Too many decisions, too little thinking time
The day is reactive. The work that would change the business keeps getting pushed back.
Coaching
One-to-one coaching for business owners.
Buzz Coaching works with owners across four areas: personal, leadership, business and financial. Sessions are one-to-one, usually ninety minutes every fortnight, in person or by video. Every engagement starts with a free thirty-minute discovery call and is reviewed against your own scores at ninety days.
Five programmes
- 1:1 business coaching
- Strategic growth coaching
- Leadership coaching
- Accountability coaching
- Financial coaching
- The programme is chosen after the discovery call
Why owners come to coaching
Three problems coaching is built for
Strong at the work, stretched as a leader
You built the business by being good at what you do. Leading people and managing growth is a different skill, and it has to be learned.
Growth that is hard to control
Revenue goes up and pressure goes up faster. Profit stays flat and the business still depends on you for everything.
Four areas
Coaching across four areas of your business life
Sessions move between the four areas as the business needs. Each area has its own programme and its own resources on the Buzz Coaching site.
Personal coaching
How you think, decide and lead yourself: owner mindset, resilience, energy and clarity. The business can only go as far as the owner does.
Personal coaching
Leadership coaching
How you manage, develop and get results through other people: delegation, accountability and performance, so decisions stop queuing behind you.
Leadership coaching
Business coaching
How the business grows: strategy, profit, pricing, systems and scaling, planned deliberately on a ninety-day rhythm.
Business coaching
Financial coaching
Regular sessions that build confidence with the numbers, close to your cashflow. Run by Peter Allen, our Finance Director, and delivered with Buzz Accounting.
Financial coaching
Three freedoms
Coaching is measured against three freedoms
Financial freedom
Enough profit, reliably enough, that money stops driving your decisions.
Time freedom
You set the diary, and the business keeps running when you are away for a fortnight with your phone off.
Mind freedom
Clarity, confidence and peace of mind, because the numbers and the next steps are under control.
You score each freedom from 0 to 10 at the start of coaching. The scores are never averaged: the lowest one is where the work starts. All three are re-scored every quarter.
How it works
From a first call to measured progress
- 1A free discovery call
Thirty minutes with Andy. Where the business is, what is getting in the way and whether coaching is the right kind of support. If it is not, we say so and point you somewhere more useful.
- 2Score where you are
You score yourself from 0 to 10 across the three freedoms and on the two Performance on Purpose questions. The scores become your baseline and decide which area to start in. You leave the call with a plan and a specific price.
- 3A regular rhythm of sessions
Typically a ninety-minute session every fortnight, protected in both diaries. Each session opens with fifteen minutes on what you committed to last time, works the one or two live issues that matter most, and closes with actions written down with dates.
- 4Re-score at ninety days
Your scores are reviewed against where you started. If they have moved, you can see why. If they have not moved and you have done the work, the approach changes.
Programmes
Five programmes across the four areas
The programme is chosen after the discovery call, based on your scores, and the price is agreed on that call. There is no price list because the programmes differ in how much work they involve.
Accountability coaching
For owners who know what needs to happen and struggle to make it happen consistently. A structured rhythm of short check-ins: priorities agreed, blockers removed, and every session opening with what you committed to last time.
Cadence: weekly or fortnightly check-ins.
Learn moreLeadership coaching
For owners whose role has to change as the team grows. Delegation, standards and performance, worked on one real situation at a time.
Cadence: fortnightly sessions.
Learn more1:1 business coaching
For owners carrying too much in their head. The first two sessions map the business. After that, each session works the live issue and opens with fifteen minutes on your commitments.
Cadence: fortnightly ninety-minute sessions.
Learn moreStrategic growth coaching
For owners whose model works but whose margin does not. Pricing reviews, where profit leaks and what capacity costs, inside a strategy and ninety-day planning rhythm.
Cadence: fortnightly sessions on a ninety-day cycle.
