Business Coaching Programs

Business Coaching with Enlighten

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:

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:

We design and deliver bespoke training to support our coaching such as:

Our Measures of Success include:

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.

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.

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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.