Getting in touch and working together

Communicating if you can get to Cheltenham

Email and phones can work well, but there’s something special about actually sitting down together.  I live about six miles from Cheltenham and in what one client called “a stunning setting”.  We could work together in a Jacobean room or, if the weather lets us, a woodland glade.  People usually stay for two or three hours and we aim for you to leave with a list of things you feel good about doing.

We’d prepare for this by you doing the usual review and then fix a date that suits us both.

How to get face to face help

If you can’t get to Cheltenham...  

Communicating by email 

Chances are that we’ll start communicating by email and that most of our ideas will be shared that way.  It lets you think about what to say, to break off in the middle and pick up later, and it gives us a record so that we can check progress.

How to get email and phone help

Communicating by phone

After you and I have shared ideas by email then we can explore them by phone.  It gives you quick answers to your questions and a half-hour conversation can move everything on a lot.

If you’ve got a broadband connection then Skype is a good way for us to chat without worrying about phone charges. Skype is free to download and use and if you’ve got a newish laptop then it’ll have both a mike and a camera so we might even see one another.  Or you can get a special handset and Skype and others sell corded, mobile and Wii ones – google “VoIP phones”.  Calls can last as long as we like and we won't be charged.     It’s not perfect, but it’s very useful. Go to www.skype.com for more.  

We can also talk on an ordinary phone, of course, for as long as you can afford to pay BT.

My Skype name is “sandy.mcmillan” and my landline is 01242 602680.  If you email me I’ll suggest a good time to call.