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Monday 24th is celebrate your unique talent day

Monday 24^th November is Celebrate your Unique Talent Day.

Now, it’s interesting that although I have seen this posted in several places as a day, when I googled it I can’t find anything about how it started or what others do to celebrate!  So, regardless I am going to share as I think it’s a great theme to get thinking about.

I had a look on the trial edition of visual thesaurus and the words most naturally linked through to talents were natural endowments, gifts and endowments, leading through to expert. This is one of the reasons I always work with new people from Strengthsfinder as a profile.  I have a strong belief that if as coaches we are able to access what we love to do, what we are great at already, and remember all those places we are great, find the work easy, then it’s a lot smoother – and more attractive road, to success than concentrating on all the many things we don’t know how to do yet. Sure, we will always have learning to do – and those of you who know me well know I place a huge importance on professional development and life long learning. I’m just saying – start from what comes easily because it’s a talent, its part of what makes you, you.  As the fabulous Edna at The Coaching Supervision Academy says, who you are is how you coach.

 Tips to bring out your special talents to air

1.  Complete a profile like Strengthsfinder which you can do when you get the book. If you sign up for one to one coaching, we do a full review of how this fits with your vision of who you are as a coach and how you can bring this into your coaching practice.  Book is available on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strengthsfinder-2-0-Upgraded-Discover-Strengths/dp/159562015X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227258480&sr=8-1

Contact me to find out about one to one coaching and/ or supervision claire@growasacoach.com

2.  Ask other people what they see your unique talents as. Not only will it give you a buzz, often people see things that we can’t see because of our belief systems.  How about asking your clients what unique value you add to them?  Want to tell me if I add unique value and what my talent is?  Drop me a mail at claire@growasacoach.com

3.  Review your coaching testimonials and themes that come up again and again as the places in calls where you added most value.  These are likely to be part of your key talent and gift in the way you coach.

4.  Widen the search to think about what your other unique talents are and how you use them in life.  Are you celebrating them enough? I’ll be asking you if you would like to share what your unique talents are as part of celebrate your unique talent day, in a further email on Monday.  Both coaching and life talents – they all add up to make the unique picture that is you.

5.  Once you’ve thought about what your unique set of talents are you can think about how you use them.  Are you placing them freely in the way you live your life and run your business?  What’s stopping you if not?  How about making a commit to trying one action a week which will help you manifest your talent and make use of it?

A new resource from a twitter friend

Hi

I haven't had chance to read this myself yet, but I know so many of you are wondering about social networking, I thought I'd share the resource straight away!

http://www.coachesmarketingsource.com/sn4coaches.html

How about joining some speednetworking online as part of Enterprise week?

Can we speednetwork online? I am sure that there must be a good way of doing it, especially in this day of twitter and facebook!

How about being online between 8pm and 9pm UK time on the day of the Global Networking event, on Tuesday, November 18^th?

You can read tips on networking the speedway on the Global Speednetworking site, as well as other tips

http://www.enterpriseweek.org.uk/get_involved_in/speednetwork_the_globe

Some top ways I think we can take this forwards are:

·         Connecting on twitter and facebook by building relationships on social media – twitter and facebook

·         Tell some short 140 character stories about yourself and your biz

·         Ask for help

·         Tell people what business you are in and what you do

·         Tell people what referrals you are looking for

·         Be able and prepared to recommend others in your network that it may be useful for others to get in touch with

·         Ask market research questions.

Speednetworking?  I think networking in these media will help do that for itself, however how about for the hour of making yourself a personal rule of no more than 10 tweets to one person? You can always connect at a deeper level later by reviewing where you can go to find out more about them or scheduling some time to talk.

Some rules to make this work for us

- Do so in a socially responsible way – no spamming it’s supposed to be fun business building!

What other rules do we need?  Will this work?  Appreciate thoughts and feedback from all you more experienced peeps and tweeters out there!

