Community Coaches strengthen foundations in social entrepreneurship
"I have learned a lot from it myself. Within the business world, the social aspect is underexposed. You learn that with this programme."Michael Schuren, Vion Food Group
On 15 March, the final meeting of the Community Coaches programme took place at the Circulo Foundation, located in the old school building in Strijp Dorp. An interactive afternoon under the inspiring leadership of a creative and strategic team of various housing corporations , including Wilbert van Bakel and Jeroen Cras. The coaches and coachees looked back on the past year, gave each other tips and compliments and paid attention to the results, but certainly also to learning points. What was the best and what could be improved? They stepped into a time machine with a flashback to the start of the programme and shared their dreams of where they would be in three years' time. Finally, the couples managed to visualise their concept and vision in a particularly creative way in a living painting. Below you will find the photos. (Group photo: Bea Straver)
A valuable programme for both
The community coaches programme started last May. The participants followed three inspiring workshops on coaching, vision and positioning. They made plans together to achieve the goals, visited each other regularly to spar, coach or visit another organisation. They organised speed dating sessions for job seekers or helped each other with a good presentation or an annual planning and budget in Excell. The coaches from the business community particularly appreciated the programme because they were able to take a close look in the kitchen of social entrepreneurship, with their feet in the clay, very practice-oriented, learn to look differently, broaden their horizons and develop their coaching skills. The foundations were able to professionalise their organisation by focusing more on entrepreneurship, learning to work systematically, to focus on the result and to build up their network. Learning points are expectation management at the start of the programme, more intervision and sharing knowledge and expertise within the group, better matching of demand and coach and offering extra support when a match threatens to be diluted by internal or external factors.
Anja Wasser of Werktuin040: