Build A Business: Start your own business, be your own boss.

We can show you how to set up and build the business you have always wanted.

In addition to the pages below we offer a corporate/group/community online workshop 'Build a Business'. ​
Many of us dream about setting up our own business but very few take action. This is a shame because most people would rather be their own boss. Research suggest the main reasons people don't make their dreams a reality are; fear of the unknown, worries about security, worries about being the wrong age and finally they think there is a lack of options.
Our course will show you -
  • There is nothing to fear and there are no unknown's.
  • How job security is a myth that just holds you back.
  • How the young have the advantage of energy and older people see their overall ability peak in their 60's.​

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  • How to identify and build on the perfect opportunities for your new business.
  • We can suggest options for your new business.
Introductory Pages.

Overview of building a successful business.

  • Address the age-old problem of finding new customers.
  • Get to know the 5 main groups that need to be targeted to attract new customers.
  • Develop a system that prevents the pre-qualification of prospects.
  • Learn how to use the power of storytelling. 
  • Create a professional persona and approach.
  • Formulate a way to ensure a  consistent approach.
  • Develop a coping mechanism to help you to persevere when the going gets tough.​
  • Find out why keeping existing customers is cheaper than finding new customers.
  • Explore how your organisation can best present a consistent 'face' to customers and prospects alike.  
  • Create specific, relevant and inspiring customer service training.
  • Prepare for the inevitability of change.  Everything changes and determine what your company needs to be able to meet the demands that change brings.
  • Find out what type of negotiator you are.  Everything is a negotiation and good negotiating skills are important to everyone trying to build a business.
  • Find out what type of sales person you are. Everything is a sale and good/ethical sales skills are important not only to everyone trying to build a business but for everyone involved in the business.
  • Have a strategy.  Most businesses are teams.  Teams need to built, trained and pointed in the right direction.  
  • Identify your goals.  Good teams are coached to work towards and believe in a common aim.
  • Develop a purpose.  Everyone in an organisation needs to understand their place in the 'big picture'.
  • Find out what it takes to be a good communicator.  Leaders need to develop good communication skills.
  • Discover the authentic you.  Communicating successfully starts with the truth.
  • Uncover the specific skills required for general conversation, formally communicating with colleagues, delivering a lecture, delivering a speech, leading a meeting or keeping a discussion group on point.
  • Develop the skills needed to prepare correctly for different occasions.  Correct preparation is the basis of all effective communication.
  • Learn how to lead yourself (before you try to lead others).
  • Develop a basic understanding the 4 primary leadership styles and how they best represent your personality.
  • Create a mind-set that avoids confusing management with leadership.
  • Lean to focus.  Keep sight of the fact that teams are one and several at the same time.  Feeding to the identity of one without considering the other is bad!
  • Learn to recognise an unwilling follower: they are an antagonist.
  • Have a set method to determine if a good practitioner (within the team) will make a good leader.
  • Cultivate an approach that informs you on when to lead and when to follow.
  • Build a solid framework for all of your public speaking.
  • Learn to use performance nerves/fear to your advantage.
  • Work out where you sit on the introvert/extrovert continuum.
  • Become conversant with current theories on learning styles - everyone learns differently.
  • Make sure you know the difference between a good and bad strategy - before you act.
  • Understand the importance of disaster planning.
  • Develop systems that measure productivity as accurately as activity.  Not all activity is productive.
  • Become aware of how deadlines can help or destroy a good strategy.
  • Become aware of how time management can help or destroy a good strategy.
  • Become a student of the differing approaches to problem solving.
  • Learn the power of perspective.
  • Learn the difference between being assertive and being aggressive.
  • Become a great networker.  
  • Acquire the skills needed to resolve conflicts.
  • Find your inner-power and use it to influence outcomes.
  • Understand motivation.  There are two core motivational approaches, it is vital that leaders understand what they are and how they should be applied.
  • Learn to sift through the vast amount of analytical data available to all businesses especially those who use social networking.
  • LEARN TO SAY NO.

Our Services   

According to the UK Institute of directors, depth of leadership is “frequently” a problem for small to medium-sized businesses.  

Often company founders are too hands-on; this results in the leader getting bogged-down in day-to-day distractions.  When this happens the leader of a company starts to waste the energy that built the company.  This in turn results in missing the bigger picture/challenges/opportunities, slow growth, a disengaged workforce and the failure of the company (failure that destroys years of hard work building a company from nothing). 

These pages exist to help in three ways:
  1. Passing on experience - 40+ years in business, teaching and coaching.
  2. Hands-on coaching/development of individuals and teams - the key resource of any company or organisation or team.
  3. The coaching of senior personnel - even NBA players need a coach.​

Areas of Expertise:
Financial Services and Education. Executive business coaching in leadership & management.  Professional Sport. Life Coach & Counselling services. Insolvency and debt management.

CV highlights include: Product development and delivery for a major UK PLC. Sales, management & training for two major financial institutions and two UK universities. Promotion of national & international sporting events in the UK. Board level experience in the public and private sectors. Championship winning national sports coaching.