2013. Become a Business Coach - Introduction to Shirlaws

Become a Business Coach

Hosted by one of our Shirlaws (UK) Partners
Date & Time: Thursday 9th May, 9:30am - 12pm
Location: Shirlaws UK Coaching Centre, 2nd Floor, 2-4 Kings Rd, Reading RG1 3AA
Investment: Complimentary

Shirlaws works with corporate and entrepreneurial businesses around the globe, helping entrepreneurs and CEOs to achieve success for their business. 

We work closely with owners and management teams to turn business concepts into developed strategies, and transfer into the business the skills and methodologies needed to turn that strategy into an implemented reality.

We call this business coaching.

Our UK business coaching team is growing. If you are interested in joining us or finding our more, you are invited to attend this free coaching event.

Who should attend:

• Experienced business leaders seeking their next opportunity
• Existing, successful coaches or consultants looking for flexible support to build their business
• New coaches or those interested in becoming a coach or researching the business coaching industry

This Workshop will specifically address:

• The Shirlaws story, and how we fit into the global, expanding, coaching industry
• Coach journeys - and the different business models that coaches are using inside and outside of the Shirlaws family
• Our culture, our processes, and an overview of the business tools and methodology that have made Shirlaws successful as an international business
• Client experiences and case studies

This session also includes an extended break where you can meet and talk privately with some of our existing coaches, and a 1-hour Q&A session where you can have all of your questions - Shirlaws specific or coaching in general - addressed.

For more information or to register your attendance, please contact Diane Munton (dmunton@shirlawscoaching.com).

2013. Shirlaws Business Growth Programme - Scotland

Shirlaws Business Growth Programme - Scotland

Date & Time: 3rd Wednesday of each month, 8:30am - 12:30pm, commencing Wednesday 27th February
Location: Central Edinburgh and Central Glasgow
Investment: 10 Months at £375 + VAT per month

Why attend the Shirlaws Business Growth Programme?

With economy recovery underway, now is exactly the right time to invest in your business to accelerate your wealth creation.

Providing you with the same powerful, proven tools, frameworks and methodology which thousands of businesses globally have used to accelerate and manage growth in their revenues, profiles and equity values, the BGP will enhance your capability to design and implement an effective strategy which supports delivery of your business vision, both commercially and culturally.

Nine other non-competing business owners on the programme will also be of value in supporting and challenging your thinking and provide you with opportunities to create relationships with the wider business community.

What else should you expect from Shirlaws BGP?

• Understand where your business is up to in its Lifecycle, why this is so important and why this is precisely determines what you need to do next
• Create a compelling Vision around which you and your team are energised and engaged
• Learn how to create a Strategy to effectively manage growth and profitability alongside your appetite for risk
• Learn the value and importance of innovating, extending and re-packaging your Product irrespective of whether it's a service or a physical product
• Learn how to Position your business and align your business model around your chosen position to attract a flow of pre-sold customers
• Learn how to build Distribution to create new channels to market and generate pre-sold leads and referrals
• Learn how to generate more Sales more easily with higher margins and happier customers
• Learn how to create increased Loyalty and Referrals from your client base and why exceeding expectations is so dangerous
• Learn how to create and manage a Culture which supports your commercial objectives and why you can't achieve one without the other
• Learn how to maximise the Asset Value of your business by influencing your multiple and not just your profits.

Who should attend the BGP?

Business Owners and CEOs who are serious about increasing profitable revenues, productivity and asset value.

Contact

For more information about the Edinburgh programme, please contact Robert Begg on:
M: 07831 686977
E: rbegg@shirlawscoaching.com

For more information about the Glasgow programme, please contact Jim Henderson on:
M: 07817 745958
E: jhenderson@shirlawscoaching.com

Please note that programme places are restricted to a maximum of 10 from non-competing businesses.  We are therefore unable to guarantee places to all applicants.

To download the flyer for this programme, please click here.

2013.05.22 How to grow again from a business plateau

How to grow again from a Business Plateau

With Paul Walsh, Graham Wilson and Paul Johnston, experienced shirlaws coaches

Date & Time: Wednesday 22nd May
Registration:http://shirlaws.eventhq.co.uk/how-to-grow-again-from-a-business-plateau 
Workshop from: 10am-1pm
Location: Shirlaws Training Centre, 2nd Floor, 2-4 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 3AA
Investment: £295 + VAT
Contact: Paul Johnston 07733 192132

Why do Businesses plateau? What is the ONE thing you need to do to increase revenue? How do you choose the one thing?

We all understand the frustrations and fears of being in a business that seems to have plateaued.

But how can you stand back and objectively view what needs to be done to kick start revenue growth?

This workshop is designed to be a field trip through the landscape of your business and with a trained geologist's eye, uncover the hidden assets and opportunities that are right there under your feet, waiting to be found and brought on stream. 

These hidden assets, coupled with a clear growth strategy, are the fuel to your future growth.

The master-class will deliver you:

• An understanding of where your business is in relation to the economy.
• The ability to recognise and build assets in the business.
• A powerful growth strategy for your business (there are only 6 to choose from!)
• Support in uncovering what you are brilliant at but don't currently get paid for.
• Practical examples of unleashing hidden assets in business we work with.

A select team of experienced Shirlaws coaches will be on hand to guide you through this exploration and re-evaluation of assets and resources hidden in your business. Paul Johnston, Ed Percival, Graham Wilson, and Paul Walsh are experienced business leaders who have the organisational, innovation, geology and 'magical alchemy' skills to help your business grow again. 

"The most inspiring day I have ever had in my business life." - Roy Burt, The Talking Trade

2013.06.17 - "The power of AMAZING: how to create growth in a no growth world"

Date & Time: Monday 17th June, 5pm
Location: One Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HA
Investment: Complimentary
Contact: Emma Perry 0118 366 2013

Due to popular demand, this event is now fully booked.

Join Vernon W. Hill II, Founder of Metro Bank and John Rosling, CEO of Shirlaws, for an evening of extraordinary insights that will simply transform your view of how big businesses can be.

This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the truly great entrepreneurs of his generation, Vernon Hill, speak candidly and insightfully about how he built an $8 billion business from scratch, what he has learnt along the way, how he is doing it again, and why he believes that any entrepreneur can create an amazing growth business even in a flat market. This is the talk about which Tom Peters said: "I would bet a pretty penny that many a pretty penny will be yours if you follow this approach".

John Rosling runs Shirlaws in the UK, the name behind some of the great entrepreneurial success stories of recent years. John will give his perspective on the Metro Bank story and the clear lessons every entrepreneur can learn and apply today. In a highly practical talk, John will demonstrate the seven critical "layers" every business must build to create sustainable growth, wealth (and freedom), and how this understanding unlocks the secrets behind the amazing Commerce Bank and Metro Bank stories.

"The most inspiring day I have ever had in my business life"

There are only a few remaining places for this event, but please reserve your place now to avoid disappointment.

Vernon W. Hill II is the founder of Metro Bank UK and Commerce Bank. Hill founded Commerce Bank in 1973 and it became the fastest growing bank in the US before being sold in 2007 for $8.5 billion. As a noted critic of traditional banking customer "service", Vernon launched Metro Bank in London in 2010, the first new high street bank to be created in 138 years, with the intention of creating a banking revolution. With over 150,000 customers already Metro Bank is on target to have 30 stores this year. Vernon is the author of "Fans Not Customers", the book about which Tom Peters said: "I didn't find anything not worth reading".