Is it an impossible dream to have a great job and a rich, fulfilling life without being driven to the point of exhaustion? In this article, ontological leadership coach, wife and mother Lucy Faulconer shares the four key factors to consider if you wish to maintain a high level of performance that keeps you going and allows you to have your cake and eat it too.

Have you driven yourself to the point of exhaustion?

There can be many pitfalls and costs in life should we ignore confronting problems. When life gets too hard, we can't always see or don’t always want to see what we need to do to address the aspects of our life that aren't working for us. In this article, Thrive Ontological Coach and Facilitator Louise Smallwood discusses this issue and how things improve when we shift from being a passenger in life to intentionally looking at and addressing these areas.

Do you look away when life gets too hard?

When times get tough, don’t ignore the problem, give in to the temptation to distract yourself, or blame others for what’s gone wrong. In this article, leadership coach John Williams makes the case for a vision, mission and purpose to keep your motivation strong and rally support around you through the inevitable challenges of aiming high.

How to stay motivated when the going gets tough

Change your relationship with your disability through awareness and discover how to unlock your potential, engage with your ambitions and live your healthiest, most fulfilled life. As someone who has made his own journey from denial to acceptance, Wayne Stickel sheds light on how to come to terms with your disability, discard ways of thinking that no longer serve you, and embark on a pathway from resentment to acceptance.

Accepting your disability and living a fulfilled life

Approaching life from the perspective that you can change and don’t need to be a set way is a powerful shift for leaders and the emerging generation. In this article, ontological coach Lucy Faulconer shows that if you accept what you believe are fixed character traits, you will deny yourself the opportunity to ever transform yourself as a leader or a person of influence.

Want to change your life but feel trapped by your fixed traits?

There are hundreds if not thousands of profiling tools used by coaches worldwide. In this article, John Smallwood, Master Coach and Coach Principal of the Engenesis Coach Academy, explains the value of profiling tools and why he recommends them to coaches and clients alike. He also reveals the profiling tool he chooses to use with every one of his clients and five key benefits it delivers.

Why use a profiling tool as a coach?

Do you perceive vulnerability to be a weakness or a strength? If you answer the former, you are not alone, particularly among men but also among a growing number of women. In this article, John Williams, an experienced ontological leadership coach, explores the relationship between vulnerability and risk-taking. He also exposes some of the lesser-discussed facets of vulnerability that might be playing a role in your life or work, perhaps even without you knowing it.

The critical relationship between vulnerability and how to take risks

No matter if we are just starting to coach, are established or a seasoned expert in coaching, several key questions always occur: “What is unique about my coaching?” What makes me standout in the market of coaching? In this article Markus Ottomar Winzer, leadership coach and Being Profile Accredited Practitioner and Facilitator explores on what makes enables us in the coaching industry to provide a unique differentiator and how you can differentiate in a seemingly crowded market.

How to stand out in the crowded coaching and consulting market

As a manager or business leader, your role is to lead your people and teams to produce and deliver their work effectively and on time. Although you might manage this effectively, do you ever get so caught up in the daily grind of deadlines and people and project management that you lack the time and energy to reflect on where you want to take your career? On the one hand, you might be disillusioned about your future as a leader; on the other, you feel a constant push to do more. In this case stu...

How coaching helped this seasoned professional transform to become a better manager, mentor and leader

Have you ever completed a profiling questionnaire or test and wondered why you bothered? If so, you’re not alone. That’s because most tests today attempt to categorise us, slotting us into neat little ‘boxes’ as though we are fixed objects, not human beings with the capacity to transform. Is it any wonder people are left disillusioned with such tools? In this article, Lucy Faulconer, who is the General Manager – Being Profile®, a leadership coach and an organisational psychologist, sh...

Why do people choose to become Being Profile Accredited Practitioners?

It is natural to want to understand why you are the way you are. But once you have that insight, what can you do about it if you discover areas that aren’t serving you? Traditional theories and approaches suggest that you learn how to manage your fixed traits or set short-term action plans to change certain habits or behaviours. In this article, Lucy Faulconer, General Manager – Being Profile®, a leadership coach and an organisational psychologist, reveals how she and many other coaches, le...

How the Being Profile facilitates our ability to transform

Many people like the idea of becoming a coach and dive in without considering why they want to pursue professional coaching and what it takes to create a successful coaching business. Many also don’t have an authentic understanding of what it means to be a professional coach. As General Manager of the Being Profile®, Lucy Faulconer leads a global community of coaches and has the opportunity to hear the stories behind why they chose to become a coach. In this article, she shares some of those ...