NOTE: THIS IS THE POST I MADE TO MY ORIGINAL BLOG SITE. I ENCLOSE IT HERE FOR SOME MORE BACKGROUND. 10/23/03
Yoda SoDa Thoughts
thoughts about executive coaching and living in the Great Plains of Dakota.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Welcome to my Yoda SoDa Thoughts blog. It's Fall in South Dakota After a year of living small in the country I'm still enchanted with the air, land, space, people, lifestyle of the plains. I'm free again. I can breathe. I can think. After 43 years in Miami, I'm home.
The blog is a place for me to note thoughts about two topics: living small in the plains (SoDa) and about the exploding profession of coaching (Yoda). I need to tell about these two topics so close to my heart.
First, though, the animals. I have 7 cats plus a foster kitten and 4 dogs. These
"children" are the source and receivers of much of the love in my life. And they remind me that my "power" is an illusion. The foster kitten was near death until Peggy, friend and neighbor and librarian at the Emma Burnham Public Library, rescued her. I'm taking care of her until --as I put it -- she's in college. Which means until this tiny, half pound creature can protect herself from day-to-day threats. (SEE BLOG WRITTEN YESTERDAY ABOUT THE NEWBORN KITTEN CHAMP.)
I spent two days in Chicago this week at his seminar led by Chris Barrows, www.thebusinesscoachingco.com. His seminar is the Million Dollar Coaching Practice. I like to stay up with new things in coaching, and Chris is certainly that. Check out his website for lots of free forms and information, and by all means do his seminar. (UPDATE: THE NEWYORK SEMINAR IS CANCELLED; CHECK HIS WEBSITE FOR A HOPED-FOR US SEMINAR SOON.)
What was the most important thing I got from the Seminar? Two important things:
1. To build a coaching clientele, you must become known via newsletter, speeches, showing up at conferences, networking, connecting with people one-one and in groups AND he says you must have a PROGRAMME (as Chris spells it; he's very British).
2. To build a coaching practice, you must learn how to set up a small business and get whatever support you need to run it.
This is not new, but Chris presents the process in a funny, fresh, irreverent, entertaining way that teaches, inspires and trains with no low spots. Don't miss this.
more later
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