“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”
– Marshall Goldsmith
“Once you have reached your goal set yourself another”
– Malcolm Cambell
There is leadership theory and there is the performance of leadership.
Managers and staff often do not make progress after hours – even months or years – of learning. They do not really feel a difference in how they perform.
Being persuasive is a skill that calls upon being genuine and speaking from one’s core values; the best actors know what this feeling is. It is not simulating for effect, but reaching into the depths of one’s inner truth.
Often our voice can fail us even though our knowledge and experience are solid; we cannot get the right words out, or in the right way to provide proper impact.
• A business leader must perform successfully in a variety of high-pressure, high-profile situations, that we create in performance coaching.
• “What got you here won’t take you there”
• We use embodied performance techniques to get physical with leadership and push boundaries.
• We guide clients to real, powerful and measurable improvements in their performance, that they will experience from the very outset of the coaching experience.
• By embodying what we are in HOW we are, through techniques that are anchored into powerful words and behaviour, as leaders, we step up to the mark.
• Here, our expertise working with actors and in high-profile leadership roles provides the reassurance you need.
Embodied leadership…
..is a breakthrough technique combining the skills of drama training, Kinesics, and many insights gained from the ideas of Neuroplasiticity, Integration training (Mark Walsh), Somatic coaching (Richard Strozzi-Heckler), Leonard Energy Training (George Leonard), and the very important U-Theory (Otto Scharmer), incorporating ‘the Blind spot of leadership’ and ‘Leading from the emerging future’.
English skills for real performance
English skills with performance coaching
Alongside coaching, we offer teaching and training in English for those whose aim is to remedy their lack of English, and get to a higher level, fast!
If you use English in work, and business, as your means of communication, (and additionally are not a native speaker of English?) you will perhaps either feel disadvantaged or in need of rapid improvement at a number of levels…
* Business English
* English for Special Purposes
* Fluency and rapid acquisition
* Voice and delivery
* Soft skills for businesses
* Personal impact and advancement
* Work satisfaction
* Socialising
By following the understanding – processing – composing – performing pathway, we enable you to access and modify your inner dialogue and perceive the impact and structure of your performance in radically new ways.
Peter’s articles on Outcomes-based learning, explain these methods.
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The ideal location
We use state-of-the-art facilities set in beautiful surroundings, close to the amazing historic city of York, and coach you in a residential setting that is both comfortable and refreshing. Surrounded by woods and green parkland, The Hawkhills is a wonderful place to reside while during the day we set to work on hitting your objectives, and during the evening leaving time to digest your progress in a local pub or restaurant, or York itself.
Boasting SMART and spacious meeting rooms and a superb restaurant, as well as a luxurious VIP suite if requested, and modern gym, and clearly-signposted jogging paths through nature, we offer the best possible combination for you.
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Example daily schedule
Our testimonials show how clients benefit from
performance-based and outcomes-based coaching.
We follow a clear pathway:
Understanding – Processing – Composition – Performance.
* 8am Breakfast (with the coach) at the quality residence / coaching centre.
* 9am Morning work will comprise Processing and Composing Skills to improve mentation and self-access, improved states of awareness.
* Modelling techniques using a variety of sources and the client’s experience.
* 10.30am – 11am coffee break.
* 11am Use of video playback to record performance, analysis and feedback.
* 1pm Lunch with the coach.
* 2pm Putting the learning and increased awareness into practical performance, language review and framing the next step.
* Ensuring understanding and deep-level processing.
* 3.15 – 3.30pm tea break.
* 3.30 – 5pm Further practice and review, preparation, feedback and goal-setting
* 6pm Rest, use of hotel facilities or pre-arranged visits to places of interest or business sites.
* 8pm In the evening, visits with a professional local expert, trip to the theatre if wished, or a quality historic pub or restaurant.
Prices and How to Book
* Prices include Airport Executive Taxi pick-up and return.
* All inclusive day rate per person: (for 1 – 2 persons)
* £800 (standard accommodation not to include evenings)
* £1000 (inclusive of evenings excursions or meal in a beautiful English gastro-pub or city restaurant)
* £1300 (Spa hotel suite accommodation including evenings)
* Group rate per day per person (groups of 3-6):
* £400(standard accommodation not to include evenings)
* £500(inclusive of evenings excursions or meal in a beautiful English gastro-pub or city restaurant)
* Group rate per day per person (groups of 7-8):
* £300(standard accommodation not to include evenings)
* £400(inclusive of evenings excursions or meal in a beautiful English gastro-pub or city restaurant)
* To Book or enquire:
* email Peter and Julia info@performanceinenglish.com
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We write regular blogs as well as articles for leading coaching and teaching magazines
Why choose Us?
