Work With Me

“All you need is the plan, your roadmap, and the courage to press on to your destination”

Earl Nightingale

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My Coaching Services

I’m here to help you achieve success without the stress

No Stress Success Coaching : What actually happens?

The exact things we work on together in coaching are completely personalised to you, because you are not the same as anyone else – your needs, your circumstances, your red-lines (because there are always some things you are just not willing to change!), your strengths, your beliefs, your idea of success.

We usually work together over a period of four months, during which time we meet (remotely) six times, each for 90 minutes.

We begin by clarifying and defining in some detail what your idea of achieving business and work life success actually looks like. We explore what matters, what motivates you, what leaves you feeling fulfilled and what has the opposite effect.

Then, we consider how what you want is different to your current situation, and what you want to retain about how things are working now. We distill things down so you’re able to identify all the things you want to be able to do or make happen that you currently can’t, and are clear about all the things that are in the way of you simply clicking your fingers and making it happen (because if it was that easy, you’d already have done it)…

…and then we get to work, developing strategies, learning how to make changes and helping you overcome or any beliefs, mental blocks, habits or behaviours that are unhelpfully contributing to the way things are – and I’ll help you apply what you discover and learn to both business and life.

I can’t tell you that “this is what I will teach you to do” – because if dealing with the challenges you’re facing were as simple as that I’d just write a blog post, you’d read it and change your life overnight. It’s different for everyone, but typically, your coaching will include working on one or more of these areas, always working at a very personalised level:

Identifying what success looks like, feels like, will be, for you.
Developing strategies and plans that give you increased focus and improve your ability to prioritise and choose what to do and what not to do
Improving your time management, organisational and productivity skills
Learning to set and confidently manage healthy boundaries between work and home life
Reducing workload by becoming more confident about delegating, asking for help or stopping taking on other people’s responsibilities
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and building self-belief, so you are less likely to add to your own workload in an effort to protect yourself from being “found out as not good enough”
Learning how to switch off and give yourself permission to relax
Learning techniques for managing and reducing stress
Tackling individual sources of stress, to reduce their impact
Overcoming your guilt, so you can give yourself permission to do things in different, more helpful ways
Developing a healthy, helpful level of structure in your work and life, and strategies for maintaining this
Feeling able to be more assertive in your communication and negotiation with others, so you don’t add things to your to do list simply out of fear of upsetting someone if you don’t
Considering your career development or business direction, and how to manage that in line with the family life and work life balance you want.

Between each of our sessions you’ll be making small changes one by one, taking on specific challenges and trying out things for size to see how they feel on you. I might also set you some “homework” to extend or increase the rate of your success – but I’m always mindful that you are really busy, and our work is about reducing your workload, not adding more tasks to it!

You can also email me whenever you like during that period to get input, ideas and questions that will help you work out what to do in tricky situations, to share a win that’s made you feel great, or simply to release some pent up frustration or stress.

Who do I work with?

My clients are small business owners, professionals and senior leaders in organisations of all sizes, from recent start-ups to large corporates.

I’ve worked with people from a wide range of industries and sectors – from professionals in accounting, marketing, education, medicine and law, to business owners in construction, engineering, design and a multitude of service industries – at all kinds of stages of their business journey.

What all my clients have in common is that they are serious about their career or business ambitions and enjoy working hard, but are finding their workload and work life balance are feeling out of control. What they want is to be able to fit all the important things in, enjoy and achieve great things at work, but leave it behind at the end of the day (and end the day earlier than they currently do!) so they have more time, space and energy to enjoy their non-work life too.

As well as working one-to-one, I run regular coaching groups and workshops for small business owners, and I run bespoke workshops and coaching groups within organisations, where they are looking to support employees with their wellbeing, stress, managing heavy workload and achieving a better work life balance. Please contact me if you’d like to discuss any of these

How do we get started?

Please get in touch with me to arrange a time for an informal initial consultation, which we can do by phone or on Zoom. We’ll talk through your needs, get to know each other a little and decide whether we’re a good fit to work together, and then talk through the nitty gritty like costs and session arrangements.

To give you an idea, a six-session coaching programme, as described above, will require an investment of £1170 – payment plans are available.

If you’d like to find out a bit more about me, my coaching, my experience and why I decided to leave a successful corporate career to become a self-employed coach, you’ll find my story here.

And, if you’re a small business owner you can come and get to know me, and get FREE inspiration, support and advice in my Facebook Group The No Stress Success Network

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