What Services Do Business Coaches Provide?
Not everyone who owns and/or runs a business knows how they could get the best out of their brand, employees and even themselves. This is why hiring a business coach is so useful and potentially life-changing for many small business owners and entrepreneurs. You have the idea, the vision and the work ethic, but something is missing. The knowledge and experience that veteran business owners have, is the elusive ingredient in your success recipe. When you experience your first business coaching consultation, you will have a much wider understanding of your industry, the regulations that affect your business and an effective roadmap to where you want to go.
What Does A Business Coach Do?
A business coach is a lot like an advisor. Some of the best CEOs in the world have multiple advisors to shine a light on the path to success. However, a business coach is perhaps, an even more intimate relationship. They will understand the goals you have, what kind of person you are, where you’re coming from and what kinds of risks and rewards you’re willing to aim for.
You will notice they have a passion and drive to help their clients succeed because your success is their success. Crucially, a business coach will do just that; coach you. They’ll get the best out of you by recognizing what your strengths and weaknesses are and focusing on improving both. Most of all, they will help you to believe in yourself! So many times, business owners find they have been their own worst enemy. A business coach will boost your
Why Hire A Business Coach?
The simple fact of the matter is, you hire a business coach when you are either struggling to keep your business efficient, productive and profitable. Or, you will hire a business coach because you know you could do better and you just need someone to unleash the best version of you. Think about it like a personal coach. They know what you need to do to get the physique you want. They will understand your temperament and make a plan for how you could reach your goals. You have to do the hard work, but they will be there with you every step of the way.
A business coach will help you improve these things and more:
- Better budgeting. First-time business owners struggle with managing money and they run into trouble with their cash flow. A business coach will focus first and foremost, on your budgeting skills and giving you advice on certain financial controls to rein expenditure in.
- Time management. A business coach will focus on your productivity and efficiency so you have more time to rest and recharge. The end goal is, working 20% of the time.
- Change your mindset. If you want to become a millionaire, a business coach will make you think like one. A millionaire is motivated, wants to succeed no matter how hard the business environment is, they take on all-comers and any challenge and they still have time to help other people grow.
- Become authentic. To become a truly unique business owner, you have to believe in yourself and be who you want to be, not model yourself on somebody else. A business coach will find the best version of you and bring it out in you.
An Understanding Of The Industry
A business coach will help you to understand some very important components of your industry. For example, if you work in the technology sector and in the solar energy industry, you need to know what kind of client you are dealing with and so much more. A business coach will already understand the industry you operate in and help you to understand a few things…
- Customer spectrum. A business coach will show you what kind of customer you are selling to and what kind of USP you require to gain their commerce. This may range from the budgetary homeowner customer, the affluent commercial customer and the corporate/governmental client.
- The competition. The coach will give you a list of all the relevant and the orbital rivals you face. The relevant rivals will be making similar products and who you’ll be in direct competition with. The orbital rivals are the big players in the industry, not in your firing line but in your peripheral vision.
Regulatory compliance. Compliance regulations are mandatory i.e. you have to obey them. If you don’t, you’ll be fined over and over, until you fix the issue. A business coach will ask you the most pertinent questions, so you inspect certain areas of your business to avoid such penalties.
Ideas Into Reality
In your very first business coaching consultation, you will create a draft of a roadmap towards success. The absolute central focus will be to make your ideas into a reality. You can’t know if your ideas are good or not, unless they are allowed to materialize. Once they materialize, then you can tweak and change your product or service, to make it into the glorious reality you have had lingering in your mind for so long.
How does this road map take hold?
- A blueprint of your idea will be studied, so see what kind of strengths and weaknesses are inherent in the design, material choice, pricing, etc.
- Then it will be compared to other products to see if you have pounced on your USP enough to give customers something new and distinct.
- The next stage of the first phase will be to create the product into a prototype and then go over the product in a one-to-one meeting with your business coach. They will have some very interesting and eye-opening questions for you, which could drastically improve the product.
Working with a business coach could be the turning point in your career that you have been yearning for. If you still have any unfounded doubts, then feel free to contact me here, or just send me an email to hi@thebizzycoach.com. Or if you’re ready to have a chat, book a call below!
I cannot wait to meet you and help make your dreams come true!