Why choose us?
small same-company groups or 1:1 – see our portfolios for more details on all our programmes
the means to reach your goals quickly and surely.
valued experience at flexible prices (see our prices and how to book, our Skype pricing details, or contact us)
short-term and long-term assistance.
the benefit of years of practice gained from direct coaching of highly-satisfied people, from every walk of life..
we also provide other services
What we do and how we do it!
“There is no way around hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there’s always something which you can improve.”
– Roger Federer
* Measurable outcomes
* Subjective and objective improvements, every step of the way
* Outcomes-based, objectives-oriented
* Challenging hard edge of language coaching
* Understanding – Processing – Self-composing pathway
* Performance video recorded and analysed
* Repetitive practice
* When you have reached your goal, set yourself another
* In groups, peer observation and evaluation
VIP and specially-designed programmes
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
– Jim Collins, Good to Great
• VIP and high-status individuals need to meet new challenges in a huge range of contexts.
• Performance in English coaching is based on tried-and-tested principles and backed up by the best possible methods.
• We guarantee discretion and sensitivity to needs as well as promising a 100% bespoke experience
• We can combine quality coaching in all the programs we offer in a fully bespoke package to include theatre visits, shooting, restaurant, falconry, golf, art, music – and Spa hotel facilities
Change Management with English as the Lingua Franca
“What got you here, won’t take you there.”
– Marshall Goldsmith
We offer same-company (small group) training. Are you involved in a takeover, alliance or joint venture?
Are you rationalising or restructuring?
Do you need to develop new company strategies and initiatives or changes in mission?
• Bring a group of key players to the table
• Tough transitions can be handled in a healthy way.
• We help solve your communication issues.
• Access to a pool of ILM coaches for every eventuality
Attentive Listening Skills
“The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people’s thinking.”
– Nancy Kline, Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
Appreciative listening, deep on-boarding and respectful focus with critical and self-critical thinking.
It helps to nurture customers and colleagues, overcomes negative feedback, is time-effective – – and changes how we view the world!
• will benefit everyone
• measurable improvements in atmosphere and the bottom line
• more than a powerful courtesy
• a creative act that can transform everything!
Bridging Cultural Differences
“What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.”
– Montesquieu, Lettres Persanes
What makes us different?
What is culture and how does it manifest? How do we bridge differences?
What core values do we share? Compromise or win-win?
• Avoiding misunderstandings
• Using profiling methods
• Working styles
• Pragmatics and Proxemics
• Outcomes-focused
• “Discovery” Role-play approach
Voice Coaching for Public Speaking
“The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
– Joseph Conrad
Having a serious conversation or a lighthearted chat?
Announcing uplifting news, or a hard message?
Showing executive presence?
Networking, building rapport, or coaching?
Pitching to a client or delivering at the boardroom?
Turn-taking in the virtual arena, or a conf-call?
Giving an after-dinner speech and story-telling….?
• Using the voice with confidence
• Overcoming Nervousness
• Using Tempo, Pitch, and Emphasis
• Powerful self-composition and projection
Language Management for better Outcomes
“A great company is a conspiracy to change the world.”
– Peter Thiel, Zero to One
A great thinker once said “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words, the truth”.
Another, not so great, said “Do as I say, not as I do”.
Achieving great things implies wisdom and understanding.
• Walk the talk
• Stepping back
• Emotional Intelligence
• Neuroplasticity
• Use the Johari Window and other tools
The Embodied approach to states of Destabilisation
“The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.”
– Ilya Prigogine
What state are you in?
Is it “business as usual” – are you in the “drone zone” – or the “anxiety zone”, or the “learning zone”?
Even the best-organised structures tend to dissipate, and negative spirals can take over.
• Convert downwards into upwards spirals
• Language investment that assures a win-win
• Coaching transformational techniques and powerful language strategies
• Bring about real, felt changes.
Managing and Influencing others
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch
So often, meetings fail to energise their participants, due to the way language is used and not used.
• Learn how to Inspire!
• Using NLP so that the quality ofcommunication shapes the quality of life.
• Power, Rules (necessities) and Interests.
• TUPAC approach to influencing.
• Why are people doing the opposite of what they say?
Negotiating and Conflict Management
“There are two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.”
– Milton Erickson
Practical workshops to develop open communications channels and strengthen relations, resolving conflicts effectively and bringing issues into evidence.
• Avoid zero sum negotiations
• Identify a BATNA
• Negotiate with an eye on the future.
• IBR vs Distributive approaches.
