Not just a network, a community.
People need people.
Like me, many independent consultants and coaches become independent because they want freedom, autonomy, and choice. Maybe that's you, too.
The irony is that we're people people, and working as independents extracts us from our team and reduces our connections with fellow-professionals and like-minded people.
Some of us would like to change that, so we're building a community - not just a network.
What's the difference? A network is vital, but it is largely transactional. We all use it to leverage expertise, resources, and connections. There's nothing at all wrong with that but, for many of us, it's missing something.
A community is a network comprised of people with a shared interest and sense of identity around a topic that is meaningful to its members; a place where there is a collective intention—however implicit—to steward a domain of knowledge, and to help each other grow.
Our Community PURPOSE
CONNECTION AND COLLABORATION
A safe, confidential space where we can relax, chat, make new friends and catch up with old ones. Where we can share our aspirations and concerns. Where we can get genuine support, constructive challenge, and generate energy - all with people with whom we share a set of core values and a real interest in our profession and its purposeful work.
LEARNING AND
GROWTH
An active, empowering, and purposeful community; sharing ideas, supporting each other, sharing information, models, and frameworks, setting up Action Learning Sets, running Masterclasses, round tables, and co-coaching circles - learning together and growing in directions that we deeply value and enjoy.
ELEVATING
AND
EMPOWERING
We are all earning a living and all want to do interesting and rewarding work. By elevating our professional practices by collaborating as a community and exploring how we can work together - by leveraging our our collective intelligence, contacts, resources, and capabilities - we can show up as a team of experts who can deliver world-class solutions at whatever scale attracts us.
THE AIM OF THE COMMUNITY IS TO:
- Provide connection, support, and appropriate challenge for each other; helping us all achieve personal objectives.
- Enable us all to learn and grow in those professional domains in which we wish to be expert and make a meaningful contribution.
- Generate collaborations to win and deliver brilliant solutions for great clients:
- providing community members with a reliable source of interesting work
- enabling community members to deliver larger-scale projects by accessing the community’s expertise and resources.
ENABLING TALENT WILL SUPPORT THIS BY:
- Creating and maintaining a client-facing brand that showcases Enabling Talent as a purposeful organisation with world-class expertise and delivery capabilities.
- Investing in research and development in leadership, assessment, and related topics; keeping community members well-informed of the latest developments in the field.
- Organising a monthly programme of learning opportunities; connecting members and enabling them to continuously improve in their chosen domains.
- Investing in marketing activities on behalf of Enabling Talent (and thus the community).
- Providing Sales training, Sales consultancy support, and Sales materials to community members.
- Connecting community members with consultants, expert Project Managers, and Administrative Support for their independent consulting activities.
JOIN US - it'll be fun!
Let us know what you think - and if you'd like an invitation to our next meeting!
