Here are the much anticipated topics and speakers for this year’s crop of Brown Bag lunches. Places are limited to a maximum of 30 attendees for each date.
The purpose of ‘Brown Bag’ is two-fold – an opportunity to network, and for ongoing learning/CPD. Originally designed to help Graduates keep in touch through the recession, we’re keeping them going as you pleaded they not end! Brown Bag events are inexpensive, thanks to the generosity of our kind hosts; you bring your own lunch, coffee etc. To help us keep costs down (we’re holding them at the same level for 2011) we would be very grateful if you would book online, using the links below.
The format is usually:
| 12.00-12.30 | Networking |
| 12.30-1.15-ish | Speaker |
| 1.15-2.00 | Networking |
| 2.00 | Close |
Due to greatly increased demand, we regret that Brown Bag lunches are now available only to members of the Business Coach community. Please contact the office to check on availability or make your booking via the Alumni section.
Dates and speakers for 2011 are:
Wednesday 16 February
City location
Speaker: Ori Wiener
Fee negotiation, eeeek I can scarcely manage to mention my fee…! If you are in the vast majority of business coaches, lawyers, management consultants etc, who take pride in doing excellent work, but feel unable to charge what you think the work is worth, and/or have to take a very deep breath to talk fees, and/or take the fee the buyer sets without demur – then you should perhaps POUNCE on this rare chance to get a feel for the issues covered in the highly acclaimed Fee Negotiation Workshops which Ori Wiener and his Partners at GARA Consulting have been delivering over the last few years to some of the world’s most successful professional service businesses! (And if you’re a PSF HR/L&D, alarmed at business coaches being equipped to charge you more – even lots more – then think of it the other way, send along some Partners to learn how to do the same with their clients!)
Wednesday 6 April
City location
Speaker: Kevin Wheeler
Over the last 24 years, Kevin Wheeler has advised more than 100 professional services firms on all aspects of marketing, business development (BD), and client relationship management (CRM), and he’s in such demand he very rarely does open workshops. Anne heard his ‘seven steps of marketing’ many years ago and had never forgotten: it transformed the business she was then leading, and has been the rock on which she has built her marketing ever since. She tracked Kevin down to appear in her book, and while talking to him, seized the chance to beg him to speak to the community. So here’s your chance, live, to hear from the guru himself! (kevin.wheeler@wheelerassociates.co.uk)
Wednesday 8 June
City location
Speaker: Elizabeth Mullins
Do I need it? What difference does it make? Which of the many bodies (AC, ICF, EMCC, WABC, SGCP of the BPS, SCP, APECS, etc, etc, plus many more around the world) is right for my organisation/me? How do I apply, what does it cost, what level is right for me, what will I need to do to maintain it? All the questions you’ve thought of, plus the many you hadn’t, answered cheerily, calmly and clearly by the wonderful Elizabeth Mullins, Meyler Campbell’s Director of Accreditation, who has been battling on your behalf behind the scenes for many years! (Elizabeth is a freelance business coach, specialising in leadership development and change management at Morgan Mullins Associates).
Wednesday 20 July
City location
Speakers: John Lucy
Business coaches are swarming over law firms: lawyers buy more coaching than any other group; pay handsomely for it; and are fascinating, challenging clients to work with. But external coaches gazing longingly at this feast of prospective work, and/or anyone planning to coach internally there, needs to know there is a vast gulf between the law, and every other workplace. At the heart of the difference is the mind of the lawyer: by inclination, selection, training, and what the culture rewards, they become utterly unique. And that’s official: more depressed than any other occupational group, yet also – but for the rest, you need to wait for this gripping BB Lunch presentation by John Lucy, psychologist, and long-term law firm habitué!
Wednesday 14 September
City location
Speaker: Vanessa Kingsmill
Why do major law and accounting firms spend a fortune on coaching for women returning to work after maternity leave? Because it makes a huge difference, that’s why! To the bottom line, to retention, and to performance. Vanessa Kingsmill, a professional coach specialising in the fast-growing new field of maternity coaching, says it can often make a difference as stark as between losing valuable talent altogether, and getting female lawyers back to work in a positive frame of mind, well prepared to take on the new challenges ahead of them.
Vanessa worked at Freshfields for 12 years both as a lawyer and in HR, and had three children whilst working herself. Challenging some prescriptive approaches in this market, which presume all women face the same issues at similar stages, Vanessa says the range of subjects she has come across is hugely diverse, including loss of confidence in intellectual ability; the dilemma about returning to work when the baby is very young vs. the risk of jeopardising partnership prospects; the seemingly impossible pursuit of truly flexible working; or simply being terrified about impending childbirth. Vanessa will discuss her complex, sometimes very difficult but rewarding specialism from three perspectives, that of the organisation, the coachee, and the coach.
Thursday 10 November
City location
Speaker: Ori Wiener
Fee negotiation, eeeek I can scarcely manage to mention my fee…! If you are in the vast majority of business coaches, lawyers, management consultants etc, who take pride in doing excellent work, but feel unable to charge what you think the work is worth, and/or have to take a very deep breath to talk fees, and/or take the fee the buyer sets without demur – then you should perhaps POUNCE on this rare chance to get a feel for the issues covered in the highly acclaimed Fee Negotiation Workshops which Ori Wiener and his Partners at GARA Consulting have been delivering over the last few years to some of the world’s most successful professional service businesses! (And if you’re a PSF HR/L&D, alarmed at business coaches being equipped to charge you more – even lots more – then think of it the other way, send along some Partners to learn how to do the same with their clients!)
The cancellation period for a Brown Bag lunch is two week’s notice; no refunds or credit will be available if a cancellation occurs less than two weeks prior to the Brown Bag Lunch.
We hope to see you there!