Double Your Business Coaching Services
I work as a business coach with the owners of all kinds of businesses, predominantly in the UK but also into Europe.
Because your business is unique, the approach that we will take working together will be tailored to suit your circumstances.
Kick-Start Consultation
The on site Kick-Start coaching consultation is how most ambitious business owners begin their business coaching programmes. It is a powerful way for me to engage with your business and identify the big opportunities for quick wins.
During this consultation our goal is to discover the Growth Barrier that is most likely to be holding you back. Growth Barriers are the subject of my forthcoming book, “Double Your Business: How to break through the barriers to higher growth, turnover and profit”, to be published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in early 2012.
It is also a powerful method to deal with a tough problem in your business. If your business is facing tough questions and you feel you would benefit from an independent third-party to help you through it, a stand alone Kick-Start Consultation will bring clarity and certainty back into your business.
Typical uses:
- Address problems between business partners or directors
- Develop clear goals and a practical growth plan for your business
- Plug the holes where your profits are leaking out
- To help you “see the wood from the trees” and get a clear focus to drive your business forwards
- Develop a powerful marketing plan
In one example of this type of consultation, I helped a security firm get to grips with their projects. I showed them, by digging through their own numbers, that 50% of their projects were losing money. By the end of the day I had helped them to introduce a simple system to control and measure their projects. We also found out that 50% of jobs needed a second visit.
In another troubleshooting consultation, two directors running three businesses did not have well defined responsibilities. As a result they were constantly “putting out the fires” caused by the lack of clear lines of responsibility. The week after their Troubleshooting consultation, they gave me a call to tell me how they felt “energised and really motivated, with really clear lines of responsibility. In fact, we’re really getting stuck in to doing things that needed sorting out ages ago.”
Entrepreneur Coaching Programmes
This is the flagship service for those people in business who know that they have a lot more potential than they are currently achieving. I work with you on a regular basis to help you develop plans, run meetings, recruit the right people, structure your business for success and continually adjust the trim and strategy of your business to help you achieve your full potential.
The coaching programme is an ongoing relationship where we work together to build your business up to the level you want. Many clients are happy to achieve a modest 25-30% growth, while ambitious entrepreneurs set more demanding goals for themselves. I have helped many clients to increase sales by double or more, hence my branding as The Double Your Business Coach.
The secret of my coaching programmes is that it is all about your goals and not mine. I help you to clarify what you want from your business and then place myself at your side as a sounding board and uncompromising friend to help you achieve it. If I think you are avoiding doing something, I tell you. If I think you are missing something important, I’ll tell you that, too.
By facing up to the things you know you need to do, your business will become stronger, less stressful and far more fun. This is the right programme for you if you are determined to achieve big things for your business.
As your business coach I will introduce you to my unique Business Growth Barriers method, which you will be able to read about in my forthcoming book, Double Your Business. Growth Barriers are 37 distinct and separate issues that you must address effectively in order to get your business running “by remote control”, which means growing and operating effectively even when you’re not there, but without you ever losing control of it.
Marketing Coaching
The single biggest issue that holds 80% of small businesses back is lead generation. The trouble is that their approach to marketing is based on what they see multi-billion giants like Coca Cola doing, which simply is not affordable for the owner/managed business.
Having studied with some of the very best marketers in the world, I formulated my own unique Core Marketing Plan, a practical and highly effective approach to lead generation in businesses with turnover anywhere from startup through to around £100 Million and beyond.
Using this strategy, my clients have achieved staggering results and it is this unique method that differentiates my coaching from that of my contemporaries. While they will offer thoughts and ideas they have read about, I will show you the specific steps you need to take to build a lead generation engine for your business that will produce a reliable flow of leads and sales for you.
Please note: I take great personal pride in my unique reputation for results. I choose to work with the owner, managing director or a partner in your organisation for marketing because this ensures the highest levels of engagement in both content and delivery. This rule is very rarely broken and you will need a clear reason, not just your lack of time or interest, to persuade me otherwise.
Lead generation is the single biggest hurdle for most businesses and experience has shown me that if you employ somebody else to do your marketing, you are probably not paying enough attention to the details of marketing to make our relationship work well.
Psychological Profiles
Sometimes we are held back by our own behaviours, and unless you can identify the specific behaviours that hold you back and then take action to remedy them, it can be difficult to ever make your business grow. I am one of a handful of experts in Europe who are trained and certified to coach with the use of the Flippen Profile, a profoundly deep psychological profile that examines thirty different aspects of personality to identify the specific issues that hold you back and then prescribe a specific course of actions to help you break through to a whole new level of operation.
To make an enquiry, please visit the contact form and my assistant will arrange a suitable time for us to have an exploratory chat about your business.