Our services include personalised business coaching and business mentoring for business owners, directors, managers and professionals and stress management for individuals who are finding it difficult to cope with high levels of stress in their life.

Coaching & Mentoring

Liz Makin provides personalised business coaching and business mentoring services. Liz supports men and women in business to make things happen in their business, to achieve their business goals and to fulfil their potential. Liz works with business owners, directors, managers and professionals in the private and public sectors.

When you are running a business you need a business mentor to bounce ideas off, to point you in the right direction, to help you focus on the most important issues, to be your confidential sounding board, to enable you to work 'on', not just 'in' your business, to support and motivate you in the stressful and challenging times and to help you to achieve your business goals, well that is what Liz does.

She will support, guide and motivate you to achieve your goals and objectives much faster than you would be able to on your own. She will also challenge you and expand your beliefs of what is possible. She will enable you to make things happen in your business.

Liz can coach and mentor you in a variety of areas including work/life balance, time management, motivation, leadership, decision making, creativity, communication, performance, productivity, profitability, business and strategic planning, business growth, sales and marketing, running a business, stress management, starting a business, change management and career change.

If you are wondering how a business mentor could help you and your business, if business mentoring has been recommended to you but you are not sure of the benefits or if you are looking for general business and personal support and don't know where to find it, then take a look at our article - How can a business mentor help you and your business?

If you are looking for a business mentor and you are the owner of an East Midlands based business, you may be eligible for the Mentoring for All programme which includes 10 business mentoring sessions with a business mentor over a year for only £250 plus VAT. Please contact Liz if you are interested in working with a business mentor on this programme.

You may be eligible for funding of up to £1,000 for one to one business coaching or business mentoring with a business coach or business mentor to develop your leadership and management skills through the Train to Gain Leadership and Management programme. Please contact Liz for details of how you apply for this funding.

For more details on our coaching and mentoring services see Coaching & Mentoring.

Stress Management

Liz Makin provides a personalised stress management service to individuals who are finding it difficult to cope with high levels of stress in their life. Her practical forward looking approach enables her clients to move forward quickly. It is an excellent alternative to more traditional long term stress counselling or psychotherapy.

If you are finding it difficult to cope with a stressful period in your life, Liz will help you through it and provide you with stress management strategies to help you to positively cope with stress in the future. This will include supporting you to:

* Talk through what you are experiencing.
* Discuss your emotions and feelings.
* Recognise the symptoms of your stress.
* Identify and understand the causes of your stress.
* Take action to address the causes of your stress.
* Develop stress management strategies to help you positively cope with stress in the future.

Liz works with a wide variety of people and supports them through stress that has been caused by many different reasons including work pressures, balancing personal and working lifes, parenting, relationships, financial worries, moving house, redundancy, retirement, job or career change, separation or divorce, educational pressures, conflict with others, perfectionism, low self esteem, lack of confidence, past experiences, bereavements, emotional traumas and phobias, a series of minor irritations, being bored and stuck in a rut and feeling generally unable to cope.

For more details on our stress management services see Stress Management.