Our Approach

Each of these methodologies or tools interlocks with our five pillars – Awareness, Acknowledgement, Alignment, Activation, and Actualisation – with the underlying foundation of Choice, reflecting our commitment to creating empowered, free, and fulfilled lives.

By incorporating these methodologies into our coaching services at Lacuna Coaching Ltd, we provide a comprehensive toolkit that empowers our clients to navigate life’s challenges and achieve their highest potential. Whether you are looking to enhance your leadership skills, improve team dynamics, or embark on a journey of personal transformation, our multi-faceted approach is tailored to your unique path towards success.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Harness the Awareness of your cognitive patterns with Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is the study of excellence and a model for replicating outstanding results. It’s a set of tools that elevate Empowerment by aligning your neurological processes, language, and behaviours with your goals. Through NLP, we help you navigate your personal transformation journey, enabling Choice in reprogramming thoughts and actions for success.

  1. Cognitive Pattern Awareness: By understanding and mapping out your cognitive patterns, NLP helps you recognise how your thoughts, language, and behaviours are interconnected.
  2. Goal Alignment: NLP techniques align your neurological processes, language, and behaviours with your personal and professional goals.
  3. Behavioral Modification: It facilitates the reprogramming of thoughts and actions to foster more productive and positive behaviours.
  4. Communication Skills: Enhances your ability to communicate more effectively by understanding and utilizing language patterns that influence others.
  5. Personal Transformation: Guides you through a structured process of personal development and transformation, addressing limiting beliefs and creating new empowering habits.

  1. Enhanced Self-Awareness: Gain deeper insights into your thought processes and behavioral patterns, enabling better self-management and personal growth.
  2. Improved Goal Achievement: By aligning your mental and physical states with your objectives, you increase your chances of achieving your desired outcomes.
  3. Empowered Decision-Making: NLP provides tools to make more informed and empowered choices, enhancing your ability to respond to challenges and opportunities.
  4. Increased Resilience: Develop greater mental and emotional resilience, allowing you to adapt to changes and bounce back from setbacks more effectively.
  5. Effective Communication: Strengthen your communication skills, making it easier to influence, persuade, and connect with others.
  6. Personal and Professional Growth: Continuous application of NLP techniques promotes ongoing personal and professional development, leading to a more fulfilling and successful life.

HeartMath Coaching

HeartMath® techniques epitomise the Alignment of heart, mind, and emotions. This approach to creating physiological coherence perfectly aligns with our values of Compassion and Fulfilment, cultivating resilience and emotional regulation. We guide you through Activation of the heart’s intelligence, unlocking greater potential and facilitating a journey toward actualisation.

  1. Heart-Mind-Emotion Alignment: HeartMath® techniques focus on creating coherence between the heart, mind, and emotions, promoting a balanced and harmonious state.
  2. Physiological Coherence: Through specific exercises and practices, HeartMath® helps you achieve a state of physiological coherence, where your heart rhythm patterns become more ordered and stable.
  3. Resilience Building: Techniques are employed to build emotional and physiological resilience, helping you better manage stress and recover from challenges more quickly.
  4. Emotional Regulation: HeartMath® provides tools to improve emotional regulation, allowing you to maintain composure and clarity in various situations.
  5. Heart Intelligence Activation: Guides you in tapping into the heart’s intelligence, fostering intuitive insights and enhanced decision-making.

  1. Enhanced Emotional Well-being: Achieving coherence between heart, mind, and emotions leads to improved emotional health and well-being.
  2. Increased Resilience: Builds your capacity to handle stress and adversity, making you more adaptable and resilient.
  3. Improved Emotional Regulation: Develops your ability to manage and regulate emotions, reducing the impact of negative emotional states.
  4. Greater Fulfilment: Aligning your physiological state with your values of compassion and fulfilment leads to a more meaningful and satisfying life.
  5. Better Decision-Making: Activating the heart’s intelligence provides access to deeper intuitive insights, improving the quality of your decisions.
  6. Enhanced Interpersonal Relationships: Improved emotional regulation and coherence contribute to better communication and relationships with others.

Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology reflects our value of Transformation, focusing on what makes life worth living. It’s a cornerstone in building Awareness and encouraging Acknowledgement of your strengths. By leveraging the principles of positive psychology, we support you in cultivating a positive mindset that fosters Freedom and happiness, propelling you toward the Actualisation of your aspirations.

