Business Coaching with Enlighten
‘We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before
probably cannot be done at all.’ - Donald M. Nelson
Business Coaching involves
helping you improve your performance and is often about the make
up of excellence and making what is good even better.
Enlighten can provide a wide variety of business
training services including business coaching programs. This type
of training has been designed to improve the performance of your
business. Training programs are bespoke and tailor made to meet
the requirements of each individual business that employs our
services.

Business Coaching will help you consider how to get the
best out of your staff; your colleagues and your boss, as well as helping
you to identify your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and fears.
Owners might employ business coaches at any stage of the
business, including:
- start-up and business planning
- learning to delegate
- building a team structure
- resolving changing relationships
- introducing management processes
- developing a marketing plan
- expansion, new project
- business turnaround
- sale or purchase
Business Coaching can benefit the individual and the organisation.
Business Coaching has a proven history and is known to be successful
in complimenting leadership
training; it can also support individuals through challenging transition
periods where change may reveal vulnerabilities in individual skills,
or where past issues may have brought barriers to success
Coaching is frequently offered to aspiring managers and
leaders as a motivator towards increased future success.
We work on a wide range
of issues. Often, this begins with one of the following:
- One to one Coaching for you.
- Leadership Team Coaching for your Senior Team.
- Leadership Development or Training for your Managers.
We design and deliver bespoke
training to support our coaching such as:
- Establishing and Communicating your Vision
- Effective Leadership
- Coaching Skills
- Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Effectiveness
Our Measures of Success
include:
- Increased retention of Staff
- Better Decision Making for you or Team
- Decreased Stress
- Improved Communication
- Increased Self-confidence
- Improved ability to give and receive Feedback and Compliments
- Opportunities to Think/Reflect before Planning
- Better Time Management
- Changing a Culture and Creating a Vision
- Greater Team Effectiveness
- Effective Networking
- Improved Goal Setting
- Improved Standards
- More Effective Strategic Plans
You may already be running your own small business
or be in the process of starting up your own business. If you are one
of the many people in the U.K leading or starting up their business
alone you will understand the stresses and demands placed upon you.
Enlighten can support you in the often lonely task of
ensuring you are on the right track for success. Perhaps you have been
in business for some time and need to revitalize your enthusiasm and
find your direction if you have gone astray.
We can help and support you to ensure you have a vision
and strategic plan for success.
What we can do.
- Support you through growth pains.
- Help you to survive start up
- Provide business direction and strategy
- Challenge you to know your customers and market
- Provide sensible support through money matters
- Ensure your plan covers managing your resources well
- Ensure you manage your business relationships well
- Where to next? Do you have a 3 or 5 year plan?
If you would like an informal, confidential and free consultation
to find out if we could work together either give us a call or complete
the short contact form.
The Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Business or Executive Coach
1. TO KEEP UP
You can't solve tomorrow's issues with yesterday's strategies. An experienced
Coach helps you develop the capacity to handle the increased complexity
of your world.
2. TIME
The Executive Business Coach is trained to help you identify what's
important now and in the future as you create business results. Leveraging
your time is critical. Short, focused coaching sessions move you forward
quickly.
3. AWARENESS and BLINDSPOTS
A good Coach helps you develop your awareness - awareness of your mental
models, or how you make sense of your world - and awareness of the impact
of your words and actions on others. Your blind spots (and we all have
them) can be fatal in business. A coach can help you understand perspectives
you may not have considered. You can't move beyond your biases if you
don't recognize them. Increased awareness is critical to executive and
leadership development.
4. BALANCE
The pressures of juggling work/life balance are always present. Quality
coaching naturally facilitates your choices in establishing the level
of balance you want.
5. COMMUNICATION
Your effectiveness in getting your message across and being able to
draw the information you need from others and your team is critical
to your success. A Coach can help you develop your competence in communication,
listening skills, presenting your ideas, managing meetings and people.
What you say and how you say it can be greatly enhanced with the clarity
that comes from working with a Coach.
6. PURPOSE
Without clarity of Purpose, individuals and organization have no foundation
on which to build or expand their networks. Clarity of purpose makes
explicit the reasons for being and motives for action. Clear purpose
allows others to align their efforts in support of organizational purpose.
7. CONGRUENCE
We are all looking for congruence in our leaders and associates. Business
Coaches help you to BE congruent and live in alignment as you walk your
talk. Congruence comes out of developing your awareness of the impact
you have on others. Coaching to align identity, intention and action
helps establish congruence, a byproduct of which is others' confidence
in you as a leader.
8. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Studies show Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more important than IQ in
an Executive, leader, business owner and manager. A Coach helps you
understand and develop higher levels of emotional intelligence.
9. A DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Having a personal and professional development plan can act as your
guide to increase your capacity and competence to lead. With a map,
a plan and a coach, the chances for reaching your goals will be much
stronger.
10. THE COACH SPACE -- CONFIDENTIAL,
SECURE, SAFE
Many leaders and business people say they do not have any place where
they can test, explore, discuss and receive push-back on issues critical
to their growth and success. The coaching conversation is about all
the points above and hinges on the right environment of confidentiality,
safety and openness. This is The Coach Space. It is the space where
clarity, insight, growth and development happen.
© Copyright 2002 Robert Knowlton. All rights reserved.
The Way Forward
Contact Enlighten now for an informal, confidential discussion.
To find out if we could work together and to see what Enlighten could
do for you call John on 01233 646605 or use the short contact
form.
‘Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become
what they are capable of being.’ - Goethe
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