Matt Somers

Member Since: 14th Aug 2019
Matt helps managers get good at coaching within the areas people most want coaching on: Sales, Leadership and Communication.
He has been in the training and development business for most of his career, focusing on the idea of the ‘Manager as a Coach’ since 1994. His training programmes, books, articles and talks have helped hundreds of managers achieve outstanding results through their people and teams.
Working internationally, Matt has engaged with multiple high-performance businesses, including HSBC, Citigroup, Scottish & Southern Energy and Sage PLC, with a strong record of feedback and subsequent success.
More recently, his time working in the Middle East has seen him representing some of the world's best brands in the work areas for which coaching is most often sought: Leadership Success, Sales Performance and Effective Communication.
To get in touch or find out more, please drop an email to [email protected] or feel free to call him on +44(0)7930553029
Founder & Managing Director Matt Somers - Coaching Skills Training Ltd
10th Dec 2020
Effective coaching is a matter of perspective
In the story of our life we tend to cast ourselves as the hero and others as the villains – but our villains are the heroes in their own...
Coaching
17th Nov 2020
Coaching: The words of wisdom that teach us vital life lessons
Last month I wrote about how much of my mother’s generation’s home spun wisdom could be found in modern approaches to coaching and...
Coaching
7th Oct 2020
Coaching: the ‘common sense’ approach to framing your thinking
My Mum was born in the mid 1930s and, like many of her generation, lived her life in accordance with any number of sayings and mottos that...
Training
21st Sep 2020
Coaching: three powerful questions to challenge your learners
One of the effects of Covid-19 and the lockdown has been to make leadership by ‘command and control’ virtually obsolete overnight. How can...
Coaching
9th Jul 2020
How to ask effective coaching questions
I undertook some primary research into coaching in organisations some years back when I was studying for my MSc. I was kindly invited by...
Coaching
11th Jun 2020
How to recognise and embed a coaching culture in your organisation
I had an interesting conversation (or do I have to call it a Zoom now?) with a senior leader the other day in which she explained that...
Coaching
11th May 2020
Performance management: why poor results should be managed with coaching, not disciplinaries
A friend of mine found a new job in sales after a long time out of work. He was both relieved and excited to land the opportunity because...
Coaching
17th Mar 2020
How to apply inner game coaching principles
“I discovered the opponent in one’s own head is more formidable than the one the other side of the net.” wrote Tim Gallwey in the Inner...
Coaching
6th Feb 2020
If you’ve never trained before, start with coaching
“Most people here have had more training on using the fire extinguisher than on managing people,” a newly appointed L&D manager told me...
Coaching
21st Jan 2020
Coaching: If you manage people, you’re a coach whether you like it or not!
You may have seen Alister Shepherd’s excellent article on TrainingZone at the end of last year entitled ‘ Why coaching is a manager’s job...
Coaching