Member Event: Mastermind Pathway Sign up September – December 2022

Do you want to drive growth? Discuss, brainstorm and be held accountable for your plans with your peers and coach within Mastermind.

About this event Scale Up Mastermind – Business Success through Personal Growth Are you looking to scale up your business? Do you want to drive growth and develop the future of your business? Would you love to discuss and brainstorm how to do this with like-minded business owners and an experienced and impartial, unbiased, supportive business coaching facilitator? Would you like all this for free? If so this is for you. Who is it for? It may be a cliché but it is lonely at the top and can be hard to find people who understand your role. This series of events can offer you your very own board of advisers who truly understand. As part of the Mastermind series, you will be seated with other like-minded CEO’s, founders, owners and successful business leaders from a variety of non-competing industries who understand the challenges you face and how the skills to strategize with you and improve your business. To be part of this programme you will be nominated to attend by an adviser from the New Anglia Growth Hub. This event is exclusive to the New Anglia Growth Hub and only offered free to those who the advisers feel this would be a real benefit too. How does Mastermind work? This programme offers an alternative but objective thought process, resulting in those attending feeling supported, motivated and allowing them to continue to grow in confidence and personal development. It encourages a growth mindset whilst building a supportive network at their level. The success of the group is due to the commitment and support of its members, who are dedicated to improving their businesses, their leadership, their community and each other. The group requires commitment, confidentiality and a willingness to both give and receive advice and ideas.  Members support each other with total honesty, respect and compassion. It demands accountability, increases your focus and confidence resulting in improved performance for both yourself and your company. Within each session the group members will discuss challenges and issues affecting their own businesses through spotlight sessions, and then discuss with the group, to enable feedback, experiences and advice from the group and the coach where necessary. Peer to peer support and discussion is core to the success of the Mastermind sessions. You will be held accountable by the group to the plans and actions you put in place for your growth. The Mastermind sessions will be facilitated by Sam Lindley, a highly experienced business coach and with a proven record in business and talent development and deliver similar paid programmes outside of these sessions outside of the Suffolk and Norfolk areas and has done for many years. What happens and who is suitable for the Mastermind programme?

• A group of up to 15 business owners will be nominated to attend this series of Mastermind events by a New Anglia Growth Hub Adviser, or support organisation.
• These business owners can be from any business sector but must have the desire to want to develop and grow their business. These will be a range of non-competing organisations.
• You will commit to 8 fortnightly meetings 6 via Zoom and 2 in person. This will start on the 6th September. Sessions online will be on a Tuesday between 10am and Midday and the in person events will be longer as detailed below.
• You will be part of lively, authentic discussions based on current business and development challenges.
• Members are the key to this programme, challenging each other to set clear goals.
• We encourage creative thinking and brave decision-making.
• Members share success stories and challenges with each other openly and confidentially.
• Problems are solved through members brainstorming and collective creative thinking.

As a coach, Sam believes in planning. We will define high level 12 month goals and agree on strategies for ownership, accountability, focus, ambition and responsibility to achieve your growth plan. During the Mastermind programme will cover the following topics throughout the sessions:

• Business Strategy
• Talent Management/Development
• Barriers To Growth
• Marketing for Growth
• Sales for Growth
• Personal Growth – In the last session of the programme, we delve into the future, what is next for you?

What does the facilitator do? The Mastermind series facilitators will introduce ideas and insights on topics that matter to you, manage the expectations of the group and help you gain insights into your future development needs. They will help to channel and focus discuss and draw out the key information, strategies and shared learning from the group. They will ensure your events achieve the growth and development you are all looking for. They will help you create and develop strategies that will enable you to reach the goals you desire. What you will need to do? You will need to be:

• committed to attending the events regularly
• be open-minded to new ideas and creative thinking.
• be open to the opinions of others.
• listen to and share your own experiences and knowledge with the group.
• be compassionate and respectful of other members
• passionate about developing yourself and your business for growth.

  This event is 2 hours in duration and will provide 2hrs of Information, Diagnostic and Brokerage (IBD*). This is equivalent to £100 worth of State Aid. We are able to deliver this is free of charge to you with thanks to funding from the European Regional Development Fund. What are the dates for these sessions? Webinar sessions are on Tuesdays, between 10am and Midday with a combination of in person and zoom meetings on the following dates: • Session 1 – 06/09/22 Introduction/Goal Sharing/Vision/Why (in person) • Session 2 – 20/09/22 Barriers to Growth, Emotional Health and the Imposter Within • Session 3 – 04/10/22 Cultivating Connections, Building a Support Network and Inviting in Vulnerability • Session 4 – 18/10/22 Self Leadership and Emotional Intelligence • Session 5 –01/11/22 High Performance. What does it look like? • Session 6 – 15/11/22 Leadership and the Revolving Door • Session 7 –29/11/22 Craft a Culture and Find Your Non Negotiables • Session 8 – 13/12/22 Celebration and the Future (in person) Each event is 2 hours in duration and will provide 2hrs of Information, Diagnostic and Brokerage (IBD*). This is equivalent to £100 worth of State Aid. We are able to deliver this is free of charge to you with thanks to funding from the European Regional Development Fund.About the Training Organisation Sam Lindley – Cloud 9 Business Coaching Married in 2003, a mother of 2 boys Ted, Finn and 1 bouncy cockapoo puppy Buzz! My other child and passion is my business of 9 years, Cloud9 Business Coaching. How it all started…by Sam Lindley… From a young age, my greatest goal was to work at Barclays Bank, no other financial institution would do it had to be Barclays! You could say I was a driven character even then, and there my career was born. As an Associate MD for a Mortgage Packaging company which spanned 10 years I worked by motivating business owners of small to medium-sized business, here I developed a real understanding and love of small businesses and their challenge. So it seems obvious now as I sit in my office within my business coaching practice that this would be my destiny. Cloud9 Business Coaching works with the owner of the business rather than the business itself, we believe that a motivated business can only grow as far as its owner’s knowledge and skills. Like all business owners, 10 years ago I had a vision, I had dreams and the last 9 years have shown me that I am capable of making other people’s dreams come true. I have facilitated Mastermind groups for 8 years. I recognise the benefits, I appreciate the power of the monthly meetings and how quickly the members become like family, trusting and supporting each other with so much support and openness, sharing ideas knowledge and connections to solve the challenges of other members, how accountable you feel and the focus it drives. Mastermind is mighty.