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Some people have made suggestions that they don't look into getting a coach due to thinking it costs the earth. Think about what time is worth to you and your business. If i said using a coach can normally pay itself back in increased profits for your company with 6 months would this make it more interesting. If your a sceptic about coaching then it probably won't. Do you think that having a coach is only for people with a turnover of say over a million pounds +. Well you're wrong if you do, i offer packages which are completey flexible to the owners needs, most coaches do, apart from those who have the big backers ( action coach etc), these groups teach a way of business to make you think, wow you with seven ways to better business, 16 ways to improve your life, using multiple marketing stratigies and charge the earth to do it ( some packages are in excess of £4000 pounds a month). This forum is full of small businesses who need the help of a coach but probably feel their not at the right level to use it and make it work, that they couldn't spare the time to have a coach. Well thats the point a coach will make the time for you, by helping you reduce that work load by different means, and improve your turnover and more importantly your bottom line. For the small business owner time is everything, if your doing jobs you shouldn't your not spending time developing your business and driving it forward to where you want it to be. So if you work more than 60+ a week then what price would you pay to save 20 hours+ and increase that bottom line. How much is your time worth? Give a coach a call you might be surprised.

I hear you loud and clear, I once worked as a national service manager for a mobility company, they had 15 Reps sitting 2 appointments a day, once I realised what they were earning, I asked the MD is I could have a crack, I spent the weekend with a box of Tony Robbins tapes (6 if I remember properly) back into work on the Monday morning, and by Wednesday, the MD, called every rep to the head office, he wanted to know was I was beating them in sales, 15 of them combined did not have the figures I had, all down to some help from the big fellas tapes. 2 years later i was hired as a consultant to set up their Wakefield Call Centre, 6 months later a second just outside Petts Wood, Kent, not bad for a guy who never left the office, and was just a Service Manager!

I believe with all my heart, that anyone, can do anything!

Motivation, coaching and mentors all work, period.

I actually wanted to set up doing this instead of design, but I enjoy design that little bit more, so went this route, if you google 'Kip FX Sales Training' I expect you will still find some listings.

Sceptics will never see the benefit, as they are too busy trying to see the downside, my glass is always half full, if it has no water in it, then its a drinks container waiting for me to fill up with water or juice, its amazing, they always keep filling up, never emptying! :)

It's a shame not everyone realises that cost and time vs worth are so important when looking at coaching and training...

paula6thlevel wrote:It's a shame not everyone realises that cost and time vs worth are so important when looking at coaching and training...

It's not just coaching!

We apply it to software in the form of a "triangle" too. You can draw it on a bit of paper and label the sizes "Time", "Cost", "Quality" - you can change the length of two of the sides, but not all three (although this would make the triangle bigger, it doesn't change anything proportionally).

Quite often, if in a hurry, or amongst friends/colleages, I rephrase this: "Fast. Good. Cheap. Pick two."

Excellent way to look at it Matt, it is so true, personally and with customers.

Damn good slant on it.

matt.chatterley wrote:It's not just coaching!

We apply it to software in the form of a "triangle" too. You can draw it on a bit of paper and label the sizes "Time", "Cost", "Quality"

Matt - that's the Project Manager in you from the IT world. I love it. I quoted the same thing yesterday.

DigitalStationery wrote:

matt.chatterley wrote:It's not just coaching!

We apply it to software in the form of a "triangle" too. You can draw it on a bit of paper and label the sizes "Time", "Cost", "Quality"

Matt - that's the Project Manager in you from the IT world. I love it. I quoted the same thing yesterday.

LOL I've been quoting it all day today in my Project Management Course...and oh my, what a day it's been.

Do you teach Project Management? Any specific methodologies?

I do...I'm a Prince2 Practitioner; I run some fairly generic courses, but most training is tailored to the organisation with use of their own projects and some Prince2 methodology.