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Business Goals + Dreams

There are only two steps to success - discover your brilliance and perfect it.  Doing this will allow you to receive the wealth you truly deserve." - Mark Victor Hansen

Coaching Profiles - Special Offer - Testimonials - 12 Week Power Program
Management Coaching - 5 Step Managers Cycle

Welcome to our business goals + dreams space

I have created this space for

  • People who want a career change and think MAYBE their own business but WHAT?
  • people that know what type of business but need practical information as to HOW to get it started
  • People who have a business and need help to grow it or need systems to keep pace with business growth.
  • people who work and live with their partners and are finding the balance between work/relationship hard to obtain and maintain.

 

Have YOU always had a dream of running your own business BUT

  • Don't know if it is viable (you can love it but will clients/customers)
  • Not sure of HOW to set it up (where to start??)
  • Want to change your financial situation but scared of 'going it on your own"
  • Think you want a career change BUT not sure what direction to go in
  • What steps do you need to take to start a business and run it ( govt. regulations etc.)
  • How do you define your customer demographic and needs
  • How do you market and 'sell' your product
  • Are you the 'right' person for the job??
  • What systems will you need
  • How do you hire staff??

Maybe you have taken the plunge you are 'the Boss'

  • BUT you want to grow your business
  • Perhaps your not doing as well as you need/want to??
  • How do you take your business to another level?
  • How do you balance work/family life?
  • Maybe you have run out of energy and enthusiasm?
  • How do you resolve staff issues??
  • Perhaps your business has outgrown YOU??
  • How do you prepare a business to sell?
  • Perhaps you work with your life partner and it is adversely affecting your relationship ( and we personally know what havoc that can reek!!)
  • Maybe you just need someone to listen to You for a change and give you ideas and direction

Most asked Questions and answers

So is it a minefield??? Yes it can be

Do you need to be a risk taker? Yes but calculated risks

Do you need systems? Absolutely!

Do you need people in your corner? Absolutely!

Do you need knowledge? Yes!! 

Should you have a business coach? ABSOLUTELY!!

 

Coaching Profiles:

Shaun O'Brien and Bernadette Desmond

Creator and previous owner of Black n Black Australia a retail clothing concept which started with 1 tiny shop and within a 2 year period had expanded to 3 locations and then onto Australia wide.

Together Shaun and Bernadette have created and opened over 8 businesses in a 10 year period starting with an idea!!

Developing everything in their business's from locations, logo, concepts, systems, staff training, marketing and sales to the support level of bookkeeping, leasing and legal requirements.

Whilst building and maintaining their business's they also managed to maintain their personal relationship (not always easy to do!!)

Having employed over 200 people across their various locations they have learnt first hand what it takes to build, maintain and grow a successful business.

The sacrifice and the rewards!!

To survive and thrive in today's business world you need

  • Systems
  • Training and development
  • Vision
  • Information and education
  • Support
To name a few!!
Business Coaching will directly help you
  •  Develop and retain staff
  • Increase your market share
  • Boost team performance
  • Up client service
  • Develop systems that work
  • Increase your profits

"Your business is a reflection of yourself……
emotionally, financially, physically and spiritually
"

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TESTIMONIALS

 

In the short amount of time Bernadette has been coaching myself, together we have achieved my salons weekly takings goal, set up my business to run efficiently whilst I take leave to have my first child and completed many little but important jobs I just couldn't find time for before. Bernadette has also taught me the skills to continue on this path and I'm now taking my business to a new level again. Thank you

Bridgette. Total Indulgence.

 

Bernadette has demonstrated skills which have challenged, encouraged and most importantly reconfirmed the positives in my life which is extraordinary and for that I am extremely grateful for the times we have worked together.

Life Coaching offers the individual a real opportunity to build structures within your own life that will allow you to adapt the world in which you live to achieve whatever goals you set for yourself. If in the process of doing this you have the opportunity to work with a person like Bernadette, who with her enthusiasm (and endless supply of paper and pens to remind you of what you said) and ability to connect with the "real you" then the process will be a very enjoyable experience.

Yours Sincerely
Russell O'Connor

 

'The Looking Good, Feeling Great Course" delivered at St Michael's College by Bernadette Desmond was a wonderful experience for all the students involved. I would highly recommend this course to other schools.

Early in 2005 we approached Bernadette to develop a course for girls that were struggling with personal and social issues in their lives. We were looking for an approach that was fresh and engaging for students. During this process we discussed with Bernadette the content we wished to include and the overall intention of the course. The course that was developed and delivered far exceeded our expectations.

