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11/12/2025

Frank Abagnale Jr., the real-life inspiration for Catch Me If You Can, once posed as a doctor—and surprisingly became known as an excellent intern supervisor. His secret wasn’t knowledge. It was curiosity. Instead of giving orders, he asked interns what they would do. When someone hesitated, he asked others to challenge or explain. The team learned by thinking, not by being told.
I recently saw a parallel in an IT project. A newly promoted senior developer kept diving into every bug like a lifeguard—fixing what he saw and assuming the problem was solved. But heroics often made things worse. His real job isn’t to understand every line of code; it’s to guide developers, set standards, and coach them through their own work.
Many new managers believe they must be the expert. In reality, they must grow experts.
The lesson: you don’t need to know everything to lead. You just need to ask, listen, and create space for others to think. If you want to learn how to develop your team, I can help.
If you want to know more about this - you can find the full article on my website - Munnings.coach

26/11/2025

Why Leadership Is Lonely & How Coaching Helps

The common phrase "it's tough at the top" often means leadership is lonely. Leaders are constantly interacting but lack a trusted sounding board for sensitive decisions. They need a partner to process complex issues and clarify action plans, which is where a business coach becomes invaluable.

A coach acts as a thinking partner—listening, challenging assumptions, and helping leaders find their own confident answers, never giving them.

A Story of Transformation:

A new director client, overwhelmed after his promotion, gained clarity by answering a single question: “What do you see as the difference between a manager and a director?”

This led to a reframe of his role. By letting go of old tasks, he unlocked two key changes:
Empowered Management: His team was no longer overshadowed and grew into their roles.
Reclaimed Focus: He gained time and clarity for strategic priorities.
The Outcome:

With clear direction and an empowered team, the department achieved 15% growth in six months. This success stemmed from a leadership shift toward empowerment over control.

Many leaders face this challenge and seek a trusted partner to think alongside them. You don’t have to lead alone.

24/11/2025

In the early days, it’s normal—you have to do everything because there’s no one else. But as your business grows, those hats start piling up: Finance. Sales. Operations. Customer care. Plus all the “small” jobs like unloading deliveries, late-night problem-solving, and chasing invoices.

Before you know it, you’re the bottleneck. Longer hours, tougher decisions, less time for the rest of your life.

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many business owners reach a point where they simply can’t keep doing it all—and that’s exactly when the real growth begins.

👉 I’ve written a full article on how to stop wearing every hat and start building capacity in a sustainable way. Read it on my website here: Munnings.coach

16/01/2025

A new look - what do you think?

Munnings Growth Coaching will help your business to grow and work for you, not leave you feeling like you are alone - but leading

02/01/2025

As we all look forward to a new year and head back to the office, it is a valid question to ask yourself - What are my goals and expectations for 2025? If you feel that you are just getting by or struggling to run your business reach out.

Remember your personal goals must
1) Not include a number
2) Be 100% completely selfish (they are your goals not shared)
3) Be written positive and reflect the lifestyle you want

Your business and office objectives will be completely different, but your life must appear in them.

If you are looking for someone to talk to feel free to reach out to your local coach based in Church Crookham.

28/12/2024

As we approach the end of the year, it's a time to reflect on change. We often find ourselves asking: Are we truly happy? Can we keep up this pace? As a business owner, you might feel tempted to give up, but remember, you have the power to make changes.

If you sense that something needs to shift but are unsure of what to do, consider reaching out to me. As a professional coach and business mentor, I will support you quietly and discreetly, allowing you to explore your questions, seek solutions, and find the answers you need. The best part is that no one will ever know what questions you have asked.

09/09/2024

People ask me what is the most common question that I get asked as a coach - probably the area that I get a lot is the very basic information requests - from how do I set up payroll, what does an accountant do, what should be in the employment contract? To more fundamental questions - how do I manage difficult clients and staff - what is the process for keeping control. I have never hired anyone - how do I do a job interview?

