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Hi all, im a PCC coach and a starting a new L&D leadership role full time next week (new for me!)

I have been coaching, facilitating and training for 10 years… and i need to keep a few clients ticketing over privately in my LTD after hours (approved with my new role) to keep money flowing in but also ICF hours.

I issues to coach programmes and give flexibility to clients and now I’ll have to be very strict- say Wednesday evenings.

Im trying to figure if it would be better to run a group or just coach 1-2-1 for 3-4 clients.

Does anyone else coach on the side?

Any advice on the juggle appreciated

Hi all.

Uk based female… Two weeeks ago a GP friend pulled me aside and told me I have a goiter.

I’d never heard of it before. I’ve been to the Doctor I have three weeks until my ultrasound and biopsy.

I swing from feeling casual about it to absolutely sheer panic/ shitting myself. Especially when I read about surgeries and cancer.

Im also a singer, and a public speaker. My voice is a huge part of who I am. And I’m scared.

So, Im wondering what I can do to help myself in the meanwhile.

I have read on here about iodine insufficiencies.. I don’t know of thats come up yet in my bloods. (I had them last week, only one thing came up borderline and it was something to do with the size of my cells)

Anyway- would it be worthwhile taking iodine supplements in the mean time? Can that shrink the goiter?

Thanks all.

Hello all, and I’m a little nervous asking this but I am wondering if anyone would like to practice their writing skills, and become a contributing writer on coaching?

What’s happened is this…

I am a PCC level coach, and trainer, I tend to work in consulting and at leadership level. I’ve been wanting to develop my skills, and wondering what direction I should go in (aka team coaching… systematic… etc)

I’m fairly active in my alumni community and found there’s a lot of information about marketing but not a lot about actual career development as a coach

And I guess this is probably because coaching is steadily growing but it’s more about how to mark it yourself as a business rather than what are the benefits of team coaching or how to use transactional analysis or what are the realities of coaching in a fin tech… that kind of thing

As a pet project, I’ve vibe coded a platform to create a hub for this kind of information

I guess it’s selfishly as it’s something I want for me! But I’ve had a few interviews with colleagues and other coaches and it sounds like it might be useful for others as well - in fact people have been really helpful and supportive and it’s been a very positive response

It’s not live yet, and I’m a bit nervous about it !

So I guess I’m gonna have to go live with it ( I’m challenging myself) , but I don’t want to put AI generated content on there.

So I’m looking for any contributors that would like to write about a course that has had a brilliant impact on them , or a coaching tool that you’ve created or you think is really important to the profession, or even how to handle challenging situations and what help helped

Just somewhere impartial that isn’t a business school or selling coaching courses

I am also testing this to see if I can help people be listed for their expertise through LLM searches as they move from Google SEO to AEO ( mainly selfishly again because I’m trying to do this for myself and my own Content)

So in theory, I have optimised the to be searchable for LLMs so it should boost your name and credibility on any AI searches about that coaching topic

Thank you all,

Hey team, at 40yrs I’ve just accepted my first role in L&D running the functions for a professional services firm as a manager, with scope to move to director next year.

I have been an independent coach and external trainer/ course leader for many years and worked in consultancy (client facing) and a brief stint in recruitment. But never in internal L&D!

I’m just wondering what the career progression is like in l&d, like how senior do roles realistically get?

I get I could go to head if if I’m successful… but I wondered where L&D could go after that. Did you all stay in L&D? Or do people move out of it?

Would love to hear experiences and any words of wisdom from you lovely bunch.

Many thanks!

An Oldie but Newbie

I work in professional services and currently interviewing for a manager role.

They want me to turn their existing l&d function into a revenue leader. (Along with the 5 year strategy of course)

Im nervous as I just got cut from a role that was PE backed, as the l&d function wasn’t valuable to them on their spreadsheets. And this is also PE owned…

I have run academies selling courses building capabilities before- but not at the same time as running an internal function. this would be selling to sme clients… I was selling to mid to large sized enterprise.

I guess it’s the same process but I’m worried about underthinking it and not really appreciating the reality.

I wondered if anyone has turned from internal training to developing external courses?