Cutts & Cons

coach

• noun 1 an instructor or trainer in sport. 2 a tutor who gives private or specialized teaching
• verb train or teach as a coach.

mentor

• noun 1 an experienced and trusted adviser. 2 an experienced person in an organization or institution who trains and counsels new employees or students.
ORIGIN from the name of Mentor, the adviser of the young Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey.

One of the most important qualities of any coach or mentor is experience. Nigel has more than forty years working in, running, and building businesses, large and small. His profound interest in people, empathy rarely found in business and his finely honed professional skills combine to to support you on your path, be it personal or professional.

Nigel’s experience at CEO level in international business means he really understands the daily problems senior management face on all levels. Nigel believes the key to unlocking leadership potential is the power of really listening to one another in order to create space for them to genuinely think for themselves.

No one knows better how to solve a problem or a challenge than the person facing it. Creating the time and space for someone to do that is an incredibly rare and valuable commodity. Nigel combines his skills as a business person with those of a Time to Think Consultant and Coach and allows you, as the client, to form your own opinions, come to your own judgements and take your own actions.

Why not become a senior business leader who discovers the value of Independent Thinking and the potential it has to make a difference in our world?

Counsellor

• noun 1 a person trained to give guidance on personal or psychological problems

Therapy

• noun (pl. therapies) 1 treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder. 2 the treatment of mental or psychological disorders by psychological means.
DERIVATIVES therapist noun.
ORIGIN Greek therapeia ‘healing’, from therapeuein
minister to’.

People come to counselling for many reasons: difficulties and distress, dissatisfaction with life, loss of a sense of direction or purpose are some of them. More specifically these include lack of self esteem, feeling unloved, loss of relationship, loss of a loved one or losing a job or business. Counselling offers a way through such problems by facilitating choice or change, and reducing confusion.

Gilly’s formally gained skills, including those as a grief counsellor and trainer with Cruse, work wonderfully alongside her finely honed intuition. Suspending judgement, she listens deeply and
empathically to her clients thus helping them to see things more clearly or from a different perspective. Through a deepening awareness of the source of their issue they often experience a sense of release and reduction of the associated emotional pain. This in itself restores self-respect, self esteem and creates a feeling of acceptance of who we are. Allowing us to reach our own conclusion and to travel our own path towards understanding ourselves is a vital part of her work.

In being given a safe and secure place to open up to our feelings we can begin to see the patterns in our lives that are holding us back. In Gilly’s safe and experienced hands and heart you will find your own guidance, your own way through to the other side.

Such talents are rare but we always know when we are in the presence of them.

Public

• adjective 1 of, concerning, or available to the people as a whole. • noun 1 (the public) treated as sing. or pl. ordinary people in general; the community. 2 (one’s public) the people who watch or are interested in an artist, writer, or performer.
ORIGIN Latin publicus, blend of poplicus ‘of the people’ and puber ‘adult’.

Speak

• verb (past spoke; past part. spoken) 1 say something. 2 (speak to) talk to in order to advise, pass on information, etc. 3 communicate in or be able to communicate in (a specified language). 4 (speak for) express the views or position of. 5 (speak out/up) express one’s opinions frankly and publicly. 6 make a speech.

When you combine Gilly and Nigel’s coaching, counselling and mentoring skills with public speaking, you get something exceptional. Having mentored many people in this field, including the 2006 and 2007 UK and All Ireland Public Speaking Champion, they are capable of helping anyone lose their fear of something most people rate higher than death itself! In a very short period of time they can help novices become comfortable in front of an audience or hone the skills of more experienced speakers to levels they never dreamt possible.

In the face of delivering a presentation to an audience of several hundred people I was pleased to be able to call on Nigel’s coaching skills in public speaking. He took me to new levels and helped me to have the confidence to deliver a highly technical presentation in a light hearted, easy listening and completely natural way which created a wonderful response from the audience. The skills I have learned can be applied again and again which I am particularly pleased about having now caught the public speaking bug.
Lisanne Mealing. Managing Director. MDM Limited

Nigel’s skill in getting to the root of what really drives a person is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.
Simon Bucknall, 2008 European Champion of Public Speaking

Nigel is for me a guiding light that inspires me to move through the thickest of foggy thoughts with safety, excitement and light heartedness. His ability to coach with love and directness supports people in looking squarely in the eye any issue and taking inspired action. He truly is working in the field
of life dreams.
Jamie Armstrong, Creative Director & Facilitator

You have Coaching Excellence written all over you. Anyone working with you on this level is extremely lucky and I feel excited for anyone who walks through your door! The amazing things they'll learn, the simple and profound insights, actually being listened to. Your natural ability to get to the heart of the matter is rare.
Andrew Chuks, Petrochemical Engineer

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Gilly is a rare counsellor in offering intelligence and experience, coupled with real compassion and a great sense of fun.
Rachel Ormrod, Market Research Consultant

Gilly, you have this amazing ability to identify the underlying emotional issue and then help me work through it. You don't shy away from asking the difficult question, in fact you shaft through the camouflage chat. In someone else this could be too challenging, but you build such an atmosphere of safety and ask the question from a place of love that it has enabled me to look at those deep issues. I lived (probably still do) in my head and you have taught me to connect to my heart in ways I did not believe possible.
Helen Roome, Principal, Roome for Growth

Your warmth, enthusiasm and encouragement are all I ever need to succeed. Alexander Lowry, Principal Consultant, PA Consulting Group

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