No Limits

About Coaching
About Douglas Lang
No Limits

Photo opposite: Founder and coach, Douglas Lang

About Coaching

There are some fundamental principles of coaching that set it apart from other interventions (e.g. counselling, mentoring or business consultancy).

Coaches recognise their clients as experts in their own lives and businesses. The coach’s expertise lies in creating a trusting environment and in using questions and reflection techniques to increase client awareness, supporting clients as they make the changes that will ensure they achieve their goals.

Coaching does not look to the past to address the future. Coaching occurs in the present and helps the client to examine ways of moving forward in the direction of his or her choosing. The client has full ownership of the results and their delivery.

So, what is it? Here at No Limits we believe:

• Coaching is about helping people to change by helping them to recognise and remove blockages that may be stopping them from changing.
• Coaching is “unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them”. John Whitmore, ‘Coaching for Performance.’
• The role of the coach is to believe in the abilities (however hidden they at first appear) of each client. The coach is ‘there’ for their client, to help them achieve the life and goals they want.
• A coaching intervention is essentially a conversation between (normally) two parties, the client and the coach. The coach provides a non-judgemental ‘sounding board’ for the client, asking appropriate questions that enable the client to identify those self-limiting beliefs and blocks that are preventing them from moving forward.

Great Scot! Douglas Lang

“I believe in people’s inherent ability to do brilliant things. Most people know what it is they need to do to achieve brilliance, they may simply need the support of a qualified third-party to help build confidence and momentum towards their goals.”

Professional credentials

Belief is a great confidence booster. As a great believer in people, Douglas Lang makes an excellent performance coach.

His credentials are also impeccable. He has an MBA from Cranfield University in England and trained as a coach at the Coaching Academy, the largest coach-training organisation in Europe. He is the Immediate Past President of the International Coach Federation Australasia.

Prior to coaching, Douglas spent over fifteen years with FTSE100 organisation Halifax Bank of Scotland in senior management positions.

Douglas has over 950 hours of one-on-one business coaching under his belt.

He is qualified as an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, the largest non-profit representative body for life and business coaches in the world. This means that Douglas has undergone independent assessment of his coaching abilities and must continue to do so to retain the qualification.

Street cred

Successful coaching is as dependent on a trusting and amicable client-coach relationship as it is good coaching techniques. There will always be an element of ‘Doug the individual’ in ‘Doug the coach’. Here’s an insight into the person behind the professional façade:

Douglas has always loved contemporary music, from new wave in its day to New Zealand’s own active music scene. Doug was part of the “(nearly) next big thing” [his words] in Glasgow in the eighties – new wave band, The Bitter Lemmings.

His sport of choice is golf where he practices what he preaches and uses mental techniques to keep his handicap at a respectable nine. Look out for Doug’s Top Ten each month, as Douglas regales us with his favourites of any particular theme, substance or style.

No Limits

No Limits is committed to helping its clients reach their full potential in all aspects of their lives – personally, professionally and in the family context.

The company’s goal is to work with clients to help them leave a positive legacy for the world through personal development and better business practice. An enduring quality of No Limits is the team’s ability to understand individual client needs and to deliver a highly personalised service in response.

Integral to client growth is the development of coaching as a profession. No Limits is taking an increasing role in the world of coaching in Australasia and further a field. Director Douglas Lang is Immediate Past President of International Coach Federation Australasia.

Most importantly, working with No Limits may mean a bit of hard work but is a hugely positive experience. Most clients would say ‘life changing’.