Where should you start?
Mindsets give you the model.
Each Mindset is one thinking tool — the GROW model, the Three Freedoms, working on vs in the business — explained in a few minutes of reading.
Guides show you what to do about it.
A Guide takes one owner problem — pricing, hiring, meetings, being the bottleneck — and walks through it step by step, with worked examples. Read the guide once you know which problem you are solving.
Tools put your own numbers in.
The five interactive tools turn the models into your figures — your scores, your hours, your profit levers, your hiring costs, your team. Your figures stay on your screen and you do not need to sign up.
The blog has shorter articles.
The blog covers problems we see owners face, in shorter pieces than the guides.
Mindsets, guides and blog
Mindsets
Thinking models for decisions and leadership, each with a way to apply it this week.
Explore Mindsets
Guides
Guides to problems owners face: pricing, hiring, delegation, planning and the numbers.
Explore Guides
Five free tools that use your numbers.
Wheel of Business
Score nine areas of your business out of ten and see the overall picture, the areas dragging the total down, and what to work on first.
Owner Time Audit
Log where last week went, see how many hours someone else could do, and what those hours cost at your own effective hourly rate.
Profit Improvement Calculator
Model the five profit levers — leads, conversion, average sale, purchase frequency and margin — and see what a small move on each does to net profit.
True Cost of a Hire
Add employer National Insurance, pension, kit, recruitment and ramp-up to the salary, then see the revenue the hire must cover at your gross margin.
Team Health Check
Score twelve statements about your team, see the weakest of the four areas with the first thing to do about it, and what last year’s leavers cost you.
Six to read first
Working On vs In Your Business
How to shift the balance between working on and in your business, week by week.
Stop Being the Bottleneck
A decision log and a delegation ladder for owners who have everything running through them.
Performance on Purpose
The model behind all our coaching: are you performing well — and is it serving something that matters?
The Three Freedoms
Financial, time and mind freedom — the three things owners want from their business.
The GROW Model
Goal, Reality, Options, Will — the coaching conversation in four moves, usable in any one-to-one.
The first thirty-minute call with a coach is free.
Questions about hiring 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.
Is business coaching worth it?
When it pays, when it does not, and when we advise owners not to hire a coach.
How to choose a business coach
Seven questions to ask on the first call, what the qualifications mean, and the warning signs.
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