by Paul Simister
on October 17, 2017
Business Coaching can work very well for many business owners but the big question is…
Will business coaching work for you?
The honest answer is that it depends on:
- You,
- Your situation,
- The business coach and how he or she fits in both with you and your situation.
This is why two aspects of what a coach offers are particularly important at the beginning:
- Try before you commit sessions – personalities can clash and you may find that a particular coach is a poor fit for your personality or issues. This is why I offer a Business Second Opinion Session to talk about any issue holding back British based business owners.
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- Some kind of guarantee – this shares the burden of finding the right fit between you and your coach. The coach shouldn’t see his or her task as “selling coaching hours for a profit” but as “helping business owners to succeed.”
What Is Business Coaching?
My simple definition of business coaching is that it’s helping you to get from where you are to where you want to be. [continue reading…]
by Paul Simister
on April 21, 2017
The best business advisors and coaches will tailor the advice given to business owners depending on the particular situation and the needs of the business owner.
Basically there are two options:
- The advisor or coach has a well defined process and the client is expected to bend to fit in with the process. As far as the coach is concerned “it’s my way or the highway”. This is perhaps best typified by the traditional approach taken by E-Myth coaches where the entire process is so systematised that it can be delivered by inexperienced people with few qualifications. The system is everything and, therefore, deviating from the system isn’t allowed although there are some choices allowed within it. Michael Gerber has made a great virtue of this turnkey system in the past as he created the McDonald’s of small business consulting and put his ideas into practice. Please note, I don’t know if the E-Myth coaches still work in such a regimented style. I feel it’s also an approach that you can expect from many of the advice based franchises since their strength is in the franchise system and the way to protect their reputation is by making sure that the system is followed closely.
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- The advisor or coach is well qualified and has plenty of experience and is ability to adapt to the individual needs of the business owner. It would be wrong to say that there isn’t an underlying process, approach or body of knowledge but the focus is on the client. Here the emphasis is on the skills of the advisor and not the system.
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