Small business coaching

Business coaching for small businesses with BIG potential

Take your business to the next level with advice, action and accountability.

Discover what’s possible when you’re backed by Australia’s most trusted small business coaching firm.

Small business coaching

Business coaching for small businesses with BIG potential

Tenfold Team Business Coaches Australia

Take your business to the next level with advice, action and accountability.

Discover what’s possible when you’re backed by Australia’s most trusted small business coaching firm.

Tenfold Team Business Coaches Australia
The Business Excellence Forum & Awards Coaching Firm of the Year 2022
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Review of Tenfold Business Coaching

Review of Tenfold Business Coaching

“We’d been in business for several years so we thought we knew what we needed to do – until we got a new perspective from our Tenfold business coach.

The advice and strategies from our coach, Lee, have taken our business to the next level.”

Primal Health Club Scott Upston

Scott Upston, Director
Primal Health Club
Tenfold client since 2019

Coaching for small businesses with big potential

Advice and plans for your business to kick it up into the next gear for growth

Small Business Coaching Strategies
Small Business Coaching Strategies

Action and accountability for small business growth

Take the guesswork out of your business.

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Tenfold Business Coaching backs small businesses to make informed decisions.

No two businesses are the same, even if you’re in the same industry, with the same size team doing similar work. Our business coaches make sure you have the intel that’s specific to help your business grow. (We’ve been coaching small businesses for 20 years, so we know what counts.)

Here’s what you get with a small business coach at Tenfold:

  • Financial modelling so you know how your business is performing

  • Plans and projections for short and long term so you know what’s coming

  • Regular tracking of growth drivers so you know what to do

  • Advice, action and accountability so you get it done

Back your business growth with Australia’s #1 small business coaches.

Growth plans and coaching for small business owners

We guide you through a clear plan of practical stages for growth.

Speed to Results

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Immediate actions to drive bankable results and positive returns in the short-term.

Sales | Cashflow | ROI

Advanced Growth

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Take your small business to the next level with proven strategies and practical plans.

Get ahead of the curve.

Big Picture

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See the big picture for the best version of your small business and plan to get there.

Plan with purpose.

Business Exit

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Achieve financial freedom through business sale or run by a management team. 

Wealth realisation plans

Meet Our Small Business Consultant Team

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Find out why our small business coaching team is a cut above.

How small business consulting works with Tenfold

Smart strategies are used to deliver results and multiple ROI.

Our proven strategies are adapted to each small business to deliver results. Right, but what does that actually mean for your business?

It means that we look at your business model (how it makes money) and your business mechanics (how it works).

Some parts of your business will already be working well so we protect those parts and build on them.

Other parts of your business are not up to scratch – that’s harsh but fair. The reality is that your Tenfold business coach will map out a tactical plan to improve or restructure those areas.

Speak with a growth expert at Tenfold Business Coaching today. (Minimum revenue $500K for 1:1 coaching.)

How small business consulting works with Tenfold

Smart strategies are used to deliver multiple ROI for small businesses

Our proven strategies are adapted to each business to deliver results.

Right, but what does that actually mean for your business?

It means that we analyse your business model (how it makes money) and your business mechanics (how it works).

Some parts of your business will already be working well so we’ll put in place strategies to build on those areas and protect them.

Other parts of your business will be underperforming – harsh but fair. Your Tenfold business coach will map out a tactical plan to improve or restructure those areas.

See the big picture with small business coaching

Get the right advice for the right actions and the best outcomes.

Small Business Coaching Big Picture

The big picture is the best version of your business idea: what it looks like when working at its optimum, making money, with a high-performing team. When all the pieces click into place to create wealth within your business.

Our advantage is a 20+ year track record of coaching small businesses to work ON their business instead of in it. That gives you the advantage of:

  • Multi-level strategies to move your business forward

  • Clear goals backed by realistic action plans with measurable outcomes

  • Accountability for the key numbers, not the noise, that get results

  • Leadership and development of your people, including you as the owner

Our coaching delivers your big picture. Find out how.

