What you’ll get out of a Business Mentoring Program

➊ More money

Plain and simple. The first objective of any business coaching program is to increase the bottom line of your business by an amount that will pay for the coaching many times over. I only take on clients where I believe this will be the result.

➋ More time

There is no point making more money if you don’t have the time to enjoy it. Most business leaders fall into the trap of working too hard and doing too many things they would be better off delegating or letting go of altogether. We will identify what is strategically important for your business and what isn’t.

➌ More meaning

It’s time to fall in love with your business again. If you’re overwhelmed, overworked, anxious or even just a bit bored, your business results (not to mention your staff) will reflect this. Let’s rediscover and maintain your vision, passion and motivation — help you get more meaning out of your business.

➍ Engaged staff

How do you find and keep great people? How do you get your current team to be passionate, proud and productive? By making your business worthy of them and relating to your team in a way that brings out their best. We have a methodology to help you do just that.

➎ Delighted customers

The quickest way to a profitable business is delighted customers. Customers who love your business will come back more often, spend more money … and tell their friends. In order to delight your customers you need to understand what it is they fundamentally want from your business. The startling truth is most business leaders don’t know what that is.

➏ Someone on your side

With a coaching program, you get me completely on your side — fully committed to having you and your business win. Sometimes this means support and encouragement — seeing the best in you and helping you be the best you can be. At other times it means asking the hard questions, pointing out the things you don’t want to see. It includes the input of ideas and inspiration, as well as someone to bounce your own ideas off.

➐ Experience

I’ve spent over 15 years working with 1000s of people from 100s of businesses large and small. I’ve also running a business coaching company for a decade, and launched four other businesses. Chances are I’ve come across what you’re facing before and will have strategies and tactics to recommend that will shortcut your journey.

What our clients say

We have already written $1.6M of work for this year – and its only March!

I have been working with Pete for 9 months now. I started working

with Peter because while I had a successful business turning over $1.1M, I was

working too hard and the business had too many inefficiencies, which were

eating into the profit. I also wanted to grow the business, but was scared

that if things kept going the way there were, I would stop loving the

business and lose my passion and drive. The initial work we did wasn’t on

the business at all, but the relationships within the management team. This

was a bit tricky in a family business – but as Pete said, if that wasn’t

working, nothing else would. We also ran a workshop with the whole team to

create our new mission (we design, manufacture and install fine cabinetry

that our customers love and we are proud of) and core values – which are now

up on the wall in the factory. We set an aggressive growth target of turning

over $2M this calendar year – which is quite ambitious given the financial

climate, and lots of cabinet makers actually going out of business. And

although we still haven’t started working on marketing and sales (that’s

next quarter) we have already written $1.6M of work for this year – and its

only March!

Francois Nemer, Fine Cabinetry

Heavy debt eliminated

Peter can very quickly pick out your weaknesses and help turn them into strengths. My major weakness was controlling cash flow … and working on this area with my coach has given me much more confidence running my business. When I started working with Pete 12 months ago the business was heavily in debt. Despite the drought and the nursery industry going through a very tough year, this debt has now been eliminated, and the future looks great.

James Lucas, James Lucas Nursery

In just one month my friends and family have noticed a big change!

After just one month of working with Peter my family, friends and colleagues have noticed a big change in my whole being. I have gone from being a stressed, anxious person to one who is positive and excited about my life and Overflow Angel’s future. I have found my own “angel”.

Andy Hampson, Overflow Angel

I can finally sleep at night

Despite becoming a highly experienced, skilled, successful and demanded jeweler I found myself working myself into the ground and not getting where to I wanted to get with the business. In other words I never felt in control, I always felt overworked, stressed and under pressure. Everything I tried always resulted in more pressure on me. My thinking about the business was in a rut. Peter has helped me see things that I could not see before about myself and my business. I now feel like I am going in the right direction with the backup of his knowledge and support.

I now feel like I can finally breathe … and sleep at night. I feel like I am going up a staircase step by step rather than falling in a hole.

Julie Grimshaw, JAG Jewelry

Over 500% growth in four years

Peter Cook has been instrumental in the growth of our business from $120k a year to $700k over four years. Peter has helped us identify and remove personal blocks, work through staff issues, create our vision and plan, clarify our marketing messages, have powerful sales conversations, get on top of our finances and systematise our business.

As the business has grown and we have got busier, the coaching program has provided a great structure to ensure that we keep doing the work on the business, and stay true to our vision and what we are about. Peter has always been completely committed to us and our business, and has brought his head and his heart fully to the job of coaching us and helping us create a business we love. Thank you.

Rob Wentzel, The Jonah Group

I’m interested – what do I do?

A mentoring program is one of our programs that you can’t just sign up for. To be a mentoring client we need to meet and choose choose to work with each other – it needs to be a fit. I’ll only work with businesses that i can get excited about, that are aligned with my values and where I can make a substantial contribution.

The first step is to have an initial meeting and determine what you would get out of a business mentoring program. There is no obligation or cost for the initial meeting, and we promise you’ll get value out of it whether you proceed with a coaching program or not. Call the office and set it up if you’re interested.