Small Business CoachingRemember your first session is free via phone or email. Small business coaching improves the vision, effectiveness, and ventures of existing small businesses which need help or a new enterprise wanting to do it right the first time. This program answers all those questions friends, investors, or relatives are stepping away from (for a variety of reasons) with the answers determining your success or failure. Let's take failure totally out of the picture. Create the company of your dreams – not your nightmares.When you first started out, you had a vision, a dream, of what you wanted to accomplish, of how you wanted your future to look. To some extent, you have achieved part of this dream, but there are probably times when you’re frustrated by how much time and energy it takes to keep your business going. You feel trapped and want to discover ways to work smarter, not harder. Improve marketing, sales, and strategic planningYour goal is to increase your revenues year after year. Although easier said than done, this is exactly what my clients experience. You will create effective marketing strategies which deliver a higher return on investment. You will transform ordinary order-takers into sales teams filled with rainmakers. You can use my services to help employees focus on the strategic issues of your company, not just the day-to-day tactical issues. Develop business leaders.Every small business that achieves long-term success invests in developing their people. I can help you make your staff more effective communicators, leaders, and motivators. Successfully manage growth and change.If there is one constant in small business, it’s change. There is nothing stagnant about your business. You constantly face new challenges, and bigger obstacles. You weigh the need for better employees, and evaluate opportunities for rapid growth. I can help you learn techniques to successfully lead your company through its growing pains. Small business coaching can help people in a wide range of roles or positions.
- Entrepreneurs.
- Owners or managers of small companies.
- Start-up companies (actual or planned).
- Professionals in private practice.
- People who run a business from their home.
- Executives thinking of leaving companies and launching a business.
Remember, all my work is performed in total confidence. Why Hire a Business and Life Coach?
Society is changing and we know this new profession has emerged out of a major shift in societal parameters. Alvin Toffler wrote the now-famous book Future Shock in 1970. It was the most popular publication of its time to speak about the phenomenon of how rapid change impacted the human condition and its societal structures. His warnings and descriptions now seem underestimated in comparison with the exponential speed of change society now experiences.
Today, change is the norm and both entrepreneurs and isolation in a corporate culture, are the result. Additionally, there are more self-employed and home-office workers than ever before and this trend is growing exponentially. With global communications, virtual technology, e-mail, voice mail and wireless office technology, we are an entrepreneurial and mobile workforce; “growth of the alternative workplace will continue. This is not a fad. Current estimates place 30–40 million people in the USA as either telecommuters or home based workers.” Millions of workers can now conduct their business away from office buildings and can live almost anywhere they choose. This trend has forever changed the traditional nature of the “workplace.”
Why people need life and business coaches is because companies have gone from being stable and mostly predictable to being fast-paced, impersonal, and constantly evolving. Because more and more people are getting more interested in having a life and a job, companies are discovering coaching can lead to more balanced, vibrant, and happy employees, and this leads to less turnover, better working relationships, and increased productivity and efficiency. With all the pressures from society and its lack of stability and predictability, a coach becomes someone who can assist the client in being a change master. These are the skills that coaches bring to the table:
1. Skillful listening
2. Gift of reframing
3. Ability to suspend judgment
4. Experience with confidentiality and ethics
5. Ability to seek solution and think of possibilities
Ten Solid Reasons to Hire a Business Coach - by: Mr. Spiel
#1 You get the help you need to redefine your role in your company, develop clarity, and establish long-term results.
#2 You will get help from someone who operates a successful business, who's been there, who understands the language of being "at the helm" alone.
#3 Week after week you will get the help you need to make the decisions necessary to lead your company where you want to take it.
#4 You will discover new alternatives and opportunities currently available to business owners.
#5 Your frank discussions with someone not beholden to you will help you determine what you need to change as a manager and as an organizational approach.
#6. You will avoid mistakes by learning from all the experiences of my fifteen years in the business of coaching businesses.
#7 You will look at everything from a broader perspective and have the support to make changes.
#8 You will begin to think more creatively and learn how to ask for input from multiple sources.
#9 You will benefit from a network of resources I, as a coach, have developed over the years.
#10 You will learn new techniques for problem solving as coaching is on the cutting edge of business change and transformation.
Now is the time to start the journey to where you want to be. Drop me an e-mail at: eburns@dealingwithsuccess.com
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