About - Next Steps

Claire Bain - Executive and Career Coach

2020 has been a storm year with many of us facing major disruptions? Now more than ever we appreciate it is the people around us that carry us through. Now is the time to appreciate and develop a sustainable performance from you and your team.

Let me help you. I’m Claire Bain – the owner of Next Steps – the thread of my 30 year career has been working with businesses and individuals to improve performance and get results. I specialise in staff development aligned to company objectives. I do this through coaching, training and facilitation with clients in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Clients include large organisations (e.g. Northern Ireland Electricity, Farrans Construction , The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Newry Mourne & Down District Council), businesses (including the Horatio Group and Trackars Healthcare) and individuals from a range of backgrounds (council staff, university lecturers, solicitors, nurses, doctors, civil servants, bank staff, engineers, contractors and students).

My expertise is staff development, career and interview coaching. Providing my service virtually and face to face for clients in, County Down, Belfast and Northern Ireland.

Staff development coaching

Services for organisations include:

Career and interview coaching

Services for individuals include:

Why choose me?

Here are five key reasons to use me:

I’ve extensive practical experience gained in large companies (including 15 years’ operational management in GlaxoSmithKline) and SMEs
I’m a fully qualified/accredited coach, and my approach to coaching and facilitation is backed up with 20 years’ experience
I challenge in a supportive way – underpinned by a focus on outcomes and business results
I’ve high levels of perception and will quickly gain an understanding of your situation
I’ll give you tools and techniques that you can use on an on-going basis

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Claire Bain’s educated and considered approach to keeping Trackars’ management and its people on track to meet the businesses time-based objectives, has been /is a key component to our strategy and success. P.Casement, MD, Trackars Healthcare.

Business owner coaching

“I went to Claire in order to develop my interview skills and whilst working through various elements, I realised that I needed to focus on personal development prior to making any major career based decisions.

By completing different exercises Claire has helped me rediscover my strengths, reveal new ones and also identify what is important to me.

The result has been to instil a new found confidence which will allow me to progress to the next stage of my life. This was all achieved through Claire’s ability to put me at ease, help me see things from a different perspective and her positive attitude.”. Wendy F, H.R. Co-ordinator

Interview coaching

“Claire has a forensic ability to cut through your self doubts and mental inertia in order to make you identify and analyse your strengths and abilities. Through the process you gain confidence to formulate your own strategy for getting that promotion!

I’m so glad I enlisted Claire’s help.” B.Mason, Educational National Manager

Executive coaching

“Claire is one of those people who can put you at ease. Someone that you can open up to and explain your concerns. By spending time listening to my experience at previous interviews she identified where I was going wrong and guided me through approaching the process in a logical manner, so that, I could deliver to any interview panel, a response which clearly demonstrated how I met their requirements”. – Jim B. Senior Manager, Civil Service

Career coaching

Claire is a super business coach, she helped me bring so much more structure to both my business and how I managed my time. She got to understand the business very quickly and we worked together to identify key performance measure and what I should be focusing on. The outcome is I can working more efficiently and staff are all very clear on what is expected off them.

Business Owner

Great advice, fantastic support. Got me thinking about a more positive future in my business and the way forward. More structured approach to staffing and management.

Business Owner, Catering Industry