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TestimonialsWorking With Mike McGuire “In life from time to time, you make a decision that you not only know is right immediately but which turns out to be even better than you imagined. Taking on Mike McGuire as a business coach has been one of them for me. Before working with Mike I felt a lot of what we were doing in our business was good but I rarely managed to work beyond the immediate issues. Mike has inspired us to look further forward and his ability to adapt his extensive knowledge to our specific circumstances has enabled us to begin making progressive changes to our business. I would recommend Mike and Action to anyone”. C. L. Telecommunications ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It’s easy to start a small company; it’s hard to make a big one. Mike has given me confidence in overcoming the barriers to growth, and has placed me on a journey to achieve much greater success. This journey of mine has a clear vision and purpose, and has enabled me to focus on the core of what we do as a business and a team. We are better geared to serve our customers, and have been able to clearly differentiate our business from others. I have been very impressed with Mike’s creative and positive approach, and his contribution to my plans and proposals. His experience and guidance has enabled me to extend my horizons. He has had a very positive effect for me, my business and my life. G. C. Audio Visual Equipment ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I would commend Mr Mike McGuire as a business coach with sincere enthusiasm. He has a quiet modesty that suits him exceptionally well for the subtleties involved in coaching small and medium sized business men, their owners and employees. His width of personal experience as a successful business all rounder, his accumulated wisdom and his willingness to share the practical and theoretical knowledge he has gained with his clients makes him a coach and adviser of the highest order. He thinks deeply and reads widely and then gives advice and proposes routes towards solutions that are always carefully considered and have been proved to be correct. He is patient, polite but persistent and one wants to achieve from what he has taught and coached for his sake as well as for one's own. He has tailored his programme to suit our strengths and weaknesses has gone well beyond the call of duty and greatly helped by interviewing a candidate for a post in our company. He pushes one hard but is aware when pressures are heavy on one by relaxing that pressure from time to time. I would warmly recommend his services to any company or enterprise anywhere. G. H. Exhibitions Organiser ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ “It’s great to be working with Mike. He has encouraged us to focus on the main issues in our business and to make real progress in resolving them. Our business has also changed in becoming much more efficient, especially time efficient. The future for the business looks great, we now feel we can achieve all that we dreamed of, more than we ever thought possible. I would say to anyone ‘If you’re thinking of working with Mike, do it, definitely go for it’”. T. F. Professional Photographers ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Before meeting and working with Mike, we were stuck in a rut and not moving forward. We needed someone who was objective about the business and to literally push all the directors forward. The biggest change we have made in our business since working with Mike is a total re-organisation of the factory layout in anticipation of substantial growth to our sales orders. The effect of this change is that we are all now working more as a team ON the business and not just IN it. Mike has very much contributed to our biggest success of increasing our client portfolio resulting in a full order book. We also now have a clear vision of where we want our company and ourselves to be. With Mike’s input, there’s a feeling of being energised, experiencing fun in our work again and feeling very excited about the great opportunities coming our way. Working with Mike has moved us out of a rut, from owning your job to running your own business, with confidence and effectiveness for true growth and success R. E. Manufacture of Retail Fittings ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We started working with Mike McGuire partly on recommendation. I knew what I wanted to achieve and thought I would be able to see some results very quickly – which I did. Mike is very adaptable, he didn’t try to teach me things I already knew but focused me on deadlines, confronting issues and performance measures. Mike got us organised with Key Performance Indicators and now we use them all the time! This has had a significant effect on the way we do business. We also do much more planning now and are more confident about our business. I feel good about the future of the business, next year will be a tough year (because of the targets we’ve set ourselves) but the changes we’ve made as a result of working with Mike mean we’re much better placed to meet those challenges I am only too happy to recommend Mike, go for it. T. M. Recruitment Agency ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ “Before we started working with Mike McGuire, our business was good but we didn’t really know why and had no budgets, controls or plan to take the business forward. I decided to work with Mike because I wanted to move the business up to the next level and didn’t know how to do this properly. Since working with Mike we have made many changes. I spend a lot more time working ON the business now instead of IN it. We have controls, budgets and a plan to move forward. This has given us direction and confidence. We now have a sound knowledge and understanding of our business, which is in great shape and we are looking forward with confidence to the future. Mike cares about YOUR business. He helps you to see your way ahead, to know what needs to be done and how to make things happen. He is there for you to help resolve issues and problems, and to celebrate results and wins. He is enthusiastic, encouraging and most of all knowledgeable. If someone asked me whether to work with Mike, I would say ‘DO IT’”. G. H. IT Retailer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ “Mike McGuire is a smart guy, highly intelligent with a good innate business sense and a nose for where the opportunity and profit is. He has a good balance of strategic skills and day-to-day operational pragmatism ensuring that businesses are well run and profitable. I would describe Mike as a real ally, someone who is totally committed to devising and implementing new strategies in your business”. C. P. Business to Business ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ “Mike McGuire is an excellent strategic thinker who focuses on the high priority tasks and is not distracted by low value tasks. He is creative, enjoyable to work with and an excellent leader. Mike is an outstanding listener; he gets the most out of people, values their point of view and gives people ownership of tasks, firing them up to complete them. I would work with Mike again in a heartbeat, a nanosecond and I would give him my toughest business challenge, with no limitations”. T. P. H & B Manufacture |
