Business Development Coaching Birmingham

Attention small business owners based in Birmingham and the West Midlands who are interested in developing their businesses during 2008 despite the gloomy economy predictions.

I am planning to start holding monthly business development group coaching sessions in mid 2008 (exact timing is still to be confirmed).

This will be a great experience if:

• You want to grow your business despite the expected recession
     
• You want to take control of your life and spend less time working in your business
     
• You want to increase your profits

Whilst I can't guarantee exact results from implementing the action plan you develop from the business development program, I can guarantee that by the end of the course, you will believe that your business has benefited by at least 10 times the fee, or I will refund the money you paid for the course.

My aim is to bring together a small group of business owners together to form a mastermind group where you can enhance your business development skills through a combination of:

• Structured presentations,
     
• Practical exercises to help you to develop an improvement plan for your business,
     
• Sharing experiences and ideas with other members of the mastermind group, all of whom will have their own businesses.

What you will learn

The sessions will be structured around the Eight Pillars Of Business Prosperity. Each of the pillars will form the basis for one session but several pillars are so important that we will spend two workshops covering them to make sure that your business moves as far forward as it should.

I believe that there are eight core elements or pillars to any business:

1. Your Critical Numbers and the way you measure performance across your entire business.
       
2. Your Vision and the way that it is translated into Goals and Priorities that allow you to proactively manage your Time, and the time of your employees.
      
3. Your Market Position and how you find the profitable opportunity and differentiate yourself from your competitors.
      
4. Creating More Leads by attracting more prospective customers.
      
5. Converting Leads Into Customers.
      
6. Making More Sales To Existing Customers.
      
7. Leading Your Team.
      
8. Systemising Your Business.

To find out more about my Eight Pillars Of Business Prosperity coaching model please see The Eight Pillars Of Business Prosperity and What Is Business Prosperity.

As you can see, this is a comprehensive review of your business - how it performs, what you want from it and how you can improve it.

Requirements for membership

1. All members must own all or part of a business. This is intended to be an exclusive group of "go-getters" and entrepreneurs. Employees who do not own a business are excluded.
      
2. You must be committed to attending the meetings each month. While it is accepted that sometimes it will be inevitable that things happen to cause you to miss the occasional meeting, your attendance is an important element of other people's learning and your own development.
      
3. You must be prepared to listen to new ideas and to try new things out on a limited test basis and then, when the ideas are proven to work for you, you agree to roll it out across your business.
      
4. The mastermind group will have between eight and twelve members. Any less than that and it is not viable for me but any more and the group won't function as well as it could.
      
5. The group will not allow members who consider themselves to be direct competitors in the same local market. After you have registered and paid your mastermind group membership deposit, you will have the right to veto another firm's application. My aim is that all members of the group will improve their businesses and feel free to talk openly in front of the group.
      
6. You will be asked to work closely with another member of the group as a buddy to help give you feedback on your ideas and plans between the monthly workshops. If you don't believe that you will have the time to work on your business as well as someone elses, I offer supplementary weekly coaching but an extra fee is payable.
      
7. The programme will cost £100 (plus VAT) per month payable by direct debit in advance, making a total over the 12 months of £1,200 (plus VAT) or you can save yourself £100 by paying £550 (plus VAT) at the start for months 1 to 6, followed by another £550 (plus VAT) in month 6 to cover the remaining 6 workshops. Or you can pay £1,000 (plus VAT) at the start for all 12 workshops.
      
8. An early bird discount of 25% is available for people who have registered via the Internet so you can go through a full twelve months business development training for as little as £750 plus VAT.