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Global experiment begins today

Simon — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:35:15 +0000

Towards the end of last year a colleague and I came across a blog post that we found particularly challenging. Central to the post was the question:

What if everything you know is wrong?

The more we thought about it, the more excited we became by the potential this question is capable of unlocking. We began to have very excitable conversations about how this question could enable people to leap into a brand new paradigm in which ideas, products and solutions that don’t yet exist could be conceived. We got excited by the potential of this question to get people through the current economic turmoil into the new economics that will emerge. What if the people we introduced this question to could become leaders and first movers who actually invent the future? What if we could multiply that to thousands of people? The Experiment was born.

Available from today we have put together a weekly programme of exercises that should take each participant about an hour a week. At the end of each week we ask each participant to report back on some simple metrics so that we can begin to collate data on the outcomes of The Experiment. This really is a genuine experiment that we believe will make a huge difference to those who participate. The administration fees have been kept as low as possible to make The Experiment accessible to as many people as possible.

So this is your invitation to join us and to spread the word and to find out where this journey leads.

Its not just about 2012 – Life Plan Achievements are important so keep these in focus.

Simon — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:30:45 +0000

Happy belated new year to our regular followers – Its going to be a great year this year but what about the rest of your life.

We are pleased to introduce a new worksheet to help you plan you to identify and plan your ambitions.

This work sheet is designed to help you to act as a catalyst to action based on your life experiences that you have had and would like to complete. It will help you to visualise and feel some of the great events in your life again, and help you to prioritise those things that are important to you.

Download Here : Life Plan Achievement (88)

(Please note that you need to be registered on this site to download this file. If you are not logged in you will be directed to login screen.)

The Experiment 2012 is coming soon

Simon — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:28:55 +0000

A new initiative is coming soon -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrwzQLarig

Mindfulness Exercise

Simon — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:32:39 +0000

Find a quiet place to sit for about 10 to 15 minutes, away from disturbances and turn your mobile phone off. If it helps in the session, you may decide to close your eyes.

Slowly and quietly breath through your nose for 8 breaths and feel every part of your body from your toes to the top of your head, and realise the sensations occuring as you do this.

Slowly, turn your attention to your thoughts and let them come and go as you feel the tensions disapear.

Celebrate the feelings, the visions and the energy as you again feel the slowness of your breathing.

Enjoy the sensation of being alive, and slowly as you feel your mind drifting, come back to concentrate on your breathing again.

Keep the breathing pattern as you slowly open your eyes and explore the amazing things that are going on for you.

Change in organisation offer

Simon — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:18:00 +0000

Followers of the Wheresmylunch website will have noticed that the structure of this site has changed over the past few weeks as we incorporate not only the online store into the main website so that your experience is better, but also that our offering is becoming wider.

This reflects some work completed in July evaluating what Wheresmylunch actually do, and how we can communicate what we do more succinctly to our existing and potential customers.

What this means is that we have now split our offerings into four elements. These four elements form a cyclical process that can be stepped onto and off at whichever stage you require but the complete process offers re-enforcement, and sustainable business and personal improvement.

The four elements are

Analyse – this is the ‘what is going on’ bit and several tools are used to help understand the current position and desired end state.
Acquire – this element is about skills acquisition. Delivered either in a workshop or course structure, with elements of 1 on 1 mentoring available for certain skill areas including sales, finance, customer service and operations.
Develop – there is a degree of overlap as we believe in experiential development, however, this element is focused on the development of the person within the organisation and the impact that they have as well as considering organisational improvement.
Celebrate – the fun element and leads to sustainable positive work practices.

Over the forthcoming months more tools, capabilities are being introduced into the portfolio to help keep Wheresmylunch the ‘goto’ place for organisational improvement and development.

For more information or to arrange an initial discussion, please contact us here.

Power Coaching in bite size chunks

Simon — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:18:59 +0000

Wheresmylunch is now be offering monthly “Power Coaching from Wheresmylunch” Days.

We want you to be able to experience the benefits of great coaching and achieve even greater things in your life.

Currently you may be in a space that is tricky, you need to explore your thoughts, your strategies, and this ambiguity could be challenging you in your job role leading to performance challenges or career derailment.

Make it happen with Wheresmylunch

Delivered over ‘skype’ or other social platform such as messenger or mobile phone, we will help you to build from where you are to being even more fantastic a person that you are. Your increased focus and increased clarity will really assist you in your life.

All you need to do to start improving is to book by clicking this link.

Tomorrow is the start of the rest of your life

Leadership and Management Development Grants

Simon — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:40:18 +0000

Grants of up to £1000 are now available for the development of organisational leaders and managers in companies based in the East and West Midlands. This is time limited and we would advise pursuing this as soon as possible to secure fund matching offer. There are some conditions that apply so please have a read below.

ARE YOU ELIGIBLE?

Organisations with 2 -249 full time and paidemployees, including social enterprises and charities can apply
- In organisations with under 50 employees, the applicant must be the CEO, MD or Owner
- In organisations with 50 employees+ the applicant can be either one of the above or a role that reports directly into any of the above roles
The funding must be used for Leadership & Management development such as
- 1:1 coaching or
- an appropriate leadership or management development programme.
The organisation must be going for growth of 20% year on year for 3 years. Start ups (established less than 12 months) must be projecting turnover to reach £500K in 3 years; social enterprises are required to project growth of 10% each year for 3 years.

