Yesterday, Kev and I spent an intense day with clients working on a strategic plan for their business.
We were test driving a new hotel for our work together - The Captain’s Club in Christchurch, Dorset.
A lovely place with great food, good service and calming river views.
When we work with clients for full days like this, we like to make sure we work in nice surroundings because it’s actually pretty hard work digging deep into not just their systems and processes in the business, but also their mindset and possible blocks that are getting in their way.
We’ll be working closely with these particular clients for the next few months, and whenever we take on projects that require a lot of face to face contact we pre-qualify our clients to make sure they’re the type of people we want to work with.
As from our day yesterday, I’ve decided to add an extra qualification criteria for anyone who wants to work with me.
Although I take my work very seriously indeed, I also like to have a laugh with my clients, so it’s important to me that they have a sense of humour, too.
Yesterday, after lunch we all ordered coffees, and as they were presented to us, we all admired the trouble the barista had gone to to create beautiful flower designs in the foam.
Three of us had almost perfect floral designs crafted on our cappuccinos, but we think the beverage artist must have got slightly distracted whilst executing Kev’s latte (either that or it was one of his exes), because it came out like this and we all pissed ourselves laughing:
So, if you don’t get what we were laughing about, then please don’t apply to work with me.
I mean, like, ever!
Not even our online 90 Day Breakthough course, because we’re never gonna get along.