Mentoring and Coaching

Support for business through mentoring with support and guidance and pure coaching to help them learn how to get their and overcome issues.

Detection vs. Prevention: Why Companies Overinvest in Controls and Underinvest in Understanding

Alastair Inskip on 2025-11-04 Detection delivers speed and visibility, but rarely resolves underlying causes Prevention requires time, cross-functional cooperation, and leadership patience Cultures that prioritise understanding over compliance achieve lasting resilience Modern organisations have become remarkably good at detecting failure. Automated inspection systems, statistical process controls, and machine-learning tools monitor quality at every stage. When problems appear, the typical Read More...

Evaluating the impact of Organisational Coaching.

Richard Garwell on 2022-06-13 Coaching is proven to be an effective way of implementing positive change to a business and is becoming increasingly popular. The evaluation of coaching is often neglected. Benefits are anticipated before delivery, but frequently without a structure or framework that considers the full potential for the organization. Once the coaching has been delivered the achieved impact Read More...

Coaching delivers strategic benefits to Senior Executives

Richard Garwell on 2022-05-06 Coaching and mentoring are two distinct methods of skills development and personal development that senior leaders can use to support their professional and personal growth. There can be confusion around the meaning of both titles, and they are often used interchangeably in conversation. A simple distinction is that mentoring is the direct transfer or sharing Read More...

Growth Works

Alastair Inskip on 2021-10-11 We are delighted to be working with Growth Works – an exciting programme supporting growing businesses in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough to help accelerate and sustain their success. They are offering our clients the opportunity to benefit from an exclusive discount on our quoted work / service fees, so you can access our expertise to help Read More...

Why Should I Use a Business Adviser/Mentor?

Richard Garwell on 2021-01-21 Would your company consider using external business support or advice? A large proportion of SME’s would say no before even looking into the idea, despite the fact it could be the better option. Here’s a quick example… I have just returned from a client in Norfolk. They were experiencing problems with their reception team, such as Read More...

This is the loneliest occupation that I could have chosen

Wilson Lee on 2012-10-18 I have got nobody to talk to and when I see my accountant he just wants to check the figures and then send me away. When I go to see the Bank manager they are so young that there is nobody to challenge what I am saying as they do not have any experience Read More...

Profitable business – tips from the front line

Wilson Lee on 2010-11-17 Adding Value, profit, future purchases, Build a team, Invest, basic managament accounts, Successful businesses plan, future, Plan, successful growth, sustained profitability, efficient systems, train. Read More...