Episode 80: The business of facilitation with Sarah McVanel
I thought I’d invite a special guest back. Sarah McVanel featured on Episode 39 of the First Time Facilitator podcast, where we spoke about discovering your facilitator zone of genius.
I got so much value from her about the business side of facilitation, that when I left my corporate job in February it took me about 6 weeks of umming and ahhing before I made the call and got Sarah as my very own business coach.
The reason I’m doing this episode is that I've noticed a few questions in The Flipchart Facebook group about how to build a facilitation business - how to market your business, and build a client pipeline.
As a solopreneur, I have the same questions too - and I’m lucky that I get to walk through them, in detail, with Sarah every fortnight.
So, I thought I’d offer you some insight in what Sarah and I talk about in our coaching calls and hopefully this will help you grow your business (or understand what it takes, if you're thinking about leaving your job!)
About our guest: Sarah McVanel
What you’ll notice from this call is Sarah’s contagious energy and enthusiasm.
Sarah McVanel is a recognition expert, author, an experienced and dynamic speaker and coach. She helps leaders leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent and sustain healthy bottom-lines. She helps organisations by curating healthy workplace cultures through her FROG methodology (Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness), as well as through speaking, training, coaching and mentoring others.
Her philosophy is that once we rediscover that understanding of our own greatness, we can use it to recognize that greatness all around us and improve ourselves, our workplace and the organization’s bottom line.
Sarah also helps intrapreneurs to shake off the golden handcuffs, like she did, and launch successful six to seven figure businesses they love. Check out her most recent book, ‘The Flipside of Failing’ which shines a light on failure and provides readers with analyses and strategies to free themselves from "not good enough."
Resources mentioned on this episode:
Sarah’s website: Greatness Magnified
SendOutCards - a great way to recognise your clients!
Flash briefing (1 minute podcasts) on Podbean: https://greatnessmagnified.podbean.com/ or Amazon Alexa: https://www.amazon.com/Greatness-Biz-with-Sarah-McVanel/dp/B07H3P7NMV
A special gift for First Time Facilitator listeners, you can dive deeper for 15 minutes with me Sarah by clicking this link.