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Nick Sterling - Sterling Results Ltd

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Expertise: Performance Coaching, Business Coaching, and Leadership Coaching

Location: Auckland, Auckland Region

Member since: April 2011 | Profile viewed 470 times

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Business Coaching with Nick Sterling

"We are a management consultancy about business results, Sterling results. Full-stop."

Sterling Results Ltd. is an outcome-focused, award-winning, multi-disciplinary business & management consultancy based on industry best-practice, tailor-fit to your own business identity and specific needs.

Our prime focus of specialisation is SME (Small & Medium Enterprise), which constitute about 96% of the NZ economy. We also provide services in Australia and the Pacific Islands.

We cover businesses of all sizes (from sole traders to medium & large enterprises), of most types (from technology to health & well-being, recruitment, imports, manufacturing, fraud investigation, Local Government, Central Government, Non-Profit Organisations and numerous others) and of all stages of business maturity (from start-ups looking to break into the market to fully mature organisations seeking consolidation & growth).

We specialise in:
- Business Planning & Business Performance Reviews
- Business Mentoring & Professional Development
- Sales Planning & Revenue Growth
- Marketing & Sector Development
- Financial Management & Reviews
- Operational Management & Reviews
- Specialist Support Services

Benefits of Business Coaching

Getting a holistic & comprehensive view of your business from a fresh, independent perspective to identify immediate performance improvement needs

Ensure net profit performances through immediate efficiency enhancements

Instantly increase your revenue in the short-term by targeting the "low hanging fruits"

Get more productivity from your existing environment by better aligning your people, processes & tools.

Aligning your strategy, values, sales, marketing, operational and financial metrics

Looking after your most important assets - your people!

Finding hidden potentials & talents within the business and identifying development needs

Business re-modelling / organisational design to best meet your key business objectives and long-term focus

General process design & business improvement initiatives to remove complexity & reduce costs within your organisation

Identifying & plugging those cash-drains to further improve your cashflow so you have the cash to spend when you need it

Improving your gross margin & net profit performances to hit your annual targets and long term milestones

Getting all your invoices paid on time, every time

Getting more from your service providers and vendors.

areas of your business is performing at any given time, what needs most support and where your time, effort and cost should be invested in - with the big picture in mind at all times.

Building your Vision

Defining your Mission

Determining your long term business objectives and defining the key short & medium term milestones to get you there

Creating a structured and personalised plan for your business to enable repeatable successes not just one-off wonders

Planning your financial growth in alignment with your operational growth

A step by step approach to guarantee long-term success, one financial year at a time.

Managing your business proactively 

Setting and delivering key performance metrics, like the dashboard of a car when it is running, to know how well the different 

Training

Sales Training (Opportunity and Pipeline management, Strategic account planning, Target Account Selling, competitor analysis techniques, account planning) - Telstra Corporation Australia and New Zealand

John Williams Consultancy and Management (including Belbin profiling)

Psychometric testing techniques

Business Change Management for Senior Managers

Professional services practice and implementation

Managing P&L

Senior executive customer proposal design and presentation

ITSM Service Model design (ITIL)

Senior account and relationship management

Marketing and Promotion planning and implementation (including Event planning)

Strategic and Tactical Business planning

Sector development and planning

Partner management governance and framework

Resource management techniques

Commercial contract management and audit

Business case writing

Effective Business Writing

SAP – financial project management and cost centre management

PMI (Project Management Institute) training

Advanced Presentation Skills

Professional development for managers and staff

Manager’s Setting Key Performance Indicators for Staff

About Nick Sterling

Overview

Nick is an accredited award-winning Business Mentor with extensive general management experience, having operatied across multiple levels in a wide range of international companies, within a wide spectrum of industry sectors and market demographies, in Europe, Africa Australia, NZ and the Pacific Islands. 

He currently supports numerous companies in designing and implementing key strategies, tactics and overall business planning to enable repeatable successes while instilling long-term business maturity in organisations within shifting economic dynamics. 

Awards & Accreditations
Nick was educated in the UK, graduated with honours from King's College, University of London, where he also undertook a year of research prior to joining industry. He is a full Member of the New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM). He was recognised with an award from the Chamber of Commerce in 2010 for having successfully supported 13 businesses within the first 8 months, despite the recession. He was the 2007 NZIM Young Executive of the Year Award Finalist. 

Applying a global perspective to a local market and making a lasting difference

Nick has lived & worked on 3 continents, is fluent in many languages, and travels to a completely new place on the globe at least once every year. Coupled with his passion to experience new cultures & to meet new people, he also does extensive pro bono work to support professional managers and business communities to think outside the square and to be the best they can possibly be. Nick is also actively involved with a number of NPOs (Non-Profit Organisations) to help support a better society & a more engaging community, both locally & globally.