You can follow me on twitter

http://twitter.com/coachclaire

 

It's Enterprise week!

This week is Global Enterprise week.

www.enterpriseweek.org.uk  - it started in the UK and has now gone global!

Here are some useful resources for you

Follow the group on twitter http://twitter.com/makeyourmark

Read this article about Dragon’s Den & the week http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/3465038/Dragons-Den-star-Peter-Jones-fires-up-enterprise-in-worlds-schools.html

A Friday smile..

I was on the tube this morning off to meet a fellow coach and really just had to smile.

The back advert on the Metro was from the electricals firm LG - I couldn't see anything about their products but they had used LG to create the tag Life's Good.

And you know what it really is!  Blow all this doom and gloom malarky that is out and about all around us and that it is so easy to drift into.  I have just gone FT as a coach and I am LOVING that I finally get to have a proper go doing things I LOVE to do.

So as they said - Today is friday!  They even have suggestions for having some fun - Jump for Joy, Throw frisbee, Actually have lunch.

So, throwing out the Friday fun message  what are you going to love about today?

World Quality Day

13^th November is World Quality Day.

http://www.worldqualityday.org/

What do you do in your business to ensure that there is good quality?

I like the definition, that quality is about being able to make a tangible impact on your business.  Surely that’s something as small business owners, as coaches, we all want?  One of the reasons I find coach training and continuing professional development really important, is that it helps me continue to give my clients and prospects quality information, resources & coaching.

I am committing as part of quality day to ensure that I get started on my new niche, Customer Service Coaching for Small Businesses to help share all the knowledge I have about customer service, customer satisfaction and working with customers, to help you think about how you work with your specific customer groups and how this quality runs through your business.  I heard someone say recently that good customer service shouldn’t be a differentiator for business, but I think it can be one of the elements of a great business if you really define what you stand for.

And that’s where I am starting – with my own business and with defining what I can do to help you with your own businesses.

What’s your commitment to quality for World Quality Day?  I’d love to hear - do comment on the blog to let me know what you are committing to!

Warm Regards

 

Claire

Sharing Vision and Values

So, I've been working, prepatory to my move today to FT coaching, on my marketing vision and values.  I thought it may  be useful to share.

And - here are a couple of calls to action to get you thinking before you read it...

1.  Do you have a vision set up for your business?  What's stopping you?

2.  Does your vision identity opportunities and choices for what you do?  How can you get the best from the way you work?

At The Fabulous Coaching Company our purpose is to facilitate through coaching, training & consultancy the emergence of passionate, confident & knowledgeable owners of small enterprises who customers love to work with & return to do business with time and time again.

 

Our Vision is that empowering more small business owners will enable them to continue to grow their businesses, make small businesses the choice of more consumers & emphasise the benefits of independent, small businesses to the

UK

Economy.

 

Our key values are Connection, Communication, Integrity, and Presence and Commitment.

 

I value Connection.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value through the way it builds relationships with the people it does business with – fellow coaches, suppliers, and the people we work with at all levels.  Connection is listening to the facts, the stories & the intuitive depth of the situation to help pull out the threads of different perspective that make a difference.  Connection is all about finding out how we can best truly serve those we work with to make the biggest difference.

 

I value Communication.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value through communicating at the right level – not too little, not too much and always with the Vision & Purpose of how we can best serve them at the heart of our business.  Communication is about being clear, and helping others to be clear themselves.

 

I value Integrity.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value through our belief in the value of a professional and warm relationship with our clients, bounded by professional ethics & the confidential, safe relationship we build with our clients.

 

I value Presence.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value when we truly hear what dreams, aspirations and stuck moments our clients are having and are there to help them find new ways to move forwards.

 

I value Commitment.  The Fabulous Coaching Company lives this value when we follow our purpose and vision and put our talents and strengths into the right projects & learning to help us continually growing and moving forwards.  Commitment lives in choosing with intuition and with analysis what will help us and our clients to grow.