What are the four steps?
Coaching with Buzz follows four steps: a free discovery call, scores across the three freedoms, a regular rhythm of one-to-one sessions, and progress measured against those scores at ninety days.
It starts with a free discovery call.
The call lasts thirty minutes. We talk through where the business is, what is working, what is not, and whether coaching is the right kind of support for you. If it is not, we say so and suggest where to go instead.
You score where you are.
Before anything gets planned, you score yourself from 0 to 10 across the three freedoms — financial, time and mind. Those scores become your baseline. They show where the pressure sits, they shape which of the four coaching areas we start in, and they are what progress gets measured against later.
Then a working rhythm of sessions.
Coaching typically runs as a ninety-minute session every fortnight. Each session works on the most pressing live issues and ends with actions written down, which you complete between sessions.
Progress is measured at ninety days.
Your scores are revisited as you go and reviewed properly at ninety days against where you started. If the numbers have moved, you can see why. If they have not moved and you have done the work, we change the approach.
Coaching across four areas of your business life.
Sessions move across all four as the business needs.
Personal Coaching
How you think, decide and lead yourself. Owner mindset, resilience, energy and clarity.
Explore Personal CoachingLeadership Coaching
How you manage, develop and get results through others. Delegation, accountability and performance — so you stop being the bottleneck.
Explore Leadership CoachingBusiness Coaching
How your business grows. Strategy, profit, pricing, systems and scaling.
Explore Business CoachingFinancial Coaching
Regular sessions that build your confidence with the numbers, close to your cashflow — delivered with Buzz Accounting.
Explore Financial CoachingWho is coaching for?
If the live problem is an employment dispute, a tax question or a legal exposure, you need a qualified adviser, and we will tell you so.
Coaching is for you if…
You run an established business and you are carrying too much of it yourself — the decisions, the standards, the follow-through. You are busy, but not convinced all that effort is pointed in the right direction.
You are willing to be challenged.
You will do the work between sessions.
What is a session like?
Each ninety-minute session is a structured working conversation about your business, in three parts.
What did you commit to?
Every session opens with a review of the actions you agreed last time — what happened, what did not, and what got in the way.
Work the live issues
The bulk of the session goes on the one or two things that matter most right now — a price, a hire, a conversation you have been avoiding. We challenge your thinking until a decision gets made.
Commitments, written down
The final minutes turn decisions into specific actions with dates — recorded, shared and reviewed at the start of the next session.
Performance on Purpose.
Every engagement runs on one method and two questions, asked together: are you performing well — and is it serving a purpose that matters?
Your scores place you on the quadrant, and coaching moves you towards the top right, re-scored at every session.
Explore Performance on PurposeBefore you hire a coach
What does a business coach do?
Inside a session, inside the first month, and the jobs a coach should hand to somebody else.
What coaching costs in the UK
Published figures, what moves the price, and how to work out whether a fee can pay for itself.
How to choose a business coach
Seven questions to ask on the first call, what the qualifications mean, and the warning signs.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a coaching engagement last?
Plan for at least six months. The rhythm is a ninety-minute session every fortnight, and the first two months often cost you time rather than saving it — mapping the business, scoring where you are and writing down what good looks like takes real effort. The return tends to show up around month three, when decisions stop bouncing back to you. Every engagement is reviewed at ninety days against the scores you set at the start, so there is a built-in point to change the approach or stop. There is no minimum term. If coaching is not moving the numbers and you have done the work, we will recommend ending the engagement.
What does coaching cost?
Every programme is priced in full on the programmes page. Accountability Coaching is £495 a month, Financial Coaching £950, Leadership Coaching £1,250, one-to-one Business Coaching £1,500 and Strategic Growth Coaching £1,950, all plus VAT, billed monthly with no minimum term and no joining fee. One-off pieces of work run from £750 for the Profit Improvement Planner to £1,950 for the Profit Accelerator. The discovery call, the Performance on Purpose scoring and the four free tools cost nothing. If the fee would stretch the business, say so on the call and we will tell you whether to wait a quarter.
How is coaching different from hiring a consultant?
The difference is who owns the thinking: a consultant is paid to produce the answer, so the reasoning lives in their head and walks out at the end of the engagement. Here, the first sessions map your business with you, you decide what changes, and every session opens with fifteen minutes on whether you did what you said you would. Where we have run a business through the same problem, you will hear what was done and what it cost. If you want a plan built and handed over, hire a consultant.
Is what I say in a session confidential?
Yes. Nothing said in a session is repeated — not to your team, not to other clients, and not to the accounting side of the group. This matters because Buzz Coaching is a trading style of Buzz Accounting Ltd: if Buzz already does your accounts, coaching conversations do not flow into your accountant's file, and nothing moves between the two unless you ask for it. Owners routinely raise things in sessions they have not said to a business partner or a spouse — an exit they are weighing, a hire they regret, a number they are embarrassed by. If you want the position in writing before you start, ask on the discovery call.