Pygmalion Effect

September 26, 2011 7:15 am admin 5 Comments

I would like to discuss a strategy for improving the quality of your life by enhancing your ability to influence and improve the performance of others.

This influence is known as the Pygmalion effect. The basic concept is the performance people you interact with is significantly affected by your expectations of them.

Expect the worst from people…and you are more likely to get it. Conversely if you expect the best from people….and you are also more likely to get it.

Can your expectations of others really affect their performance?

Could it be that you are unconsciously helping (or hurting) others simply by your expectations of them?

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Yellow Jeeps! and Sales Skills

September 26, 2011 7:13 am admin 1 Comment

Sales Skills

In order to master your sales skills you have to practice and internalize and then until they flow effectively on your subconscious.

Hello! Chris Clausen here from www.ultraresultscoach.com

In discussions, we have talked about the effectiveness of setting SMART goals, and the incredible power of creating a “Dream list.”

Today I would like to discuss why these strategies so effective.

Our brain is constantly bombarded by more information than we can possibly process. Whether you know it or not your subconscious mind filters information based on the instructions your conscious mind has sent.

For example, you probably didn’t notice the air going in and out of your lungs….until I just mentioned it. While the information regarding your rate of respiration was readily available, your brain recognized that you did not need this data right now so it ignored it.

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Sales Coaching and Setting “SMART” Goals

September 26, 2011 7:12 am admin 4 Comments

Sales Coaching

Sales coaching help improve your performance. Just about any program of personal development I have ever encountered has stressed the importance of setting goals, yet so many people overlook this simple, but time-tested strategy. If you are looking for improved results in just about any area of your life, if you need a sales coaching, a simple, but effective strategy is to set “SMART” goals.

S pecific-For your goal to be most effective it should be specific. It is one thing to say you would like a new car, it is quite another to say your intention is to purchase a Silver 2009 Chrysler Aspen with four wheel drive, a 4.7 liter engine, leather interior, heated seats and 3^rd row seat so the vehicle will fit seven passengers. In fact, the best way to activate all your senses is to find the car you are looking for and take it for a test drive. You will not only see the car up close and personal, but also when you sit behind the wheel, you will feel what it is like to take this baby for a ride. You will experience that “new car smell” which if you are anything like me, will turn you on like a light bulb! You are going to leave the car dealership more excited about your goal, which means you will be likely to take the action required, which will increase (exponentially) the odds of achieving your desired outcome

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Professional Coaching and Dealing with Negative Nelly’s

September 26, 2011 7:11 am admin 3 Comments

Professional Coaching

What is Professional coaching? Professional coaching is a type of coaching that usually involves working with partnership. Professional coaching provides structure, guidance and support to set relevant and realistic goals based on your own nature and needs. But what if your with somebody who is what we called “Negative Nellys”.

How do you deal with “Negative Nellys?”

Do you have one or two people in your life that are…shall we say “less than optimistic.” You know the type of person I am talking about. The sky could be 95% clear, but they’ll point out the one nasty cloud passing overhead. If there are no clouds, they’ll remind you of the harmful effects of the sun’s rays and the person they know who just died of skin cancer. They are very often the same people who always seem to find fault in others. They just seem to focus on that half of the glass that is empty!

In a recent article we discussed how the beliefs, expectations and attitudes of the people we spend time with have a powerful influence on our behavior and performance. We discussed how

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Performance Coaching:Inspired by Roger Bannister Story

September 26, 2011 7:09 am admin 37 Comments

Performance Coaching

Performance coaching is coaching to improve an individual or team performance.

I would like to start this article with a question for you. How much do your beliefs affect your performance? Would modifying your beliefs really change your behavior or performance?

Today I’d like to share with you one of the most powerful…yet simple strategies for improving performance in just about any area of your life. Performance coaching helps you to improve. Performance coaching helps you build your skills. Performance coaching allows you to work at your highest. This idea is so effective…it could literally change everything for you!

Performance coaching also helps you to dramatically improve your performance and reach your target. The concept of performance coaching is to identify and break through self-imposed limiting beliefs.

You probably already know the answer, but to illustrate the power of beliefs on performance I would like to remind you of Sir Roger Bannister’s story.

Roger Bannister was the first person to ever run a sub four-minute mile. In all of recorded history no person had ever run a mile in under four minutes. In fact, conventional wisdom at the

Filed Under: Performance Coaching Tagged With: coaching, Inspired, performance, Roger

The Pygmalion Effect in Achieving Peak Performance

September 26, 2011 7:08 am admin 1 Comment

Peak Performance

Achieving peak performance needs two features self-motivation and goal orientation. Today I would like to discuss with you a strategy for improving the quality of your life by enhancing your ability to influence and improve the performance of others. And let them reach their own peak performance. Achieving peak performance needs a strong commitment.

This influence is known as the Pygmalion effect and is very real. The basic concept is the performance; people you interact with are significantly affected by your expectations of them.

“The better expectation placed upon people the better they perform.”

Expect the worst from people…and you are more likely to get it.
Expect the best from people….and you are also more likely to get it.

Can your expectations of others affect their performance?
Could it be that you are unconsciously helping (or hurting) others simply by your expectations of them?

Filed Under: Peak Performance Tagged With: achieving, effect, peak, peak performance, performance, pygmalion, pygmalion effect

Online Life Coach Review

September 26, 2011 7:07 am admin 3 Comments

Online Life Coach

As an online life coach and in this online coach program we have talked about the relationship between beliefs and performance. I reminded you of the story of Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile 1954. Never before had anyone run a mile in less than four minutes, but once he did, dozens, then hundreds, and now literally thousands of runners have run sub-four minute miles. We didn’t all of a sudden get faster as a species; runners just had a new empowering belief as to what they were capable of.

We have discussed how our thoughts and expectations can influence others through a well-studied and documented phenomenon known as the Pygmalion effect. We can improve the performance of our children, our friends, or even our co-workers just by expecting more from them. Online Life Coach can help you improve performance.

We reviewed the Galatea effect, which says that people tend to create self-fulfilling prophecies

Filed Under: Online Life Coach Tagged With: beliefs, beliefs and performance, coach, life, online, online life coach, relationship, review

Management Coaching and Build a Winning Team

September 26, 2011 7:05 am admin 4 Comments

Management Coaching

Management coaching creates a spirit of collaboration and allows open communication. Management coaching also builds trust and respect in the relationship.

In recent articles we talked about how much the people we associate with, affect us. We were reminded of how their thoughts and opinions influence our attitudes, our actions and therefore ultimately the quality of our lives, through a well-documented phenomenon called the Pygmalion Effect.

We also discussed the deleterious effects of the “Negative Nellies” in our lives. You remember these people, the ones who seem to find fault with just about everything and everyone. We talked about some strategies for reducing the influence they have on us. This included putting some distance between you and Negative Nelly. The “distance” may be physical distance (don’t spend as much time with them) or it may be emotional distance (don’t let them get to you). Be more committed to being happy than they are to being miserable.

Knowing how much the people around us affect us, how do you attract and surround yourself with the type of people who will support you and your goals?

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Life Coach Training on Physiology

September 26, 2011 7:04 am admin 2 Comments

Life Coaching Training

Later I will be discussing life coach training on Physiology.

Hello! Chris Clausen here from www.ultraresultcoach.com

Recently, we began a discussion of the types of patterns people tend to habitually run over and over. We asked why some people tend to always seem see the glass as half empty and others see it as half full. We said that whatever we focus on we feel, and whatever we feel is real (for us). Therefore if we could change what we focus on, we could change how we feel in just about any situation.

Sounds great, but how do you break this pattern and change what you habitually focus on? The answer lies in changing the type or quality of question you ask yourself. Ask a better question, you’ll get a better answer.

Instead of asking a question like: “Why can’t I seem to lose any weight?”

You might want to try a question like: “How can I lose weight and enjoy the process?”

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Who’s your life coach and what’s on your dream list?

September 26, 2011 7:02 am admin Leave a Comment

Life Coach

What’s in your “bucket?”

Hello! This is your life coach Chris Clausen from www.ultraresultscoach.com.

Life coach is coaching a future-focused practice with the aim in helping clients and achieves their personal goal.

In a recent discussion we talked about the power of setting goals that are “SMART.” You remember…these are goals that are: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, wRitten, and that have a Timetable. This is a fundamental, time-tested way of improving results in just about any area of your life.

Another strategy for success is to have a “bucket list,” a “dream list” or a list of the “top ten things I want to do before I die.” The major distinction between this list and a SMART goal is the items on your Dream list don’t have to be realistic and you don’t need a timetable. All you need is an imagination.

Filed Under: Life Coach Tagged With: achieves their personal goal, future-focused, life coach, pcactice, your dream list

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