Business Coaching Plus

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What business are you really in?

Why every business/organisation exits for exactly the same reason?

What is the real value of your clients?

Why customers should be 4th?

What’s the real reason for going into business?

What is a USP and why is it so important?

Are successful businesses strategic and results driven?

Why your focus determines your direction, efficiency and how you handle opportunities?

Do businesses excel with enthusiasm and purpose? 

Use the mental wealth and experience of others.

Recognise success patterns in others and use them to help effect powerful changes in your.

Be exceptional, do things in a different way than the industry does things.

Why is it important to have lofty goals and to make your own rules instead of following the competitions rules?

Business and Sales Quotes PDF Print E-mail

Something to think about.

“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their full potential.” - Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot


“Many of the world’s most admired corporations, from GE to Goldman Sachs, invest in coaching. Annual spending on coaching in the U.S. is estimated at roughly $1 billion”.
- Harvard Business Review

“Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual, group and organization.”
– HR Monthly

“A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you see your strengths and weaknesses and uses them to accomplish your goals.” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Using [coaching] instead of sending executives and managers to seminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial to ongoing career development, not to mention less expensive…”
– PC Week

“Coaching takes a holistic view of the individual: work, corporate values, personal needs and career development are made to work in synergy, not against one another.” – British Journal of Administrative Management

“Coaching started in the business world to help stressed out executives cope with their professional and personal lives, and it still thrives in the corporate environment. But, increasingly, individuals are turning to coaches for help with every sort of problem.”
– Boston Globe

“If you want to build your business and at the same time have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach.” – Denver Post


“A personal coach can help you by getting you to spell out what it is that you really want and then working with you to make the changes that actually enable you to get there.” – The Vancouver Province

“A study featured in Public Personnel Management Journal reports that managers (31) that underwent a managerial training program showed an increased productivity of 22.4%. However, a second group was provided coaching following the training process and their productivity increased by 88%. Research does demonstrate that one-on-one executive coaching is of value.”
– F. Turner, Ph.D.

“Xerox Corporation carried out several studies on coaching. They determined that in the absence of follow-up coaching to their training classes, 87% of the skills change brought about by the program was lost.” – Business Wire

“In a 2004 survey by Right Management consultants, 86 percent of companies said they used coaching to sharpen skills of individuals who have been identified as future organizational leaders.”
- Excerpt from “What An Executive Coach Can Do For You” – Harvard Business School.

“Business coaching is attracting America’s top CEOs because, put simply, business coaching works. In fact, when asked for a conservative estimate of monetary payoff from the coaching they got… managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.”
- FORTUNE Magazine

“A coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career.” - MONEY Magazine

“Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings.”
- INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY

“Coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common. It’s that they are ruthlessly results-oriented.”
- FAST COMPANY Magazine

“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”
- John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.

“[A coach] is part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.” - THE BUSINESS JOURNAL

“[Executives should seek coaching] when they feel that a change in behavior-either for themselves or their team members-can make a significant difference in the long-term success of the organization.”
- Marshall Goldsmith, Fast Company Columnist

 
Identifying what is unique about your business PDF Print E-mail

Businesses achieve superior performance when they are unique, that is, when they do or sell something no other business can duplicate easily. To be successful, businesses must stand out from the competition by demonstrating to customers that there is something about them that is unique.

All businesses need to have a Unique Selling Position - USP  

A business must provide a genuine benefit at a cost customers are willing to pay.  The secret is not to try to be all things to all customers.  Instead, find a unique way to compete.  

No one prospers when businesses perform the same kind of activities and offer the same products and services to the same customers.   On their own, service, quality and price are not enough to separate you from the competition.  
A unique position must be accompanied by a powerful guarantee that expresses conviction about what is being offered – what’s yours?


What is unique about your business?


Customers want to deal with businesses that offer a USP that is genuine and is of real value.


Business Coaching Plus will discover and implement an exciting, appealing and powerful USP, find lost enthusiasm that shines through every aspect of your business. You will become recognisable and regarded by customers as providing something far more desirable than your competition. Obtain customers by design, and not by accident.   

 
What is the difference between a consultant, mentor, or a coach? PDF Print E-mail

What is the difference between a consultant, mentor, or a coach?

According to Wikipedia:

Business/Management consulting
Management consulting indicates both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.
Organizations hire the services of management consultants for a number of reasons, including gaining external (and presumably objective) advice and access to the consultants' specialized expertise.
Because of their exposure to and relationships with numerous organizations, consulting firms are also said to be aware of industry "best practices", although the transferability of such practices from one organization to another may be problematic depending on the situation under consideration.
Consultancies may also provide organizational change management assistance, development of coaching skills, technology implementation, strategy development, or operational improvement services. Management consultants generally bring their own, proprietary methodologies or frameworks to guide the identification of problems, and to serve as the basis for recommendations for more effective or efficient ways of performing business tasks.

Business Mentor
Mentorship refers to a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The receiver of mentorship was traditionally referred to as a protégé, or apprentice but with the institutionalization of mentoring the more neutral word "mentee" was invented and is widely used today.
There are several definitions of mentoring in the literature. Foremost, mentoring involves communication and is relationship based. In the organizational setting, mentoring can take many forms. One definition of the many that has been proposed, is "Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the protégé)" (Bozeman, Feeney, 2007).

Business Coaching
Coaching refers to the activity of a coach in developing the abilities of coachees or clients. Coaching tends to focus on the achievement by coachees of a goal or specific skill. Methodologies for coaching are positioned away from the directive or the facilitative, and rest on accompanying clients within a dialogue that will allow emerging patterns and solutions to surface. Coaching lies out of the scale between mentoring and training on one end, and psychotherapy and counseling at the other.
There are many applications of coaching ranging from sport, to business, to niches such as divorce or motivational speaking. Sessions may be one-on-one either or in a group setting, in-person or over the telephone, or by mail, or via IRC. It may include supervised practice such as in shadow coaching, and often in team or organizational coaching. Team coaching also applies to structured systems in organizations much like in sports.

Today, coaching is a recognized discipline used by many professionals engaged in human development focused on achieving results. However, as a distinct profession, it is relatively new (since 1990) and self-regulating (except for international professional associations). No independent supervisory board evaluates most practicing coaches and most are privately owned businesses. Some associations accredit various coaching schools as well as individual coaches, except the IAC and ECI which only certify individuals. According to coach credentialing expert, Dr. Rey Carr, in North America the term accreditation only applies to organizations, and certification applies to individuals; whereas in European countries "accreditation" can mean either organizations or individuals.


When Business Coaching Plus is appointed we may take the role on of any one of the above services at various times however always within our coaching structure.

Why ?, coaching is the most powerful method of clients gaining new life time skills within a supported structure. When appointing a consultant the work is carried out by the consultant (little if any support) with you gaining few new skills.

For example, the professional tennis player will always be able to play tennis at an elite level while the spectators’ game will improve very little no matter how many games they attend.

A very important aspect of our coaching method is to get our clients life in balance and harmony

  • Family
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Business

There is no point in having a successful business and neglect equally as important aspects of your life.

The “Plus” is 'business coaching' that “completes the picture” on all the important issues in your life.

 

Testimonial

"I am always amazed at the physical energy of Tom, he trains nearly every day and is extremely fit. Whenever he takes on a project he takes it on with complete focus. He has a very sharp mind and thinks out of the box. Tom can look at a situation and within minutes find solutions."

Gary Baker
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