Business Coaching and Mentoring
Working with start-up businesses or those who are ready to grow, sole traders, micro businesses up to 10 members of staff or larger SME's. By providing a sounding board, mentoring, support and help to get your business of the ground or grow your business. Often supporting newly appointed managers in their new leadership roles.
We look at your business with different eyes, aiming to support you and provide solutions to you overcoming the barriers faced which prevent your business growth. Working with you, we engage in strategic planning and development to get your businesses where you want it to be.
Having a business coach can provide numerous benefits and advantages for entrepreneurs, business owners and organisational growth. Here are some of the key benefits of having a business coach:
Results-Oriented Approach: With a focus on tangible results, working collaboratively with clients to set clear goals, track progress, and make adjustments, ensuring they achieve measurable outcomes.
Return on Investment: By helping clients maximize their business potential, optimize operations, and seize opportunities, I ensure a substantial return on your investment and expectations measured by setting clear goals.
Objective perspective: Bring an outside perspective to your business.Helping you identify blind spots, challenge your assumptions, and provide objective feedback on your ideas and strategies. This fresh perspective can be invaluable in overcoming challenges and making informed decisions.
Accountability and motivation: Help you to set clear goals and hold you accountable for achieving them. Provide guidance, support, and encouragement, helping you stay motivated and focused on your objectives. Being that someone to answer to can significantly increase your productivity and drive.
Strategic planning: Assist you in developing a solid business plan and defining a clear roadmap for success. Help you identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and work with you to create effective strategies to achieve your goals. This strategic planning process ensures that you are on the right track and maximizes your chances of success.
Skill development: Develop and enhance key business skills. Provide guidance on various aspects such as leadership, communication, decision-making, time management, and problem-solving. By improving these skills, you become a more effective and confident business owner and leader.
Networking and connections: An extensive network of incredible connections within the business community. I can introduce you to valuable contacts, potential partners, and industry experts who can contribute to your business growth. Leveraging your network can open doors to new opportunities and collaborations.
Long-Term Partnership: As a trusted advisor, we will establish a long-term partnership, offering ongoing support and guidance as you navigate through various stages of your business journey, from inception to expansion.
Overcoming obstacles: Starting and running a business can be challenging, and you are likely to encounter obstacles along the way. I help you navigate through these challenges by providing guidance, support, and strategies for overcoming them. I have real lived experience in dealing with common business issues and can offer valuable insights to help you find solutions.
Personal development: Personalised Growth, going beyond business strategies, foster personal development, empower clients to overcome self-limiting beliefs, build confidence, and develop a growth mindset that propels their success. Not only focusing on your business but also on your personal growth and development as an entrepreneur. Helping you identify and overcome personal limitations and develop a growth mindset. This personal development journey equips you with the skills and mindset required to succeed in your business and beyond.
Overall, I provide valuable guidance, support, and expertise to help you unlock your business's full potential. I will serve as a trusted advisor, mentor, and sounding board, enhancing your decision-making abilities and accelerating your business growth.
When you decide the time is right to start your own business or take things to the next level it's very exciting, scary and thrilling, some may say glamourous to think you are now A BUSINESS OWNER.
But...
The reality is there's a lot of work to do. If you are exploring ideas to start your business you have a vision of what life will be like as your own boss, no one to tell you what to do, when to do it and don't get me wrong it's a great feeling. That's the exciting, sexy side of being a business owner or your own boss.
What you might not see is the sleeplessness nights, the stressing about paying your bills, the long hours, no paid holidays, sick days, no benefits per say. You have to do everything now, accounts, marketing, sales, website, seo, strategic planning, the list goes on. If you are a sole trader or entrepreneur you might not have someone to bounce ideas off, or a team to support you through the tough times.
You need to be ready for the work ahead.
Take stock and identify where your strengths lie as a business owner and what you might out source if you have the financial resources to do so.
On the flip side of that, you maybe ready to grow your business, are you ready to explore the next step of employing staff? Are you nervous about what that picture may look like? Do you understand how the dynamics will change in your business, the fundamentals, the logistics, the financial commitment and how letting other people will impact you as you grow potentially form sole trader to a people leader as MD or CEO?
Are you ready to be an effective, empowering leader?
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