EXECUTIVE COACHING www.ceotodaymagazine.com 56 is based on the research showing that when people do that, they are much more likely to achieve them. Also, the coach opportunely shares information about how the brain learns, reacts and functions with the learners, in easily comprehensible language according to the level and age of the learner and through our constant awareness of the power of words and patterns of communication. Thirdly, Neurolanguage Coaching® offers a new process for language learning with a distinctly hallmarked first session with a coachee, creating a personalised roadmap, based on mechanical and mastery goals and a unique conversation regarding motivation and commitment. Ongoing sessions are high powered with a full focus on cost-effectiveness and achieving results so that learners feel their learning progress much more than they normally would. What are the benefits for companies and professionals? One of the major problems for many business professionals today is the need for more advanced foreign language skills and often there is no time to learn, or due to heavy workloads, there is a lot of stress and anxiety around language learning. Many companies are now understanding that pushing people into large learning groups and paying “lower prices” are not efficient ways of language training. The most effective ways for assisting faster learning are to have a focused and personalised plan for individuals or small groups with a maximum of 4 people. Goals and actions are set and periodically reviewed before resetting the next goals and the language needs are chunked down and built up in blocks. Soft skills and business areas and embodying it in a new method and approach. The Neurolanguage Coaching® process is fully focused on getting learners to learn faster, with a totally personalised roadmap that incorporates metacognition as to how he or she learns the language better. Can you explain more about the coaching and the neuroscience in Neurolanguage Coaching®? Neurolanguage Coaching® is about transforming language educators, by providing them with the knowledge and tools to come into a “brain-friendly” approach to language teaching. In practical terms, firstly, we incorporate elements from professional coaching. For example, the structure, the goals and action setting together with a focus on motivation, commitment and empowerment of coaches. In addition, the ethics, confidentiality and standards. Our communication is based on coaching conversations, models and techniques. In this way, we can transform how educators communicate and transfer their knowledge in a learning environment. Secondly, we implement neuroscientific principles from the research, plus emotional intelligence and neuropsychology into the learning process. One of the greatest challenges for neuroscience today is for it to actually become embodied and implemented in practical terms, but in a simplistic way, to simplify complicated scientific jargon so that it becomes easily understandable for all teachers, educators and learners to understand. We infuse the learning with metacognition, by adapting the process to reflect the research, so everythingwe do has a scientific reason and justification to it. For example, getting learners to set their own goals are defined and targeted, as well as cultural needs plus language learning strategies. Some companies are interested to put language learning into management target achievements and/or appraisal processes and Neurolanguage Coaching® provides the necessary yardsticks to measure progress. Some companies even create ROI indicators with us to help them measure more specifically according to their company requirements. How has Neurolanguage Coaching developed through the years? When I crystallised the concept in 2012, I conducted a pilot programme for a small group and the year after, I began training language teachers worldwide with my certification programme, the first language teacher training course worldwide that has accreditation from the International Coach Federation. Now, nearly ten years down the line, we have over 1000 Neurolanguage Coaches worldwide, which is a phenomenal milestone for us all and I know that these coaches are really positively impacting their learners. We have a network of all the coaches with all language combinations (www. neurolanguagecoachnetwork.com) and in addition, we are working with international and multi-national companies with designated teams of coaches advancing the language skills of employees and management. I dedicate most of my time now to training and developing language teachers to become Neurolanguage Coaches. Some of these continue the pathway to the Advanced and Professional levels and some go all the way to become teacher trainers in their countries and their native languages. We now have about
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