Choose the package that changes your life.

desk coach lite

You’re losing track, losing things. Worried about deadlines.
You’re working too hard. Evenings and weekends.

Get back on track

Understand the problem and the solution.
Clear the clutter that wastes your time and saps your energy.
Develop a short term action plan the puts you back on top.

Case Study: Sole Proprietor with too few hours in the day

Wendy provides an expert service for individuals with specific health issues.
Her issue is that - like many other people in her situation - the day-to-day tasks of running her business interfered with serving her clients and developing her expertise.

Wendy’s Testimonial:

“Shirley helped me manage my office, filing – and above all, my time. I quickly adopted a far more structured and purposeful routine. Projects that I’d planned, but never started, are now in progress. Shirley quickly assessed my priorities, my strengths and my weaknesses. She is supportive and encouraging, without being invasive. I feel free to contact her whenever I need advice. I’d certainly recommend her.”

desk coach xpress
This – our most popular package – takes LITE several useful stages further. It fosters positive habits and helps you adjust to more effective methods month by month.

Your hard work is not reflected in your results. Why?
Too many projects. Not enough time. They can’t all have top priority.
You know something’s wrong – but you don’t know what.

Build the future

Goals are agreed. Progress is monitored. Working methods matched to your style.
Tasks are clearly understood. Deadlines become sacrosanct.

Time is recorded – then reviewed against what you intended.
Monthly progress reviews highlight what works, and what doesn’t, helping you to perfect your action plan and refine your methods.

Case Study: entrepreneur with more projects than time

Ian's main enterprise wasn’t getting the 3-4 days a week that it needed. The busier he got, the more disorganised he became.

We started by rationalising his activities. He sold a business, spent less time networking and put some plans on the back burner.

Over 3 months, we monitored how he spent his time. Despite three attempts to plan a weekly diary, he was frequently distracted by other projects – and by one in particular.

The Eureka! moment came, in a conference with Ian and his wife. Instead of distracting him, that project should become his main one. It now gets three uninterrupted days of his time each week; the original business gets one.

Ian is now focused, fulfilled and committed to Planning. He is a fan of David Allen’s book ‘Getting things Done.

Incidentally, although we also re-organised Ian’s office, I’ve never actually seen it. All coaching was done on the phone. If you prefer face-to-face, that’s fine. But it’s not compulsory.

Ian’s Testimonial:

"Immediate rapport. Shirley is approachable, calm, considerate, and always ready to listen. She captures the crucial essence of a business – and its problems. She is logical, analytical and a stickler for detail. She has a neutral stance, and successfully wears two hats – one psychological, the other business. This allows her to tackle what can be difficult areas – when personal challenges become business ones. She highlights things, helping you to question your motivations, to think in another way. Over the 3-month coaching period, I was able to identify what was holding back my business. A beneficial spin-off is that this kind of coaching ends up helping in one's relationships too!"

For those with a large project to manage

You want – need - to change direction.
You need more confidence in your new role.
You’re out of your comfort zone.
You want to fulfil a dream. You need an independent and impartial sounding board.

Control your future

A Motivational Map helps define what really makes you tick.
Focus on the project and its processes. Hone your skills.
Establish your priorities. Reclaim your time.
Ad-hoc consultations. 6-monthly performance review.

Case Study - Sharing skills to earn more money and recognition
Simon is an expert in his field but somehow it did not seem enough. He wanted more recognition and remuneration for his skill. He was nervous about working with other people, because he couldn’t trust them to do the job as well as he could do it. Yet, to give himself some time, he needed to build trust to move forward. To command the rates he charged, he continually had to do the work himself, to keep customers happy, so a way shared working with customers had to be found.

We used coaching sessions to explore options of what the client could do, and what percentage of time to spend on each activity. I was also mentored in the work, to help the client understand his successful process, which he found very exciting because he hadn’t before realised how he did what he does. This led to running his very first workshop, from which he began to formulate his ideal target market for training.

Over 6 months the client moved from working on his own, to working in partnership, where he is the recognised expert and continues to develop his process with bigger customers.

Simon's Testimonial:

“Shirley has made my dream come true. Her questions challenged my values and beliefs, and my expertise, and I now really understand how to mould others to use the same skills.”