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How Coaching can positively impact your business

Coaching is one of the most effective means of improving communication and overall performance within organisations whilst enabling your people to fulfil their potential.
From senior managers to your wider team, coaching is guaranteed to make a positive impact far beyond the individuals being coached. 
Benefits include increased or improved:

• Morale, motivation and job satisfaction
• Performance in terms of productivity and efficiency
• Working relationships, teamwork & people skills
• Resourceful ness, creativity & decision making
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to change
• Accountability and ownership
• Communication
• Staff retention

Unlike mentoring, training or other forms of personal development, coaching is empowering.  It puts the onus on the coachee to take responsibility for making positive changes and enables them to do this; it helps them to find new and motivating solutions to problems whilst helping them overcome perceived challenges and limitations. 
Strict confidentiality and a supportive relationship allow certain ways of thinking and ‘being’ to be challenged and then changed.  This helps reduce negativity and feelings of despondency.
In addition, feeling invested in also contributes to increased positive and happiness, which can help counter balance stress caused by heavy workloads, difficult relationships and structural changes.

Why choose Inspiring Futures coaching

Through Inspiring Futures I have worked with numerous businesses. As a specialist in business coaching, I understand the importance of working on the individual as a means of improving business success.
Having worked in SMEs and corporates prior to starting my own business, I have personal insight into the demands, pressures and the skills needed to thrive.  I have a results orientated approach enabling my clients to make lasting positive changes which impact on the business as a whole…

“Claire has worked with me and my team on a number of tasks. On every occasion she really has made a significant difference to the people she has worked with and this has translated into a benefit for the organisation. I cannot recommend Claire highly enough and we already have a waiting list of people wanting to work with Claire in the future. Thank you to Claire on behalf of everyone you have helped and from me for the positive changes you have brought about.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, High Integrity
Chris Moore, CEO, Feref (Marketing Agency), March 5, 2012

“Claire has been working with a member of my staff who has benefitted hugely from Claire's coaching in just a short period of time. I will continue to use Claire in the future.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Good Value, High Integrity
Leonor Stjepic, CEO, RAFT (charity), May 2, 2012

So, for the benefit of your business and its individuals, contact me to arrange a no-obligation meeting.
Rates are competitive and packages can be tailored to suit your needs.

If you would like to see positive change in your life by fulfilling you business dreams then the answer is yes.

You’re thinking about starting your own business
You have already started and are running your own business

The journey to starting and running your own business can be lonely but while I’m coaching you, you will have someone with you along the way to support you and who is as committed to your goal as you are. Coaching can be challenging but it’s not nearly so challenging as taking the journey towards your dream business on your own.

You’re thinking about starting your own business

In addition to lots of excitement, commitment and ambition, I know that you can often experience doubts, fears and questions when you’re on the journey towards achieving your dream business.  Inspiring Futures Coaching is about not letting these hold you back. Aside from financial success, a lot of other motivations and definitions of success may be tied up in your dream such as: wanting more freedom and control over your life, finding meaning and fulfilment from your work, achieving work-life balance, being true to a passion, creating a legacy, proving something to yourself, generally being happier, finding a way to make a difference, the list goes on and on.

Do any of these apply to you?

• Do you have a business dream but want to know if starting your own business is for you?
• Do you feel ready to start your business but would love to know what to do first?
• Are you fed up of the status quo and dream of turning your passion into a profitable business?
• Are you excited but also scared about the unknown and would like to increase your confidence and reduce your fears?
• Do you talk about your dream business but would now like to stop procrastinating and actually make it happen?
• Is your aim to run a business that gives you work-life balance but in order to make it a reality you need to find the time and energy?
• Are you seeking more fulfilment from working at something you love but first need to know that it’s possible?
• Are you excited by the idea of being the best you can be but would love to feel sure that you are capable of achieving your dream?

If any of these sound like you then contact me today to arrange your FREE preliminary chat to explore how I can support you and empower you to achieve your goal.

Holding onto a dream without ever giving yourself a chance to really explore it can leave you feeling empty and frustrated. Over time your fears may unnecessarily increase, your excitement may ebb away, you may lose impetus and you can waste time and energy worrying about if and how you’re ever going to get there. Don’t let your dream work against you… give yourself the chance to really explore it. You don’t need to know straight away how you can make it happen, just that you want to. What’s the worst that can happen? If nothing else, it could clear the way for a new dream that could make you even happier.

Coaching will help you prove that you can take action towards this dream. It will also enable you to make the most of yourself, your talents and your life. In fact it’s impossible not to grow and develop through Coaching if you are committed to it.   

So what’s holding you back? Feel free to contact me if you would like to talk in more depth.

You have already started and are running your own business

I know that in order for your business to succeed, you need to thrive. I also know that your business, is not a separate entity within your life but an integral part of it; that it can hold the key to fulfilling various personal aspirations and all of that brings with it powerful motivations but also complex challenges. You’ve done what many see as the hardest bit, you’ve started; you’ve proven that you can take action, follow a dream, be true to yourself, overcome fears, take control and work hard so well done. 

However, as much as you prepared yourself for running your own small business, it’s an on-going journey; you have to be dynamic so that you are able to learn from every challenge and adapt to change. You may have lost momentum or focus, have underestimated how difficult it might be or become so tied up in the process that you’ve lost sight of the end goal and how to get there.

Whatever the issue, it needn’t hold you back. As a Women’s Business Coach I can help you achieve your goal and turn your passion into a profitable business.

Do any of these apply to you?

• You found starting easy but now you need to know how to grow a business?
• Are you working hard but need to learn how to do so more productively so that you earn more and work less?
• Are you committed to your business goal but feel the need to re-inject some new excitement and motivation to help spur you on?
• Have you made progress but are keen to create a business that you’re proud of?
• Are you so busy working in your business that you have gone off track and need to know how to focus, set goals and create a personal action plan?
• Have you done everything you can think of but still need new ideas to get you to where you want to be?
• Are you frustrated with your way of working and want to find out how to make the most of yourself and your business?
• Do you have challenges that you would love to know how to overcome?
• Do you believe in your dream business but would love some extra support to really drive you forward?
• Have you reached what you thought was your goal but still want to know how to achieve and live the life you dreamed of?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, are dissatisfied with your current position and want to take steps to change it then contact me today to arrange your FREE 1/2 hour phone consultation.