Who is Willie Nicol and How Can You Help People?

Video – VLog #17

In this video we introduce Willie Nicol, who is he and how can he help people with his wisdom and experiences?

Did you know he used to be a corporate security guard?

Script -VLog #17

David Logan: Hi and welcome to another week of the Techno Dinosaur Meets the IT Geek. My name is David Logan, the IT Geek. I take the problems, the complexity out of technology, remove the jargon. This week with me is Willie Nicol, our Techno Dinosaur. Where are you Willie and how are you?

Wilie Nicol: Hello, David. I’m very well, thank you. I am based in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland.

David Logan: Brilliant. So this week. Willie, if it’s OK, with yourself. I’d like to, for the viewers to know a bit more about yourself. How you can help people? What you do and how you can help people?

Willie Nicol: OK, David, how long have you got?

David Logan: We have got for 4 minutes.

Willie Nicol: I’m only kidding, right? My name is Willie Nicol. I was a police officer for 31 years, followed by six and a half years in corporte security and I use all of that experience, training and skills in my new business as a personal development coach. Essentially, what I do is I help people successfully address those areas in their lives that preventing them from getting the results they want. That could be their presonal lives, business lives, sporting lives or whatever it is, whatever is holding you back. I can help you address that.

David Logan: So people that have been held back, do you see that as being a risk aversion or of comfort zone areas?

Willie Nicol: There is an element of both of that, aversion to risk and unwilling to push out of our comfort zone. That’s a kind of hackneyed phrase, that comfort zone if you stay in a comfort zone – your not going to develop and improve – move forward. I don’t like using the word issues and obstacles and problems because these words are inherently negative. And if we focus on those words, we develop a negative mindset. So I like to use the very neutral word “things”. We all have things. We’ve get things we want to improve. We’ve got things you want rid of. We’ve got things we want to have less or more of, whatever. So people come to me with their things that could be anxiety, stress, lack of confidence, overwhelm, whatever. And they recognize that these things are preventing them from getting the outcomes and the results that they want. We work together to address said things, get rid of them, improve them, delete them, whatever it happens to be. And I often say to my prospective clients. What is it you want? What are you prepared to do to get it? And that tends to focus the mind. And I would urge anyone who has a thing or things to think about these two questions. What do you want and what are you prepared to do to get it?

David Logan: Your clients, how do you prefer to work with them? Do you perfer to work one to ones or do you do group sessions?

Willie Nicol: I have been doing one to one, and before lockdown it was face to face, which can be more effective at achieving the outcomes you want. Obviously now because of lockdown I’m doing all my coaching online. Another disadvantage of lockdown was that I was just at the point of branching out to group sessions where we’ll take a group of people with either similar things or disperate things. We bounce ideas off each other. So one to one just now online, but that will expand to group sessions online. And ultimately, when the lockdown is lifted face to face.

David Logan: Good. good. Your sessions generally, on average, your average client – I know you go from one extreme to the other extreme, depending on what the background is, what problems, obstacles they’ve got. On average how many times does the client have to come back to see you? To resolve that issue, if I can call it that?

Willie Nicol: How long is a piece of string? Your using these words “obstacles” and “problems” there, remember it’s only “things” we have to get going right. What I say to people that come to me as we explore what things they want to talk about and they will ask me that question. How long will we have to work together and how much will it be, and what will the effort be? I say to them, if your car develops a loud noise and you take it to the mechanic, and you ask him to look at it. You don’t say immediately how long will it take to fix and how much will that be? Because the mechanic will say, quite honestly, until I’ve looked under the bonnet. I don’t know. So it would be dishonest of the mechanic to say, I’ll fix it in an hour and charge a hundred quid. Just as it would be dishonest of me until we’ve had a conversation, further, to say, yeah, this will be X amount of sessions, Y amount of money and you will have to do this amount of effort. This is a collaborative approach between the client and me to discuss the best way forward. So although that seems, or might seem, I’m being evasive, I think that is the answer to your question.

Wilie Nicol: I can also say when your mechanic opening the bonnet of your car. I won’t know how long it will take until i open up the top of your head and I’ve have a looked inside.

David Logan: Does it look pretty?

Willie Nicol: Aye, aye, sir. Figure of speech David. Thankyou.

David Logan: Ok that’s great Wilie, that’s good for this week. Heading towards end of time now. To the viewer, if you’ve got a question for Willie, comment below. If you don’t want to do it publicly, send Willie a private message. I’m sure you’ll be okay with that Willie?

Willie Nicol: Of course.

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Willie Nicol: Goodbye from me, Willie Nicol, the Techno Dinosaur and what he said.