Why Small Coaching Retreats Can Create Better Results Than Large Events

I need somewhere between eight and twelve.

That’s it.

Not a ballroom full of coaches.

Not hundreds of tickets sold.

Not a stage so far away from the audience that I can barely see the people I’m supposed to be helping.

Eight to twelve experienced coaches in a room together for ten days.

Now, COULD I try to make it bigger?

Of course.

I could sell more places.

Bring in more money.

Get a larger venue and tell everyone that the size of the event PROVES how successful it is.

But what would that do to the work?

It’s designed around diagnosis.

Conversation.

Challenge.

Personal coaching.

And the time and space required to examine how each person’s Messenger, Message, Majik, Model, Money, Market and Marketing fit together.

Or don’t.

The thing is, scale changes things.

Sometimes for the better.

Sometimes not.

And when the value of an experience depends on depth, adding more people can eventually remove the very thing they came to receive.

My point?

A smaller room isn’t automatically evidence of a smaller ambition.

Sometimes it’s evidence that you’ve made a deliberate decision about the STANDARD of work you want to deliver.

I don’t need hundreds of people at the retreat.

I need the RIGHT eight to twelve.