Personal Impact – letting your best you shine through!

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Personal Impact:

Letting your best you shine through!

 

22 January 2019

Making a good first impression is often top of our personal impact wish list – making sure that when we enter a room, we create the ‘right’ vibe about who we are and what we are capable of. And of course there are other ways in which we might want to have an impact and influence others’ impressions of us:

– what we are known for

– what we are liked for

– what we are trusted for

But how often do we feel frustrated that we are not being seen the way we want to be seen? That we are not recognised for having a strength or skill that we know we’ve got, but somehow others miss in us?

In this first session of 2019, Ginette took us through an evening of discovering our personal impact score and working out strategies to increase our scores through practical and fun exercises.

 

From the event:

  • You scored this event as:

out of 5!

Ginette Tessier

Ginette is an internationally certified NLP Trainer (neuro-linguistic programming) and uses NLP to influence her training programmes, both face to face and online, where she helps other freelance trainers to add online training to their business portfolio.

Most importantly, Ginette uses NLP principles in everyday life for her personal self-awareness, development and growth.

She has directly experienced the benefits of understanding how our inner self-talk influences our outer demeanour and impact upon others.

Date:                           Tuesday 22 January, 6.30-8.30pm

Venue:                        Woodpecker Café, Queens Park Pavilion, Queen’s Park West Drive, Bournemouth BH8 9BY

Event Cost:                 £16 (includes drinks and light refreshments)

Parking:                      Plenty of free parking on site next to the venue (2m vehicle height restriction)

Doors open at 6pm for drinks and food before we start at 6.30pm.

Adversity to Freedom

Adversity to Freedom

11 April 2017

Amanda C Watts led a lively and worksheet based session on ‘Adversity to Freedom’ sharing her own story from adversity in her home and work life to family happiness and self-employment. Amanda gave away some copies her best-selling book  “Escape – The definitive guide to escaping the rat race, starting a business, and becoming a Freedompreneur”.

Although Amanda’s story is about becoming self-employed her tools and tips were equally applicable to employed , unemployed and self-employed alike – anyone who wants to create their own a dream life. We all came away reaffirming we were on the right track and/or buzzing with ideas on tweaks to make to our lives!

What attendees thought:

‘Great to be with a fab group of women for the evening.’

‘Lovely, warm, supportive environment. It felt really lovely to meet intelligent, active women.’

‘Good to have practical things to take away’

Amanda C Watts

Amanda C Watts lead a lively and worksheet based session on ‘Adversity to Freedom’ sharing her own story from adversity in her home and work life to family happiness and self-employment. Amanda gave away some copies her best-selling book  “Escape – The definitive guide to escaping the rat race, starting a business, and becoming a Freedompreneur”. Although Amanda’s story is about becoming self-employed her tools and tips were equally applicable to employed , unemployed and self-employed alike – anyone who wants to create their own a dream life. We all came away reaffirming we were on the right track and/or buzzing with ideas on tweaks to make to our lives!

Date:                           Tuesday 11 April, 5.30-8pm

Venue:                        Atkins, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AD

Event Cost:                 £25 (includes drinks and light refreshments)

 

Creating Heart-Led Goals

Creating Heart-Led Goals

24 January 2017

We got 2017 off to a great start with this session, where Marie helped us create goals that tap into our emotional well-being.

Creating our goals (both work and home-related) to lead a holistic and well-balanced life are usually head-led (using logic), rather than heart-led (using emotion). This event supported us to explore ways of tapping into our emotions and use these to create powerful, compelling goals.

From the event:

Marie Smith

My whole career has been focused on supporting people to be the best they can be benefiting not only themselves, but also the organisations they work for, or with, and their families and friends

During my thirty years in learning and development, leadership and coaching I have worked in and with private, public, higher education and not-for-profit sectors.  I feel very grateful and lucky to work with some amazing and inspirational people and organisations. I established my own leadership development and executive coaching business, SUCCESSMITH, in 2012. I continue to enjoy working with a variety of organisations and individuals to support and co-create transformational change.

