Business Coaching
The pace of change today presents real opportunities for businesses to grow and adapt. But this also brings challenges. Businesses may need to adapt products and services, delivery models, talent strategy and use of technology to improve efficiency and maintain competitive edge.
At LifeForward, our coaches bring more than 20 years of business experience to business coaching alongside their coaching expertise. We have experience in leadership development, team coaching and talent management, as well financial qualifications and operational experience managing strategy implementation, budgets and teams. That being said, we prefer to collaborate with business owners and key stakeholder teams as coaching partners, rather than consultants.
Why business coaching?
Because you know your business inside out: the clients; the people; the team dynamics; the operations. You know what others say you are good at…
If we know, why do we need LifeForward?
It is much more challenging to face up to the things that don’t work so well. And even harder to work out why those things aren’t working. This is because it is human nature to pass the blame, or make excuses, when something goes wrong. Therefore, even the best leader may struggle to identify the true causes of recurring issues. Most likely it will be a combination of factors and unravelling them can take time, require a high degree of honesty, accurate assessment and open feedback. It requires trust amongst stakeholders to be willing to acknowledge weakness or error.
On a more positive note, sometimes businesses may not realise what they are really good at. Unless you have highly functioning teams across the business, there are likely to be teams and areas of operations yet to fulfil their potential. Are you leveraging resources fully and to the best of their ability? Or is there much more you could do?
So what can we expect?
Our passion is working with business owners and leadership teams to articulate a vision and develop a clear strategy for the future in order to achieve goals, address challenges and meet ambitious business objectives. We will work with you to develop a solution that can focus on the business or organisation, may include specific team coaching or leadership development, and can also incorporate one-to-one executive coaching for key people.
However, we will also challenge you. We will challenge thinking and behaviour and not just process and product delivery. We will ask difficult questions, encourage open and honest discussion, and look at communication, team dynamics and stakeholder interactions to help you identify not just what but why and how things may need to change in order for your business and your people to achieve full potential.
Are you ready?
Common areas of focus for business coaching
What to expect from LifeForward's business coaching?
LifeForward uses coaching techniques to help you build a vision and strategy
Through facilitated discussions, 360-degree feedback, coaching and workshops, LifeForward helps leaders to develop the strategic thinking, skills and awareness they need to build a vision and strategy to achieve future business goals and aspirations. We provide support for personal development to help drive culture change and build resilience.
LifeForward works with Insights Discovery®
Working with Insights Discovery to explore personality preferences, we help businesses build confidence, resilience, better communication and engagement, both at an individual level and within the business model. The result? A clear vision, a flexible and forward-looking strategy and a dynamic, adaptable workplace.
LifeForward uses coaching techniques to help you build a vision and strategy
Through facilitated discussions, 360-degree feedback, coaching and workshops, LifeForward helps leaders to develop the strategic thinking, skills and awareness they need to build a vision and strategy to achieve future business goals and aspirations. We provide support for personal development to help drive culture change and build resilience.
LifeForward works with Insights Discovery®
Working with Insights Discovery to explore personality preferences, we help businesses build confidence, resilience, better communication and engagement, both at an individual level and within the business model. The result? A clear vision, a flexible and forward-looking strategy and a dynamic, adaptable workplace.
Benefits of LifeForward's business coaching
- What our clients say
- The benefits of business coaching
- Business coaching vs leadership development
Leaders face the need for change at an unprecedented pace. Implementing change can, however, be challenging – people tend to be resistant to the new and unknown. Yet getting buy-in from colleagues, teams and stakeholders is critical to success when managing change. Good communication and planning is essential to maintain the momentum and follow plans through to completion.
Working with an external partner can be invaluable when developing and implementing business and cultural change. LifeForward works with clients to assess the need for change through facilitated discussions, gathering feedback and interviewing key stakeholders. We help leaders to develop the strategic thinking and awareness needed to build and implement a plan.
Firstly, since LifeForward always works with clients to understand the real needs of the business and individual, don’t worry too much about which you might need – just get in touch and start the conversation.
However, if you want to have a better understanding before you contact us, business coaching looks at the business and how the business as a whole functions. We help the key stakeholders decide whether there is a need for strategic or cultural change and, if so, what that needs to be.
Leadership development focuses on the individuals who are driving the business to give them the skills and awareness they need, either individually or as a group, to lead successfully either in their current role or in the next stage in their career.
Sarah Reynolds
PCC, ACA, CTA
Director
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