  1. Strengths Identification: Positive psychology involves identifying and acknowledging your personal strengths and using them to your advantage.
  2. Cultivating a Positive Mindset: Techniques are used to shift your focus towards positive experiences and emotions, fostering an optimistic outlook on life.
  3. Building Resilience: Practices that help you develop resilience, enabling you to bounce back from setbacks and maintain a positive attitude.
  4. Enhancing Well-being: Strategies to increase overall well-being and life satisfaction, such as gratitude exercises, mindfulness, and fostering positive relationships.
  5. Goal Setting and Achievement: Positive psychology principles support effective goal setting and the pursuit of meaningful and fulfilling aspirations.

  1. Increased Self-Awareness: By focusing on your strengths and positive attributes, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and what makes you thrive.
  2. Improved Mental Health: Cultivating a positive mindset reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression, promoting better mental health.
  3. Greater Happiness: Emphasizing positive experiences and emotions leads to increased happiness and life satisfaction.
  4. Enhanced Resilience: Developing resilience helps you handle life’s challenges more effectively and maintain a positive outlook even in difficult times.
  5. Strengthened Relationships: Positive psychology encourages the development of strong, healthy relationships, which contribute significantly to overall well-being.
  6. Achievement of Aspirations: Leveraging your strengths and maintaining a positive mindset propels you towards the actualization of your goals and dreams.
  7. Freedom and Empowerment: A positive mindset fosters a sense of freedom and empowerment, allowing you to pursue your aspirations with confidence and enthusiasm.

DISC Assessment

The DISC assessment is a behaviour assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Marston. DISC focuses on four different behavioral traits: dominance, influence, steadiness, and compliance. Through the DISC assessment, you gain Awareness of your behavioral traits and learn to Acknowledge how they shape your interactions. DISC aligns with our values of Empowerment and Compassion, as it enhances understanding and relationship building, facilitating Alignment in both personal and professional realms, setting the stage for Activation and Actualisation of effective communication and teamwork.

  1. Behavioral Traits Analysis: The DISC assessment evaluates four key behavioral traits: dominance, influence, steadiness, and compliance.
  2. Interaction Insights: Helps you understand how your traits influence your interactions and relationships with others.
  3. Team Dynamics: Enhances teamwork and communication by recognizing and adapting to diverse behavioral styles within a team.
  4. Personal Development: Guides you in acknowledging and leveraging your behavioral strengths and addressing areas for improvement.

  1. Increased Self-Awareness: Gain a deeper understanding of your behavioral traits, leading to greater self-awareness and personal growth.
  2. Enhanced Communication: Improve communication skills by understanding your own and others’ behavioral styles, facilitating more effective and empathetic interactions.
  3. Stronger Relationships: Foster stronger relationships both personally and professionally by adapting to different behavioral traits.
  4. Empowered Decision-Making: Make more informed and empowered decisions by recognizing how your behaviour influences your choices.
  5. Improved Teamwork: Enhance team dynamics by leveraging diverse behavioral strengths, promoting collaboration and cohesion.
  6. Personal and Professional Alignment: Align your actions and interactions with your true self, leading to a more balanced and fulfilling life.
  7. Effective Leadership: Develop leadership skills by understanding how to motivate and manage individuals with different behavioral traits.

Motivator Assessments

Motivators are the drivers behind our actions and behaviours. Understanding what motivates you catalyses the Acknowledgement of your true drivers and Alignment with your core values. Motivators are integral to personal Empowerment, providing the clarity of Choice that guides you toward fulfilling your deepest passions, encapsulating our belief in the transformative power of Freedom and Fulfilment. Seven Universal Motivators: Theoretical, Regulatory, individualistic, Aesthetic, Economic, Political and Altruistic.

  1. Identification of Drivers: The assessment identifies the underlying drivers behind your actions and behaviours, revealing what truly motivates you.
  2. Core Values Alignment: Helps align your motivations with your core values, ensuring that your actions and goals resonate with what matters most to you.
  3. Personal Empowerment: Provides insights that empower you to make choices that align with your deepest passions and values.
  4. Goal Setting and Achievement: Guides you in setting and achieving goals that are in harmony with your intrinsic motivations, leading to greater satisfaction.

