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Organizational Improvement
Cathy O'Reilly Hairgroup Chris helped me to refocus on the business and to understand the profit and cashflow easily. Structure was put into the business, new and higher goals were set and simple profit strategies were developed that will lead to consistently higher profits than ever before.
Ecobaby Limited We have found the exercise challenging and rewarding. It has required us to question fundamental assumptions about our business. As a result, we have been able to identify failings, and take the necessary action. It has helped us to identify what we are doing right, and to confirm for us the reasons why we do what we do. Overa...See full testimonial
Gerards Deli and Sandwich Hall Jane began coaching my business in October 2005. My business is a family business comprising of my wife and myself - the directors and three of our children who carry out the day-to-day running of the business. I took on the services of a coach, as I felt that working together with family members has its difficulties and I neede...See full testimonial
Minima "Before starting coaching I thought it was a good idea but costly for both time and pocket. My business is very dependent on people. If one lets you down it can have a knock on effect (delays and damage being a major problem). I had a challenge with delegation and worrying that work may not be carried out as I expected. This...See full testimonial
Home Payments Limited "Having started with Action about 3 months ago, we have found a massive change. The three owners of the company work with Jane each week and our drive and focus has increased dramatically. Work is more enjoyable. We work together better as a team already and through setting goals we now know clearly where we all want to be in th...See full testimonial
Divine Doors Limited I cannot recommend Action Coach (Michael Shinnick in particular) highly enough. The main benefit I received with Michael's help was to fast-track some very necessary improvements in my business. I brought my two managers to the Action Coach Workshop. This motivated them and created a Team element to our In-House relationship. My...See full testimonial
Omnia MC "In my book, the progress has been superb - I've culled costs, renegotiated work, added new business and most importantly am working differently to set up systems and templates that will save a lot of time in subsequent months. And I have managed ten days holiday as well and a business trip - pretty good for five weeks".
Accounts and Computer Consultant All those things that I promised to start or do are now started or done. I have discovered what I am in business to do. I know what I am selling and which customers I should be selling to. I have a plan. I know when I should be working and when I should not. My time is my time – my business does not run me. I run my bu...See full testimonial
Partition Craft Interiors It is 12 months since Helen Burns came on board with Partition Craft Interiors as our business coach. Since then we have learnt so much about our own business and how to take control. The biggest win of all is being able to make decisions and take action, to move the business forward. Helen has taught, helped and motivated us. W...See full testimonial
Dairwood Design Limited A quick line to say how grateful I am for all the help you have given me over the last 4 months in getting my business to where it is now. I'm sure you saw today how excited I am at the progress and achievements I have made. I'm fully motivated. The future is looking very bright indeed. The best step I've taken this year is t...See full testimonial
Davy Stockbrokers When we were designing this course we knew that we wanted, and needed to, include areas on change management and managing impact. However, until meeting Michael, we struggled greatly to find a course that could get these messages across to participants. The feedback from our employees has been extremely positive and I would be h...See full testimonial
Legato Design Business coaching really taught us how to steer our business into better times. It is inspiring to see that you can improve your business by sticking to very simple rules, but most importantly that the first step (into the ActionCoach Coaching session) is a step worth while taking. We think bigger and more business focused. ...See full testimonial
Macs (Restaurant) I decided to work with an ACTIONCOACH (Ria) to get some order back in my life...as they say the business was running me. I needed time and space to think beyond my consuming work day. On a personal level I value my time more and am more focused when at work. On a professional level my business is becoming systemised ...See full testimonial
Action Coaching has been invaluable to my business. In 1 year I have learned the business techniques and attitudes I was lacking. I have rearranged my management staff to suit their capabilities and have created a smooth system for them to work within. The coaching opened my eyes to business opportunities - even within my own...See full testimonial

Business Performance
Allscape Limited I have being involved in business all my working life, mostly in the same sector. But recently I set up a wholesale import and distribution company with a retail element. One day I was in a store belonging to one of the multiples and wondered how they managed to have all their products in stock and presented so well with the co...See full testimonial
Advances Surveys Coaching has totally changed my perspective and approach to running my business. I am now working ON my business more than IN the business. I am working towards the goal of structuring my business to survive without me, which will give me more personal time to pursue other activities. I would say to a business owner,'Take the...See full testimonial
Vincent Finnegan Limited 'If you don't have time to spend on your business and are too busy, this is for you.'
Data Micrographics Ltd 'In recent times I had become frustrated with my business, wanting to grow it but also wanting to keep overheads at bay. There never seemed enough time to get day to day tasks done never mind planning for the future. Recognising the need to tackle the nuts and bolts of the way we do things I have engaged a couple of different co...See full testimonial
-I have been working with Aileen for the past 6 months and my whole perspective on life and on business has changed since I met her and heard about ActionCOACH ' not only has she changed the way that we do business and helped get positive results there, coaching has helped me in my relationships with my teenage children I wish ...See full testimonial
-My husband met Aileen at a seminar about 18 months ago-he was very impressed with her and the ActionCOACH teachings and had arranged a meeting with her. Prior to this meeting, I was very sceptical. I felt that she was very young and I genuinely didn't believe that she could possibly help us. We had been in business nearly 15 ye...See full testimonial
Homegrown "Our business is now better equipped to face 2008 in whatever direction we decide to take. Action's influence has put us in better shape in house to run as a business and I am looking forward to regular time away without the business being affected. This is the real test of the past year's coaching! Thanks for all your care".
Developer Architect Participating in this highly interactive and stimulating training, with such a well-facilitated group of fellow business owners, challenged my perception of me, my profession and of my business. It caused me to fundamentally review my perception of my own business.
TherapyXperts In 1992 I set up my physiotherapy clinic in the time honoured method of commencing with a few evening clinics per week while holding down fulltime employment within the academic/ public healthcare system. My home based clinic grew gradually via a combination of choosing to work a couple more evening clinics per week, then secur...See full testimonial
Business Owner I have been in construction for 12 years or so (since 1995) and never came across a business that actually teaches you how to run a business until eight months ago, when I met Helen Burns by chance. I thought at first that this was an unusual business and what would they know about running a construction business. I can now ...See full testimonial
Vernogue Ltd Vernogue Ltd has worked with ActionCoach, for eighteen months and within that time we have realised our vision of expanding our business and opening our Recruitment Consultancy firm Angel Construction Recruitment Ltd. ActionCoach helped us achieve our goals by focusing clearly on how to overcome obstacles (and there were quite ...See full testimonial

