What our clients say
Team Building and Training presented to Mott MacDonald
What I loved most about the training…
It was very positive. Very motivating. Knowing the strengths that we have between us. It’s motivating to know what we have available. – Bryony Townhill (Environmental Scientist)
Team exercise, having a better idea on how we can succeed as a team. – Saskia de Longvilliers (Civil Engineer)
The exercises really gave us a good feel for the challenge, i.e. what to expect from the team. – Shawnton de Four (Engineer)
Knowing team members’ strengths and weaknesses was motivating and brought our team together for the first time. – Malvika Surendra-Pai (Engineer)
Debriefing after the game. – Sebasitien Mellot (Project Manager)
I now feel I know my team better. – Michelle Taylor (Environmental Consultant)
General Feedback
He was so helpful, kind and patient on the phone to me and had some good ideas and comments. It certainly helped me at a moment when I was feeling enormusly desperate and so needed an ear. He was that angel who gave me positive things to think about and do. Thank you again Jaco!Kind regards, Regine Craythorne
Dear Jaco, I just want to thank you for working with me. Going through a very dark period in my life, I was seeing things as if there is no way out, and I just accepted what life had thrown at me. By talking to you I started seeing my life as a challenge, and I realised that I do have the power to change things, I do not have to accept everything lying down. Just by talking about things and changing the way I think about things, I started seeing solutions that I never would have thought possible.
I still can not belief that just talking to someone else about some problems can put it in an altogether new perspective. Avenues of new thought just seemed to open up by talking to you, and problems that I could not get my head around seems to disappear just by changing the thought direction. And it is amazing that the solution is often such a simple one.
For the first time in a very long long time I am positive and I feel better about myself and my circumstances, Talking to you helped me to open up my mind and stear myself into a new direction. Since we started with the sessions 3 weeks ago, I started looking for a new job, made arrangements for classes in jewellery making, and I got my husband to join a friend circle in Scotland, with the option of another so we can broaden our horizons even further. We also started making plans for a visit to South Africa. So instead of just sitting at home, brooding about things, I started with planning. I took my fate in my own hands and I started doing things to change the direction my life is going. I had the guts to open my mouth and stand up for myself, as I came to the realisation that I too have rights, and I owe it to myself to be happy. Without you to guide me and help me with sorting out my jumbled thoughts, I never would have had the guts or the vision to try and change my life, I just would have carried on and hoped that things might change one day.
Working with you was really a wonderful experience. I just want to thank you and the Leap in Life group for the positive support and guidance that you provide. You really do a superb job, and I wish you all the best in the future of guiding others like me.
Kind regards
Magda Coldbeck
I enjoyed looking through your leapinlife-coaching.com website. It contains much helpful material and is written in a welcoming manner ~ unlike some sites! I was particularly intrigued to see If among your Seven most important words in Coaching. We too have used Kipling’s other six words from his poem The Elephant Child, to frame the underlying purposes of research design.
The word IF introduces another dimension to analytical thinking that we had not considered. Shosh will be intrigued by this and I am sure that we will include it in the next edition. So ~ thanks, Jaco and Andries!Vernon Trafford
Professor Emeritus
Anglia Ruskin University
Dear Jaco,
Just to say thank you very much for the life coaching sessions. My first session helped me to identify what it is I really love doing, from a whole list of ideas and priorities I’d had that had been making it difficult for me to make any decisions. By clarifying my thinking in this way and encouraging me to focus on what’s important to me, it gave me the confidence to start a part-time course to develop the creative skills that I love – so much so that even after a long day at work I’ve found myself sometimes bouncing around the house with excitement about it. I was worried about fitting in study with work and family commitments and being too tired, but the unexpected result of finally making time to do something that I’m passionate about has been to bring an injection of energy so that being busier, I’ve actually got a whole lot more energy and enthusiasm for life than when I had more leisure time.
The physical energy session was also really useful, and I came away with a practical action plan. Having an hour to stop and look at your lifestyle with somebody to help you to assess it is an unusual luxury for most of us, I guess, and it made me examine the kinds of life habits that I wasn’t really conscious of. Given this time to look at specific areas of lifestyle and stress management, and the ways these can affect your physical energy levels, I was able to see some of the ways I’ve been cutting corners with my health, and the coaching gave me some tools to tackle this.
Very best wishes,
Helen.03 November 2009
I approached Jaco Beukes 3 months ago for some coaching. It was at a time in my life where I was frustrated with my job. I knew I wanted to move on and do something completely diiferent but I was stuck as to what the next step was.
Through Jaco’s coaching I was able to untangle the ideas in my head, make some key decisions about my future employment and set the appropriate goals to reach my dream job. The life coaching I receieved from Jaco was very empowering and I am now in the process of setting up my own social enterprise business.
Mark Ash
6th October 2009.
Seminar presented to The Mathew Project
Jaco presented the LEAP in Life seminar during our organisation’s annual break-away day.
His presentation was very passionate and professional. The course content was of great quality, filled with real relevant practical advice and guidance on how to be more effective and productive.
Jaco managed to inspire us both individually and as a group to live with energy, passion and purpose. Thank you Jaco, and thank you LEAP in Life! I can highly recommend your services to anyone looking to improve their energy, effectivity and quality of life!”
- Julian Bryant – Managing Director – The Matthew Project, Norwich , UK
What I loved most about this seminar was…
The enthusiasm and inspiration of the trainer, linked with excellent advice and material. Excellent! Will strongly recommend to people. – Julian Bryant (Director)
The speakers passion – he lives the message. – Owen (Enhanced arrest referral worker)
It really did leave me with the motivation to make the changes I know will energise me and it helped me to really think about my focus/purpose. An inspirational afternoon. – Juliet Frost (Career Support Worker)
Interaction and being positive. A super speaker. – Andy Wicks (Manager – The Junction)
The energy. – Carolyn Shirley (Project Administrator)
Different challenges to think about. “Food for thought.” – Val Brown (Administrator)
Evaluating self against targets – very useful, do not really think about this. – Eve Hart
Thinking about my spiritual energy and wher I am investing my time and energy. Good to focus on this. – James Fawcett (Project manager)
The facilitator, Jaco, can capture attention of most people – either one-to-one or in a group. You feel energized and motivated when he has spoken. – Hazel Grass (Administrator)
Reconising that I can make small changes in my life that will give me more energy and focus. – Luke Adcock (Youth Worker)