Welcome to the Pelican Coaching & Development June newsletter.

Each month we will give you our thoughts on a particularly topic, update you on our news and on new initiatives we are getting involved in.

Featured Topic: Success

We thought we'd start with the topic of Success. As we are a Coaching organisation, we will be exploring each featured topic through the use of questions, challenging you to think a little differently. Here are 20 questions to ask yourself about Success (thanks to David Kelly for his thoughts in putting these together). If you find these questions useful do forward them onto a friend or colleague.

20 questions for Success in Life and Business

1. Do I have a vision for the future?
2. Can I imagine myself in that vision & know what will I be doing, saying, feeling?
3. Do I know what is important to me, now and in my future?
4. What experiences have I gained from the past that I can draw on now ?
5. Have I written down some key goals that will help move me towards this vision?
6. Have I shared my goals with someone and talked through why I’ve chosen them?
7. Do I trust that these goals will happen and maybe in a way I cannot imagine?
8. Am I focusing my efforts on what’s important – not what’s urgent?
9. Do I pat myself on the back for each small step I make?
10. Do I adopt a ‘Can Do' attitude; challenging myself to find solutions not problems?
11. Do I stick with my vision and goal – and keep at it?
12. Do I keep reviewing my progress towards my goals?
13. Can I see beyond the routine of my job, to the opportunities it presents?
14. Am I keeping myself fit?
15. Am I watching what I eat?
16. Am I getting enough sleep?
17. Do I take calculated risks and learn from my mistakes?
18. Do I notice and make a list of my successes?
19. Do I spend enough time on the things that energise and rebalance me?
20. Do I believe that I deserve success?

Activities last month

In this current climate of change and uncertainty, in addition to our usual coaching and team development activities we've been running a number of Resilience Workshops giving people techniques for managing their response to the environment they find themselves in.

We have been running these workshops as lunchtime and half day workshops.

If you would like to know more about running one of these short, focused workshops in your organisation contact us in the meantime you may enjoy my Top Ten Tips for Developing Resilience.

What is coming next month?

Clare Gallagher and I will be running more in depth 2 day Resilience Workshops geared at equiping leaders, managers and senior executives with the skills needed to lead themselves and others through turbulent times. The course will be extremely innovative and participative, exploiting and expanding the latest thinking on this topic. For more information click here. We are also offering this course in Yorkshire and Humberside as part of a Train to Gain funding scheme so if you are based in this area click here for more information.

For more information on our other workshops contact us or take a look at our website

More next month, when the Featured Topic will be Making an Impact.

Warm wishes


Helen