Small business coaching to grow your business with confidence

You started your business to escape the rat race. To have freedom, passion and the flexibility to work around your family, but that’s just not happening.

Working from home, it’s easy to lose focus and get distracted by chores. 

 The week whizzes by and somehow you’ve forgotten to work on your business – networking events, business planning, tracking your finances or creating more leads.

You need to boost your marketing but you’re not sure what’s right for your business, or even what to write.

Sales calls are being put off and you’re not following leads because you’re scared of what people will think.

You’ve lost momentum and feel like your business is doing ok, but drifting without direction.

But you’re passionate about your work and are totally ready to make a step change in your business, with a new energy for growth and a personal route map for success.

And you don’t have  to do it alone.

Working for yourself, often alone at the start, can be isolating. It can be hard to be objective about your business when it’s all on your plate and you’d don’t have a team to brainstorm with.

As a business coach, my small business clients say that they really value having me as a ‘virtual partner’ to help develop their business and creative ideas as well as the space to define their goals and priorities.

I can show you ways to understand and harness your motivation and make your small business a success.

Investing in business coaching will give you:

Accountability and support

I will be on your team, a critical friend and give you support as you push your comfort zone, take planned risks and create content to make yourself more visible. 

You’ll get my cheerleading support, an impartial view on your business and someone to hold your feet to the fire to get stuff done to reach your goals and targets.

When you’re feeling stuck and overwhelmed with information, advice, ideas and admin, my ‘whole-person’ business coaching will give you the time and space to work on your business, professional and personal development.

Business goals and growth

Coaching will help you get clarity about what you want your business to do and to discover a new direction. Rather than measure yourself against others, I’ll help you to define what success means to you.

I will give you support and inspiration to set your big business vision with goals to achieve regular clients, referrals and income. Then help you create a bespoke, cohesive plan with achievable targets, quick wins and longer term goals.

Through this process you will become more decisive and feel confident about making decisions about what systems, staff or marketing to invest in to grow your business.

Pricing and money

An icky topic for some people and so many business owners don’t have their financial building blocks in place. So if you don’t know your numbers – from expenses and forecast income to household budget and your mailing list – then we’ll get your benchmarks sorted, set exciting new financial targets and system to track your progress.

Plus if you’re putting off raising your prices because you’re scared of being laughed at or people thinking you’re a fraud, then we can unpick those mental blocks that keep you from charging what you’re worth.

Productivity and work-life balance

I will share with you techniques to get focused, get the most out of your time and balance competing business activities – while making sure you stay true to your business and personal values.

We can explore your work-life balance and make sure that you have a realistic set of home and business goals that work together to create more ‘me time’ and family time.

Along with new structures and systems to make you feel like you’re on top of things, you’ll also work out how and when to delegate and outsource business tasks to focus on what you do best.

Marketing and creative content

If you don’t know where to start with your blog, newsletter or social media or what to write, we can brainstorm creative ideas, promotions and hooks to build an inspiring content plan to find your authentic voice.

I can help you work out which marketing activities to invest in to increase your reach and income by getting in front of new ideal customers.

And to really bring your business to life, we will look at how you can ask for feedback, testimonials and referrals from your current customers to use in your marketing and to show potential customers just how fab your products and services are.

Confidence and mindset

I know that you want that feeling of success, of being on top of things and confidence plays a massive part in that.

Fear and anxiety can really hold you back. If you put off asking for business, for referrals, for testimonials or feedback or you’re scared of putting yourself out there in your marketing and on your blog, then we will work on ways to stretch your comfort zone so that you feel like you’re winning.

Balancing your personal and professional values is vital for business success. I will share with you ideas for courses, books, blogs and audio to inspire your personal and professional development and give you greater confidence and business va va voom.

