Actioncoach

Before the coach there was chaos, bad feeling and bad morale. Mistakes were being made and we spent our time putting out fires. He's been helping us for 4 months now and already there is huge improvement. We can measure how we're performing, my staff are committed and the team spirit we have been searching for has emerged and de....

I cannot recommend Action Coach (Michael Shinnick in particular) highly enough. The main benefit I received with Michael's help was to fast-track some very necessary improvements in my business. I brought my two managers to the Action Coach Workshop. This motivated them and created a Team element to our In-House relationship.

In recent times I had become frustrated with my business, wanting to grow it but also wanting to keep overheads at bay. There never seemed enough time to get day to day tasks done never mind planning for the future. Recognising the need to tackle the nuts and bolts of the way we do things I have engaged a couple of different

In my book, the progress has been superb - I've culled costs, renegotiated work, added new business and most importantly am working differently to set up systems and templates that will save a lot of time in subsequent months. And I have managed ten days holiday as well and a business trip - pretty good for five weeks.

Participating in this highly interactive and stimulating training, with such a well-facilitated group of fellow business owners, challenged my perception of me, my profession and of my business. It caused me to fundamentally review my perception of my own business.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for working with me in growing my business over the last year. I am a much more relaxed person since you became my business coach. Since working with you and ActionCoach I am more organised, motivated and focused on important tasks than I have ever been and am also deleg.

I have been practising as a Solicitor for 25 years. After qualifying I spent 10 years working for firms owned by other Solicitors. For the past 16 years I have been practising as a Solicitor on my own account. After such a period of time you get into a mould of doing things which is very much dictated by your own exper...

It is 12 months since Helen Burns came on board with Partition Craft Interiors as our business coach. Since then we have learnt so much about our own business and how to take control. The biggest win of all is being able to make decisions and take action, to move the business forward. Helen has taught, helped and motivated us....

A quick line to say how grateful I am for all the help you have given me over the last 4 months in getting my business to where it is now. I'm sure you saw today how excited I am at the progress and achievements I have made. I'm fully motivated. The future is looking very bright indeed. The best step I've taken this year.....

Business coaching really taught us how to steer our business into better times. It is inspiring to see that you can improve your business by sticking to very simple rules, but most importantly that the first step (into the ActionCoach Coaching session) is a step worth while taking. We think bigger and more business focused. ...

As a company in business for the past ten years, with a profitable margin, we now understand how little we knew about the mechanics of running a business. We are now more focused with our vision as to where our company is going….

After a meeting with my accountant last year I decided that I needed to overview how I was running the business in order to make more profit. At the same time, through BNI, I had met up with Ria O'Donnell who is a business coach with ActionCOACH Business Coaching. Although like a lot of people I thought that all this busines...

We have found the whole program very helpful to date and have found Michael very easy to work with. The whole Action program is very professionally approached, yet practical and Michael has put forward some very innovative ideas to move our business on and up. Within a very short time we found we had put things in place to do j...

I have being involved in business all my working life, mostly in the same sector. But recently I set up a wholesale import and distribution company with a retail element. One day I was in a store belonging to one of the multiples and wondered how they managed to have all their products in stock and presented so well with the correct pricing etc and how they managed to multiply this system around Europe. It was then I decided to contact Helen Burns, initially I naively thought that we would have a couple of casual conversations and she would set me on the right track, but before I knew it I was signed up to a 12 month Gold! Coaching programme (maybe I should have being looking for sales advise). Since signing up we have never looked back, we have made amazing changes to the business and by applying some of the simple techniques that Helen has taught us we have seen an increase in our gross and net profit margin, and we have tighter control on all aspects of the business, I have a focus each week with our coaching call and find the whole system excellent with a major focus on results and also testing and measuring all aspects of the business. All of the systems and training are very practical and it is great to get to meet so many other business owners at the 90 day planning sessions Helen has involved our whole team in the coaching process and therefore in the running of the business. They are all responding really well to the change. We have all dramatically improved our time management and the communication has improved immensely with dedicated times for staff meetings and planning. We have embarked on a course of change for the better which would not be possible without applying the techniques thought by Action, it is assisting us with setting clear goals and targets that can be assessed for results. We are not ready to take on the multiples yet but with the help of Helen it won't be long.

We have found the exercise challenging and rewarding. It has required us to question fundamental assumptions about our business. As a result, we have been able to identify failings, and take the necessary action. It has helped us to identify what we are doing right, and to confirm for us the reasons why we do what we do.

Before starting coaching, we didn't know much about it but our first thoughts on it was that it could be a waste of time and money as we didn't think we needed coaching. At the time, we didn't have a specific main challenge ' we weren't having a lot of trouble in one particular part of our business. Business was ok but could

Having worked with Jane Hogan of ActionCOACH our business has been transformed. Whereas before things just happened to us and we were at the mercy of every passing whim, we now have a highly structured, referral based business which is going from strength to strength. While it was not an easy process with many of my cherished.

I decided to take on a business coach because I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the difference between my potential and my actual performance. When I made the decision, I had been in business for almost five years. The reality was dawning that things would not be substantially different five years hence if I did.....

Coaching has totally changed my perspective and approach to running my business. I am now working ON my business more than IN the business. I am working towards the goal of structuring my business to survive without me, which will give me more personal time to pursue other activities. I would say to a business owner.