For startups this happens a lot - you are trying to conserve every penny of your income and at the same time trying to work out what you can do yourself - and what there is no point in doing. The first things to get someone to help with are your accountant and payroll - the reason being that they are responsible for calculating all the tax you have to pay - trying to do this yourself is technically possible - but actually not worth the effort.

The advantage of a fully confidential service is that you have a safe space to ask the questions that there is just nowhere else to ask - and at the same time I am able to ask about the next steps so you start to think about things before you have to answer them. This can include target clients - growth plans - marketing and sales - and guide you through the jargon point out what you need, when you need it and what you can live without.

28/08/2024

So the last few weeks for one reason or another - I have been mentoring various young people - from Kenya, South Africa, the UK, Europe and the USA.

Some of these have had failed high school and have fought their way back into a profitable business, others that have had fabulous education - and no idea what to do with it.

One thing all of them had in common - they did not know what life is about. They all felt the weight of obligation and felt the weight of consequences. What they could not see is themselves - they had not developed any space for themselves. There were many people telling them what they should do - telling them how to do it - but very few asking them what they wanted to do? Very few who were listening to them.

This has been playing on my mind - when we develop staff as managers, or even just individuals - who is listening to you? Are you listening to your staff? Do you need someone to listen to you? Life is complicated and there is often a lot going on - as an executive coach my job is to listen to you and help you work through the options to find the priorities, and to work through them to get to what you want to achieve.

12/08/2024

06/08/2024

Let's be honest, business is complicated enough - without the unexpected - but the unexpected will happen to everyone. When you can’t see the options for the trees it's time to talk to me - as I help you to understand what has happened, what is needed right now (and what is not). What the options are - and how to choose and build the fresh plan.

The ability to explore things in confidence. In a supportive environment. With the only reason being to help you. Share the load - halve the problem and let's get it back together again.
No matter the challenge - lets fix it. [email protected]

27/04/2024

The end of Brexit? Or more the start of post Brexit….

This last week I have been in Ireland working with an Agriculture Services Company that has been reorganising itself so that the Irish and Northern Irish parts adopt the same strategy and goals, and the UK parts strategy is changed to operate without the Northern Irish Part - with the financial, sales and other goals being realigned.

The week before I was talking to a company that operates in the building services area - a company that works with various installation suppliers whose products they install.

Immediately after Brexit - I was talking to an economist and asked him what the impact of Brexit would be on companies. I was told that the initial impact would be a restacking of markets as companies made a simple decision to stay in all markets or to leave the market (EU companies no longer supplying the UK or UK companies no longer supplying the EU).

Once these companies had made the decision - they would then move to learn how to do this. The first signs of the post brexit recovery would be these companies starting to work together to look more deeply at how to deliver this.

After this companies who did not directly supply the different markets - or who had chosen to stop or slow but were not fully committed to walking away would evaluate how to do business with each other. These companies were the shoots of the post-brexit recovery that he suggested I look out for - because this signs would be the start of the reconstruction phase - with early adopters being the companies most likely to grow fastest.

The Agriculture Services company is no doubt still in the first phase reflecting the more complicated brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland, and the later implementation date.

The Building Services installation company has moved on - they are in the phase of working with a German supplier to become the UK partner for them - in return they will import all gates for the UK market - with the ability to resell to other installation groups - but they also get access to all of the current locations and contact details for the German company in the UK. This give them a considerable uplift in UK market Share - and will result in them significantly growing in the next few years.

This re-engagement and normalisation of the post Brexit relationships with the EU - alongside of other trading arrangements - will eventually allow the UK economy to redefine itself in a post brexit world developing into whatever post brexit Britain is.

It does lead to the question though - are you seeing the normalisation of the relationships with the rest of the world, or is your company looking at how to do this? As we enter the first stages of recovery from Brexit what or how are the organisations around you starting to deliver this?

20/03/2024

Looking forward to this - is anyone else at