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“Community Enterprise Coaching That Really Works”

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You might be interested in attending this event being put on next week by friends at TEDCO.

UCanB Anything Event

“Community Enterprise Coaching That Really Works”

Mount Oswald Manor & Golf Course, Durham 18/03/2008, 9.00am – 1.00pm

Community Enterprise Coaching is attracting a lot of interest at the moment and as we are fortunate to be at the forefront of this activity in the region through development and delivery of the UCanB project in South Tyneside, we are hosting a “UCanB Anything – Community Enterprise Coaching That Really Works” event in your area, to which we would personally like to invite you.

The event will take place on 18th March and will be hosted at the Mount Oswald Manor & Golf Course in Durham, 9.00am – 1.00pm.

The focus of this event is to showcase the UCanB model of Enterprise Coaching and event will cover:

– The history of the UCanB Model

– The importance of understanding the local enterprise culture and networks

– The principles of UCanB Enterprise Coaching

– What UCanB Enterprise Coaches actually do – finding clients, engaging them, supporting them on their enterprise journey

– Why this type of work is important and different to business advice

– How applying the UCanB model can complement employment support, economic regeneration or community development work

– What UCanB products we offer that can help your enterprise coaching project become a class leader

If you are looking to fund this sort of community enterprise support or are looking to deliver it then this is a model that is proven in the region and is comparable to other established models such as Sirolli and BizFizz.

This event will be a real opportunity to see first hand how our model has developed and grown and how accessing UCanB products you could apply this model of Enterprise Coaching support to your local area.

The event will be attended by a range of local and regional partners.

To book your place, please contact John Sexton on: 0191 428 3383 or e-mail jsexton@tedco.org

Kindest Regards

John Sexton

UCanB Project Support Officer

TEDCO (The Tyneside Economic Development Company Ltd)

TEDCO Business Centre

Viking Industrial Park

Jarrow

Tyne and Wear

NE32 3DT

Tel: (0191) 428 3383

Mob: 07795 433 366

Fax: (0191) 428 3388

Please contact TEDCO directly if you would like to attend.

Benevolence, self-interest, self love and humanity

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own self interest.  We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.  Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly on the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations

Is a failure to really understand our own self-interest, a lack of self-love, a causal factor in some of our most disadvantaged communities? If yes, what to do…

Inspiration from Haneberg and Strickland

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Just listening to Lisa Haneberg’s podcast with Bill Strickland.  I can’t get enough of these ideas.  They consider a really powerful question along the lines of:

Will your life be a reflection of your environment or a reflection of your vision of how you want the world to be?

How can we build a relationship with our clients that is strong enough to allow us to ask this question?

If you have done my enterprise coaching programme you will (I hope) recognise this as a classic and powerful ‘confrontational’ question.  It is one that we should aspire to ask in our work with clients.

Making the right choice in relation to this question could be fundamental in helping stimulate a more enterprising culture in some of our most disadvantaged communities.

We should also consider this question in relation to our own practice and the nature of the relationship with our own organisation.  If our organisation is obsessed with outputs and targets does that mean our service needs to reflect that?  If our employer is bureaucratic and process driven do we choose to reflect that – or a more entrepreneurial culture?

Do we have the courage to take a different route?

Bill talks about changing the environment, physical and psychological, to provide a context that is affirming, positive and facilitative of peoples’ assets rather than focusing on, labelling and magnifying their deficits.

Enterprise professionals as custodians of the human spirit.  What a vision.  Now where was that business plan.

Give the podcast a whirl – watch the videos – you could even read the book!

Blowing My Own Trumpet!

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Couple of pieces of feedback about small pieces of work. 2 hour diagnostic conversations with managers of enterprise services followed up by brief 1000 word reports back to them.

Hi Mike,

thanks for this….you have managed to capture exactly my vision, and my apprehensions, in regards to the the service and expressed it in a way that is so much more professional than I could ever do myself.

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Dear Michael,

Thank you so much for meeting with me last week and for the report you kindly sent us.  It was very helpful to talk through the issues and to have them laid our so succinctly in your report, which despite identifying several areas that need addressing, I found very encouraging.

I am not quite sure the best way to approach [our funders] but do feel I it would be beneficial to send them a copy before I see them.  Are you happy for me to do this?  I shall also send the information to our Board to reflect on and I have requested that we find some time to work on the issues you highlight.

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You also suggested I should contact someone from the council about taking the market plan forward into the city.  Are you happy for me to takes some quotes from your report to send to [ list of councillors], if we are going to progress our move into [the city centre] it will only happen by having all of them on board.

I look forward to hearing from you and again many many thanks for your time, encouragement and assistance…

In both cases the intervention has led to clearer understanding and a series of actions designed to take things forward.  This IS the enterprise coaching cycle in practice.

If you manage an enterprise service and would benefit from a similar service do get in touch!