Stephen, Ann-Marie and Richard will be chatting with Gerry and Alvin on Monday 13th June between 6pm and 7pm on ‘Mind your own business’ – the show that looks at issues of concern to local businesses. They’ll be discussing how they help people achieve success and giving tips on stress busting, relationship problems and business development.
SwindonFM is the channel (105.5 on the dial) or listen on the Internet here
Our coaching team gets you back on track
Well – it’s now flaming June – somehow we now find ourselves halfway through the year. So how are you getting on with those new year resolutions you made in January?
If you promised yourself you’d join the local gym and get on the road to better health but find yourself slipping then our coaching team can help you find that inspiration and motivation you need to get you back on track.
Team member and GP Dr Stephen Brooke not only runs a busy practice but is also our resident Health and Wellness coach, and is the person to talk to …
If that romance that started out so well at the beginning of the year is no longer blossoming you might like to get in touch with Ann-Marie Conroy, our specialist in personal relationships.
Coaches Richard Hovey, Isla Baliszewska, and Di Morgan are always on hand to help you on the work front if you feel that you could do with a mid-year change of direction.
Link-up with Bible Society grows
Yesterday Isla and I enjoyed talking to the monthly meeting of all British Bible Society staff in Swindon, about the value of coaching at home and at work, in advance of free taster sessions we are offering to staff there next month.
In building relationships with local employers, we see coaching “taster sessions” as a good way of raising awareness of the benefits of coaching. People receiving a taster session may well bring personal rather than work-related issues, but whatever we talk about there will be a knock-on benefit to the employer.
We are interested in doing similar work with other businesses and charities. Get in touch!
There was a big turn-out for the Swindon Connections evening on Thursday 12th May at the newly refurbished De Vere Hotel. The hotel did us proud with an interesting selection of nibbly bits in their brand new ‘Inspirations’ suite. The speaker was Sharon Wright (of Dragons Den fame) and her talk could have been entitled ‘inspirations’ as well. A tale of rags to riches (well sort of), a big let down, illness, and rising again despite all odds. She held the audience spellbound throughout and there was a big queue to buy her book afterwards.
Stephen and Di were there for the Swindon Coaching Team, and although we can’t promise fame on quite the scale of Sharon Wright, remember we are here to help inspire you!
Government Leadership Grant extended
Many people were caught out at the end of last year, when the UK government scheme to support leaders of small businesses was so successful that it ran out of money before its intended deadline this April, despite urgings not to leave applications to the last minute. Changes to government funding meant that we were not expecting the scheme to continue, despite the large number of our clients that had benefitted from the £1000 grant.
The good news is that the scheme has just been relaunched, to run until March 2012 – but don’t leave it until the last moment to get in touch with us! It doesn’t matter whether you have received a grant from a similar scheme in the past.
This time around, the Leadership and Management Advisory Service grant will give up to £1000 (matched funding) to the key leaders of growing firms with between 2 and 249 staff – to help with the development of people and processes in the organisation through interventions such as coaching and workshops.
Businesses need to be able to show planned growth of 20% in staff or turnover for each of the following three years (10% for Social Enterprise). Firms less than 12 months old need to show plans for turnover of £500,000 after three years.
Full details of the scheme in the South of England are here:
http://www.skillssoutheast.co.uk/leadership-and-management.html
To explore how best to benefit from this scheme, to talk through the growth potential of your business, or to start an application, call us now!
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