Please note: It cannot be used for anything that might be considered technical i.e. training towards ISO or the environment award, tender writing, IT, website construction, social media, health & safety, CPD.

HOW DO I APPLY?

The funding is being managed by EMB Limited. Wheresmylunch can work with you in completing the necessary paperwork to apply for the grant.
Once the team are satisfied you have met the criteria an EMB Advisor will talk with you to carry out a diagnosis to understand what help you need. This is a pretty straightforward process. At this point you will be asked whether you have a provider already.
Companies and applicants that have accessed the grant previously CAN apply for this grant again
The value of the grant is up to a maximum of £1000 exc VAT and all grant amounts must be matched by your organisation. Eg – if you want to access £1000 then you need to pay £1000 giving you a total of £2000 for development.
You are limited to one application per organisation so even if you only apply for £500 you cannot apply again later for the rest.
Before funding is released you must identify the supplier you will use.
Grants cannot be claimed retrospectively.
Wheresmylunch will invoice you for the full amount of the intervention, and you will be reimbursed by receiving the grant after your programme has been completed.

If you have any questions or would like a meeting with Simon in confidence and without obligation prior to making a grant application, to explore how he can help you transform performance in your business at an individual and organisational level

Make it happen with Wheresmylunch

Contact Simon NOW direct on 08458 671586 or 07766 442288 or by email to explore further about how this process and great opportunity could apply to your business.

Please note that as the grant is paid to you directly, any services that are offered by Wheresmylunch Limited will be invoiced in full to the company at the agreed rate.

Introducing “Aston Business Assessments” Trait Tool

Simon — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:40:57 +0000

Wheresmylunch Limited are pleased to be able to work with Aston Business Assessments (a spin off of Aston University) as an associate consultant delivering this new trait tool capability into organisations.

Aston Business Assessments have launched a new psychometric tool called Trait. This tool allows participants to understand their natural preferences and patterns in behaviour more with a result of improved self awareness. This improvement leads to greater efficiency at work, allowing you to plan around their strengths and weaknesses.

The strengths of this tool are that it can be completed quickly online (about 15 minutes) and from it developmental suggestions can be explored from the resulting detailed report. It considers 13 dimensions of personality, all of which represent important aspects of personality at work. The core draws on the big 5 models of personality which has been widely agreed upon model for personality traits in research literature.

In addition to the academic construction, this tool also carries a large norm group which allows positioning against the general UK population and potentially groups such as CEOs.

Please contact us for more information on how you can join the excitement of this new tool and discuss through your specific needs.

Our recommendation is that the trait tool is combined with a feedback interview so as to ensure that the resultant development report can be as accurate as possible and geared to your specific requirement.

You can order this immediately now via our shop by clicking through on this link and selecting your feedback options. Your personalised link will be sent to you by email within 24 hours and your report will be with you within 48 hours of taking the test.

	Should you be an organisation that wishes to administer Trait to your workforce, we can arrange for the necessary training and administration capability. In the first instance and for further informatiuon, please contact us.

Preparing for your first coaching session

Simon — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:01:07 +0000

You have taken the decision to get a coach and you may be a bit nervous about your first session. This is totally natural as unless you have received professional coaching before your will not know what to expect.

Firstly, words of reassurance. The coaching session is based around your agenda. This means that the coach should not bring any pre-conceived thoughts or plans into the coaching meeting and should go with you on the journey of exploration working with you on your objective(s).

Secondly, you should think through some of the reasons why you decided that you want coaching. Don’t think about it too much but think about those areas where you may be struggling, perhaps with a business or personal task or goal, or maybe something that is troubling you. Just come into the first meeting with that and just see where the meeting will take you.

You may find it useful to explore what you are trying to achieve in terms of return. What is it that makes you want to come back to the session? What are you looking for?

In addition to this, we would certainly recommend a chemistry session first. This session helps to set the scene for the intervention sequence. It is really important that the right chemistry between the client and the coach is made early in the intervention.

To help in this initial meeting, discussion may occur covering topics such as

Introductions and backgrounds
What client understands about coaching
Clarification of role of coach through coaches eyes
In what way the client might benefit from coaching
What specific issues or problems the client wishes to address
What the feeling is about a coaching relationship
Logistics and expectations of coaching sessions

So, have a think through these areas and go into the first meeting with energy and excitement about what you are just about to find in yourself.

Enjoy !

Belbin Team Roles assessment added

Simon — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:50:49 +0000

Have you ever wondered how you can interrogate the workings of your team to understand more about what strengths and weaknesses that it has. This is now a simple exercise made possible by the inclusion of the Belbin Team Roles reporting capability to the Wheresmylunch online shop.

Through an online portal, members of the team individually complete a series of questions concerning how they see themselves.

Business team exploring a new strategy

This generates a report that measures their preferred team role. They are then invited to ask for a 3^rd party view which again is controlled via an online portal.

It is highly recommended to wrap the use of this development tool with a personal development plan devised in conjunction with a Wheresmylunch business coach.

The final output would be at an individual level, and a team level and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the team. A tremendous tool to help understand team development and precision focus of potential weaknesses.