"If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

Partner With You

The process of partnering with our clients follows a similar journey in most cases:

Informal Conversation

A realisation that something needs to change or improve within their organisation to improve performance leads to an informal conversation with us to assess if coaching might be the solution (it might not be).

Level of Support

Following a preliminary discussion on how coaching would support the wider organisational goals, we have an informal discussion with those to be coached to assess their level of support for the coaching process – a high level of commitment will be needed.

Foundation Session

We’ll then hold a foundation session with them and with the sponsors of the coaching to agree the framework/design of the coaching and to discuss the baseline KPI performance data.

Ambitious Goal

The coaching starts with the coachee creating an ambitious goal for themselves and their teams. How, in the best-of-all-cases, will things have changed as a result of the coaching? What’s the bigger picture, and what sub-goals need to be achieved?

Coaching Sessions

The subsequent coaching sessions focus on each of the sub-goals. What’s the current reality? What are the constraints? What assumptions are being made? What is holding them back? What are the options for moving forward? Which are optimal?

Results

As the coaching progresses we are holding the coachee accountable for the actions that they have committed to taking and, as the coaching programme comes to a conclusion, we will re-measure the KPIs to assess its success.

Blog Posts

See a selection of our latest posts

It’s Goal-Setting
& Discipline That
Improves
Profitability

Profitability is limited more by a lack of imagination and determination than anything else. Breakthrough performance is made visible in models that measure the

You Won’t Realise
How Important
Cash is Until
You Don’t Have It

Any senior manager or executive who has endured the anxiety and sleepless nights of being responsible for an organisation which has faced the risk

Four Simple
Truths

True North Coaching are experienced business coaches focused on assisting leadership teams to transform the financial performance of their organisations to achieve their business

Everything Starts
With Keeping The
Clients You’ve
Already Got.

You would be surprised at how many companies have little or no understanding of the financial risk associated with not having a formal key

Fixing Loss-
Making Contracts Asking
The Right Questions to
Get to the Right
Answers.

Many companies are uncomfortable bed-mates with low-margin contracts and, this not being the original plan, want to fix whatever is broken sooner rather than

The Importance of
Accelerating
Business
Growth.

Whether it be out of a naturally competitive spirit, a desire to improve the quality of life of individual customers, a wish to contribute

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Testimonials

A selection of some of the kind things our clients have said about us:

"Stuart was highly regarded as a coach to what was then a relatively inexperienced management team. He quickly assessed our strategic and operational needs and set about coaching us on what changes would drive organisational performance and how this could be accomplished. He brings out the best in others and this reflected very well in the performance of the business."

"Stuart is an outstanding coach. To align the organisation with its strategy he created a 3-day workshop for the management team which combined MBA-level theory with a highly relevant case study analysis. One-to-one sessions to monitor individual objectives followed, and team-building events created a great team-spirt. The results spoke for themselves"

“It was a great experience being coached by Stuart. He has a relaxed and easy way of discussing priorities, analysing performance, and creating base lines. His approach to coaching opens the mind to new possibilities and his constant support and guidance has made the achievement of ambitious goals possible. I would certainly recommend him.”

"Stuart was coaching me as part of my promotion and transition to Branch Manager. I thoroughly enjoyed the process which covered advanced financial, sales and operations management. Stuart’s approach was highly engaging, comprehensive and totally professional. I felt completely prepared for my new role at the end of the process."