STEP UP FORUM - Group Coaching

Join a coach led group of success, action orientated owner managers ready to brainstorm on issues preventing you Step Up your business

Do you really know what you want from your business and where you’re heading?
Feel isolated and could do with some regular support to keep you on track?
Do you like to share your knowledge and strengths for mutual gain?

If so, dma’s monthly Step Up Forum offers you a positive environment of up to 10 business owners who are facing, or have experienced similar challenges to you.

A rich combination of group coaching and masterminding supports you in overcoming obstacles that may be hindering your growth and to plan and implement specific actions to reach your business goals.

Just a couple of hours out of your manic month.
A couple of hours of clear head-space. A bit of friendly support and useful advice. An open, honest and securely private forum to air your hopes, fears and fallibilities. Some time off 'selling' and some time for objective views and perspectives. A time when ideas can be truly creative, off the wall and inspirational. Time to breathe.
Just a couple of hours. Time well spent.
Kerry Anderson - Bang Anderson Creative

FACE TO FACE MONTHLY MEETING

The Tunbridge Wells Forum meets in Southborough on the first Tuesday of the month. A second group has been launched in Kings Hill and meets on the first Wednesday of each month.

Building mutually supportive relationships by sharing a wide range of experiences over a broad range of issues will inspire your growth and that of your business. Topics to be discussed will be agreed with the members of the group depending on the current challenges and issues that will offer most to the group and their businesses.

A KICK START 1-2-1 SESSION WITH YOUR COACH

To get to know your coach, Denise, and identify your strengths and challenges, there is an optional first Step Up session that consists of:

On-line access to Module 1: Step Up Your Business to get you thinking about where you’re at and raise to the surface the issues that are a priority for action
On-line access to Module 2 to get you thinking about what you enjoy as well as a “strengths profile” so you can focus your efforts on what you do best for maximum productivity
A 1-2-1 session with Denise to work through your priorities for action - so you can see the wood for the trees!

“The Step up Forum is a great concept offering valuable, affordable business coaching to small business owners in a group environment. This was exactly what I needed to take my business forward and I would highly recommend it.”
Alastair Wood - AW Accounting

ACTION PLANS WITH SUPPORT BETWEEN SESSIONS TO MAKE THEM HAPPEN

At the end of each meeting, every member will identify and record actions they want to take before the next meeting and will receive support to make them happen through:

An on-line forum with your coach and peers to raise challenges, inspire actions from each other, and share successes.
An online accountability module accessible to your coach where you can record the action to which you have committed, your progress and or anything preventing you taking action. Your coach will have access to this module to help you if you get stuck.
Buddying with a group member to inspire implementation between sessions

As a solopreneur and a new business owner, sometimes I felt a little lost… Networking was great for my business and gave me the chance to interact with other business owners but I knew that I needed an environment where I could open up honestly about the challenges I was facing, rather than try and always have my “confident, in control” face on. DMA’s group coaching has met that need head on…
A group of like minded business owners, able to share the trials and tribulations of working life, whilst being guided by Denise towards resolving our issues in a well thought out, structured way. Being guided in such a way that you ultimately answer your own questions is a triumph… Issues that felt overwhelming, once talked through, finally produce a light at the end of the tunnel.
The group coaching sessions offer an opportunity to invest some time back into finding the balance – making your business work for you, allowing you to celebrate your own successes and ensuring that you can see the wood for the trees for the month ahead!
Jo-Anna Francis - Maidstone Virtual Assistant

CONFIDENTIALITY

To get the most out of your group meeting, and to be able to build trust and rapport, it will be imperative that we all agree to keep any discussions confidential, and this will be a condition of acceptance to the group.

MONTHLY COST

The monthly Step Up Forum costs £57 a month* and includes:

	A monthly face to face group session of up to 10 like-minded, success and action orientated business owners – to brainstorm, inspire and overcome challenges by committing to take action
	Access to two online modules and a personality profile to focus on your strengths and priorities for personal and business growth
	An optional 1-2-1 session with your coach to focus on your strengths and what you want from your business
	An online forum with your coach and peers to discuss and overcome challenges and share inspirations and successes
	Buddying with a peer to inspire action before the next meeting

* At members' reqest, the Kingshill forum has been extended to 2.5 hours at a cost of £74 per month.

As the Step Up class is for those inspired to take action, there is an initial 6 months commitment after which there is a one month notice period should you wish to cancel.

To discuss the Step Up Forum with Denise please email, phone or book an appointment.

I thought I would just drop you a line thanking you for organising and running the Step up Group at Kingshill. I find the monthly sessions continue to build on the one to one session we originally undertook some time back, and exploring further the strengths we identified at the start of the step up sessions .Indeed I found the strengths book an eye opener and have organised all team members at the branch to go online and identify their own strengths .The team members have willingly done this with some surprising vim that has enabled the branch team to work together in greater harmony and productivity.

I decided to continue after six months with the step up sessions as I also find the discipline of once a month running through my own personal targets (reduction in lock up and increased delegation) increasingly valuable in continuing my journey to achieve a better work/life balance. For too long I have cranked up the hours to achieve targets rather than thinking smarter. This step up group is another means of achieving this balance which is so crucial for Rustrick PLC.
Thanks once again
Sean Rustrick - Director