Business coaching does work for business owners, and it has many benefits, but it’s not for everyone.
For business coaching to be effective, you need to have an ambitious mindset, be open to someone else sharing their ideas about your business and be willing to implement positive changes. Finding the right business coach and type of coaching also plays a crucial part in how successful your business coaching is.
Maya Angelou, the American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist, said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
And it’s true, especially when it comes to business coaching. You might assume business coaching is all about exponential growth and success, which it can be, but it’s also about feeling happier and more confident by learning how to set better goals and make better decisions which are aligned with who you are and what you want.
That’s why at Bill Squires Business Coaching, we put an emphasis on the importance of finding the right business coach and why we only coach clients who we believe are ready to turn their good business into a GREAT one.
How does business coaching work, and how can it help you?
After the onboarding process with your business coach, you’ll attend regular sessions where you and your business coach identify positive steps you can take to make more money, build winning teams and gives you a chance to have more ‘life’. Essentially, you and your business coach work together to create a better life and business for you.
All business coaches have their own approach; however, the typical business coaching process involves:
- Assessing your current situation
- Determining what needs to be addressed
- Setting detailed goals
- Creating a timeline of actionable steps to take
- Implementing your actionable steps to ensure you meet your goals
- Reviewing your progress to hold you accountable and make sure you succeed.
As well as attending your business coaching sessions, many business coaches encourage their clients to reach out and ask any questions in between sessions. For example, “I’ve fallen behind on my goal to attend more exhibitions; what can I do?” or “A member of my team has just handed in their notice; do I start recruiting and how should I go about it?”
Working with a business coach has many benefits, including giving you a new perspective of your business, enabling you to outline a clear roadmap, boosting your confidence, being a source of support and advice, holding you accountable, facilitating your business development, and improving profitability.
Coaching that helps our clients win business awards
At Bill Squires Business Coaching, we not only coach our clients, but we also help them become the best in their industry. We recently attended BizX 2023, a national business conference with world-renowned speakers, with 16 clients, eight of whom entered 12 national awards. Of these eight clients, six were finalists, and one of our clients won!
Before we attended BizX, Bill managed to get interviews with each of our clients, where they discussed their business in more detail and shared with us why they were coming to BizX.
Barton Legal
One of our clients, Barton Legal Limited, are an industry-leading construction and commercial property law firm. Bill Barton, Trish Barton and their team have been working with us for nearly 4 years.
Here’s what Bill from Barton Legal said when we caught up with him before BizX:
Barton Legal’s National Award Entry 2023 – Best Marketing Campaign, FINALIST
Barton Legal Limited were a finalist for the Best Marketing Campaign award.
Floor Design Wetherby
Floor Design Wetherby is an independent carpet and flooring specialist who supplies and fits the latest quality carpets and floor coverings. Floor Designs Wetherby has also recently branched out to include environmentally sourced and produced flooring and developed an online offering called Flooring by Nature. Matt Lech and his team have been working with Bill Squires Business Coaching for 3.5 years.
Here’s what Matt Lech, from Floor Design Wetherby, said about his business before attending BizX:
Floor Design Wetherby’s National Award Entry 2023 – Most Innovative Company
Due to their innovation, Floor Design Wetherby entered the Most Innovative Company award.
LFH Regulatory
Laura Friedl-Hirst has been working with us for 18 months, and her business, LFH Regulatory, a medical device and in vitro diagnostic regulatory and consultancy firm, has gone from strength to strength since she started business coaching with us.
Here’s what Laura from LFH Regulatory revealed to us before attending BizX:
LFH Regulatory’s National Award Entry 2023 – Best Personal Growth
We had high hopes for Laura, who entered the Best Personal Growth award, but she was up against some steep competition, so couldn’t clinch the win despite being on track for an impressive growth of 130% in year-on-year revenue.
Virtual Approval
Virtual Approval, an event management agency owned by Rachel Locke, came to Bill Squires Business Coaching in January 2022.
Here’s what she said about her business and plans for the future:
Virtual Approval’s National Award Entry 2023 – Best Personal Growth
Virtual Approval entered the Best Personal Growth award.
