What stands between your current business situation and your biggest goals? As organizations grow, they often hit a point where the standard processes are no longer producing the necessary results to achieve the next level of success. Through my FocalPoint Certified Business Coaching Practice, I help organizations understand barriers, assess teams, and establish solutions that drive real results. It all begins with clarity. Leveraging a wide range of assessment and analysis tools, we begin to identify gaps in your company’s processes, communication patterns, and talent management. These invaluable insights give you the power to create data-driven solutions and long-term strategies. Do you know you can achieve more, but aren’t sure how to accomplish it?Certified business coaching teaches you how to implement proven business concepts, strategies, and tactics that are guaranteed to generate rapid returns on investment. Through personalized coaching and training programs, we’ll work to develop effectiveness in the key areas of business success, including:• Leadership & Management• Delegation & Decision Making• Productivity & Growth• Alignment of Vision, Mission, and Values• Skill Building & Team Development• Internal & External Communication• Execution Tactics• Exit StrategyTo address my clients’ wide range of needs, I offer coaching services in a number of ways:• One-on-One Coaching – private mentoring to address your unique business needs• Group Coaching – collaborative discussions with executives facing similar challenges• Team Coaching – trainings and strategy sessions for your key team members• Seminars & Workshops – skill building for your organization or industry group• Assessments – tools that provide an objective look at your business and its employeesToday is the day to take the next step for your business. It all begins with a conversation.Contact Margaret Maclay at mmaclay@focalpointcoaching.com.

As the Coach Success Officer, I partner with incoming FocalPoint coaches to maximize their skills and provide the resources they need to establish a successful practice. From the start, we help coaches improve communications, establish stronger relationships with clients, effectively close sales, and increase their productivity.Recognizing that each coach is a business owner, I’ve incorporated the tools and methodologies that drive success for my clients into the FocalPoint Onboarding and Certification Programs. The benefits are two-fold. It supports our coaches with the resources they need to succeed, and it also ensures that every client who interacts with our global network can experience the complete transformational power of the FocalPoint content.Whether training individual coaches or partnering with area representatives, we provide every member of the international FocalPoint Team with our full-suite of resources and support. Are you looking for your next career step? Business Coaching with FocalPoint combines the flexibility of owning your own business with the support you need to be successful. Email Margaret Maclay at mmaclay@focalpointcoaching.com to learn more about franchise opportunities with FocalPoint Business Coaching.

As the Director of the FocalPoint Assessment Center, I’ve worked to develop the collection of FocalPoint’s most valuable assets – our Assessment Tools. Having built my own coaching practice on a foundation of data-driven strategies, I began working with the FocalPoint Corporate Team to expand our Assessment Library, develop innovative new tools, and provide training to our global coach network. The goal was to ensure each Certified Coach had the resources they needed to provide world-class solutions for their clients.The FocalPoint Assessment Library includes (but isn’t limited to):• Behavior Assessments – comprehensive analytic tools for gaining insight into individual behaviors and underlying motivators to help you increase sales and productivity.• Workplace Motivators: Leveraging Talent in the Workplace – tools to help you motivate employees and place them in the best-suited positions. • 360-Degree Feedback – multi-source assessments that provide insight into performance and a baseline for developing a tangible action plan.• Sales Skill Index – analysis tools that identify each salesperson’s strengths and opportunities and enable the development of more effective training or management strategies.Additional tools include:• DiSC Profiles• Communication and Behavioral Styles• Emotional Intelligence• Position Benchmarking• Job-Related Competencies• Stress QuotientAs new coaches join the FocalPoint team, we leverage these tools to help maximize each individual’s success. These initial assessments give coaches a deep understanding of their own strengths and opportunities, while preparing them to administer similar tools for their future clients.Are you looking for your next career step? Business Coaching with FocalPoint combines the flexibility of owning your own business with the support you need to be successful. Email Margaret Maclay at mmaclay@focalpointcoaching.com.

With 25 years in the industry, including 16 years at Liz Claiborne, Inc. as Vice President of Process Improvement and Supply Chain Strategy, Margaret has an extensive background in the fashion industry and proves to be an excellent consultant for operation and process improvement in the fashion industry. "I have worked with Margaret many times during my time at Liz Claiborne from reporting to her when working in the office in Portugal to with her on projects when in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong. Margaret has a wealth of knowledge of the Industry in particular the areas of Supply Chain management and the Manufacturing Operations Process.Margaret is hard working and driven and an asset to any Company that she chooses to work for or with. I would recommend her skills to anyone." - Claire Snowdon - Cross-Cultural Trainer and Global Working Mentor at Expat Know How