Welcome to my site
As an experienced bilingual coach, teacher and trainer, I offer a customised service for professionals to enhance all areas of communication in both English and Spanish.
Although living and working in Madrid, my client base includes local and international companies, institutions and individuals. My training and coaching programmes are all based on the same initial premise: How can I best serve you? So that means that whether I'm honing your presentation, enabling you to get the job, or just providing help with your general communication skills, my main aim is to engage you, and enrich your experience as we journey together towards the fulfilment of your goals. |
So how do I go about establishing a relationship with my clients? I've worked for many years with all kinds of clients, but the essence of my role as I see it is to get to the heart of each person's needs and deal with those needs as they develop and change, engaging honestly and sincerely with that aim. It's a combination of the following: * observing: How are you communicating non-verbally? What are we seeing? How are you revealing what you want to reveal, and what's happening in terms of paralinguistics? * listening: How is your verbal language organised? what kind of speaker are you? If the scenario is non-native, how do you cope with linguistic shortcomings? * speaking: How do you interact with the person in front of you? Do you understand all aspects of the message? What kind of listening issues take place? My objective in creating this website is to offer a space for useful and interesting content - mainly related to communication, but I'll be going "off -piste" as well at times - and also tips and advice on how to perform more effectively in all aspects of communication.
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“My work with Philippa has been extremely relevant in increasing my communicative awareness in the international work environment in which I operate and she has really helped considerably to enhance my “soft-skills” in this area.” |
“Philippa has been my professional coach some time. I immediately connected with her empathetic yet 'no nonsense' professional savvy and we got to work together on my professional ambitions after our first meeting. Given her near native Spanish language skills and intimate knowledge of Spain she is particularly adept at understanding and interpreting cultural issues in the professional arena and helping find solutions to these. I am grateful to Philippa and would recommend her to anyone looking to achieve their career ambitions especially foreigners working and living in Spain¨. |
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