Two Years of The Bright Side

We are proudly celebrating two years since the founding of The Bright Side! There have been some highs and challenges over the last year.

Highlights:

We get so much joy from running training together. It’s our number one task for impacting and serving others and for using our strengths. Over the last two years, we’ve delivered coach training in partnership with Culture at Work, and our workshops about cross-cultural communication, coaching skills in leadership, challenging conversations, and many other topics. At CoachUP 6 we had some feedback that made us joyful: “Very practical and the best session of the day.”

We love working with our inspiring coaching clients. It’s an honour to be thinking partners for folks who are so forward looking and reflective.

This year, Sarah started working for The Bright Side full time - this is a major milestone for us! It shows we are on the path to serving more people and running a sustainable business.

We had a very memorable (and productive) planning and dreaming day in Gardens by the Bay in May, where we devised our one, three, five, and ten year plans.

Lessons and Challenges:

Preparing our first set of corporate taxes was tedious and I (Sarah) think I made a small error. Next year it will be easier - and more accurate, I promise.

Realising that we can’t run all our training together this year, but still planning it as if we will. We feel that our partnership is a key strength and we are sad when we are not able to leverage it.

We had some issues with our emails being sent to people’s spam folders, which was horrendous to troubleshoot. Hopefully in future, we can hire someone to handle some tech tasks for us!

Our current arrangements mean Flora is very busy (with two jobs) and Sarah is a little lonely (working from home alone). We hope this will improve as our company keeps growing.

Celebrating This Year:

We are very much looking forward to the year ahead and we see many exciting collaborations on the horizon, including hosting a conference, running an online course, and impacting more organisations and individuals with coaching and training. We went out for ice cream to celebrate these first two years as a company. Thanks to our clients and supporters for your trust and encouragement!