#109: Jenny Bird – The Joy of Sparkly New Things
Ever since she was a child, working in her father’s clothes shop in Derbyshire and standing on a box to see over the counter, Jenny Bird has spent her life being interested in people.
She drew upon the principles of communication honed during those formative years as she blossomed into one of the United Kingdom’s very first master coaches, going on to co-author renowned coaching titles such as The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools, and How to Work with People... and Enjoy It!
In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Jenny describes the experience of leaving community education and training to be a coach at the turn of the century, when stacks of materials were posted across the Atlantic and she joined conference calls with coach trainers located all over the world.
Throughout her training and her early forays into coaching at global corporations and in the NHS, Jenny surveyed the landscape of personal and development for those who do things differently, describing her “joy for sparkly new things”.
By consistently forging relationships with innovators and brilliant thinkers throughout the field, Jenny has enriched her career. She shares invaluable wisdom accumulated across her career through her books and in her role as co-founder of Coach Continuum, which provides CPD, networking and supervision to help coaches flourish.
Jenny and host Joey Owen also talk about:
The benefits of being a risk taker
How to barter your way to getting what you want
Partnering generously and being paid what you are worth
How to tend to your LinkedIn garden
Bringing poetry and creativity into coaching to cut through to the emotion
Jenny also shares some invaluable advice to new coaches, outlining the mindset, behaviours and conditions that form the essential foundations of a successful business.
For more information about Jenny, visit https://www.jbexecutivecoaching.com/
For more information about host Joey Owen, visit https://joeyowencoaching.com/
Read more about The Coach's Journey at www.thecoachsjourney.com.
Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg
To support the Coach's Journey, visit www.patreon.com/thecoachsjourney and to join the Coach's Journey Community visit www.thecoachsjourney.com/community.
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Ruchi Shah-Mehta https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruchi-coach/
- Coach Continuum https://coachcontinuum.com/
- CoachU https://www.coachu.com/home/
- Thomas Leonard, The Portable Coach https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L0IVLyDUQ14C&printsec=copyright&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
- EMCC https://www.emccglobal.org/accreditation/
- ICF https://coachingfederation.org/
- The Clean Sweep Questionnaire https://www.lifecoach.com/free-quizzes/clean-sweep-quiz/
- Common factors theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_factors_theory
- AoEC https://www.aoec.com/
- Sarah Gornall https://peopleuntapped.com/ourglobalteam/sarah-gornall/
- The Art of Coaching https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9OuPCgAAQBAJ&printsec=copyright&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Coaching Development https://www.coachingdevelopment.com/
- Business Network International https://www.bni.com/
- Quotes from golfer Gary Player https://www.yourgolftravel.com/19th-hole/gary-player-quotes-from-the-black-knight/
- Animas https://www.animascoaching.com/
- Erik de Haan http://www.erikdehaan.com/
BIOGRAPHY FROM JENNY
I’ve been a coach since 2000, an ICF Master Coach (MCC) since 2006 and a coach supervisor since 2009. I’ve also been an initial coach trainer, a moderator of coach training programmes and an external assessor for several coach training schools. I’ve been an ICF coach mentor and a credentialing assessor. I’ve run master classes, workshops and CPD, spoken at coaching conferences internationally, written numerous articles in the coaching and management journals including Coaching at Work and Coaching Today, and co-authored with Sarah Gornall “The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools” (2015) and “How to Work with People… and Enjoy It!” (2019) both published by Routledge. It's all been an honour, humbling and huge fun!