Children’s Corner Childcare
Lesley Dawson, the Founding Director of Children’s Corner Childcare, a family-run business, joined us at BizX. Lesley and her team provide high-quality, engaging childcare through nurseries, out-of-school clubs and holiday clubs and started working with us in October 2020.
Here’s what her son, Mattie, shared with us when we had a chat before BizX:
Children’s Corner National Award Entry 2023 – Best Customer Service
Lesley and the Children’s Corner Childcare team entered two awards; Best Customer Service and were finalists for Best Company Culture.
Crucial Engineering
Crucial Engineering started working with us in April 2020. Paul Van Heeswyk, also known as Dutch, and his team are aluminium fabrication specialists who create safe, secure and accessible solutions for commercial and industrial premises.
Here’s what Dutch had to say when we caught up with him before BizX:
Crucial Engineering’s National Award Entry 2023 – Most Innovative Company, FINALIST
At BizX, Paul and the Crucial Engineering team were finalists for the Most Innovative Company award.
Mix & Twist
James Abbott, founder of Mix & Twist, a five-star mobile bar company, and his team deliver exceptional drinks and extraordinary experiences for events. James started working with us in September 2020 and truly believes in thinking outside the box and being innovative.
Here’s what he had to say about his innovative methods when we interviewed him:
Mix & Twist’s National Award Entry 2023 – Most Innovative Company, FINALIST
Mix & Twist were finalists for the Most Innovative Company award.
21 Degrees Digital
Zac Evans, Kyle Findley, and Rory Mason own and run 21 Degrees Digital, a digital advertising agency. Zac, Kyle and Rory came to Bill Squires Business Coaching in March 2021 (after Rory had worked with us in March 2020 with his previous agency) and have been working with us ever since.
Before attending BizX, we had a catch-up with Rory and here’s what he had to say about 21 Degrees Digital:
21 Degrees National Award Entry 2023 – Best Company Culture
They applied for four awards: Best Company Culture, Best Marketing Campaign, Best Service Based Company and Entrepreneur of the Year, and the judges also entered them for Best Overall Company. Out of the awards they entered, they were finalists for two categories and won Best Marketing Campaign!
Zac attended BizX 2022 and told Bill he would be on stage next year receiving an award, sharing that goal paired with all of 21 Degrees Digital’s hard work clearly paid off.
“Winning this award means the world to the whole 21 Degrees team. We’ve been working closely with Bill for a number of years and its great to see all of his hard work coming to fruition. Bill has been so supportive and we really wanted to win an award to help demonstrate the incredible work he’s done with us, and pay him back for everything. Bill will be humble here and say that it was all our hard work, but I can’t emphasise enough the impact he’s had through working with us. Thank you Bill.” – Rory Mason, the Managing Director at 21 Degrees Digital.
What our clients say
Here’s what some of our clients have said about working with Bill Squires Business Coaching:
“Bill is a fantastic person to have in your business.
Having weekly sessions has not only grown my businesses but also improved our systems, people and goal setting.
I’d recommend his services to any business owner.” – Rhys Boven
“The only issue I would have about business coaching is we should have started it years before.” – Bill Barton.
“Without exaggeration, working with Bill has been life changing! Bill has worked with me to better understand my business and supported me in taking decisions that are in line with growth.
I have complete belief that I will reach my goals, but not only that – I am invigorated & absolutely loving the process of reaching them. Making the decision to work with Bill as a business coach is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made!” – Lisa Kemp
“Thanks for all your help Bill, I mean that big time fella, really feel like I’m getting on top of things at last.” – Paul Brocklebank
Have a chat with Bill Squires
Do you want to turn your good business into a GREAT one? Or maybe you want to experience for yourself if business coaching works?
Book a no-obligation chat with Bill Squires today to discuss your business and see which type of coaching is right for you. You will be in complete control (there’s no pressure to commit to anything, we only work with clients who want and are ready for business coaching). Or read more about what we do and how we work in our client onboarding blog.
