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The Meeting Agenda will be posted 1-2 weeks prior to the next meeting Agenda - 17th October 2011 Hi Everyone Well the next Exchange meeting is almost upon us – Monday 17th. We continue at our usual venue, the Quaker Meeting House, but there are developments regarding a possible new venue. All will be revealed on Monday J This month we have yet another excellent topic, Workplace Creativity, with Adrian Frost at the helm. Adrian has been involved in workplace creativity and innovation for over 10 years. He has trained hundreds of staff in creative techniques, run countless creativity workshops and delivered a 3 day training programme in Serious Creativity through a Management Training college in Warwickshire October Agenda Introductions Possible change of venue Coaching Topic – Workplace Creativity Aims and outcomes – share a variety of different approaches that will enable coaches and their clients to be “more creative” What: · What do we mean by creativity? What does it feel like and how do we recognise it? · Some useful concepts and language to use when exploring “serious creativity” · Some creative tools, how they work, when they might be useful, how to adapt them · Some creative tricks and habits (for when tools are too much) · Hand out will summarise the main themes/tools but other things will hopefully emerge too How: a mixture of some basic theories, group discussion and experimentation / exercise to explore a range of possibilities. The intent is to have a fairly free flowing session, covering a wide variety of different ideas and drawing in contributions from the group on what they find works well too Networking Coffee Break Testimonials – open discussion: how do we get good testimonials? Where to meet clients – what are the best places to meet in terms of atmosphere and cost? Christmas do Agenda - 19th September 2011
Our main topic this month is Dealing with Difficult Conversations. Lucy Owens has been instrumental in bringing this topic forward and has kindly agreed to lead discussions. She’s arranged for locally based actor/teacher Denny Smith to come along and share with us some of his methods on this subject. So we’ll open with a discussion between the group about the coaching methods that we employ, and then hand over to Denny Smith for a more active and much less bum-on-chair approach. Yes – we get the chance to stand up, move about and do stuff! In this section we’ll be focussing on using physicality to gain new perspectives about our coaching and our own ways of dealing with difficult conversations, or in Denny’s own words, active methods towards change. Possible new meeting venue. We’ve struggled to fit in to our room at the Friend’s Meeting House this year. There are no larger rooms currently available there, but I’m going to look at the facilities at The Showroom/Workstation later today. I’ll give you a report and we can discuss our options.
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Agenda - 20th June 2011 This month our main topic is Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment and particularly its application to coaching. Guiding us through this, I’m happy to welcome back Rob Brown, who presented very successfully to us a couple of years ago. Rob is one of only 33 trainers, consultants and coaches licensed to use these tools and the only one in Yorkshire. Rob has years of experience in applying The Thinking Environment in a large range of business and public sector organisations. I’ve attached Rob’s profile above.I’m also very pleased to confirm that from now on, CPD certificates will be available to attendees. So, hope to see you on Monday 20th for what promises to be another enlightening evening. June
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Agenda - 16th May 2011
Please bring along any tools, tips, questions or discussion points, and especially any practical exercises we can learn from and have fun with. I’ll offer these two: · The Broken Record · The Give First Technique Both
have loads of scope for role play and
interaction
Agenda - 21st March 2011 The main focus for this month’s meeting is getting clients and that’s equally important for coaches employed in the workplace. So the main topic for the March meeting is: How to get the client base you want whilst retaining your integrity. This discussion will be led by Claire Turnbull, career and small business performance coach. Her early career as an award-winning salesperson has made her passionate about spreading the word that getting customers doesn’t need to be about selling. We’ll look at business identity, marketing strategies and social media as well as some marketing tools especially for coaches. Eight out of ten small businesses fold in the first year – mostly due to poor sales figures. A great coach doesn’t necessarily translate to being a great sales and marketing person and yet it’s vital if we want to have successful practices (this is also true if you’re coaching in the workplace – you still need to promote yourself to get ‘clients’). Furthermore many coaches feel uncomfortable ‘selling’ and hold a negative image of what a salesperson looks like. Whether you have an established and successful practice or are just starting out the current economic climate makes it vital we don’t ignore this vital part of maintaining our success as coaches. Hope to see you there - Andy March
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Exchange Christmas Party Christmas is coming and it’s nearly time for this year’s Christmas get-together. I hope as many as possible of us can come along and enjoy the food, the goodwill and have a really great evening. This year we are going for tapas again. Our Venue is the highly recommended El Toro at Broomhill, and the date is 13th December at 8pm. You can see the menu and address here: http://www.el-toro-sheffield.co.uk/index_files/Page402.htm Cost The cost to Exchange members is a subsidised £15 – for friends or partners it’s £20. Drinks are extra. All payments on the evening. As always – it doesn’t matter if we haven’t seen you fro a while – we’d love to see you if you can come along. And that goes for newer members who maybe have only visited the Exchange a few times. Please come along and help make the evening a success. Friends and partners This year I think we have enough capacity to also welcome friends and partners if you would like to bring them along (not compulsory!). We have space for up to 30 people, but please do book early. Could you please get back to me by November 29th – but preferable before. Best regards, Andy Agenda - 15th November 2010 Coaching the Mid-Life Crisis (and the Quarter One, too)
Networking coffee break Event Review: Association for Coaching, Doncaster: Using Motivational Interviewing in Coaching Celebrations Agenda - 18th October 2010 Greetings and
introductions Speaker, Anya
Louis – presentation: Intercultural
coaching and training: a personal and professional
account Networking
Coffee Break Intercultural
coaching and training:
Speaker, Anya
Louis – case study, Q & A, discussion December
meeting – party planning! AOB ****** The main topic for
our October meeting is: Intercultural
coaching and training: a personal and professional
account Anya Louis has worked in
intercultural work environments in American, Colombian, German and Spanish
cultural contexts, not to mention London and
South Yorkshire, and passionately believes that
there are more things that unite us than divide us. Anya will cover the following
topics in her interactive talk: · personal intercultural background · overview of the Intercultural Coaching and Training niche · theory and practice · Case study · Q&As Agenda - 17th May 2010 Metaphors in
Coaching “Metaphor, that’s how
the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at
the bottom of being alive” – Gregory Bateson Led by Andy Leigh but primarily a session
of stimulating discussion, and sharing of knowledge and techniques between
members. Please come along to share, learn and
enjoy. Along the way we’ll find time to look at some of the stuff below – and
probably much more
Networking Coffee Break · Yes – it’s a coffee break where we get chance to network! Business Topic · Business payment methods and costing o
Please note: if you don’t wish to share competitive
information on this topic, there will be absolutely no pressure to do so. But
please do come along anyway. * * * AGENDA - Monday 15th March 2010 Toxic People and Toxic Relationships – coaching strategies and techniques An interactive presentation by Andy Leigh – please bring along your own experience, ideas and techniques.