  1. Enhanced Self-Awareness: Gain a clear understanding of what motivates you, leading to increased self-awareness and personal growth.
  2. Empowered Decision-Making: Make informed and empowered choices based on a deep understanding of your true drivers.
  3. Personal Fulfilment: Aligning your actions with your core values and motivations leads to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
  4. Increased Motivation: By focusing on what truly drives you, increase your motivation and enthusiasm for achieving your goals.
  5. Improved Goal Achievement: Set and achieve goals that are aligned with your intrinsic motivations, ensuring long-term success and satisfaction.
  6. Better Alignment: Ensure that your personal and professional actions are in harmony with your core values, leading to greater coherence and balance.
  7. Transformative Power: Experience the transformative power of understanding and leveraging your motivations to achieve freedom and fulfilment in all areas of life.

Emotional Intelligence (EIQ)

Emotional Intelligence is pivotal in navigating both Awareness and Acknowledgement of one’s emotional landscape. It harmonises with our value of Compassion, fostering empathy and connection. EIQ is a vehicle for Actualisation, empowering you to cultivate emotional skills that enhance your personal and professional relationships, embodying the balance and Fulfilment we stand for. We work with clients to develop their emotional awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills—essential competencies for leadership and personal growth.

  1. Emotional Awareness: The EIQ assessment helps you understand and become more aware of your own emotions and how they affect your thoughts and behaviours.
  2. Empathy Development: Evaluates your ability to understand and empathise with the emotions of others, fostering deeper connections and better relationships.
  3. Interpersonal Skills: Assesses and enhances your interpersonal skills, crucial for effective communication and relationship building.
  4. Personal and Professional Growth: Guides you in cultivating emotional skills that are essential for leadership and overall personal development.

  1. Increased Self-Awareness: Gain a better understanding of your emotional landscape, leading to improved self-awareness and emotional regulation.
  2. Enhanced Empathy: Develop greater empathy, allowing you to connect more deeply with others and understand their perspectives.
  3. Improved Relationships: Strengthen personal and professional relationships through better emotional understanding and communication.
  4. Leadership Development: Cultivate essential emotional intelligence skills that are critical for effective leadership and management.
  5. Balanced Life: Achieve a balanced life by harmonizing your emotional responses with your actions, promoting fulfilment and well-being.
  6. Conflict Resolution: Improve your ability to manage and resolve conflicts by understanding and addressing emotional dynamics.
  7. Resilience Building: Enhance your resilience by better managing your emotions in stressful situations, leading to more effective coping strategies.
  8. Personal Fulfilment: Experience greater fulfilment by aligning your emotional intelligence with your values of compassion and connection.

Leadership Effectiveness 360°

A 360° Profile for Leaders.The Leadership Effectiveness 360 is an assessment that will identify:
Areas of strength and areas needing improvement associated with critical leadership competencies.
Allow you to see yourself as others see you. Guide you in developing a personalised leadership development plan.
Serve as a benchmark in your leadership development.
While everyone has innate qualities that make them natural leaders, leadership is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and improved. The insight from this assessment will unlock and augment the parts of leadership that are natural strengths and help you work on areas of weaknesses to make you a more well rounded, balanced, and adaptable leader.

EIGHT LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS 360 COMPETENCIES
*Communication Skills *Decision-making *Delegation *Emotional Intelligence *Managing Change *Setting Goals and Standards *Team Building *Visualising the Future

  1. Comprehensive Feedback: The 360° assessment collects feedback from peers, subordinates, and supervisors, offering a holistic view of your leadership effectiveness.
  2. Strength and Improvement Identification: Identifies critical areas of strength and areas needing improvement across eight key leadership competencies.
  3. Self-Perception vs. Others’ Perception: Allows you to see yourself as others see you, highlighting discrepancies and areas for growth.
  4. Personalised Development Plan: Guides you in developing a personalised leadership development plan tailored to your specific needs and goals.
  5. Benchmarking: Serves as a benchmark for your leadership development, enabling you to track progress over time.

  1. Enhanced Self-Awareness: Gain a clear understanding of your leadership strengths and weaknesses through comprehensive feedback.
  2. Improved Leadership Skills: Focus on developing critical leadership competencies, making you a more well-rounded, balanced, and adaptable leader.
  3. Effective Communication: Strengthen your communication skills, essential for conveying vision, goals, and expectations.
  4. Better Decision-Making: Enhance your decision-making abilities, leading to more effective and strategic leadership.
  5. Efficient Delegation: Improve your delegation skills, empowering your team and increasing productivity.
  6. Higher Emotional Intelligence: Develop emotional intelligence, crucial for managing relationships and fostering a positive work environment.
  7. Successful Change Management: Gain skills to manage and lead change effectively, ensuring smooth transitions and adaptability.
  8. Goal Setting and Achievement: Learn to set and achieve goals and standards that drive performance and success.
  9. Strong Team Building: Build and nurture high-performing teams, fostering collaboration and trust.

