Serious lack of coaches

[gnclmorais]

I’m not sure if the other chapters feel the same, but for the past few workshops, the Central London chapter has struggled to get even five coaches. Are we doing something wrong? Can we do something better? Which promotional channels do we have to share our message and incentivise people to coach?

[KimberleyCook]

@gnclmorais what is the London chapter currently doing to attract coaches??

[KimberleyCook]

There are also a bunch of things in this issue https://github.com/codebar/chapter-organiser-meetings/issues/47

[KimberleyCook]

I've been chatting with companies about talking internally to their developer team about codebar, and how they can get involved with coaching at our workshops. I'll keep this note updated of where I do it and when.

Companies

• Simply Business 1/12/21 ✅
• IBDS 15/2/22 ✅
• Sabio 24/2/22 ✅
• Gousto 13/5/22 ✅
• Ravelin - 30/6/2022 ✅
• 10x banking 17/10/22 ✅
• Zoopla - 5/12/22 ✅
• Boolean - 12/12/22 ✅
• Substrakt - 3/2/23
• Sony/Playstation ??
• HelloFresh ??
• Amazon ???
• Global Media ???
• Citi ???
• Digiterre ??

Podcasts/Twitter spaces/Insta Llives ETC

• Benefits of Teaching in Tech with Community Classrooom Twitter Space - 21/5/22 ✅

[KimberleyCook]

DISCUSSION POINTS

• LinkedIn example post looking for coaches
• Instagram takeovers
• Create more video content aimed at coaches. LIVE
  • "Hear from our wonderful coaches" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDro52s-jU IDEAS
  • "A day in the life of" type videos- Inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yOyToRskfE
  • "What happens at a workshop" video
  • Embed a coach video on the coach guide page and welcome coach email - coaches of all levels talking not just mid and senior developers
• Q&A event for coaches
• Shadowing existing coaches - check whether a pair would be comfortable?
• Contact bootcamps and ask for recent grads to coach
• Kim continue working on "Coach Guide" PDF with Ephie

[KimberleyCook]

So far we have had 161 "non community member" RSVPs for codebar Festival. These are people who have never attended a codebar workshop before. My goal after the event is to encourage them to sign up to codebar as either a coach or student.

As part of this at the end of the month (Monday 28th), I am going to run a virtual Open Day -> https://codebar.io/events/virtual-open-day-3. We've run 2 before and they were really helpful so hopefully, this will coincide nicely with the email to Festival participants.

[KimberleyCook]

Conference partnerships -

• CBF Fest | London/Remote | June 2022 ✅
• Halfstack | London | September 2022 ✅
• London Web Standards | London | October 2022
• We Are Tech Women - Level Up Summit | London | December 2022