Few years ago, the idea of having a Business Coach was as foreign as the concept of electric cars. Even though it is no longer unusual to work with a business coach, only a select few CHOOSE to work one. My guess is about 5-10% of the business community really understands the power of working with a coach.
Why should a business work with a business coach?
Pretty much every business on this planet needs help, but only a select few actually recognize this and actively seek help, so that they and their business can perform at its peak and achieve their dreams and goals. For small businesses, coaching helps transform the owner(s) from trapped in to running the business on a day to basis to growing the business without depending on the owners to run it. This process actually turns the business in to an asset and makes the business ‘sellable’ in the future. (Why would somebody pay a premium to buy a business that heavily depends on its owner(s) to run it?)
A business coach’s primary role is to help facilitate growth. Growth in people followed by the business. (Unless the owner and the people in the business grow – business will NOT grow!)
We help you dig deeper and show your own incredible potential!
- A great coach will help you see the hope inside yourself.
- A good coach will help you ‘know’ that even though it is bad now, it can all be turned around just as morning joy follows a dark night.
- A brilliant coach will peel off negative layers and allow you see the higher part of yourself, which you could not see before.
How do we do that?
Even trained coaches are not clear on how they get the best of their clients, let alone Consultants, trainers and advisors who sometimes badge themselves as coaches!
Coaches recognize their client’s true potential that their clients themselves could not see. They can spot the spark or passion amongst the confusion and frustration they have built up over the years.
Coaches encourage their clients to believe in themselves and go for their seemingly impossible dreams. They are helped with their self-doubt and dis-empowering belief systems. There are days when ‘stuff’ gets in the way of their dreams and progress. The coach helps them see the bigger picture and inspire them to keep moving towards their goals and dreams. Here is an example where Gold medal winning Jessica Ennis’s coach Toni Minichiello talks about how he pushes her on days where she does not feel like training. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19260404)
The coach facilitates growth. He/she paves the way to learn, act, fail, recover but keep moving forward by standing with their clients. For an example, this is how I facilitate growth with my clients at Results Business Coach. (An excerpt from my blog: Can a business coach really help grow your business?)
Clarify direction: Are you heading in the right direction? It is easy to go off track and not know it. Coaches are constantly clarifying your vision, helping you conduct monthly reviews, monitoring key performance indicators etc… to make sure you are heading in the right direction.
Strategise actions: Instead of prioritising what is on your schedule we help schedule your priorities so that you can re-engineer you business with principles of momentum and impact. We make sure you are not filling your time with actions that derail your progress.
Upgrade your skills: You are leading your vision. As a leader, you will be expected to communicate, motivate, and inspire the people around you to help achieve your goals and vision. Where necessary we help upgrade and hone relevant skills.
Optimize your environment: We help build a positive environment for success. Imagine working in an environment that is not aligned with your vision. It is like trying to steer a leaking boat.
Master your psychology: Not everything goes according to plan. Disappointment and frustration will creep in from time to time. We help master your psychology so that you look things in perspective and move on with a positive frame of mind.
A coach will stretch their clients: Their dreams and goals are always situated outside their comfort zone. Unless our clients are stretched, they will never get there. The coach will help them push past what they see as their limits.
Accountability is the mother of all growth. Coaches hold their clients accountable for what they said they are going to do. This allows them to walk away from excuses and stand with their own strength and grow.
Is a business coach short-cut business success?
There are no short cuts in life. What we in effect do is keep bringing back our clients on their own track to success. In consistently doing so, they are more likely to get to their dreams and goals quicker. Is it then a short-cut? I will let you decide!
Some (famous) proof
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One of the defining moments of my life came in the fourth grade, the year I was Mrs. Duncan’s student. What Mrs. Duncan did for me was to help me to not be afraid of being smart. She encouraged me to read, and she often stayed after school to work with me, helping me choose books and letting me help her grade papers. For many years after that, I had one goal that I would one day become a fourth-grade teacher who would win the teacher award–because I was going to be the best teacher anyone had ever seen! Oprah Winfrey ########## Someone asked me, why was Rose Jane such a great teacher? And I said, because she believed that we were as great as we thought we were. She was an extraordinary drama teacher who filled us with confidence. And confidence, as an artist, is incredibly important. I had a teacher who expected us to fail all the time. And yet somehow, everything I came to love in my life I learned in her class. Because she had no patience for us. “Come on. Shakespeare. Come on, let’s go.” And I swear, when Mr. Holland’s Opus opened and I was thinking about Mrs. Wilcox, I tracked her down. Because I realized this weird thing, that I owed her something. I had always told the story of this grumpy woman. But I found her in San Diego. I called her up and said, you won’t remember me but I was in Horseman Elementary in 1962. And I want you to know that everything I ever came to love — history, Shakespeare — I learned in your class. And she said, “Thank you very much,” and hung up. And I swear, those two people, those two teachers clearly and profoundly affected who I am. Richard Dreyfuss ########## I’ve had many mentors in my life, I suppose starting with my parents. MY grandmother on my mother’s side was very – she always loved me. Out of all the grandchildren, I think I was certainly one of her favourites. And she was always encouraging. She always thought I was going to be something, when nobody else, including myself, thought I was going to amount to anything. And a business manager named Irving Leonard, he was a mentor to me. He was sort of like a father to all of us. There was a group of kids, who were young kids at that time, James Garner and people like that, that were all in his office. And he had a lot of unknown actors at that time, but he took care of us. He would always encourage you to go on. He believed when nobody else believed. Client Eastwood
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