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Tangible Business Coaching & Mentoring Delivering ROI

Personal Performance can be radically enhanced through the aid of a powerful Business Coach and Mentoring process. For many organisations this could be the best time to equip their key personnel with the abilities, beliefs and attitudes to perform at a higher level. It guarantees those who undertake Business mentoring the confidence that their skills and work is highly valued.

Expert Facilitator & Mentor

A skilled outsider who understands key motivational secrets and the team leadership can make a significant shift in the performance of a business. The thinking and behaviours that have got a business or organisation to its current level of performance will not be the ‘thinking and behaviours’ that will take it to a much higher level.

Clients in many Industries & Geographies

Over many years I work with Clients in a variety of Industries and locations. I have worked on long term assignments with Plant Managers and Quality Managers, Mechanical Engineers in Iowa, Chicago, Wichita, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK; Lawyers in Scotland and England, NHS Directors in Wales, England and Scotland, HR Directors and GM’s in Leisure, Banking, Finance, Manufacturing, Auto Finance and many more industries and sectors.

Current Client in a Difficult Environment

I have had the good fortune to be working with the Deputy CEO of an organisation in the City who has to take the current organisation and double its revenue in the next three years whist maintaining only marginal increases in its operating costs.

Over lunch last Friday we discussed the strategies open to him. Currently, he is migrating into the role of CEO after being appointed to his role as Deputy CEO 9 months ago.

During our time together, we discussed how he could work more effectively with his ‘high powered’ Board of Trustees, how to better manager his direct reports, and his relationship with the CEO.

Over coffee he sketched out an action plan and even a week after our discussions (we have been working together over 21 months and meet once a quarter) we are able to see how this could come to fruition.

Business Mentoring

Business mentoring can work in a variety of contexts and with a variety of goals ranging from focusing on profitability and ROI of key projects, to developing customer retention and acquisition strategies, generating and winning new accounts and Clients, acquiring and merging with other organisations, setting up Joint Ventures, re-structuring redesigning organisations for significant improvement in whatever metrics you wish to focus.

Metrics for Business Improvement

• Revitalise business strategy and business planning
• Increase income and revenue streams
• Create customer and client loyalty, retain customers, stop migration of clients, acquire new clients and customers
• Target and develop strategies to win new business from competitors
• Reduce operating costs and replace the rework culture with one of prevention
• Process improvement - reducing cycle time for resource hungry operationsCapture all costs and income associated with existing and new projects
• Differentiate and replace ‘cost hungry activities’ with ‘low cost revenue seeking opportunities’Improve individual and team productivity by focusing on 80/20 performance measures
• Streamline bureaucratic process and structures with customer centric equivalents
• Create a measured sales driven culture with those who never meet the customer supporting ‘customer facing’ staff

I have a whole series of published articles you might like to read which highlight the approach I take to Business Coaching and Mentoring. (links at the bottom of this page)

My personal view is Coaching and Mentoring is a waste of time if it does not impact the organisation positively and measurably for the better.

And to be candid, BETTER is more profitable, more clients acquired and key accounts retained, lower operating costs, better ROI on key projects as highlighted above.

And if you want to learn how to access my unique Business Coaching & Mentoring please email me at philip@philipatkinson.com

Published Articles Below

Please note some of these articles have been published and formatted in brochure format - so at first the pages may not seem to flow as if you were reading a book.

1.  Top Team Coaching & Beyond››

2. Coaching for Transformational Change››

3. Coaching for the CEO››

4. Transformational Coaching››

5. Coaching for Leadership Performance››

6. Leading Motivating & Mastering Potential››

7.  Coaching & Rapport Building››

8. One Stop Coaching - 7 Influencing Strategies››

9. Creating the in-House Coaching Culture››

10. Managing the Coach Client Relationship››

11. Coaching for Matrix Management››

12. Coaching Yourself through a Crisis››

13. Coaching the Coach to the Next Level››