Since completing the course we have conducted follow-up interviews with all the girls involved, their feedback was very favorable. Students said the course was informative and interesting and all the students enjoyed the very practical nature of the program.

I highly recommend this course and Bernadette Desmond. Please contact me if you require further information.

Yours truly
Liz Howard Dr Jeff Kemp
Student Pathways Coordinator Student Councilor
St Michael's College

 

12 WEEK POWER PROGRAM

 

  • 1 x 1 hr p/week phone one to one coaching
  • Initial business needs analysis, face to face
  • personal needs analysis
  • Weekly e-mail contact
  • Access to systems set up ( budgets/time sheets etc.)
  • Performance indicators and measurements week 4, 6 and 12
  • Recommendations for change and improvement
  • Business contacts and networking

BALANCE COUPLE COACHING

8 week coaching via e-mail and phone for couples who work and live together

  • Individual 1hr one one coaching p/person
  • initial personal /work balance analysis
  • weekly e-mail contact
  • personal and business goals objective
  • recommendations for change and improvement

Option 1: individual program $800

Option2 : combined with 12 week power program only $399 save $400!!

 

MANAGEMENT COACHING

 Lead Develop Retain Motivated Talented People

THE TWO FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE PROFIT IMPLICATIONS FOR ANY BUSINESS ARE COSTS AND REVENUE…… AND BOTH ARE HIGHLY INFLUENCED BY STAFF

How many of the below scenarios have occurred in your business once, twice or over and over again?

Has your business experienced………..
  • Leaders that are unable to lead by example?
  • Lost key staff members to the opposition?
  • Teams that are not pulling together - directly affecting turnover?
  • In- house disharmony due to a lack of effective leadership?
  • Unmotivated, unproductive employees?
  • High turnover in staff?
  • Loss of clients and revenue due to staff issues?
  • Stock loss due to discontented staff?


How much has this cost your business in $$$

Leadership - it is one of the most important qualities in management - Have you/your business got it right?

The only predictable thing in business is that it will always change.

Managing that change requires a great amount of skill. Your manager/s are the people you have in charge of that huge task.

How many of the skills do they have to productively and successfully manage your staff, business, systems, clients for you?

The following is a 5 STEP MANAGERS CYCLE aimed at teaching your manager/s the skills necessary for them to grow your business and directly positively effect your profit margin.

 

5 STEP MANAGERS CYCLE - you will learn how to…….

LEADERSHIP
  • What is it to lead?
  • The 5 Step Salon Cycle for managers
  • What it is you are really responsible for as a manager?
  • How to effectively communicate to your employer/area manager
  • How to delegate effectively to your team
  • Become a ‘problem solver’
  • Develop innovative management strategies
  • Positively effect the sales targets of the business
  • Understand your role as a leader and enjoy the accountability that brings
STAFF RETENTION/TURNOVER
  • How to recruit the right team members - first time!!
  • How to retain and develop key team members
  • How to bring new team members up to speed through training and development
  • Ensure productivity is maintained through a staff turnover period
  • How to manage and retain clients of a ‘lost’ staff member
  • How to effectively de - ploy a team member
  • Job alignment - ensuring you have the right ‘personalities’ playing a role that it is suited to them
 TEAM MANAGEMENT
  • How to develop a ‘team’ and not a group and know the difference!!
  • Personality types - what they are and how they will work for you
  • Effectively manage team disharmony
  • The difference between team management and individual management
  • How to hold effective and productive team meetings
  • How to develop and implement team targets and incentives
  • How to ‘lead’ your team to achieving budgets
  • How to know and manage staff at different ‘career levels’
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
  • How to spend time on ‘macro’ not ‘micro’ issues
  • How this influences the rest of the team
  • What is the productivity measure of individuals and the team?
  • How to determine and discuss business issues rather than micro performance issues with team leaders and owners/area managers
  • How performance issues impact on client service
  • How to recognize and manage a consistently ‘below par’ team member
  • Understand the significance of budgets/dollar averages in relation to salon performance
  • How to increase the salon bottom line
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
  • How to encourage staff to be innovative
  • How to devise and implement training schedules suitable to individual and team needs
  • What the impact of effective training is to bottom line results
  • Develop staff moral and productivity through consistent training
  • How to provide superior client service consistently for the entire team
  • Attract high performance staff through the reputation of dedication given to staff development
  • What the impact is on salon performance through developing motivated results orientated staff
  • How consistent informative training creates a team that shares accountabilities and values

 

 

Every action generates a force of energy that returns in like kind....what we sow is what we reap

 
You are either going to step forward into growth or you are going to step back into safety
there is no compensation for playing it safe!

 

Contact Shaun now for your initial consultation FREE

   

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