Work with me

Image: A red circle with the text saying £920 six months business coaching
Image: A purple circle reading £1380 one year business coaching

What you’ll get with my  six month business coaching programme:

 

  • A reflective questionnaire to looks at where you are in your business now and where you want to go.
  • A 60 minute in-depth session to kick start your journey to exciting business growth.
  • Six to eight months of support and inspiration including 7 additional 60 minute coaching sessions to explore your business ideas and marketing options.
  • Email support and accountability for the duration of your coaching and two weeks after.
  • Clarity on your priorities, key messages, ideal Clients and business direction.
  • Clear actions to make a step change in your business now as well as long term goals.
  • Planning support to spread out your business activities month-by-month to avoid overwhelm.
  • A supported reflective practice that you can continue to support yourself with way beyond the coaching programme.
  • A supported reflective practice that you can continue to support yourself with way beyond the coaching programme.
  • A copy of my workbook to help you redesign your week.
  • Renewed motivation and a feeling of “I can do this”.
  • A great rate on follow up coaching sessions for accountability and to support your business growth.

What you’ll get with my one year  business coaching programme:

This programme can be paid for as a monthly retainer of £115 per month for 12 months (includes bonus hour).  

  •  A deep dive questionnaire to looks at where you are in your business now and where you want to go.

  • A 60 minute kick-off session to start your journey to exciting business growth.
  • A year of support, accountability and inspiration including 11 x 60 minute coaching sessions to work on your business and professional development, and explore your ideas and marketing options.
  • A BONUS hour to use as either two 30 minute ‘crisis calls’ for issue specific support between planned sessions or to boost a session to a two hour slot for a deep dive on an area of business. 
  • Email support and accountability for the duration of your coaching and two weeks after.
  • Clarity on your priorities, key messages, ideal Clients and business direction.
  • Clear actions to make a step change in your business now as well as long term goals.
  • Support to spread out your business activities month-by-month to avoid overwhelm.
  • A supported reflective practice that you can continue to support yourself with way beyond the coaching programme.
  • A copy of my workbook to help you redesign your week.
  • Renewed motivation and a feeling of “I can do this”.
  • A great rate on follow on coaching sessions. 

Small business coaching sessions are by phone, Skype/FaceTime or face to face in Kent*. Check out my frequently asked questions page for answers to common questions about the coaching journey and my approach.

Free discovery session

I offer a free 15 min discovery call to answer any questions about the coaching process.

In the discovery call you can find out how my coaching can help you get clarity, confidence and direction for your life and business. And give you some much-needed va va voom to get you motivated.

I’d like to understand the challenges you want coaching to support you with, and get a sense of who you are and what you want to achieve.

Get in touch today to book your discovery call!

If you like my approach, then we can book your first coaching sessions and start your journey to making positive change.

What my clients say

A fabulous experience.  Business coaching with you was a bit like working with a sensible big sister (without the arguments!).  You set me – often challenging – tasks and I committed to getting the job done.  It was helpful to have an impartial input into my business, which made me look at things afresh.
Julie Davies, Faversham, Kent

Owner and Teacher, Julie Davies Flower Workshops

Lucy was able to help me regain my motivation and she helped me change my mindset and regain a positive outlook towards the  future of my business. She also helped me to think outside the box about the various things I could do to increase my cashflow in the business. I have even come up with a new business idea that I can run alongside my cleaning business.  

I feel like I am a different person since starting the coaching sessions. I am not shying away from opportunities and I have developed a can do attitude with all that I do.

Sessions with Lucy are relaxed and fun it almost feels like you are chatting to a friend who has lots of wisdom and ideas.

Thelma Miller

Owner, Diamond Home Support, Chesterfield

Having you as a professional sounding board was great. It can be lonely and tough making decisions on your own, but having you enabled me to get them out of my head into breathe life into them. It’s a good way to really test your ideas before they become reality.
Michelle Gyimah, Manchester

Owner, Equality Pays

[Coaching] has had a big impact on helping me to decide the shape of my future. I needed to gain clarity about what I was doing and what I was aiming to achieve, and Lucy helped me to sift through all my different projects and see which one was worth focusing on. She also encouraged me to write a business plan, which has already made me think much more clearly. She has given me lots of tips about a) how to be business minded, b) what courses I might choose to go on in the future to develop my skills.
Amy Howard, Whitstable, Kent

Owner, Honker Tonkers

Read more success stories on my Happy Clients page.

*Locations include Faversham, Whitstable, Maidstone, Canterbury, Ashford, Sittingbourne, Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester.