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Business Coaching FAQ

FAQ: How do I select a coach?

A VAST majority of coaches that you may meet are trained as personal coaches. While they may be fine personal coaches, this does NOT make them good business coaches.

Don't be fooled! The typical response from a personal coach who is posing as a legitimate business coach is this: "All of your business problems are personal problems. If you just do what you know you should be doing, you will improve your business." Unfortunately, that's not true! Simply because you own a business does not mean that you are an expert on all aspects of marketing, sales, customer service, financial management, human resources, systems design, information technology, management and leadership. A REAL business coach will help you fill in the gaps. Simply making you, only, more personally effective won't!

If you are interviewing coaches, simply ask them:

• What resources are available to help me with my business challenges?
• How will you help me in marketing?
• How will you help me increase my sales successes?
• How will you help me improve my customer service?
• How will you help me hire and train my employees better?
• How will you help me motivate my staff more effectively?
• What programs do you have to help me systemize my business so that I can work less?
• Where were you trained to be a business coach?
• How often do you get additional business training?

How can a business coaching help me
improve my business?

FAQ: "Improve me and my business." What does that mean?

As the owner, it is up to you to lead your company to where you want it to be. However, you may not be conscious of all of the areas of your business that, if addressed, can have massive results. Very often, business owners like you are too busy doing the everyday tasks.

We will help your maximize your strengths. You will be trained on leadership, relationships, strategy, motivation, productivity, and organizational skills.

Your coach also focuses on your personal life. The business world has seen thousands of great leaders that are miserable with their personal lives, and the effects are disastrous. The line between your business and personal life is too closely connected to ignore the effects on each other.

FAQ: This sounds like a miracle cure. It has to be "too good to be true...."

That’s up to you. Think back to the dreams that you had when you started your business. Do you have the same passion now that you did before? Probably not.

The coaching process – by combining your pursuit for personal excellence with excellent business strategies – is the best of both worlds. Once you know what you want in your life, develop a plan that will provide it, and take congruent actions on a daily basis, your enthusiasm returns. It becomes fun again, and your profits climb!

There’s NOTHING like it.

FAQ: I'm already doing well. Why do I need a coach?

You may not need a coach. You may not even be “coachable,” i.e. you may already "know everything." However, every top performer in the world - from athletes like Tiger Woods, to the President of the United States - has mentors, coaches and advisors.

In studies of successful individuals, certain characteristics are always found : They are always goal oriented, they are always very persistent, and finally, they always have a person or group of persons that they meet with regularly to brainstorm and learn!

Simply ask yourself: On a scale of 1-100, “how do I perform right now?” If your honest answer is less than 100 – a coach can help you. Period.

FAQ: I'm still not sure if coaching applies to my industry?

Coaching only applies to your business if you want:

* More prospects inquiring about your service or product,
* To sell a higher percentage of these leads,
* To serve your customers so that they buy more often,
* Better control of your profit margins,
* To be a better leader,
* Better systems to run your business,
* More effective, engaged employees,
* To make more and work less.

If these don’t apply to your industry – then perhaps coaching won’t apply to your industry/market.

Your coach works with you, the owner, on a regular basis (weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, or quarterly as needed) to set goals, plan with you, strategize with you, prepare action plans, and hold you accountable, to get you and your business performing at the highest levels.

Here's how working with us helps you and your company grow...

We will not promise that by simply hiring us or attending one of our workshops that you will achieve instant prosperity. But we do promise that the application of the basic tenets of successful businesses that we implement together will do far more to move you to your goals than any consultant, employee, seminar, or discussion with a relative can!

In working with us over the next year, we will help you: drive more people to your business, sell more effectively, service them better so they buy more often and manage your finances – better than you ever have previously. In addition, you will have more money and free time to do things outside of work that you enjoy.
 

FAQ: Why does the coaching process take a minimum of a year?

The process is not a magic wand. Certainly, you have been to a seminar and left recharged and planning wonderful changes. Almost as certain is that you probably forgot everything from the seminar within ninety days. We all do it.

Creating lasting change is a process of acquiring skills and developing positive habits. As Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” Coaching is a process to get you to develop positive congruent habits that maximize your life and drive your business forward.

The process is important in creating real change that lasts.

FAQ: What about the rest of my team? Do you offer anything for them?

Absolutely. We have seminars and workshops to improve every area of your business depending on your needs.  In addition, we have assessments to ensure that you are building the best team possible.

For our seminars, we offer topics such as team and morale building, developing the mission and vision, marketing more effectively, sales effectiveness, customer service excellence, personal effectiveness, leadership, goal setting, and many more.  We can custom design them for your particular business also.

Getting input from your employees in each area of your business goes a long way to them taking a level of “ownership” in the success of the business and it empowers them.  Since they will have ownership in the ideas that develop, they will have a personal interest in the success.  The results can be incredible.

In addition, we are available to work one-on-one with some of your key people in areas that challenge them!

FAQ: How much does coaching cost?

In most cases – nothing! In fact, you should be able to make more than enough in the growth of your company to pay for the coaching. And, the results last for years after the coaching process has ended. It’s the greatest investment that you will ever make!

But if that’s not a good enough answer, we’ll tell you this: It would cost you more to hire a receptionist to answer your phones for a year than it will cost you to hire a coach. Think about that.

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