Coaching Services : Business Coaching

Working in vs working on your business

Most owner-managers and professionals in partnership work mainly in their business, doing the job, keeping their enterprise afloat. With so many responsibilities and demands, it’s easy to see why.

Working so hard in the business often means you rarely find time to work on the business: What’s helping? What’s hindering? Are the priorities right? Can relations between staff, or with clients and suppliers be improved? Where is the business going?

In The E-Myth Revisited Michael Gerber argues firms that flourish spend time on the business. Coaching is an opportunity to stand back and see what needs working on in yours.

Coaching sessions can cover:

Anything you want to discuss about your business including:

  • Strengthening the business
  • Prioritising and planning
  • Clarifying roles and responsibilities
  • Creating a vision for the business
  • Delegating
  • Managing staff
  • Marketing
  • Dealing with difficult customers or suppliers

You look after everyone else. Who looks after you?

As an owner-manager or professional in partnership, you have to be all things to all people. A coach is there for you, acting as an inspiration, sounding board, supportive ally with whom to share ideas, dreams, worries, concerns. Your coach helps you take care of yourself as well as your business, so that your work does not take over your life.

Staff mentoring

Every member of staff is vital, yet you may not have time to work closely with each of them. Mentoring by an outside coach can help their personal development, which in turn can help you.

Mediation for small businesses

Your business success relies on co-operation and goodwill among your staff. When conflict arises, it takes up energy that should be going into the job. As an experienced mediator I can offer advice on dealing with conflict, or facilitate a meeting between the staff involved to help find a resolution.

What our clients say:

'I find it amazing that top sportspeople attribute much of their achievement to first class coaching, yet the age of business coaching is just dawning. I've found coaching very powerful. Chris Carling is an excellent business and personal coach for me.'

Company Director, Cambridge

'Chris is very patient and sympathetic but she isn't afraid to take the gloves off when necessary. Tough love, I guess. She'd never let anyone walk up a blind alley.'

Financial Adviser, Surrey

'The buck stops with me in my business. Having a coach means there's somebody I can bounce ideas off, who's not afraid to ask the tough questions.'

Managing Director, East Anglia