EPISODE · Oct 16, 2023 · 29 MIN
A L&D Consultant’s Journey
from HR Voices Podcast · host hrvoices
A podcast for independent HR and people, professionals, and the businesses they support. Hosted by Charlotte Allfrey and Mary Asante of HR Independents Ltd. DATE: 16/10/2023 Episode 9: A L&D Consultant’s Journey Guest: Katy Walton of Make Real Progress In this episode we chat to Katy about how she moved away from in house learning and development roles to starting her own business. In this episode, Katy shares: How she gave herself permission to experiment for the first 12 months of going out on her own, to truly understand what she enjoyed The steep learning curve of starting your own business How making connections on and offline and building those relationships has been the biggest angle factor that has helped her The importance of making time to allow yourself to think To expect feast or famine in the first year and tips for managing your finances Not to rush to create your website until you are sure what you want to offer How she uses AI as a time saving tool Thanks for listening to HR Voices! If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love it if you could leave us a review. www.hrindependents.co.uk Website: https://makerealprogress.co.uk/ The Progress Place: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theprogressplace Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-walton-make-real-progress/ About our Speaker: With 27 years coaching, leadership and talent development experience, Katy is a specialist in her field. She founded development and coaching business Make Real Progress in 2020. Her passion for high-quality development inspired her to develop other Coaches, Human Resources and L&D Professionals in the specialism. Following 2 years organising and hosting local development events for the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, she founded The Progress Place in 2020, with over 2300 global members. A community to develop yourself to develop others. In response to requests for additional L&D support, she now runs an innovative programme to enable people to design and run training workshops, whilst also sharing best L&D practises. “Build it Quickly” is open for bookings from Sept 2023.
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A podcast for independent HR and people, professionals, and the businesses they support. Hosted by Charlotte Allfrey and Mary Asante of HR Independents Ltd. DATE: 16/10/2023 Episode 9: A L&D Consultant’s Journey Guest: Katy Walton of Make Real Progress In this episode we chat to Katy about how she moved away from in house learning and development roles to starting her own business. In this episode, Katy shares: How she gave herself permission to experiment for the first 12 months of going out on her own, to truly understand what she enjoyed The steep learning curve of starting your own business How making connections on and offline and building those relationships has been the biggest angle factor that has helped her The importance of making time to allow yourself to think To expect feast or famine in the first year and tips for managing your finances Not to rush to create your website until you are sure what you want to offer How she uses AI as a time saving tool Thanks for listening to HR Voices! If you enjoyed this episode, we'd love it if you could leave us a review. www.hrindependents.co.uk Website: https://makerealprogress.co.uk/ The Progress Place: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theprogressplace Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-walton-make-real-progress/ About our Speaker: With 27 years coaching, leadership and talent development experience, Katy is a specialist in her field. She founded development and coaching business Make Real Progress in 2020. Her passion for high-quality development inspired her to develop other Coaches, Human Resources and L&D Professionals in the specialism. Following 2 years organising and hosting local development events for the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, she founded The Progress Place in 2020, with over 2300 global members. A community to develop yourself to develop others. In response to requests for additional L&D support, she now runs an innovative programme to enable people to design and run training workshops, whilst also sharing best L&D practises. “Build it Quickly” is open for bookings from Sept 2023.
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