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Ask Celes – Are Coaching Courses Necessary To Be a Coach?

This is part of the Ask Celes series, where readers were invited to ask me anything they want. The section is now over but you can read all Q&As here: Ask Celes Section.

Note from Celes: We’ve received a booming number of questions for the Ask Celes section – over 50 so far, and counting! Thank you to all of you who’ve sent in your letters! :)

For practical reasons, I’m not able to answer every question. As stated in the original Ask Celes announcement, I’ll be picking questions which I feel will be of most benefit to readers. Also, I’ll be answering a maximum of 1 question per reader (if he/she asked more than a question), so others get a fair chance.

For those who haven’t posed your question and would like to do so, proceed to the Ask Celes announcement, read the instructions, and send your question there. Look forward to hearing from you! :)

Hi Celes! What are your thoughts on coaching courses, and how necessary do you believe one is for practicing coaching? Thanks. :) - Luís

Hi Luís! :) It depends on what one wants to get out of the coaching courses.

For most people, they join coaching courses because of these…


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Published Sep 25 2011
Filed: Business, Career & Work, Studies & School
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My Photoshoot With Simply Her Magazine (July Issue)

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Simply Her Magazine to give coaching advice on workplace persona and how one should carry oneself at work. Simply Her magazine is a consumer lifestyle guide in Singapore, with a readership of 110,000. It offers practical solutions on everything that interests the modern, working women, such as home, career, family, consumer, health, fashion, beauty, travel and self-empowerment.

As a case study, I was asked to offer my career coaching to a brand manager in a local company. The task entailed (1) shadowing her at work for 2 days – from being in meetings, interacting with colleagues, liaising with customers, talking on the phone, giving presentations, etc -, (2) observing how she carried herself in these situations, and (3) coaching on those areas – what were the positive areas, what could be improved, and in the process helping readers learn how to project their best workplace persona.

After the coaching wrapped up, we had a photoshoot as part of the article feature. My past media photoshoots were done in my home, and this was my first media photoshoot in a studio. It was a very fun experience, and the stylists and designers were very fun loving people too :D.

Here’s some pictures of the photoshoot to share with you guys:

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Published Jun 11 2010
Filed: About Celes, Career & Work, Media & Interviews
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Media Coverage in My Paper

I’ve been featured in My Paper today! :) For the non-Singaporean readers, My Paper is a free Singapore bilingual paper. It is distributed in local train stations every morning, with a circulation of approx 300,000. It also has an electronic version available at its website.

The article features how I made the decision to pursue my passion over money, the personal development work I do at Embrace Living and my views on personal development in Singapore. Overall I’m really happy with the article and the journalist did a really great job (If you’re reading this, thanks Jingting! :D And thanks Jamie for being such an excellent photographer to work with! :) ) Just some nuance pointouts on the information in the article – A) My pay – It’s not precisely $70k B) My current coachee profile – They span from 20s to late 30s and include people from other countries.

* Note on Oct ’11: Embrace Living was the old name of the site when it first started, for the first 6 months. It’s now known as Personal Excellence.

Unfortunately they didn’t feature the site url, probably due to internal policies regarding advertising other services. It seems like quite a number of the readers have found the site regardless through Google/Facebook search, so all’s good :D So far I’ve…


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Published Mar 27 2009
Filed: Media & Interviews
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