Here’s your chance to get some headspace

We talk about value for money, but the people I work with are just as concerned about value for time.

They lead national construction organisations and big infrastructure projects, and they’re super busy. They’re paid to be strategic thinkers, but too often they get dragged down into the weeds of detail, buffeted by circumstance and an overflowing inbox.

In over a thousand coaching sessions over 20 years, they’ve consistently told me that what they value most in our work together is ‘headspace’, because they find it so hard to get in their daily, weekly, monthly grind.

A rare and precious resource, headspace is dedicated thinking time, coming up for air, looking to the future – the chance to focus on the important rather than the urgent. Collective headspace with their leadership teams is especially missed.

Even as little as an hour a month of purposeful thinking with excellent people can make a difference to the strategic soundness of a project or organisation.

For this reason, I’m setting up a Mastermind group.

Time with fellow masters

Mastermind will be a thinking group for six people who possess comprehensive knowledge or skill, operating at director or executive level.

We’ll meet once a month on Zoom for 60-90 minutes for an initial six months. I will ask, ‘What’s on your mind?’ and, with six senior and diverse minds in the room, the conversations will be far reaching, uplifting and insightful.

I’ll create the space to enable that to happen and, when appropriate, will introduce thinking models, experiences and insights to support and challenge the conversations.

The job titles of the people who’ve already expressed an interest include:

• MD of a national contractor;

• Partner in an architectural practice;

• Chief executive of an engineering consultancy;

• Director of an HS2 joint venture;

• Education director of a major university;

• Account director of an international contractor.

It looks like there will be three spaces available.

New thinking

The investment is 90 minutes of your time per month. There is a cost, but it’s secondary to the value gained. It will be an opportunity to come up for air, find out what’s going on, build new relationships and bring new thinking to your endeavour and your organisation.

Therein lies the value: new thinking. Headspace on your own is great but often, without stimulus, your thinking is old thinking, which leads to more of the same in terms of action and results. Headspace with a select group of masters with diverse experiences will spark new, useful thinking leading to new action and new results.

What’s next?

We’ll hold a free, one-hour Zoom event on 30th September for those wanting to find out more before signing up.

Andy Robbins, who owns a successful coaching business in the USA, will be our guest. He has been running a Mastermind group in the States for over a year and will share some of his and group members’ experiences, insights and successes so far.

We might even get to do some new thinking, as well.

The session starts at 17:30 BST and will last one hour. Register here.

To give a fair taste, we’ll limit places so register for the free event early.