Last night, I was called up. Can you take a workshop session on Work / Life balance running twice tomorrow at the Global Women's Conference. The scheduled person had pulled out with laryngitis. The logical part of me was in the middle of listing a thousand excuses why not. Another part was like crazy going through all the possibilities when I heard myself say 'YES!".
Hey, if this is not being a real coach, I do not know what it is. No was never an option, really! (Apart from my risk adverse part, although I am reducing the impact that one has!)
That was 7.00 pm. Workshops scheduled to run at 11.00 then 14.00. With a good nights sleep (very important) that left 8 hours. Bring in the GoMAD thinking framework and some possibility thinking. Who could I involve? Well, a teachers perspective is always great when designing workshops. They do it every day, they are called lessons. The coaching clients I have had, their (anonymised) stories. The blogs I have been following. The books I have read. I pulled together a framework of stuff.
Mmmm. Always important to change perspective. The bathtub review. A great way to test out the model so far. 5 out of 10. mmmm work to do still.
Wow, the best ideas really do come in that time before we drop off. That twilight between consciousness and sleep time. I have read how some of the great minds capture those thoughts and applied them in their work.
Somehow, I had managed to keep hold of those twilight thoughts. This morning, I was on fire and the firm framework appeared that used the NLP model of presentation as its basis.
Briefly, the structure whizzed through why improve work life balance, a test of the current imbalance of the group, rise out of process and look at the big picture of what is important; values and umbrella goals, work through current stuff to do and how to create specific actions (eating the elephant), prioritise, understand our obligations, use time effectively, understand our detractors, stop procrastinating, remove hindering thoughts and just do it!
The first group came. I was pumped. Yet calm. This was my first real run through. Hey, I was a dry run really realistic? During the session, I had the ladies talking, sharing ideas, experiences and debating. They were brilliant. Some amazing people. Being able to open them up and bring to the surface the rich resources, skills and experience was fab. I ended and immediately was analysing. I am my harshest critic. My analysis was stopped in its tracks as Rich Martin gave me some feedback from the ladies. 'Great' 'Fantastic' 'Really useful'. That'll do donkey....
Over the break, I chatted with Lisa, the 'confidence coach'. She gave me an idea for an icebreaker, get movement and energy in the room (hey it was the afternoon session) and a way to get some qualitative evaluation.
Back in session 2. The notes were put away. It just flowed. That included the women. Again, what stories! People are amazing! Lovely feedback too.
I just provided keys to open up the thinking.
Wow. I have just been a subject matter expert in a coaching workshop in a BIG event.
Its ONLY March. Another WIN, what a week!
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