What is a business coach?
What is a business coach?Whether you are an owner of a Fortune 500 company, a small mom-and-pop operation, or a work-a-home-enterprise, a business coach can help you improve your bottom line. Just as elite athletes have coaches and personal trainers, every business that wants to go to the next level should consider hiring a business coach. Your coach can help you focus on the activities that bring you the most profit, and he or she can usually help you see the things that are right in front of your face, but for some reason, you simply cannot see them.
Many entrepreneurs want to know how to find a small business coach. Well, there are more than 30,000 life and business coaches throughout the world. How do you choose the right one to help you grow your business? The simply way is the talk with prospective coaches and see who clicks with you. Do an abbreviated coaching session with a coach, and analyze how you feel afterwards. Go with your gut. Budget your income so you can get started now. Delay can be harmful to your future success.
Why a Business Coach?
If you are an entrepreneur that is feeling overwhelmed balancing business, family and relationship commitments, you would benefit from a business coach. Entrepreneurs are independent people. They like to do things themselves and will often be reluctant to consider business coaching. I know from experience, however, how beneficial a business coach can be. With an extra set of eyes and ears that are devoted to you and to accomplishing your goals, your business can grow exponentially. You will realize how helpful your coach is as soon as you start working with them, and will probably wish you’d hired one a long time ago.
According to the International Coach Federation in a survey of 210 coaching clients who been coach for an average of nine months, people worked with a coach for many reasons including:
Almost 85% of the people wanted someone to coach them on time management
74.3% of them wanted to get career guidance;
73.8% business advice
58.6% of them had either relationship or family issues on which they need some guidance.
52% wanted coaches to help them deal with fitness and wellness issues.
45.2% of them sought assistance with personal issues.
Goal-setting advice was a priority of 39.5% of the clients
38.1% wanted help with managing their finances funds.
11% were looking for help to boost their creativity.
Overall, 84.8% of the people who responded to the survey viewed the coach as a sounding board or a mentor, 78.1% of them considered the coach as a motivator, and 46.7% sought coaches as business consultants.
- If you want to launch products, services, or an entire business, a business coach can help. Through their expertise, a coach they can guide you in creating a marketing plan, which can meet your personal expectations and realizations of your business. Coaching can trigger reactions in you which lead you to shift your zest for accomplishment into overdrive.
- A Business Coach can help you find your passion and your business niche. Once you’ve found your niche, your coach will help you create an automated marketing funnel that will work for you 24/7. With the automated marketing funnel in place, your business will grow while you sleep. Your coach will also help you identify your ideal clients, customers and future business partners by helping you develop a detailed buyer persona.
- A Business Coach can take you from where you are to where you want to be. Your coach will help you develop a plan to reach your goals. You already have the all the knowledge you need to achieve them and with the help of your business coach, you will discover how to access that information. You’ll develop a natural insight into yourself, which will help you select the right opportunities at the right time. You’ll also be a better judge of people and who you should interact with, helping you make smarter and more profitable decisions. You’ll be able to make more money and live the life you’ve always wanted. These are wonderful skills to model for your children and family.
- A Business Coach can help you develop excellent time management skills, identify and eliminate time-wasting distractions, and prioritize your strengths so you can concentrate on your high-productivity assets. Thus you work smarter, not harder, so you can relax more when you want to.
- By all means, hire a business coach if you desire to improve your confidence, your communication skills, and your business posture. All of these attributes will help you to attract customers, joint venture partners and affiliates to you.
- Working with a business coach will enable you to learn the art of reading people. With this skill you’ll be able to draw the most qualified people to you and your company.
- A Business Coach can help you align your actions with your passions. Running into roadblocks and setbacks is inevitable. Knowing your passions and what makes your business unique will help you keep moving forward and overcome any obstacles. Plus, knowing what sets your business apart from the others means you won’t have to worry about the competition.
- A Business Coach should offer you a complimentary 15-minute coaching session so both of you can decide if you are a good fit for each other. Your coach is not your buddy or pal, but you must develop strong rapport so you can get the most possible out of your coaching sessions. Of course, it may take some time to develop a high level of trust, but the coach definitely should not give you the heebie-jeebies. If your spidey-sense sounds an alarm during the coaching sessions, you should absolutely acknowledge it, and respond in an appropriate manner.
- Do you believe that you can tell your most secret thoughts to your coach? Has your coach stated her confidentiality policy? Can you be absolutely honest with your coach? The answers to the above questions should be a resounding “yes”, or else keep looking. A coach must exude trust and integrity.
- A Business Coach motivates you to go in for what your soul says. Do avail yourself of the resources offered by your business coach. After all you are paying for the services of a business coach. Many people feel that a good coach is a necessity nowadays. In fact, a good coach can be a life saver as well as a business saver. You can’t do it all alone in business or in life, and you shouldn’t try to.
If you are not sleeping at night and worried about your business; if your life feels out of balance; if you feel your goals and dreams slipping away from you; if you just want to use someone as a sounding board, contact Angelina Arnold. She can help with the overwhelm and get your life and your business back on the upswing.
Download a copy of Angela’s free special report , “7 Fatal Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business, and What to Do About Them”. You can sign up for a free coaching session by clicking the Book Now button on her blog.
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