Learn moreFinancial coaching
For owners who want to be confident with the numbers. Structured sessions on cashflow and knowing your numbers, with practical actions after each one. Run by Peter and delivered with Buzz Accounting. It is coaching, not regulated financial advice.
Cadence: monthly for cashflow work, every two months where the focus is understanding the numbers.
Financial coaching
The method
Performance on Purpose
Every Buzz coaching conversation runs on one method. It asks two questions together: are you performing well, and is that performance serving a purpose you chose? You score both out of ten, separately, and the two scores place you in one of four positions.
- Drifting: low performance, low purpose
- The treadmill: high performance, low purpose
- Unfulfilled potential: low performance, high purpose
- Performance on purpose: high performance, high purpose
The method is applied at four levels: you, your leadership, your business and your finances. Those are the four coaching areas. Each cycle revisits the purpose, re-scores reality, keeps the priorities few, sets milestones with owners and dates, and works to a ninety-day rhythm.
Your coaches
Run by Andy Jackson and Peter Allen
You work with one coach throughout, and you know which one before you pay anything. Buzz Coaching is a trading style of Buzz Accounting Ltd, company number 15182358.
Co-Founder & Operations Director
Andy Jackson
Runs the personal, leadership and business coaching, and takes every discovery call himself. Andy built Buzz to help owners get the business working for them: clear plans, better decisions and real momentum.
Co-Founder & Finance Director
Peter Allen
Runs Financial Coaching. Peter brings more than twenty years in finance to the numbers side: profit, cashflow and the practical planning that moves a business forward. He is licensed by the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians).
Included as standard
What every programme includes
- A review at the start of every session: around fifteen minutes on what you committed to last time
- Actions in writing, carried to the next session
- Measures you choose in your first month, reviewed at ninety days against where you started
- Direct challenge
- Complete confidentiality: nothing from a session reaches the accounting side of Buzz unless you ask
- A quarterly re-score, with the next ninety days planned around whatever is now the constraint
Free resources
Everything used in coaching, free to read and use
Mindsets
More than ninety coaching models, grouped under leading yourself, leading people, growing the business, money and numbers, selling and customers, and change and pressure.
Browse the Mindsets
Guides
Twenty-four practical guides, from building a ninety-day plan and pricing for profit to when to hire and how to stop being the bottleneck.
Read the Guides
Tools
Four free tools with no sign-up: the Wheel of Business, the Owner Time Audit, the Profit Improvement Calculator and the True Cost of a Hire.
Use the Tools
Frequently asked questions
Coaching questions
What does coaching cost?
The price is agreed on the discovery call and you leave the call with a specific figure. There is no price list because the five programmes involve different amounts of work: fortnightly ninety-minute one-to-one coaching is a bigger commitment than a weekly accountability check-in. If the fee would stretch the business right now, say so on the call. Being advised to wait a quarter is a possible outcome.
How long does an engagement last?
Plan for at least six months. The first two months go on mapping the business, scoring where you are and writing down what good looks like. Every engagement is reviewed at ninety days against your starting scores, and there is no long contract.
Where do sessions happen?
Most coaching runs by video. In-person sessions are available by appointment at our offices in London (East Finchley), Ballymena, Salford and Pretoria, and the fee is the same either way. Many clients meet in person for the first two diagnostic sessions and then switch to video.
Do I need to be a Buzz Accounting client?
No. There is no bundle and no expectation that you move your accounts. Plenty of coaching clients use none of the other Buzz services.
Is what I say in a session confidential?
Yes. Nothing said in a session is repeated to your team, to other clients or to the accounting side of Buzz unless you ask. If Buzz already does your accounts, coaching conversations do not go into your accountant's file.
Is Financial Coaching financial advice?
No. It is coaching that builds your own financial capability. Buzz Coaching is not authorised to give regulated financial advice.
Who is coaching not for?
Owners who are pre-revenue and want a template, owners who want the decision made for them, and owners whose live problem needs a specialist such as an employment lawyer or a tax adviser. If the business is in a cash crisis, an insolvency or turnaround specialist is the right first call.
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