BUSINESS COACHING FOR GROWTH
FRAMEWORK FOR SCALING A BUSINESS
Growing a business shouldn’t turn you into a bottleneck. Over the past two decades, I’ve seen many owners and directors lose their initial drive. You’ve built a successful company. Yet instead of flexibility, you’re trapped in the operational grind. As a scaling up coach, I help you increase capacity within your team for strategic growth. This stops you from carrying the lion’s share of the workload.
My focus is to first establish what you want from life, then build the business to serve you. This is how you regain your business passion and actually enjoy leadership again. Together, we’ll improve business performance and get the absolute best out of your people. When your team drives profitable growth, you get your time back. A you can finally focus on your version of entrepreneurial freedom.
gil devlin
Business growth coach
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“A thriving business shouldn’t cost you your personal freedom.”
Years coaching experience
average sales growth
average team growth
average profit growth
COACHING, TRAINING, DEVELOPMENT
PROTECTING YOUR TIME AND PROFIT
Many successful leaders hit a ceiling where growing creates more hassle than enjoyment. As your scaling up coach, I help you increase capacity without business owner burnout. Together, we’ll systemise your operations and focus on structured business growth. When your company stops relying on you it becomes a valuable, self-sustaining asset. This is what delivers true entrepreneurial freedom.
Move from daily firefighting to strategic growth with tailored coaching and team training. Explore the full range of services below to drive predictable, profitable growth.
Strategic growth
A framework for scaling a business and profitable growth
Improve business performance
Develop your team’s skills, communication and confidence.
Optimise team dynamics
Enhance team collaboration and reduce daily friction
Entrepreneurial freedom
Systemise your business to run without your presence.
BUSINESS COACHING FOR GROWTH
FRAMEWORK FOR SCALING A BUSINESS
BUSINESS COACHING
Drive strategic growth and regain control of your business with tailored, 1-2-1 coaching
DISC ASSESSMENTS
A shared language to boost productivity and collaboration across your entire team
DISC PROFILE TRAINING
Unlock your team’s potential through improved communication and conflict resolution.
DIRECTOR COACHING
Our director coaching improves leadership performance, which is essential for long-term success.
SALES ACADEMY
We train sales teams to generate and close high-value leads, driving up your profit margins.
MANAGEMENT TRAINING
We equip managers with essential people skills, empowering them to lead independently.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH COACH
Achieving professional and personal flexibility requires stepping back from the daily operational grind. A business coach provides a vital outside perspective. This helps you challenge the status quo and drive consistent, long-term expansion.
Working with a Business Growth Coach
I think there’s nothing better than somebody from outside your industry taking just a frank look at your business and questioning what you’re doing, because it does make you think a totally different way about your business than you ever have before.
The business was going well, but I was looking to try and drive the business forward with some new ideas, new techniques, and tactics, and just speak to somebody who could give me more structure to what I was doing. The business itself was a ready-made business, but the existing management had left the company, and there was very little experience within the company for management.
It was just a general day-to-day business, and there was no big drive to move it on. It had sort of plateaued and leveled off. A lot of the time was endless hours, early mornings, late starts without any real sign of progress other than just trading, without the long-term planning.
It was good to speak to somebody outside the business. It was good that Gil could take a more pragmatic approach or look from the outside at what we were doing. And it sort of kept me level-headed. It’s easy to say I’m the expert in my business, which I am, but looking from the outside, it’s just keeping your focus on the business itself.
Changing the culture of the business, changing the business values, and getting the team on board in how we work, and training, coaching, and mentoring the staff myself with the same way of building the team. We’re all about team, we’re all about customer service, and how we reflect is all about the strength of our team, not just a lot of individual people coming to work to do a job.
We made an agreement at the very start that “don’t let me off,” because, like everybody else, I can procrastinate, I can put things to one side and not focus on it. But she holds me to task, and that was the agreement we had, and she holds me very accountable. To be able to discuss it over on a fortnightly basis does make sure that progress happens.
It’s a different team. Everybody’s accountable for what they have to do. Everybody understands what we need to do. They all understand the goals of the business. We try and communicate with them the targets and the goals, where we are, and explain the results of the business to them. So it’s a business, the whole team has radically changed.
By testing and measuring what we were doing, we could see the plans that we put in place were working and they were giving results. The turnover increase, I think, is nigh on 20%. That includes, obviously, COVID. Like everybody else in the world, we got hit by a lot of downtime. We didn’t hit the targets we expected to because of COVID. If those targets were hit, I’d probably say we could have been on about 40% by now.
Percentage-wise, without COVID happening, 15% net profit, easy.
I work nigh on always on the business. When I’m working in the business, I have to remind myself that’s what the team’s for. So, primarily I’m working on the business. Work-life balance: it’s much better. I get home more, I’ve got a young family and they see me more. There’s a lot more time at home than there ever was, working at home at times also. So they see me a lot more than they certainly did before.
Just knowing not the direction you’re going, but how you key in there makes you Web-excited, because you know the pitfalls, you know what you can achieve, and we know how to measure it. Having the tools to be able to measure that makes it more exciting, because when success happens, you know how to repeat it.
Michael Spoors Managing Director, Norseal
Successful leaders often find they hit a ceiling. Growth can leave you buried under day-to-day firefighting instead of enjoying the journey. You’ll get your spark back when you step back from the daily grind. As Michael Spoors, Managing Director of Norseal Limited, notes: “I believe there’s nothing better than someone outside of your industry taking a frank look at your business and questioning what you’re doing. It makes you think in a totally different way.”
As your business growth coach, I provide the objective perspective you need. Together, we’ll build a tailored strategy to improve business performance across the board. We’ll increase capacity across your team so they drive the commercial success, not just you. This protects your well-being and personal time. Your ultimate reward is true entrepreneurial freedom. Read how similar businesses scaled on our client results page.
WALKING THE TALK
BUILDING A BUSINESS THAT SERVES YOUR LIFE…
…not the other way around. I use my own business development frameworks to run a location-independent business. Enabling me to travel full-time with my husband, Rik Lambert, who co-runs the business.
