How the best teachers, training and tools exceeded 17 years of corporate personal development in 17 months
Danayal Zia had been advising clients for more than 17 years with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). He enjoyed the work but had lost the passion he once felt. When he found ActionCOACH, the buzz came back and he knew this was the business for him.
“My last assignment with the bank was in the City of London. The City culture just wasn’t for me and I started to look around for something different. When I came across ActionCOACH, I fell in love with the organisation.
I’d come from a dog-eat-dog environment but this team went out of their way to support people. I completed my due diligence in 17 days along with my wife, Aiza. I wanted to be part of this culture yesterday!”
Inspired by the possibilities
“I came out of training on 1st August 2016 and what an experience! It was high-quality training and great team building. In my corporate career, I’ve attended training in New York, Shanghai and London but this was the best I’ve ever experienced. It was absolutely what I needed to get my business running. I had no idea how much help SME business owners really need. Coming out of the corporate world, you assume businesses would have basic systems in place – especially those turning over £1 million plus – but many don’t and the training opened my eyes to the possibilities.”
Danayal recognised the need to focus on marketing as soon as possible for his new Leatherhead-based business. He tested and measured activities including networking, LinkedIn, walk-ins, critiquing prospective client advertisements and running workshops.
“Networking and LinkedIn are my most successful lead generation techniques and now I get referrals from my clients. I have a referral strategy in place which is a win-win for my clients and I.”
Support to achieve your goals
By becoming an Action Coach, you’ll be invited to a world of knowledge, experience and guaranteed returns on investment. You only need five clients to make it a profitable business and ActionCOACH can help you get those clients via its exclusive client generation centre.
You receive world class training, an intensive 10-day induction training followed by a week of hands on marketing and selling training at ActionCOACH’s client generation centre to get your business flying. You have access to a library of resources and the ongoing support of their global and national ActionCOACH teams through group coaching webinars, individual coaching calls, quarterly conferences, quarterly team meeting and training days, and an extensive global intranet system – in fact, there are around 70 days a year of professional development opportunities for franchise partners.
“ActionCOACH helps me define the target market. They then provide the support, advice and tools on how to take each business to the next level – it’s a culture of sharing knowledge and experience. There is a huge emphasis on personal development which I love. They recommend you focus on reading to ensure you’re at the cutting edge of the world of business growth plus they arrange access to the best minds in the market through online seminars and a variety of conferences. I’ve experienced more personal development this year than in the last 17 years of my corporate career. The more I grow, the more I can help my clients grow.”
Danayal set himself big goals to grow his business. He worked with two of ActionCOACH’s master coaches, Richard Hayley and Pam Featherstone, and he moved into an office to keep him focused on those goals.
“My 6-month goal was to make the same income as I did in my corporate life. At the end of year one, I wanted to exceed the salary I used to make. I smashed those goals and, with nine one-to-one clients on weekly or fortnightly coaching, I am making triple my old income. My next goal is to build a firm of coaches in year three.”
A rewarding future
“ActionCOACH has given me more buzz in the last 12 months than I’ve ever felt before in my career. The feeling hasn’t subsided either. This journey has been amazing. I’m motivated to get out of bed every morning, transforming the businesses and lives of my clients. It’s hugely rewarding.
“My ultimate goal is to build a coaching firm which allows me to volunteer four days a week, either using my coaching skills to help a local charity or just selling poppies for the Royal British Legion. I’ve been married to Aiza for 16 years and we have three daughters aged 3, 12 and 14 – so they keep us very busy! There’s so much I’d like to do to give and growing my ActionCOACH business will provide the platform to achieve all of that.”
With over 3,500 strategies and tactics, guaranteed to make businesses successful, including your own, ActionCOACH helps business owners in several areas, including teaching them how to increase their profits, develop powerful systems and build a strong team.
Richard Sealtiel owns two bar and kitchen venues in Kingston upon Thames which kept him exceedingly busy. He began one-to-one coaching with Danayal to help grow the businesses but has achieved more than he first expected, “Having worked with ActionCOACH for 18 months, I doubled my business but also got some time back for myself. I’m now in a position to not have to go to work every day and, when I am at work, I don’t have to be hands-on like I used to. With more time to work ON the business rather than IN it, I joined ActionCOACH’s group coaching which has given me immense focus, drive, determination and clear action on refining the foundations for business growth.
“By increasing the effectiveness of our team training, we will provide the leaders of tomorrow, the most lacking currency in the hospitality industry. My Group Manager now attends the group coaching and I’ve been delighted to see his enthusiasm and new ideas – it’s great.”
Client successes have helped Danayal realise how much he has to offer business owners, their teams and his local community. He hadn’t always had that confidence.
“Coming from a corporate background, I initially found the concept of ‘abundance’ too good to be true. ActionCOACH has something special. I don’t know of any other organisation where people go out of their way to help and support others with so much vigour. ActionCOACH’s system provides an impressive set of tools and fantastic support, so all we need to add to the mix is self-belief.”
Next steps
If you would like a business which brings back the buzz whilst providing a great future for your family and you:
A) Get a buzz from helping others succeed
B) Love learning and developing yourself
C) Have enjoyed success in your career or sport…
Find out more by watching the overview video here
