Q3 2021

EU BUSINESS NEWS / Q3 2021 9 , May21793 Business Coaching Consultancy of the Year 2021 Busy entrepreneurs hire multi-award-winning lean consultant, business coach and engineer, PaulaMcNicholas’s help because they are working such a ridiculous number of hours, often feeling like a prisoner in their own business. So, Paula helps themand their business to be significantlymore productive and profitable, freeing up time for lucrative new projects, and giving them their life back. With 25 years of experience behind her, including work with companies such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover, and Boston Scientific, Paula’s mission has always been to improve the quality of life of business owners and their employees. She gets job satisfaction in being able to move small businesses from chaos to calm, from busy to productive, from loss-making to profit, from frustrated to fulfilled, giving the stressed out business owner their life back – the time to spend with their children, no longer missing out on another football match or school play. It’s truly rewarding and why Paula loves what she does. She works across all sectors, from manufacturing to professional services, from food processing and hospitality to web design and IT. The business owner is working many hours, often still doing a lot themselves even though they know they should be delegating more to their team. They can sometimes feel that it’s quicker and easier just to do it themselves… Paula regularly runs her signature webinar live, ‘The 3 Keys to Double your Profits and Double your Time off’ which provides a lot of value to those busy business owners on how to be more productive and profitable and have their team working for them and not against them, doing what they need to be doing and doing it well, and where there is less stress for everyone. Her engineering background enables her to bring an engineer’s mind to solving problems for her clients. A lot of this experience would be in implementing lean thinking and lean methodologies. Lean helps businesses run better, quicker, cheaper, together as a team. She tells her clients that she doesn’t have a magic wand, but some disagree when she streamlines their processes using the lean concept of batch to one-piece-flow. This can reduce the lead time to a quarter of what it was, e.g. four hours becomes one hour, two days becomes half a day! This is very popular with food processing and online retail businesses right now, and it creates the capacity for growth. Many businesses have grown and got busier over the last year and they now find themselves managing a bigger team and without a good management system framework – leadership of the team can feel challenging. Paula helps with this – improving leadership and communication alongside the implementation of efficient, effective systems and processes which can result in clients getting back that feeling of having everything under control, with the business running smoothly. Speaking about his experience of working with Paula, Peter Morrow from MD of Skylark said, “Working with Paula has transformed our company. We have reduced time in every aspect of our business – it is the only way if you want to expand. I can’t thank Paula enough for her determination, her brilliance in her field and her dedication to what she does.” Company: Paula McNicholas Contact: Paula McNicholas Email: [email protected] Website: www.paulamcnicholas.com