group supervision circle - coming soon

Learn to coach.  Get a qualification, get your business sorted. Only do the work you wanna do, work with the people you wanna work with, have a proper work life balance.   Take holidays when you want. At some point think about accreditation.  Grow your business.  Build your profile.  Maybe write a book. Host a podcast.  Do it all.  Piece of cake, Bob’s your uncle, life’s sweet, awesome, no worries.  All of that …..

Except it’s not quite that simple.  Not quite.  Most of us go into coaching because we love to coach.  Many coaches don’t love the business side of it quite so much.  But we struggle through.  We discover how to make it work through trial and error.  We might get a business coach. We hopefully have a coaching supervisor.  We start to realise that maybe there’s a disconnect between the business and what we want and need from it.   

Lately I’ve been in cahoots with my fabulous friend, colleague, and team coach, Kelly Drewery talking about all of this stuff and more.  Together, we’ve identified six capabilities that show up again and again in conversations with coaches working on their businesses. These capabilities generally don't appear in coaching training, but we believe that they are the basics that it’s essential to get a grip of to ensure a coaching business is sustainable, fits with life goals, and creates coherence between work and life goals. We think they're something along these lines:

1. having a business mindset and understanding the changing coaching industry

2. creating smart business operations and getting to grips with workflow, technology and simplifying/caling (if you're wanting to grow)

3. developing the business, niches, marketing pipelines etc

4. maintaining your presence, wellbeing, growth - really important but often the thing that suffers when the focus is on the other four...

5. knowing your worth, financial mapping etc6. making things happen through being accountable and reflective

We’ve started experimenting with these together. We feel these recognise our identity as owners of coaching businesses as well as managing ourselves in a way that means we can show up well with coaching clients.

We'd like to invite you to join us for an informal conversation in a group setting on Zoom. If you fancy joining us, book one of the dates via Kelly’s Calendly or message me via Linked In - and we look forward to seeing you.