• Using Richard Lewis cultural modelling
• Language management tools
Performance Coaching in Leadership Skills
“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”
– Marshall Goldsmith
“Once you have reached your goal set yourself another”
– Malcolm Cambell
There is leadership theory and there is the performance of leadership.
Managers and staff often do not make progress after hours – even months or years – of learning. They do not really feel a difference in how they perform.
Being persuasive is a skill that calls upon being genuine and speaking from one’s core values; the best actors know what this feeling is. It is not simulating for effect, but reaching into the depths of one’s inner truth.
Often our voice can fail us even though our knowledge and experience are solid; we cannot get the right words out, or in the right way to provide proper impact.
• A business leader must perform successfully in a variety of high-pressure, high-profile situations, that we create in performance coaching.
• “What got you here won’t take you there”
• We use embodied performance techniques to get physical with leadership and push boundaries.
• We guide clients to real, powerful and measurable improvements in their performance, that they will experience from the very outset of the coaching experience.
• By embodying what we are in HOW we are, through techniques that are anchored into powerful words and behaviour, as leaders, we step up to the mark.
• Here, our expertise working with actors and in high-profile leadership roles provides the reassurance you need.
Embodied leadership…
..is a breakthrough technique combining the skills of drama training, Kinesics, and many insights gained from the ideas of Neuroplasiticity, Integration training (Mark Walsh), Somatic coaching (Richard Strozzi-Heckler), Leonard Energy Training (George Leonard), and the very important U-Theory (Otto Scharmer), incorporating ‘the Blind spot of leadership’ and ‘Leading from the emerging future’.
Getting the balance right
Getting the balance right.
Being persuasive is a skill that calls upon being genuine and speaking from one’s core values; the best actors know what this feeling is. It is not simulating for effect, but reaching into the depths of one’s inner truth.
Having a real impact means being in the right state, emotionally, physically and mentally. The “right” state can be anything you want it to be. We can achieve this with the help of NLP, hypnotherapy, visualisation techniques, anchoring techniques, practice with voice adaptation, kinesiology, and emotional intelligence.
The key issues of pitch, tempo, emphasis, pause, movement, rhythm, avoiding the mistakes – so often seen – of sounding either boring, monotonous, flat or laborious (at one end of the spectrum) – or over-excited, panicked, hectoring and shrill (at the other end of the spectrum) can be powerfully overcome!
(Of course, in comedy, the above “mistakes” might be welcome!)
Follow the link to get the balance right each time.
Issues of confidence, voice, poise and language
We can…
.. through attentive listening and self-listening skills – changing state and dealing with emotions – and using NLP and hypnotherapy, take the coachee to a more confident, poised and vocally expressive state.
In the case of non-native speakers of English, we use years of experience of training people from every conceivable walk of life, and advanced modelling techniques, to coach them quickly towards very clear and measurable outcomes.
Combining confidence, voice, poise and language is a way of developing agility and grace in our conduct in work and outside it.
It may surprise you to know that this can also be achieve in many cases via Skype coaching!
You will not be disappointed!
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Personal Action Plans
There are many applications for Personal Action Plans and these can be reviewed on an ongoing basis to see what other coaching may be required.
Julia’s extensive knowledge of acting, training, retail management, business marketing, and network of contacts in acting, directing, tv and radio, producing, special effects, comedy, modelling, not to mention many other Arts, and so much else, makes her the ideal coach!
Peter has written extensively on these subjects, please follow the link!
Outcomes-based coaching and learning
Coaching you to Succeed
Perhaps…
…you wish to improve your impact in English, to help with international business opportunities? Or are you a native speaker, needing to develop powerful techniques and embodied leadership skills? We can help.
Over 30 years, we have gained invaluable experience, often with many of the business world’s elite, guiding them to reach new confidence levels in public speaking and self-presentation, using voice coaching, NLP and outcomes-based learning. Now it’s time to help you.
So, whether English is a foreign language, or you are looking for a significant boost in your performance and professional competence, reach out today.
e-mail us at info@tostig.co.uk info@perfomanceinenglish.com
Consultants in communications
We can…
..come into your company to audit your communications needs and evaluate how you can benefit from personal and executive coaching and in-company consultancy in:
• powerful voice and performance coaching
• business English coaching for non-native speakers
• embodied leadership techniques
• emotional/cultural intelligence, deep-level focus
• rapport and cognition
P.in.E for actors
Actors!
We can..
.. provide personalised action plans totally tailored to whatever your performance needs may be, and, if you are a non-native speaker of English and require deep-level awareness of style, pitch, tone, tempo, and register, we are the people for you!
.. needless to say we are able to employ different approaches, such as Stanislavski, to method and character acting…
We also provide elocution lessons!
If you want, go back to the Home Page or to the list of Porfolios