Every engagement follows the same five-phase structure. The phases overlap a little in practice, but this gives you a clear picture of the road ahead.
Phase 1
Discovery call
We start with a free 30-minute video or phone call. You describe your business, your team size, your revenue, and the specific problems keeping you up at night. We ask questions, take notes, and tell you honestly whether coaching is the right move. If it is, we send a proposal within two working days. If it is not, we say so and, where we can, suggest an alternative resource.
Phase 2
Diagnostic deep-dive
Once you sign the proposal, we schedule a two-hour diagnostic session. Before that session, we ask you to fill in a short questionnaire covering your financials, your weekly time allocation, your team structure, and your top three frustrations. During the session we go through your answers line by line. We look at your profit-and-loss statement, your pricing model, and how your sales pipeline works. By the end of this session we have a clear picture of where the biggest opportunities and risks sit.
This phase typically takes one to two weeks, depending on how quickly you can gather the numbers we need.
Phase 3
90-day plan
Based on the diagnostic, we write a 90-day action plan. It contains no more than five priorities because spreading your effort across a dozen goals guarantees none of them gets done. Each priority has a measurable target, a deadline, and a named owner. If one of the priorities is "hire an office manager," the plan specifies the job description, the salary range, where to advertise, and the interview scorecard you will use.
We present the plan in a follow-up session and refine it together. You leave that session with a document you can pin to the wall.
Phase 4
Fortnightly coaching sessions
This is the core of the engagement. Every two weeks we meet for 90 minutes. The first 20 minutes are a review: what did you commit to last time, what got done, what did not, and why. The next hour is working time. We might role-play a difficult conversation with a supplier, build a cash-flow forecast for the next quarter, or map out a new service offering. The final ten minutes are for setting commitments for the next fortnight.
Between sessions, you can email us with quick questions. We respond within one working day.
Phase 5
Quarterly review and recalibration
At the end of each 90-day cycle, we sit down for a longer session to review results against the plan. We measure revenue, profit margin, time spent on high-value work, and any other metrics we agreed on at the start. Then we build the next 90-day plan.
Some quarters the plan changes dramatically because the business has moved faster than expected. Other quarters we double down on the same priorities because implementation took longer. Either way, the review keeps the work grounded in real numbers rather than wishful thinking.