My passion is supporting people to understand what success means to them and go for what they really want out of life. I specialise in coaching and facilitating the development of leaders in organisations, departments, and teams. I also work on a one-to-one basis with private individuals.

I particularly enjoy supporting all genders, and particularly women, to define and achieve their ‘life purpose’ by overcoming tangible or imagined obstacles.

I feel very privileged that through SUCCESSMITH and through my work with the Aspiring Women Groups, I am able to support others by ‘being the spark that lights the flame for transformational change’, and this is what makes me smile and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the mornings!

Date:                           Tuesday 24 January, 6.30-8.30pm

Venue:                         JP Morgan

Event Cost:                  £16 (includes drinks and light refreshments)

 

Making Time for Mindfulness

Making Time For Mindfulness

18 October 2016

You asked and we delivered!

October’s event was all about Mindfulness – a subject popularly requested.

Scott Brown of Zen Balance took us through managing everyday stress with some mindfulness techniques he’s learnt on his journey from competitive athlete and city trader to Yoga and Mindfulness teacher in Dorset.

Scott said:

It seems in modern living that we can be caught up in lot of stress and anxiety about any number of issues. The talk will broadly look at how we can, with awareness, manage everyday stress, the roles we take on in life and a look at time pressure.
 
There will be a number of practises throughout the presentation that can be used to help develop a little mindfulness on a day to day basis and time for questions after.

From the event:

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  • You scored this event as:

out of 5!

Scott Brown

Prior to studying and teaching yoga and meditation, life looked a little different. A background in competitive sport and a career as a city trader had certainly taken its toll on my mind and body.
 
Life was very much about needing to get somewhere, very busy and not a lot of satisfaction. Luckily a friend introduced me to Andy Puddicombe prior to the days of Headspace when he had a little company called Asunya in Kensington.
 
I began mindfulness study, which in turn led to yoga study. Within a few years I was out of the city, living on the south coast with my daughter, teaching yoga and mindfulness full time.
 
The journey is ongoing, now studying with Zen Master Julian Daizan Skinner in the Rinzai tradition of Zen.

Date:                           Tuesday 18 October, 6.30-8.30pm

Venue:                         The Atrium, JP Morgan

Event Cost:                  £16 (includes drinks and light refreshments)

 

Understanding Others and De-personalising Conflict

Understanding Others and De-personalising Conflict

5 July 2016

The topic for our July 2016 event was a popular one: Understanding Others and De-personalising Conflict’ led by our very own co-leader, Marie Smith.

We had a fun and interactive session exploring the 3 primary approaches of individual’s to gain a feeling of self worth. We played with this information and how it can cause potential conflict.  We worked on personal strategies to ‘nip’ our conflicts ‘in the bud’.

What attendees thought:

Good to meet a diverse group of people and work together on real life issues”
“Very thought provoking”
“Well planned and facilitated, great pace, very informative and useful”

Marie Smith

My whole career has been focused on supporting people to be the best they can be benefiting not only themselves, but also the organisations they work for, or with, and their families and friends

During my thirty years in learning and development, leadership and coaching I have worked in and with private, public, higher education and not-for-profit sectors.  I feel very grateful and lucky to work with some amazing and inspirational people and organisations. I established my own leadership development and executive coaching business, SUCCESSMITH, in 2012. I continue to enjoy working with a variety of organisations and individuals to support and co-create transformational change.

My passion is supporting people to understand what success means to them and go for what they really want out of life. I specialise in coaching and facilitating the development of leaders in organisations, departments, and teams. I also work on a one-to-one basis with private individuals.

I particularly enjoy supporting all genders, and particularly women, to define and achieve their ‘life purpose’ by overcoming tangible or imagined obstacles.

I feel very privileged that through SUCCESSMITH and through my work with the Aspiring Women Groups, I am able to support others by ‘being the spark that lights the flame for transformational change’, and this is what makes me smile and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the mornings!

Date:                           Tuesday 12 July, 5.30-8pm

Venue:                         Atkins, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AD

Event Cost:                  £25 (includes drinks and light refreshments)