Teamwide 5 Disciplines Assessment (5DA)

There are 5 Disciplines for Exponential Growth that every business must get correct. Learn how your Executive team, department and organisation see performance in each of the 5 Disciplines. There are 10 questions focused on proven actions of successful organisation and their team. The 5DA helps you identify your strength, areas to improve and where to prioritise actions to help the business grow exponentially. The survey take under 15 min and response are compiled in one teamwide or organisation wide performance report. The 5DA report features multiple data analysis on company wide performance. See overall scores by discipline, summary of response by question, summary by discipline and gender. Performance strengths & concerns – highlight positive ( above 80%) and negative,( below 50%) statement responses.

FIVE DISCPILINE AREAS
*Strategy *Business *Development *People *Execution *Mission

  1. Holistic Performance Evaluation: The 5DA evaluates performance across five critical disciplines essential for business growth.
  2. Team and Organizational Insights: Gathers feedback from executive teams, departments, and the entire organization to understand performance perceptions.
  3. Targeted Survey: Consists of 10 focused questions for each discipline on proven actions of successful organisations and their teams.
  4. Quick and Efficient: The survey takes under 15 minutes to complete, ensuring high participation and quick turnaround.
  5. Comprehensive Reporting: Compiles responses into a detailed report featuring multiple data analyses, including overall scores by discipline, summary of responses by question, summary by discipline, and gender-specific insights.

  1. Strength Identification: Pinpoints your organisation’s strengths in the five disciplines, enabling you to leverage these areas for growth.
  2. Improvement Areas: Identifies areas needing improvement, guiding you on where to focus efforts for maximum impact.
  3. Prioritised Actions: Helps prioritize actions that will drive exponential growth, ensuring efficient use of resources and effort.
  4. Clear Performance Metrics: Provides clear metrics and visualizations of performance strengths and concerns, facilitating informed decision-making.
  5. Time-Efficient: The short survey duration ensures minimal disruption while still gathering valuable data.

Human Design

Human Design offers an Awareness blueprint of your unique nature, providing a foundation for making Choices that resonate with your true self. As a certified consultant, Adele uses Human Design to guide you in Acknowledging and embracing your innate gifts, leading to an Alignment of your personal and professional life, which is essential for genuine Transformation and Fulfilment.

  1. Personal Blueprint Analysis: Human Design involves creating a detailed blueprint of your unique nature based on your birth date, time, and place. This blueprint highlights your innate strengths, tendencies, and life path.
  2. Decision-Making Guidance: Provides insights into how you are naturally wired to make decisions that align with your true self, promoting more authentic and effective choices.
  3. Self-Acknowledgment: Encourages the acknowledgment and acceptance of your innate gifts and characteristics, fostering self-awareness and self-acceptance.
  4. Life Alignment: Helps align your personal and professional life with your true nature, ensuring that your actions and decisions resonate with who you genuinely are.
  5. Personal and Professional Development: Guides you in leveraging your unique design for personal growth, career advancement, and overall life satisfaction.

  1. Increased Self-Awareness: Gain a comprehensive understanding of your unique nature, which serves as a foundation for personal growth and self-improvement.
  2. Empowered Decision-Making: Make choices that are in harmony with your true self, leading to more satisfying and authentic outcomes.
  3. Enhanced Self-Acceptance: Embrace your innate gifts and characteristics, reducing self-doubt and increasing confidence.
  4. Improved Life Alignment: Aligning your life with your true nature promotes greater fulfilment and reduces the stress of living against your inherent tendencies.
  5. Personal and Professional Fulfilment: Achieve greater satisfaction in both personal and professional domains by leveraging your unique strengths and attributes.
  6. Genuine Transformation: Facilitates deep and lasting personal transformation by aligning your actions and goals with your true self.
  7. Fulfilment and Happiness: Living in alignment with your Human Design leads to a more fulfilling and happier life, as you are true to yourself in all aspects.

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