What our clients say
Wondering what it’s really like to have your own professional coach?
Get it straight from our clients – read what they say about their experience with Five Star Focus.
Our clients come from all walks of life, from a wide range of circumstances, with a variety of different aims and aspirations.
Some clients want to focus on improving their life with personal coaching.
Some clients want to focus on starting or building their own business with small business coaching.
Some clients want a combination of personal and business coaching:
Everyone has different hopes and expectations about what they will get from coaching, and each client has their own unique set of experiences and outcomes.
Here is a small selection of what our clients say about personal and business coaching with Five Star Focus.
The experience of coaching made an enormous difference to my life. I am now functioning from a premise that I really am able to turn dreams into reality. My own sense of self-worth has become far more positive, a complete change.
-- M.R. Consultant / workshop leader
It was incredibly helpful to have an objective but interested pair of ears, to help me monitor where my real interests and enthusiasms lay, rather than being misled by a mistaken sense of duty.
-- S.C. Musician
While I’ve been coached I’ve got where I wanted. Things are going really well on both professional and personal fronts!
-- J. T. Property developer
Off days don’t get me down now - it’s just a bad day. I’m very content which I wasn’t before, and I know I can make things better if I choose I can look at situations differently and I have a mantra to hold on to: ‘I can do this.’
-- L. C. Administrator in further education.
I got to grips with my finances, and finally got the courage to resign from a job I’d grown to hate. I’ve already achieved two big goals, and I’m making clearer better decisions than I ever did before. I’m moving abroad to a much better situation. It’s quite amazing how things have turned out!
-- K. M. Surveyor
You have an exceptional way of putting things that I understand and can work with, thank you again.
-- A.J. Director of a family business
I was so controlled and crushed by daily life. Coaching has goaded me to take a broader view. At first I was disappointed it didn’t give me quick ready answers, but it forced me to deliver and stop going round in circles. It’s a fundamental mind set change to keep focused on those things I always wanted to do. All the bits and pieces are starting to converge to a positive strategy, clearer and easier to see. Now it’s just a job of sifting through the options. We’ve got two to five years to come up with the fundamental changes. It’s all very doable.
-- M.H. Computer consultant
I just wanted to thank you for my coaching sessions so far - I really enjoy them and very much look forward to them as well! I find you immensely challenging as you open up new avenues and approaches which give me a lot to think about - which I really like. I am quite amazed at what you manage to get out of me in such a concentrated period of time!
-- A.S. Self employed single mother
It was hard to admit that what should have been good had turned out so bad!
We had done well, grown and taken on more staff, but I was spending most of my time sorting problems, and no one was going out to get new business. I was stressed to the hilt, not getting the buzz anymore. I guess neither I nor the business would have lasted long if things had carried on as they were.
Coaching provided a weekly dose of sanity, it helped me start thinking strategically again. You helped me get to grips with delegation, and handle the issue with my business partner. I’m playing to my strengths now, the buzz is back! It’s not quite plain sailing, but I’m much more relaxed and confident about my ability to keep things on course. I’d definitely recommend your coaching but not to the competition!
-- M.H. Business owner
I’ve a different approach to money now, valuing myself enough not to take on just any work. I’m feeling much more empowered, and have stopped making a big deal of ‘Writing’ so I’m actually getting down to working on my first novel.
-- J.K. Freelance writer and editor.
I’m still looking after me, and everything that is really important to me seems to be working wonderfully well. I’m having a wonderful time with both my daughters, my friendships seem to have grown in depth and my parents seem to have stopped worrying about me. But most of all I feel very secure within my self, both financially and emotionally. In fact I feel that I’m in charge of me and it feels great. I’m enjoying life. That all being said, I’d like to thank you very much for pointing me in directions that I have now travelled. It has made such an incredible difference to how I see and how I live my life, all I can say is Wow!
-- J. J. Executive in the finance sector
I generally work a four day week now and the business is more profitable than it was before! I’ve developed an innovative service that appeals to my best clients and I’ve had the confidence to let go of my two most difficult clients, it’s a relief to have proved it’s not worth taking on any more like that again. I bought my flat and got a new home office that feels really professional - important with the part time workers. I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far, and all this while I was going through a divorce. Thank goodness I took the plunge and invested in some coaching!
-- G.B. Business owner
I’m looking at the job in a broader way now, the wider context, and getting good ideas for selling stories. I started to define the focus for my column and then the paper launched a bigger page, so I’ve got more to fill, but it’s the first time I’ve begun to feel confident enough in the job.
-- A. T. Journalist
I wanted to find out what my strengths were so I could earn more. With your insight and support I surprised myself - finding the courage to go into business by myself and launch the range I’d been thinking about for years. Life’s much more exciting now. Sometimes I wonder what I’m doing, but then I know, I’m finally doing what I want and I feel so good about that - thank you.
-- G.F New business owner
Thank you for your support over the past months. After 18 years in the same environment I am learning more about myself, what I like and do not like. Just two weeks into this new job and I’m learning new skills. You have helped me keep focus on what is best for me.
-- M.H. Worker in not for profit sector
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