Case Study: Skylark Sports doubled profit and up scaled with small business coaching

Industry: Membership-based gymnastics

Industries serviced: Fitness

The Challenge

Skylark Sports had grown as a small business year on year since 2007. They moved into bigger premises to have more room to grow. However, taking the business to the next stage created new pressures:

  • Growth relied heavily on the owner being hands-on in daily operations
  • Unclear financial performance and profit drivers
  • Business systems were lacking to up scale
  • Increasing workload threatened work-life balance
  • The owner wanted to grow the business faster while avoiding costly trial-and-error

The business had momentum, but lacked structure and systems for scaling up.

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Business owner, Jasmin Meaker, with small business coach, Ash Thomson, at Tenfold Business Coaching

Solution

Working one-on-one with a business coach at Tenfold, the focus was on strengthening the business across three functions:

  1. Structure: Getting the right roles and responsibilities so the business could run effectively and consistently.
  2. Systems: Putting in place clear operational and management systems to support marketing, resource planning and efficiency.
  3. Strategy: Financial clarity to enable better decision-making and invest in better facilities, resources and staffing.

Outcomes

  • Clients grew by double and continues to accelerate
  • Net profit increased by 216% within two years
  • Enabled facility renovation and investment in new programs and staff development
  • Sales and turnover increased while owner working hours decreased

Small Business Coaching for Next Level Growth

Systems and strategies to take a small business to the next level

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Tenfold Business Coaching works with established Australian trades, construction, manufacturing, and building businesses that need structure, clarity, and strategic direction.

Unlike startup businesses, small businesses already have staff, active projects, real overheads, and real risk. What they lack is not effort, it’s systems, commercial visibility, and a clear path to up scale profitability.

That is the gap Tenfold exists to fill.

What Makes Small Business Coaching at Tenfold Different

Most business coaching is generic. It focuses on motivation, surface-level KPIs, or theory that does not survive contact with a live job site, a payroll run, or a slow-paying Tier 2 builder.

Tenfold’s coaching is built for real operating conditions in trades and construction:

  • Irregular cash flow and progress claims
  • Thin margins hidden by turnover
  • Founder-dependence and operational bottlenecks
  • Inconsistent pricing and quoting discipline
  • Leadership gaps between owners and supervisors
  • Growth that creates chaos instead of profit

At Tenfold, we coach from the inside of these realities—not from a textbook.

Financial Clarity That Drives Better Decisions

One of the first things Tenfold addresses is financial visibility.

In our experience, many businesses turning over $3M–$10M cannot clearly answer:

  • Which jobs actually make money
  • What their true breakeven point is
  • How much margin they need on the next job to stay healthy
  • Whether growth is helping or hurting cash flow

Tenfold builds custom financial models that show:

  • Real gross margin by job type
  • Fixed and variable cost structures
  • Cash flow pressure points
  • Capacity constraints as the business grows

Expert insight: At Tenfold, we often see profitable businesses fail simply because decisions are made without this clarity. Once owners can see the numbers properly, behaviour changes fast and profit follows.

Systems That Remove the Owner as the Bottleneck

Most established small businesses rely too heavily on the owner for:

  • Quoting and pricing
  • Problem-solving on site
  • Staff decision-making
  • Client communication

This caps growth and burns owners out.

At Tenfold, a business coach helps owners of small businesses:

  • Document and standardise core processes
  • Build role clarity for supervisors and managers
  • Install accountability rhythms that do not rely on micromanagement
  • Transition owners from “doer” to decision-maker

The result is a business that runs with structure, not stress.

Leadership and Team Performance That Scales

Growth breaks teams before it breaks systems.

Tenfold coaches owners to:

  • Lead supervisors and managers effectively
  • Set clear expectations and performance standards
  • Handle underperformance decisively
  • Recruit for capability, not desperation

We regularly work with businesses that reduce rework, staff turnover, and internal friction not by hiring more people, but by leading better.

Who This Coaching Is For

Tenfold Small Business Coaching is suited to:

  • Trades and construction businesses with employees on payroll
  • Owners who want commercial control, not just busyness
  • Businesses ready to replace guesswork with strategy
  • Leaders who want accountability and expert guidance, not cheerleading

The Outcomes We Deliver

Clients work with Tenfold to build businesses that are:

  • Financially predictable
  • Operationally structured
  • Less dependent on the owner
  • Positioned for sustainable growth

If your business has outgrown its current level of thinking, Tenfold provides the clarity, systems, and leadership framework to take it further—profitably and deliberately.

Explore how a business coach can take your small business to the next level.

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