Another use for our Company Brochure

Well, I flew back in yesterday from Romania to a winter wonderland Snow everywhere and white forests and trees as far as the eye could see. It did look absolutely beautiful.
Unfortunately when I arrived at my car, which had been parked in the airport car park for nine days, I was in for a little bit of a shock.
The first problem was finding the car, every car was simply covered in snow, in fact it was so thick and deep it was difficult to tell where one car finished and another car began.

Eventually I located my car ( thank goodness for remote unlocking !!- it was the beep that finally helped me to find it)
Then began the real adventure.
You know that snow sometimes can be light and fluffy and dry, and you can just blow on it and it will fly away.
Well, this wasn’t one of those times !!! The snow was rock hard, Icy and freezing.
I could barely get the door of my car open and after five minutes of futile effort trying to scrape it off with my hands, Which turned to blocks of ice. I finally hit on an idea.
In my case I had some of our Noble Manhattan company brochures.
What a wonderful tool. Because they are quite firm and hard it was one of the best ice scrapers I have ever found, it cleared the snow and ice in about five minutes.

So, not only will our brochure act as a gateway and a pathway to a whole new life and career as a coach it will also come in very handy as an ice scraper

The reason I had been away was to run a residential course for our diploma students and a number of other seminars and meetings with our team in Romania.

After an initial three days in Bucharest
We then spent four days in the tiny town of Predal in the Carpathian mountains just south of Transylvania.
We had people from all over the country and some of our training team had flown in from other parts of Europe.
The scenery was spectacular.
Here are some photographs from my bedroom balcony.

The course went incredibly well and it also gave me a chance to observe some of our new Romanian training faculty in action.
I am delighted that we now have a full faculty of over 20 people in Romania.Filling such roles as

Country manager, administration people, trainers, mentors, final assessors, markers of written work, webinar leaders,

We are also now beginning to take on board a number of strategic partners throughout Romania which is proving to be very successful for everyone concerned.
In fact we have created a special website for people who are interested in becoming a strategic partner
www.noble-partners.com

It was so lovely to work with our Romanian team again and also to get to socialise with everyone.
Here is a Team Photo of those on the course.
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( the Romanians do love to socialise )
In the evening we had some wonderful music and dancing -here are just some of the team enjoying themselfs on the dancefloor-

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I’m looking forward to my next trip on 17 January 2011.

It took me 7 1/2 hours to drive home from London yesterday, I arrived home at 10 minutes to midnight. It should have taken no more than three hours and I left at 3:30 PM in the afternoon.!!!

There was snow and ice everywhere and traffic was moving at about 5 mph. Lots of lorries had crashed into barriers and cars were stranded on the hard shoulder,and the snow was coming down thick and fast.

 To be honest I didn’t mind too much because it gave me some unexpected time to do some extra studying in my Mobile University.(my car)

I listened to quite a few new CD’s that I had recently purchased on the Power of the Mind and the Law of Attraction.

I also listened to some fascinating interviews on ” Group Coaching” something that I personally have been doing for quite some time and achieving a lot of success with some great clients.

It made me realise again just how incredibly effective it can be to coach small groups of five or six once a month for approximately one hour.

Perhaps I ought to do a lot more of this? Just need to work out where I can find the time??

 I had a meeting in London yesterday with our partner from Istanbul in Turkey, what a wonderful guy. I am so lucky to have attracted such wonderful people into my life. It is a real joy to work with such people.

At our meeting we started to put together plans to develop coach training more effectively throughout the whole of Turkey and also in countries like Azerbaijan Kazakhstan, Syria etc

I have to say I’m very excited about the thought of moving into that part of the world and seeing how we can change corporate cultures and give people true power through the use of coaching.

 Today I am back in the office working through a mountain of e-mails and trying to get all of the last-minute work done before we close the office for the holidays tomorrow.

I really am looking forward to this break, time to catch up on some sleep, also time to spend with my family ( if they remember who I am )

I also traditionally use the Christmas break as a time to review this year’s goals and to comprehensively plan all of my goals for the coming 12 months.that always gets me very excited.

Till the next time

Gerard