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Category: Business

Not Making Enough Profit?

Profit-or-Loss
Friday, 19 November, 2010 16:47 Written by Julie 0 Comments

Challenging times for making profits…or is it?

Are you making enough profit in your business? At the moment many small to medium sized businesses are struggling. When you struggle quite often what happens is you do more of what is not working! Then the vicious cycle starts. And things get more stuck. Are you not saying ‘no’ to unprofitable clients? Do you know which clients are profitable & which ones are not? How focused are you in growth areas? How clear are you on your figures & cash flow? There are many roles to play in any job whether as an entrepreneur or within a career. If you were to make some adjustments in one of these roles how would that effect you and the people you work with either internally or externally? Is that something that would be of use to you?

You may be beginning to think already about places where you can make a change and start creating the results you want.

What options are available to boost your profits?

  • One to one coaching in person 1 to 1 Coaching
  • One to one coaching by phone or on Skype
  • NLP Business Practitioner Course – 5 Day Course
  • Make your Business Profitable – 1 Day Workshop
  • Make your Business Profitable – ½ Day Seminar





Design Work-Life Balance

Tuesday, 16 November, 2010 17:25 Written by Julie 0 Comments

Work-Life Balance or Imbalance?

Are you keen to see more of your family, enjoy your hobbies, maintain a healthy lifestyle and succeed at work? Are you satisfied you are doing this already or are you spending too much time in one area of your life to the detriment of other areas? If you could imagine having your work-life balance just right for you what would you notice is different or better than it is now? Defining this is the first step to exploring what steps you are going to start taking on route to achieving the balance you desire.

Developing the clarity on what you want sometimes requires some assistance to support you in being able to see past the reasons you got to where you are right now and maybe even the reasons you haven’t achieved what you want….yet.

Give me a call to find out what you can do to start creating the balance you want.

Women Executives and Leadership

Tuesday, 16 November, 2010 17:22 Written by Julie 0 Comments

Coaching for Top Women Executives

The further up the organisation one goes the fewer women are represented at top levels. In this situation a woman may choose not to discuss challenges with her peers  because she may be perceived as being weak? Not always, but many times men and women approach challenges differently; is this diversity appreciated or derided? Does your body language transmit messages in conflict with your words undermining your message?

Ambitious Woman Executive

A coach provides a sounding board for the ambitious woman executive. Coaching provides an opportunity to experiment in the safety of the coaching environment. It offers insight into alternative perspectives. It can also assist in tapping into methods and styles of communicating to deliver the message even more effectively.

Career Coaching

Tuesday, 16 November, 2010 17:15 Written by Julie 0 Comments

Executive Coaching and Executive Life Coaching

According to a recent survey 90% of executives in UK organisations work with a coach. I suspect it is not nearly as high here in Ireland…..yet.

In the UK coaching is used to fast track potential stars. It helps the executive recognise their strengths and build on them. Acknowledge their weaknesses and discover how to mitigate them. All the while paying attention to the path and holding the focus.

Coaching Maximises Executive Potential

Coaching is also recognised as being effective in maximising executives’ potential. It aids executives in times of transition whether due to promotion, mergers, downsizing or transfer across departments at many levels in the organisation. When things outside or within the organisation change, people need to change too. They need to change the focus of their work, sometimes learning to do new things while letting go of the ‘old’. This is a learning process. It may be about taking the time to step back and evaluate to discover the evolving direction and then find ways to take action in that new direction.

Executive Derailment

At other times coaching comes into its own to prevent executive derailment. In general people are comfortable with the status quo. When something changes – as things do – levels of stress increase, people tend to become less flexible, communication channels become disrupted or breakdown and inefficiencies creep into the organisation. If all of these accumulate without being headed off at an early stage it can lead to executive derailment, increased absenteeism, impacting on other staff members leading to dissatisfaction and bottom line cost to the organisation.

Executive Coaching Focuses on Building Strengths

Therefore executive coaching focuses on building strengths and motivation, reframing the thinking around change and encouraging change. The ‘change is growth’ attitude can be useful to adopt. While at the same time supporting the executive in viewing change from alternative perspectives to make the change easier, so ultimately they are more flexible and have learned how to manage themselves more effectively in an uncertain environment.

Executive Coaching Builds Emotional Intelligence

Your Business Plan

Tuesday, 16 November, 2010 14:43 Written by Julie 0 Comments

Do you have a business plan?

“Failing to plan is planning to fail”

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now”

— Alan Lakein

How recently have you looked at it? Is it gathering dust carefully put away in a cupboard? Now there are business plans and there are business plans! If you want to get a loan from the bank, raise finance, go to the Enterprise Boards or some other agency you will need a formal business plan.

Many people do not really know where to start writing a business plan or they get their accountant to write it. This does not necessarily help get clarity around what it is like to run a business day in day out over the long run.

It is really useful to write your own business plan, you might find, so you get to grasp the way you will spend your time. The structures you will need to put in place. What the market is like. How you will make a profit. All of these elements are just as important at the beginning; setting up a business, as they are as the business progresses because nothing stays the same. So in an ideal world (you may be wondering what that is) your business plan will be reviewed regularly, up dated and modified to reflect your changing business goals compared to the current reality.

If this is something that would be useful for you in gaining clarity around your business give me a call and let’s explore what would work for you.

What options are available?

  • One to one coaching in person
  • One to one coaching by phone or on Skype
  • NLP Business Practitioner Course – 5 Day Course
  • Create your Business Plan – 1 Day Workshop
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