managers or managers or supervisors of project managers, as I do not believe there is any use for these people in a sane project organisation.

  • Project Advisory. A regular column devoted to providing fresh approaches and coaching oriented advice to problems in project management in the "people" dimension. They are derived from Sane Project Management (SPM). The 10 Key Decisions Required for Out of Control Projects.

  • I am developing a paper I hope to present to the Project Management South Africa (PMSA) Conference 2004 which has the theme Global Knowledge. The paper will be on the conference topic of The Human Side of Project Management. The paper will be entitled Sane Project Management (SPM) - A Life and Executive Coaching Approach. LATEST NEWS. The paper has been accepted and will be delivered on Day 1 of the Conference 10 May 2004 at 14:00.

  • PM Circle of Friends. An informal gathering of PMs and their partners to discuss the demands of being a project manager (usually without support if the partner is managing the house and kids solo) and the demands of a house person (usually without support if the PM is buried in an out of control project) and trying to find common ground and getting the partners to understand each other's points of view and where they can help each other.

    Subscriber Only Life Coaching Portal

    Please click here for how to access the portal. You will need a user name and password to access the portal which you can get by paying a fee of AU$100 (for three months subscription). The portal will be unique in that it provides a regular and up to date life coaching service for subscribers. The information will be tailored to meet the needs of the clients. The free web site will no longer be updated and will come off the air within the next few months as the portal ramps up and in the meantime will act as a gateway to the portal. If you do have a user name and password access the PORTAL here.

    General Information

  • A life as a work of genius. My father Raymond was a literary giant in Mauritius in the 1960s. Along with Jean-Georges Prosper, Joseph Tsang Mang Kin, Andre Masson, Emanuelle Juste, Edouard Maunick. His work was not about things in particular but the underlying machinations and themes underlying things. The subterranean fabric was his playground and he used himself as the student in the playground. He used his own feelings, past and understandings as a palette from which to extract the universal and transversal in all of us. My father knew de Chazal but his (Raymond's) work is not as structured and technical as de Chazal's. Raymond's work is more about the thoughts and ideas of what matters deeply to most of us. De Chazal does this but hangs it around an almost scientific structure using concepts from science to make his point.

  • All work and no play. If this web site is good brain food well this is the sweet, the desert, the cake.

  • Press Release Preparation for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs). A press release forces you to sit down and formulate exactly what is different, special, interesting or newsworthy about you, your product or service. Unfortunately if you do it, it will either be overblown or understated. To seek help from a PR firm might be overkill. Now there is a much cheaper alternative. Does effective business writing work? Well you're reading this aren't you?

  • IT Consultancy for Small to Medium Enterprises (SME). The traditional office layout and architecture using grids is no more. It is dead and buried as a concept. Consequently technology has to move and keep pace with this concept.

  • House of Vanelli. Home of the world's finest designers and manufacturers of haute couture, hand made and designer shirts and denim products.

  • I also do a small amount of pro-bono work in the area of life coaching. I belong to the Life Coaching Pro Bono Group (LCPBG), a group of life coaches I am putting together to do this type of work for people in need but who may not be able to afford the services of a full fee life coach. We make allowances for your circumstances and also on the understanding that once you're back on your feet, your capacity to contribute to your life coaching will also improve.

    Generally speaking, we will set clear goals, we will put in place plans to attain those goals, we will execute the plan effectively. We will monitor and survey the results and ensure our goals are met. In most cases, we will envelope what we are trying to achieve into a coaching programme.

    I operate flexibly taking into account the needs of the client as we progress with the programme.

    Please call me on my mobile (0409 223 436) for a confidential discussion to begin the journey of self discovery.

    You may prefer to email me your situation and your desired goals. Your details will be kept strictly confidential.

    If you would like to quickly let us know your Life Coaching needs, you can use this form.

    If you'd like to provide feedback, please use this link.

    Linking to My Site - send me details of your URL. Please note I will only link to your site if your site appears on the search engines already. When you send details of your site, please advise which search engines the site appears on. If you do not follow this rule, I will delete your request immediately. Please also no "home business" or no content web sites or those that use those robotised link lists.




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