Improving Marketing
Images "Having worked with Jane Hogan of ActionCOACH our business has been transformed. Whereas before things just happened to us and we were at the mercy of every passing whim, we now have a highly structured, referral based business which is going from strength to strength. While it was not an easy process with many of my cherished...See full testimonial
Outdoor Pursuits 'We have found the whole program very helpful to date and have found Michael very easy to work with. The whole Action program is very professionally approached, yet practical and Michael has put forward some very innovative ideas to move our business on and up. Within a very short time we found we had put things in place to do j...See full testimonial
Divine Doors Limited I cannot recommend Action Coach (Michael Shinnick in particular) highly enough. The main benefit I received with Michael's help was to fast-track some very necessary improvements in my business. I brought my two managers to the ActionCoach Workshop. This motivated them and created a Team element to our In-House relationship. My ...See full testimonial

Success Planning
Gartland Architects I decided to take on a business coach because I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the difference between my potential and my actual performance. When I made the decision, I had been in business for almost five years. The reality was dawning that things would not be substantially different five years hence if I did n...See full testimonial
Crest Solutions Last year I recognised that I did not have the skills to build the type of business I want, - A commercial, profitable business that works without me'. I came across Action Coach and its working out great. The coach meets me every Monday for 1 hr and we plan out what I am going to do for the week in terms of building that ty...See full testimonial
One Call Property Maintenance I was surprised when I realised after a couple of coaching sessions that Richard was not going to do all the work for me. He got me to think methodically and logically to organise my business. Richard gave me confidence, he made me realise my own potential. He asked me to write down several goals for my 1st year and I achieved t...See full testimonial
Murphy and Evans Solicitors I have been practising as a Solicitor for 25 years. After qualifying I spent 10 years working for firms owned by other Solicitors. For the past 16 years I have been practising as a Solicitor on my own account. After such a period of time you get into a mould of doing things which is very much dictated by your own exper...See full testimonial
Artglass (Group Coaching gave me) "the ability to look at my company with an unbiased eye from the outside in, together with the tools and knowledge to deal with what I see. I intend to implement most if not all the ideas that are relevant to my company." My key learnings were: 1. How to run a business without me! 2. That I don't ...See full testimonial

Increasing Profit
...in a very challenging market ActionCOACH has increase our profit by 100% in just 3 months
Mortgage Consultants I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for working with me in growing my business over the last year. I am a much more relaxed person since you became my business coach. Since working with you and ActionCoach I am more organised, motivated and focused on important tasks than I have ever been and am also deleg...See full testimonial
Marja van Zetten PRH Educator When I became a PRH (Personal and Human Relations) educator I also entered into the phase of having my own enterprise. Meaning I needed to get my own clients for workshops on personal development and a clientele for seeing people on a one-to-one. The difficulty that I experienced was that PRH is unknown to people in Ire...See full testimonial
F & L Nolan As a company in business for the past ten years, with a profitable margin, we now understand how little we knew about the mechanics of running a business. We are now more focused with our vision as to where our company is going.”
JLT Tiles After a meeting with my accountant last year I decided that I needed to overview how I was running the business in order to make more profit. At the same time, through BNI, I had met up with Ria O'Donnell who is a business coach with ActionCOACH Business Coaching. Although like a lot of people I thought that all this busines...See full testimonial

Increasing Sales
GP Digital Print "Before starting coaching, we didn't know much about it but our first thoughts on it was that it could be a waste of time and money as we didn't think we "needed" coaching. At the time, we didn't have a specific main challenge ' we weren't having a lot of trouble in one particular part of our business. Business was ok but coul...See full testimonial
GSC Engineering I brought Michael on board because I was at burn out stage and I could not see a way out. Within the space of 1 year we multiplied our turn over 5 times and reduced our problems to a point where the business is now completely manageable and is becoming fun. I could not recommend ActionCOACH any more highly.
"after 11 months of working with our ACTION Coach we have increased our sales by 497% and our team is working without us having to be there."

Team Building
Forest Enterprises Before the coach there was chaos, bad feeling and bad morale. Mistakes were being made and we spent our time putting out fires. He's been helping us for 4 months now and already there is huge improvement. We can measure how we're performing, my staff are committed and the team spirit we have been searching for has emerged and de...See full testimonial
Bank of Ireland Seminar Just a note to say thanks so much for giving of your time yesterday morning. Your presentation was spot on and instantly hit a note with the audience. There was food for thought for all of us in it. Really enjoyed it and not surprised you are so successful given the practical and achievable approach you take with busines...See full testimonial