Why you should invest in business coaching with Chalkhill Blue
Business coaching was once reserved for those businesses that were struggling, but over the last decade, as the quality of coaching has improved, more and more business leaders have realised it’s no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Coaching is now focused on those that are determined to unlock their potential or for keeping the top performers at the top of their game.
The best analogy for comparison is sports performance coaching. The world’s best athletes are undoubtedly talented, but it’s the addition of their coach that often results in the best performance. Their coach pushes them harder, faster and further than they would go alone. They focus on their mindset and stretch their comfort zones. They help them see the small changes that can make the biggest difference and when they are at the top of their game, their coach helps them stay there.
Business is no different, in fact it’s often a tougher environment. Alongside today’s top sports stars, entrepreneurs across the globe widely recognise the need and therefore the considerable benefits (financially, emotionally and personally) of investing in help and support from an experienced third party with a proven track record of success. Indeed, the likes of Larry Page (Google), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) have all invested over the years in coaching and continue to extol the virtues of high-performance business coaching as a vital resource when scaling an organisation.
At Chalkhill Blue, our award-winning team all have one simple goal: to help business owners, senior executives and management teams like you, unlock your true potential and that of your respective business.
Unlike many other advisory businesses, the Chalkhill Blue team all possess considerable experience of running multiple businesses. Entrepreneurialism is in our blood. We’ve all been sat where you’re sitting right now and understand the challenges that you’re facing only too well.
As well as being a trusted advisor, we are a confidante and mentor. We understand just how important it is to you, your business and your stakeholders that you are successful. We are truly passionate about seeing you succeed.
Consequently, clients regularly tell us they specifically choose to work with us based upon:
Like our clients, we’re still all driven by further success. We simply love business. We are genuinely passionate about it.
We are fortunate to work with an amazing portfolio of clients from a multitude of different industry sectors with wide-ranging and varied challenges. Fundamentally, that’s what we enjoy most.
No matter how specific or unique you think your challenges are, the good news is that our experienced team will not only understand them but also have vast experience of navigating similar challenges many times over. We pride ourselves on our innate ability to get to the heart of a problem or challenge quickly.
More importantly, you’ll benefit from working with an organisation who have a reputation for delivering results and one that consequently obsesses about its impact, ensuring the results clients achieve consistently exceed their expectations. As a team, we are committed to redefining standards, pushing boundaries and exceeding expectations.
We are great believers in only working with businesses that share our values. There’s no doubt that all our long-standing clients not only recognise but also align with our values as a firm.
People buy people. It’s a two-way thing for us too.
Our values are much more than a few words on the wall. They are behaviours that we really try to live and breathe, namely:
By working with Chalkhill Blue, you too can be confident about unlocking your true potential and building the business you’ve always dreamed of.
With our help and support, you will undoubtedly build a business that is able to grow its revenues and profits year after year and in time, provide you with a profitable commercial enterprise that can ultimately work without you.
You’ll enjoy the personal financial rewards and satisfaction of knowing that you’ve created a profitable business with a clear sense of purpose and direction. You’ll take comfort from the fact that your business outperforms the competition and has a steady stream of new customers that are both profitable and loyal. You’ll take pride in the fact that the business has been built around robust systems and processes that are the bedrock of your future growth.
Objectivity
Irrespective of what stage of your entrepreneurial journey you’re at, you will already know that being an entrepreneur can be a lonely existence. You’re often expected to know all the answers without necessarily having previously experienced the challenges that you face. Having a safe environment to share concerns and help bring clarity to options available is no longer seen as a luxury, it’s the competitive advantage required in today’s business landscape.
One-to-one coaching with Chalkhill Blue provides you with an experienced second set of eyes, supporting you with decision-making and allowing you to bounce ideas off someone who doesn’t have the same emotional attachment that can cloud judgement.
Working alongside your experienced advisor, you’ll look at the current obstacles or opportunities and together find the best way forward. You’ll develop the necessary skills to evaluate the ever more complex situations you increasingly find yourself faced with. You’ll similarly develop the clarity of thinking and the ability to focus on what is important, both operationally and strategically, as opposed to those previously all too common non-value add tasks that had simply become urgent.
Through the hands-on support of Chalkhill Blue, you’ll develop the necessary skills that ensure the quality of your thinking, the quality of your decision making and ultimately the quality of your actions allowing you to unlock the true potential of your business.
World Class Resources
The challenges of running, growing and even exiting a successful business are both considerable and, in many cases, time-consuming too. As an ambitious entrepreneur, you must manage your team, your customers, your sales & marketing and your finances so that you are able to scale your business in the most efficient and effective manner.
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By working with Chalkhill Blue, you’ll have access to not just our considerable experience, but also practical help and advice to design, build, procure and implement the right systems and tools for your business.
Whatever challenges you face, your trusted advisor will be able to not only recommend a suite of suitable tools but more importantly, will be able to provide you with practical, hands-on support to both select and then implement the right tools and techniques for you and your business.
Grow Strategic Thinking Skills
As each business moves through the different growth stages, the need for greater strategic thinking increases and the risk associated with those decisions multiplies. Having an independent view and someone in your corner who has no vested interest other than your success can be refreshing, to say the least.
Chalkhill Blue help bring clarity to the decision-making process and a clinical review of options available. Taking time out to strategically think rather than tactically reacting allows you to see what is coming over the horizon at each new stage and plan for this.
Create an Actionable Business Strategy
Too many businesses write plans which sadly aren’t implemented. Either they aren’t looked at or actioned or they were for the bank or for the launch of a business and rarely looked at since. As a business owner, unlike your employees, there is rarely anyone to keep you accountable. At Chalkhill Blue, we not only help you build a plan but hold you account to action it.
We break the plan down into manageable chunks across the business so there is real ownership and accountability across the departments. 90-day planning is a staple of our coaching process as it’s long enough to do something significant but short enough and outcome-based to keep people focused. Combining the above with KPIs (key performance indicators) so everything is transparent and results-focused ensures everyone knows what success looks like.?
Identify Strengths & Weaknesses
We all ultimately want and need to develop strong teams that perform well, but often people challenges are difficult to address, particularly if they have been with us for a while or if they are part of a family-run business. Having an outside perspective can therefore address some of the more personal challenges that might exist and allow for “the difficult conversations” to take place and be addressed.
Improve Profitability
Ultimately, the most important point is how Chalkhill Blue can help increase business profitability. At its core, business owners need to see ROI and profitability from utilising our business coaching services. With every business we work with, we are focused on the bottom line and what return on investment we can deliver. Coaching, whilst not instantaneous, must deliver results.
One of the benefits of having multiple coaches in our organisation is whilst you may meet and work with one coach more regularly, there are others available to support your business through any challenge. We consistently measure the results we get for the businesses we work in terms of revenue growth, bottom-line profit, work-life balance and business asset growth.?
Results
Finally, businesses choose to work with Chalkhill Blue because of the results we help them achieve.
By working one to one with one of our award-winning business growth experts, you’ll be investing in a totally bespoke coaching programme that is designed specifically for you to ensure that you get your desired?RESULTS.?
The commitment required to scale a business in terms of your time and money is considerable. However, for those that commit 100%, the financial and personal returns far outweigh the investment.
The one question successful entrepreneurs often reflect on is simply –?why didn’t I get help earlier??
Don’t just take our word for it, read real success stories below.
Next Steps
If you’re serious about growing your business, scaling it or even getting it ready to sell, investing in?support with Chalkhill Blue is the obvious solution.
The only question you should be asking yourself is “how soon can I get started?!”
Get in touch with the team today on 01793239542 or email us at [email protected]