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Client Testimonials

We have included here a selection of our client testimonials:

"I have worked with Liz over a period of 2 years during which time I have been faced with many business challenges, including rapid growth, a move to new premises, restructuring and how to build value into the business for a potential sale in the future.
Liz's mentoring support during this period and her extensive business knowledge and experience has helped me to meet these challenges and to develop a successful business, as well as achieving a better work/life balance."

Business Owner

"Liz has been a great sounding board for business ideas over the last year, her input has really helped the business to grow."
Director

"Liz is a great listener and can distil the many and often complex issues facing an individual - these might sometime be things that are not immediately obvious. Rather than solve the problems for the individual Liz has a unique skill to help coach the person concerned to their own solution."
Business Owner

"Liz has been my mentor for 3 years and I always look forward to meeting with her.
Her probing style of coaching forces me to think through issues I might otherwise gloss over or miss completely. Moreover, she gives me highly intelligent and knowledgeable feedback on a wide range of subjects, from staff management to funding via operations and marketing.
Liz has helped me both at strategic and practical levels and her input has supported the growth of my business.
Many thanks Liz!"

Business Owner

"I first used coaching during a highly stressful time when there was a huge amount going on alongside trying to run the day to day business. I found the coaching enormously useful in coping with the business and emotional stresses of the situation I was in.
Liz helped me rationalise the position in a calm and professional manner and also to give me confidence when times were hard. The key to the coaching was around building and sustaining my self-confidence and in not giving up when things seemed bad.
I would urge anyone faced with a demanding or stressful time where it can at times be difficult to see ‛the wood for the trees‛ to seriously consider coaching as a way to better perform both personally and for the business."

Managing Director

"Liz worked with me over a two and a half year period when I moved from a senior position in a large corporate organisation to working in my own business as a Recruitment Consultant. She supported me in addressing all the main business and personal issues that arose at the time of the most significant change in my working life.
Liz has a clear understanding of all aspects of setting up and running a small business and consistently helped me to focus up on the most important issues at the time as well as maintaining a drive to achieve the main personal and business goals. I looked forward to the regular reviews as it was an opportunity to bounce ideas around and put the various issues and pressures affecting the business in to context and perspective
The support and input from Liz proved to be a significant factor in the successful establishment of my operation."

Business Owner

"Liz is both practical and wise. Her personal success in balancing a challenging career with a young family was massively helpful experience to draw on. She's been extremely helpful in helping me shape my goals and priorities."
Senior Manager

"When I first came to Liz for help my one-man business was in a mess. I was under-achieving personally and financially, was unfocused and was wasting money by putting time and effort into projects that were not viable. I was depressed and my stress was effecting my professional and family life and I could not see how to sort out the mess.
Liz has helped me to understand what is important, to plan better, to focus on client need, and to balance work and family life. I have now turned things around personally and financially and am balancing work and family life well and am much happier as a result.
I am pleased to recommend Liz's professional and highly personable mentoring services."

Business Owner

"Liz was my business mentor during a very challenging year. The business was growing very rapidly and I was struggling to cope with the many different issues that arose (including staffing, communication, operations, productivity, sales and marketing, office space, planning, leadership and stress management).
Liz provided excellent support throughout this period, acting as a sounding board for me. I was able to discuss and explore the business challenges with her and find good solutions to the issues. Her help enabled me to move my business forward and put the foundations in place for further business growth. Her business knowledge and experience is extensive and she is a very good listener."

Business Owner

"I have been on the mentoring programme for about a year, at first I was sceptical as to whether it would be of any benefit, however after a few months I found the process useful, as it gave me the opportunity to focus my thoughts for a few hours every month and plan for the following month. This I found laid the foundation for the following month."
Business Owner

"As a result of the coaching I received from Liz I have become more focused and organised, enabling me to achieve more in less time. I am more positive and confident, gaining greater personal satisfaction from working towards more stretching goals."
Business Owner

"Liz is both a volunteer business mentor working with our start-up businesses and a business mentor for Mentoring for All East Midlands which is for established businesses across the East Midlands.
The business owners that she has mentored found real benefit from their time with Liz, she helped them focus and became a real sounding board for them."

Mentoring Manager, Nottinghamshire Business Venture

"With practical support and encouragement, Liz has helped me change my way of looking at life. Over the past few months, I have become far more confident, independent and self-assured. In our meetings, I look forward to setting goals for my future- and achieving them."
Personal Client

To find out more information or to use any of our services, please telephone Liz Makin on 01780 765270 or email her at Liz@makinithappen.co.uk.


email: Liz@makinithappen.co.uk
phone: 01780 765270
website: http://makinithappen.co.uk