POWER OF COACHING AFFECTS YOU AND COLLEAGUES

Having children was the turning point for Emma Ranson Bellamy, who retrained as a coach to allow her more time with her family. Now she wants to work with local firms

My career up until five years ago was in magazine and newspaper publishing, growing teams and revenue. I made the career choice to be a coach after gaining superb experience in publishing.

Having children was a turning point. I was in a high pressurised position where 9-5 and family-friendly did not exist.

Working as a trainer for a major training organisation, I had the flexibility to keep my skill set current, which gave me the impetus to retrain as a coach. Coaching is so powerful it affects everyone who experiences it, including their family, friends and work colleagues.

I'm also proud to be co-director of www.saveabitspendabit.co.uk, a website devoted to inspiring children to save.

The site is full of fun ways to teach children about the value of saving money.

Children are like little sponges - they absorb good habits as well as bad.

With a few well chosen games and structured conversations you can arm them with the tools to live happy financial futures.

Taking the time to invest in individual development will quickly pay dividends. It took me a long time to learn the art of delegation and in my role as a coach I find this is not uncommon. I work with very senior individuals who cannot or will not delegate, which ultimately holds everyone back.

Unlocking the potential in yourself helps you unlock it in others around you, so you can push forward and pull everyone along with you. It's so much easier when you are pulling in the same direction.

Have a vision of what you want to become and where you want to be in the future.

All too frequently people have no real idea of where they are going and are then surprised when they get nowhere. Draw a road map, starting with the end, and work backwards; you'll be surprised how quickly a great journey is plotted with you at the wheel.

My family is very important to me and it is integral for my own work-life balance not to be away from them.

This area is rich in talent, energy and resources and I, together with my stable of associates, want to work with firms in the region to harness the power.
 

Emma’s workshop “Focus on the “What” & allow the “How’s” to happen” on Thursday encourages you to re visit your dreams and aspirations that have been sidelined by life. It’s also a good opportunity to work through a problem or goal to a solution.

Emma: At certain times in our lives our dreams seem further behind us than in front of us. It’s not that we have forgotten but life has drained some of the beauty out of them as we struggle to see how we are ever going to achieve them. This powerful workshop allows us to re-visit those dreams in the context of our current lives and begin to build strategies towards achieving them.

The workshop is a great introduction to coaching and it is free! Riverside is just off the Exe Bridges roundabout into Okehampton Street. Doors open at 7pm. Worksheets are provided, all you need to bring is a pencil.

It is expected to be a very popular event and places are limited, to book or find out more please call: 01392 210416 between 8.30am & 4.30pm or email info@riversideexeter.co.uk.

More events are planned in February with courses on Relationships, “Life after Debt” plus the very successful “Celebrate Recovery” programme. Use the same contact details to get more information or apply for these too.
 

The First Day from Now ©

"The First Day from Now"© is a short story I wrote for my own children when my partner and I decided to split the 'not so happy home'. As very young children (the youngest was only 2 and the eldest 4) it was very difficult for them to understand what was happening to their world. The story gives them a potted history of life before they were born. It aims to be a starting point for conversations between the parents and the children and acts as a focus point to move forward from the present situation. If you would like to read the script to your own children, you can *download it here. If you have any comments (good or bad) please e mail me, if you can help me publish it, illustrate it or make it even more relevant to a wider audience I would love to hear from you.

I am in the process of writing a coaching handbook for parents who are experiencing break up and divorce. If you have something you feel would be relevant to include in the book whether it be a nightmare scenario you had with your partner or insight into how you would have done things differently, then I would love to hear from you.

*Depending on your PC and its settings, when you download, you may get prompted for a password; in this event, just click the cancel prompt.