Coaching Groups. This is what is on my mind at the moment. I am preparing to bring together my experience as a coach with my experience of working with groups in order to offer a series of coaching groups.

I am full of excitement about this, even as I juggle my preparatory work for the groups with my current work-load. I am especially excited to offer groups in areas that really thrill me. I’ll be offering my corporate clients the opportunity to create groups of leaders, for example, who want to develop greater leadership effectiveness or to develop their skills in coaching those they lead.

I’m also offering groups in other areas of great interest. Right now I’m poised to send out an invitation to new coaches to join a New Coaches Group. This group will work with coaches who are setting up their coaching practice and want tailored support at a cost they can afford. In the field of nonviolent communication (NVC) – an area of special interest – I am offering three groups. One will help people to build firm foundations in NVC – to master the fundamentals, if you like. One will be for experienced practitioners who want to continue to deepen their understanding and practise of NVC. One will be a marketing group for NVC trainers who want to become more effective in creating a market for their own unique offering in this area.

I am already putting the word out and I’ll be watching with interest to see which groups take off first. Who knows, I may even find that there are groups I don’t know of yet just waiting to come to me! I’m preparing invitations and will be sending them out this month.

Today, I start to address one part of the invitation – to reach out and ask for quotes to include in my materials. Many requests go to people I know well – colleagues, clients, my coach, Lynne Fairchild. One is a little off the wall – to my colleagues on the Training Journal Daily Digest. I am curious to notice how vulnerable I feel as I wonder what will come back…