Have you put your life on pause while you wait for outer circumstances to change? The world won’t be any different when you press the play button if there’s been no change in you.

Michael Beckwith

“The perfectionist is doomed to starve in the midst of plenty.”

Willard and Marguerite Beecher

Mpowerme was set up in April 2009, offering personal empowerment in the form of coaching and training to individuals and organisations. My career background is in the public sector and naturally the majority of Mpowerme services took place in this sector as I have a good understanding of the issues working in this sector and the career pathways.

Some people think that when there is a recession with organisations downsizing the work force, re organising teams and spreading out the work, that this would be a great time to invest in these teams, call someone in, do some team building, change management, time and/or stress management etc. However ,HR departments can be so overloaded with issues to do with redundancy and reorganisation that they don’t have time to think about developing the remaining staff. The teams themselves may have had their own training and development budgets cut which can make this support prohibitive. Yet on the reverse side some organisations do pay for coaching for staff that are being made redundant, to support them moving on but as this is normally only available to senior staff, again there are limitations. Private clients also worry about spending money when they do not know what the future holds.  The irony is that the more people develop both personally and within their career the better their prospects and quality of life personally and the better an employee they will be!

Therefore the recession has caused a reduction in work. More time and resources/finance have been put into marketing.  I have felt it is essential to ensure that people continue to know Mpowerme is still here once the budgets and time are right for individual and staff development.

Some 12 months  ago when networking I was introduced to a Multi Level Networking Marketing Company (MLNM). I did not know anything about this type of business model, but loved the way this organisation was supporting people to achieve. I asked the obvious question of how could I could help them to coach and train and I was told I would need to join up “at the bottom and work my way up to trainer level”.  I never had any intentions in my career to go into any form of referral sales. So with no plan to do this I joined up because I saw the opportunity to build my own team from day one giving me the ability to  support and coach them to achieve which all directly benefits me financially and allows me to use my skills base too, so a win win situation! The nature of the work is I can choose how much or how little I do, I can work quite spontaneously so it fits very well around my other business needs.  In fact I have recently been introduced to an American MLNM  company and have started another team having seen the true potential of this product.

I now have the opportunity to go forward in 2010 with more opportunities, supporting people to develop and giving them the opportunity to not just be dependent on one business opportunity.

To find out about opportunities to help you develop either a primary or secondary income or to find out more about the Mpowerme coaching and training please give Janet a call.

023 8061 8388

janet@mpowerme.co.uk

www.mpowerme.co.uk