Joan Roberts Consulting

8 Week Group Coaching Program for Non Profit EDs and Senior Managers

What is Coaching?

Tim Gallwey in the book, The Inner Game of Tennis, defines coaching as: " Unlocking a person's potential to maximize his or her own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them".

What is the Relief for Stressed Out NPO Leaders Group Coaching Program?

Joan Roberts a trainer and coach to the non-profit and government sectors, has created a revolutionary 8 Step group coaching process to bring relief to stressed out Non Profit Organization leaders. The process is unlike traditional training programs because it works from the inside out and focuses on the needs of the whole person instead of just building skills and new knowledge. Coaching assists leaders in leading themselves first … so that others are inspired to follow. The coaching process helps you get back into the driver’s seat of your own life and connect with your own inner resources.

Not only will you receive professional advice from the coach and a workbook full of tools that you compete at your own pace, but you'll also learn from your colleagues. The group provides a high level of interaction and feedback so possibilities expand to new levels by having multiple perspectives to draw from.

The program is designed to help EDs and senior managers thrive in the chaotic non-profit workplace. Private executive coaching sessions cost upwards to $400 an hour. Group coaching is a low cost alternative that is oriented towards peer support and the unique challenges facing executive directors and senior managers of non-profit organizations.
What do you receive?

Your $400.00 investment includes

• A face to face lunch and program orientation
• A self directed workbook
• Personal assessments re conflict , group and ??styles
• Networking and cross learning between fellow group coaching participants
• Individual coaching during sessions
• High-level interaction, feedback, and a new outlook
• A step-by-step methodical reflective process that utilizes many self awareness exercises in a 65-page workbook.
• 1 face to face and 7 convenient teleconference sessions scheduled to suit the busy non-profit executive.

Who should attend these sessions?

You should attend if you:

• Are unhappy in your work and need support.
• Have lost track of looking after yourself and are at high risk of burnout.
• Find you can't keep up with competing demands and need help leading your team or organization.
• Would appreciate a structure to hold yourself accountable to your goals.
• Are ready to take the initiative and risks involved to move outside your comfort zone for a fulfilling career.
• Would like to let your desire to be passionate about your work overcome your fear of change.
• Have the desire and inspiration to make this coming year extraordinary.

What does the Group Coaching experience include?

• A get to know you introductory lunch with coaching group members
• One face to face full hour group coaching session
• 7 sixty-minute scheduled telephone sessions that are full-hour coaching sessions
• Between phone calls, the group can email each other for insights, updates, questions, challenges and support. You gain feedback from all supportive individuals involved in the group.
• A safe and confidential relationship.
• Access to all of Joan’s programs, resources, articles, and content to facilitate professional and personal development.

How can the Group Coaching process help?
The group coaching process will help you:

• Accurately assess your capacity for leadership.
• Define your vision and goals as a manager/leader.
• Create deeper meaning in your life.
• Do what you want to do and break out of preconceived ideas of what you can't do.
• Dare to be what you are meant to be.
• Identify the barriers that block your innate gifts/talents.
• Find fulfillment from your current work.
• Be acknowledged and recognized for your talents.

Why does Group Coaching work?

• A successful coaching process involving intuitive listening, constructive feedback, thought-provoking questions, coachable moments, identifying solutions and options, creating successful action plans, identifying obstacles that might limit the individual's success, and implementation of the plan.
• Years of combined experience, knowledge, wisdom, and perspective from the participants (and the coach) accelerates the learning and growth so goals are achieved with less time and effort.
• You feel the support of the other like-minded participants so that you can leverage the strength and wisdom of others in helping you break through the personal challenges and barriers that have limited your success.
• You participate in a safe and confidential learning environment in which the other group members respect confidentiality.
• You receive extraordinary coaching for a reduced investment.
• Networking with other successful, experienced professionals who will share contacts and leverage their network for your success.

About the Coach

Joan works with leaders who want to improve the effectiveness of their non-profit organizations to meet emerging social challenges. As Director of Capacity Building at the Wellesley Institute Joan successfully developed and delivered an eight month leadership program targeted to Executive Directors of non-profit organizations. This first program cohort ran over 2006 and the second finished in April of 2008. Coaching was an integral part of the program and the favorite component of most participants. Joan is a trained teleconference group leader, trainer consultant and coach, deeply concerned with the wellbeing of the human resources of the non-profit sector.

Joan has an M.A. (Human Systems Intervention) and has over 20 years of experience managing projects, developing organizations and working with different levels of government. She is a former city councilor and runs her own consulting and training practice for clients in government and the non-profit sector. She released her book Alliances, Coalitions and Partnerships: Building Collaborative Organizations in 2004 and recently she co-authored the Interagency Services Collaboration Project Report.

What is a group coaching teleconference?

A group coaching teleconference is a conference call with fellow participants from many different locations.

From anywhere with telephone access, you can participate in these sessions. Simply place a phone call to the specific number at a given time and you'll be connected to a virtual classroom of fellow participants (This number is a US number so your long distance carrier will charge you for the call).

When is the next session?

This session is postponed. When there is enough interest I will reschedule. Contact me if you are interested in joining the program. Joan at joan@jonroberts.com or 416-523-0390.
Weekly teleconference sessions will be held at the same time each week:
Teleconference instructions distributed at the first session!

How do I sign up?

Enrollment is limited. Your investment for Relief for Stressed out EDs Group Coaching is $400 plus GST. You can pay via check or credit card. Credit card or PayPal is the preferred method of payment. Click on the Buy Now button at the bottom of the page.

Or, you can pay by cheque payable to "Joan Roberts Consulting". Email Joan Roberts at joan@joanroberts.com or call 416-523-0390 for details.

Once we receive your payment, we'll immediately send out your workbook and the details of the first session.