Services | Ready2Grow

Please look over these five services offered by Ready2Grow Associates to determine which learning approach best suits your needs.

Our services include:

individual coaching
group coaching
teleseminars
corporate training
speaking

WHAT IS COACHING?

Coaching is a series of conversations that propel you forward into whatever future you desire. You will have the chance to clearly articulate your vision and explore the passions that fuel this vision. Then step by step we help you turn your vision into reality, teaching you the skills, habits, practices, and attitudes that will support the achievement of what you have in mind.

Most people find change – even positive change – difficult. Sometimes what we think we want is not what we really want at all. Sometimes we fear success as much as we fear failure, and find ourselves resisting change in unexpected ways. Your coach is skilled at helping you identify your true intentions and overcoming these inner barriers to success.

The coaching process can be used to generate positive change in any area of life – whether your concerns relate to business, career development, self-development, or personal relationships.

Every coaching conversation is designed to help you to do 5 things:

Clarify what you truly want to see happen in your current situation, whether business, career, or personal.
Figure out what might be preventing you from achieving what you truly want.
Develop concrete strategies for overcoming these obstacles.
Quickly learn new habits and skills so you can implement changes on a daily basis.
Evaluate progress , develop new skills, and adjust strategies and skill development to achieve your desired results.

Your coach skillfully guides the working relationship by:

Listening carefully

Challenging unhelpful assumptions

Asking thought-provoking questions

Providing insightful feedback

Providing new ideas, strategies, and skills

Holding you accountable.

What makes the coaching process unique?

Coaching helps you to articulate what is most important to you and your business, then learn to better use information, time, and resources to actually implement what you have in mind.

Coaching helps you to identify your unique obstacles to growth. Then step by step, you will be able to overcome these obstacles by implementing on a daily basis the habits and practices that create a strong foundation for goal achievement.

INDIVIDUAL COACHING

Individual coaching is ideal if you:

are short of time
want an efficient, targeted approach to learning that is completely centered on your
unique priorities and goals
need a regular appointment that keeps you accountable for achieving your goals
already know what to do – but need a sounding board and accountability
partner to ensure you put your ideas into practice
have tried self-development programs before, but may have had trouble implementing
them
have a highly creative, distractible, or non-linear thinking style, and find “the usual” approach to anything rarely works for you
value one-to-one learning

How does individual coaching work?

We work step by step to help you improve skills, habits and practices in the following
leadership areas:

visioning and goal-setting for yourself and your business
management of time, energy, and priorities
confidence and motivation
interpersonal relationships, influence, and team-building
innovation learning

We also help you develop strategies and skills in the 6 key areas of business
management:

marketing and sales
client / customer service
human resources
data management
finances
facilities

What does a typical session look like?

In person or by webcam, we sit down and figure out your immediate and longer-term goals. In subsequent sessions, we talk and strategize about what you need to do to accomplish these goals. In every session, we check in and hold you accountable for what you said you would do.

Once we clarify your intentions and goals, we help you get to work on them right away. Our sessions consist of any or all of the following:

review progress to date
listen carefully and ask questions that help you clarify issues and obstacles to growth
gently or directly challenge you to fulfill your commitments
identify new skills that need to be learned
identify projects that need to be worked on and flesh out plans for completion
teach you new skills quickly and efficiently, or provide resources that help you
develop them on your own
provide support, encouragement, and cheer to get you on your way and keep you on track

How do I sign up?

We start by meeting in person or on the phone to get to know each other and determine whether there’s a “fit” between your needs and our services.
We consider how often it makes sense to meet, given your time and your budget.
Clients usually meet with us once a week, once every two weeks, or once a month.
Minimum service engagement is 3 - 6 months. We prefer that you sign up for at least one year of coaching services, since this is how long it takes most people to make any meaningful, lasting change in daily habits and patterns.
Payment in advance is required by credit card or post-dated cheque. By signing up ahead of time, you are sending a clear signal to yourself that you are serious about growth. This approach also helps us to keep money on the back burner where it belongs. Satisfaction is guaranteed. If for any reason you wish to discontinue coaching, we tear up or return unprocessed cheques or discontinue debits from your credit card.
To get started right away, please email lois@ready2grow.com, or call 519-883-8838. Or if you need some time to get to know us, sign up for our regular business growth newsletter here.

GROUP COACHING

Group coaching is ideal if you:

Enjoy learning with other entrepreneurs who face similar business and life challenges
Want to benefit from coaching right away without a longer-term commitment.
Want to get a better sense of what coaching is all about

What does it involve?

In-person. For those of us who still like to learn in the same room with others, workshops on topics related to business growth are held locally every couple of months in Waterloo, Ontario, about an hour away from Toronto in the heart of southwestern Ontario.

2008 - 2009 Workshops :

February 1 – 8, 2009: “Flick the Switch” Caribbean Cruise March 27, 2009:Time Tools Workshop

2.Internet. Regular teleseminars will soon be offered based on the workshops listed above. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter to receive updates about upcoming teleseminars and events.

What are the potential benefits of group coaching?

You have a regular way of keeping in touch with current business growth best practices.
You automatically become part of an energetic and fun community of people with similar growth-related issues. People who’ll share with you their own ideas and strategies for growth.
You can expand your network with helpful, professional, like-minded people.

How do I sign up?

1. Sign up here if you’d like to be on our mailing list.
2. Click here to go to our Events page.

TELESEMINARS

Regular teleseminars are offered related to the workshops listed above. Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates about upcoming teleseminars and events.

CORPORATE TRAINING

Coaching and training go hand in hand to equip your team for growth. Learning is the key to building and retaining your competitive advantage. The person or business that learns the fastest wins! Below is a sample of some of the seminars, workshops, and talks we have facilitated for a variety of audiences. Please contact us for a no-charge consultation to determine your learning needs.

Team-Building

Taming the Toddlers (a.k.a. “Difficult People”)
Coaching Skills Clinic for Owners & Managers
Tools & Techniques for Developing a High-Performing Team
Creating a Culture of Shared Leadership
Mining the Hidden Talents of Your Introverted Team Members

Productivity:

Time Tools…More Hours in Your Day
Anticipate! A Practical Goal-Setting Workshop
Making Meetings Effective

Communication:

Effective Interpersonal Business Communications
Different Strokes for Different Folks…Communicate better with all kinds of people!

SPEAKING

Looking for inspiration? All of the above topics and many others can be developed to suit the needs of your audience. We give talks, presentations and workshops to professional groups and conferences.

The best groups for us consist of business and organizational leaders who want to learn a highly effective approach to leadership, productivity, team building, and mastering change and growth.

These talks are for professional associations, Chambers of Commerce, and business conferences that are attended by business owners, executive leaders in small, medium and large companies, and members of professional firms.

All talks are highly interactive and designed to create a learning environment where participants learn through individual reflection and from fun, energetic interactions with each other.

We will speak for free to the following groups in Southwestern Ontario, Canada:

Networking Groups
Chambers of Commerce
Small Business Centres
Professional Associations (where others are not paid)
Business Conferences (where others are not paid)

We would be happy to speak to these same kinds of groups in any other location, if we are reimbursed for travel, meals, and lodging as required.

We also speak for a fee for:

Business conferences (where speakers are paid)
Professional Associates (out of area and/or where speakers are paid)
In-house programs for larger businesses

If you would like to book us for a speaking engagement or would like to know more, please contact us for a no-charge consultation about your requirements. We also have a wide range of contacts and connections and would be happy to connect you with whatever resources best suit your needs.

Click here to hear from our clients how coaching has helped them move forward in life and business.