Networking Coffee break
Business topic – Linkedin and Plaxo – online business networking
What are Linkedin and Plaxo good for. Can we use them to generate business? Your experience of these networking platforms are most welcome. Previous Meetings Agenda – February 15th 2010 Thanks to Shirley for all her hard work and leadership. A Focus on Confidence – led by Andy Leigh Confidence coaching techniques and Strategies
Networking Coffee break Confidence as Coaches/business people A chance to focus on ourselves and our own confidence needs as we begin to move out of the recession. Recognising our own levels of confidence and specific areas for attention
Roundup and feedback Celebrations Agenda 16.01.10 (2) Future of Sheffield Coaching Exchange – do you want the coaching exchange to continue and if so how would you like it to run? Please come along and support the exchange and have your say on how we can improve things and get more people to participate. If you want the exchange to continue bring along any ideas regard the format and content of the 2010 programme so that we can construct a useful/interesting programme. Discussion topic How important is it for a coach to develop their confidence in the public speaking and presentation skills arenas? What is your experience in this area and how helpful has it been for your business? Come and share your experiences and listen to Phoebe’s experience as a previous leader for Toastmasters and a current member of a Speakers Club. (5) News round/celebrations – an opportunity to: Ø Tell others about your current work focus, celebrate your recent achievements. Ø Give feedback on events attended or details of forthcoming events . Agenda 16.11.09
Islamic coaching: Spiritual or cultural coaching? Amal Stapley Amal
Stapley was recently trained as an Islamic coach by DiscoverULife in Canada.
Since her return to her home town of Sheffield, after living overseas for many
years, she has been working hard to establish a life coaching business for
Muslim women. She
will facilitate a discussion tonight on “Islamic coaching”; sharing what it
means to her – in terms of the approach to coaching and the value of it - and
looking at how it differs from secular coaching. She’s hoping for a lively, open
discussion.
Many coaches believe that you should never try to sell coaching as it
about giving to receive they prefer to spend the minimum amount of time on
selling/marketing and more time coaching. Others believe that if you are in business then you need to be able
to sell as all business is about selling – what’s your take on
this?
Bring along your ideas and experiences for an interesting
discussion. There will be an opportunity to practice your elevator pitch (only if
you want to) in a safe environment and get feedback from your colleagues.
Check out an event being run by Business link– Practical Selling Skills with Business
Link on the 24.11.09 in Doncaster on the link below: www.businesslinkyorkshire.co.uk/events E.M.C.C. Event Feedback and Learning Points Christmas Bash details and discussion News round/celebrations – an opportunity to:
Discussion Topic: Smarter Networking (Whole group or small group work) What does networking mean
to you and how important is it for coaches to actively network? We
all network in one form or another but some people work at developing their
communication skills and structure their networking approach by belonging to a
formal networking organisation, using social networking such as Facebook,
Linkedin, Twitter and blogs etc Are
you’re a social networking phobic or a junkie, do these mediums work for you
and do they seem to get the results? If
we assume that networking is an ongoing process and not a discreet event and
that it is about connecting at a deeper level by building trust and respect to
strengthen relationships, how are we as coaches approaching this process in
order to seize business opportunities?
Agenda 21st September 2009 Goal setting session – buddy up and reflect on your own goals achieved and discuss your goals or goal focus for the coming year to make this your best year yet General feedback - How did you find the session – did it work for you? Discussion around your goal setting models - what is your favourite that you use and why. The most common model is represented by the acronym SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time based goal setting is often used along with setting the goal in the positive– does this work for you and your clients or if drawing is language of the right brain are goals in pictures better than the written word e.g. Brian Mayne’s goal mapping? Agenda 20th July 2009 Emotional Intelligence – Louise Hutchinson Top tips for running a workshop – Shirley Simpson Book review Andy Leigh “Assertiveness at Work” Ken and Kate Back Following on from last month’s book review on “Niche marketing for coaches” by Hannah McNamara” the group wanted to have further discussions about marketing at this month’s meeting in small breakout groups.
4. Sales and follow up leads – how does this work for you? What do you find most difficult and what can you do to improve your technique? If you cannot make it to the exchange why not can send your thoughts ideas, hot tips for me to pass to others at the meeting? (4) Book Review Shirley Simpson will review the book:The Journey by |
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