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“Tina was my Growth Coach on GrowthAccelerator for 6 months. During that time she gave me a better understanding of how marketing could benefit my business and introduced me to approaches I hadn’t known about. We now have a well-thought out marketing strategy, which has already brought benefits. Tina is an astute and creative thinker with an engaging personality; I’m happy to recommend her.”

“Tina Dulieu of Coaching Dynamics was introduced to me through an existing client in September 2012. I was at the stage in the business where I needed to focus on growth and expansion with the end result of doubling my business within 3 years. Having invested in moving to bigger premises to help achieve that growth, I was overwhelmed with how I was going to start planning for it.

I had my first business coaching session with Tina at the end of November 2012, and with her recommendation and help, I managed to get the coaching part funded by being accepted onto 'GrowthAccelerator' with Tina as my Growth Coach.

Tina then helped me form a “Growth Team” with my Operations and Sales managers to be also present in the coaching sessions, and by the end of December we had formalised a solid 3-year plan that will enable us to double our business by 2016.

In just a short space of time, Tina has helped me focus on analysing the core services we offer our clients with an outcome of completely re-designing and re-packaging them, which I know, will be the contributing factor to our success.

The areas we are now working on for 2013 are: expanding our core opening hours; changing the blend of business so we focus on selling the more profitable services; developing more targeted marketing; and becoming recognised as market leaders through Awards and recognitions to help us stand out from our competitors.

Tina's dedication and support to our business is amazing and her advice and knowledge is truly inspirational. I would recommend Tina to any business owner who is serious about growing their business”

“I would like to provide a testimonial for the wonderful help and support you have provided for our business. You have worked with me and our managers to help our business grow, certainly “challenging us to be successful”. Your support has always been helpful and structured and we would certainly not have grown as successfully without your help. We particularly found the DISC profiling beneficial and, as you know, use this in our recruitment.
Thank you once again for all the help and support and we look forward to working with you in the future.”

“BranWell Ford has worked with Tina for a period of 12 months, and in this time, the workforce has grown by 50%.

We initially engaged with Tina as the Directors were feeling a little jaded with running a company for 10 years and seeing through a tough economic downturn. After an initial session, Tina gave honest feedback on the business and then provided full support to assist with changing the direction of the firm, including the leadership style and providing support to the Directors to assist with implementing change.

The results have been tremendous, with the acquisition of a new firm and employment of 6 new staff, which is a result of Tina instilling confidence in our decision making. Tina has been fundamental in streamlining procedures, improving efficiencies and has conducted DISC profiling on the entire workforce to improve team building and developing internal relationships.

I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Tina's knowledge and experience as an independent business partner, her style is professional, challenges the thought process and is very effective”

Aralia is a Chelsea Flower Show Silver Medallist and multi-award winning exterior design practice

“When Tina started coaching me back in April 2010, my company had been established for 5 years, and good things were happening. I had a vision for the future, but I wanted to do everything all at once. Tina sat me down and somehow segmented my overall intentions, and helped me identify what the first steps should be, she wouldn't let me try to do them all at once - she knew if I did I would fail! Slowly, but surely, she coaxed me towards rational steps forward, that when broken down into smaller actions all seemed very doable, and it is only now on reflection, that when I look back I can now see just how far forward Aralia has moved.

Along the way we have had diversions, which at the time I saw as taking me off course, away from where my heart lay, but of course Tina was right, these ‘diversions' have in-fact led to significant improvement to our company profitability, and our turn over year on year will have more than doubled. Tina encouraged me do things like introduce systems and I now know that we are well prepared for future growth...

...We ended the year on a major high, with business coming in from all over the place, I don't think that we were doing anything different, but somehow it all just came together. Luck? Possibly. Right place right time? Possibly. Culmination of the last 7 years effort - yes definitely. But, and a big but, I do know that without Tina's support and direction we wouldn't have achieved what we have.

We systematized a huge part of our processes:

• Took on new employees and fully integrated them into the business systems (they wrote most of them!)
• Completely changed how we handle garden builds, we now act as the contractor, rather than an overseer (far more profitable)
• Have introduced a Maintenance arm to our business
• Won several awards such as 2 Chelsea Flower Show Silver Medals and Principal Awards from Bali for Landscape Design Excellence

Would I recommend Tina? Whole heartedly and unreservedly. Does she know anything about Garden Design? No of course not, but that's not what Tina is about, she is about working with you to determine the best course of action for you and your business to reach your goals. It's a collaborative journey that is taken together as a shared experience. When you succeed Tina succeeds, and that's a true win-win scenario.

Big thank you to Tina.”

Labcare Service is a service provider in the Biotech and LifeScience instrument sector

“Thank you Tina for all your time and effort during my recently completed Business Coaching course. I found the course both illuminating and fascinating in equal measure and it has helped me to identify area in my business for positive development, as well as areas that need some concentrated effort for change.

Although this course has finished it is still very much a work in progress and I look forward to the next stage”

The English Cream Tea Company - freshly prepared and delivered afternoon cream tea & picnic hamper boxes

“What an adventure we've been on since I began The English Cream Tea Company a year ago - and Tina has been there supporting this exciting journey the whole way. There have been marvellous months with successes and smiles - and of course, moments too when worries and hurdles have arisen. No matter though, because Tina's sense of resourcefulness and calm has always encouraged strategies and solutions to be found. It's been the business equivalent of “Don't panic Mr. Mainwaring” and so with renewed clarity, perspective and a fresh smile, on we go again, ready for the next company challenge!

I'm particularly thankful of all Tina's special ‘behind the scenes' support. Of course the actual coaching sessions are really useful and enjoyable. But beyond that there have been so many sweet, encouraging (and very late night) emails from her, perhaps just reflecting back a little ‘win' I'd had but not noticed...or a small hurdle climbed.  She has always taken the time to congratulate and cheer me on.

Additionally, Tina has replied ‘Yes' to every event and invitation I've sent out in the last year - showing her support not just at the fortnightly coaching times - but pretty much 24/7.

How lucky for The English Cream Tea Company to have such a coach on board. How lucky I personally am to have Tina Dulieu on my side. Bless her coaching heart”

www.englishcreamtea.com

Toucan Internet LLP provide commercially successful websites and Internet services

“I could have been seen as a doubting Thomas when it comes to business coaches as I'd got through the past 30 years successfully managing businesses and people in both stormy and buoyant times. I was pretty sure we wouldn't ever need a coach.

Enter Tina Dulieu from Coaching Dynamics to smash the above preconceptions.

Toucan Internet LLP has been providing commercially successful websites and Internet services since 1997 and is in a continually and rapidly changing business environment, both in services provided and emerging business opportunities.

Toucan Internet LLP benefited from a series of six sessions with Tina where the two main partners reviewed and assessed every key aspect of the business,what they wanted from it now and, more importantly, in the future.

Did Tina actually teach these old dogs any new tricks? Yes the key lesson to step well back from the day to day running of the business and look at the big picture.

Was there benefit in the time spent with Tina? Yes, immense benefit. Tina acted as a catalyst in helping us bring clarity to the many opportunities that Toucan Internet has open to it. With that clarity it was so easy to review and assess each in line with our business plans and our overall life plans.

So to all the doubting Thomas's out there, Tina comes at this as:

• an eminently successful business woman in her own right
• is not formulaic but rather highly bespoke in her offerings
• can offer sensible support to people who already have significant business experience
• can even find considerable funding to make it less of a financial risk

Toucan Internet LLP is better for the experience and I commend Tina to any organisation at any stage of its growth”