Quick Guide to Choosing an Effective Business Coach March 11, 2006
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Finding a business coach is easy. Finding one that will meet your expectations is another story. The following guidelines should help you become aware of what you should be looking for in a business coach as a bare minimum. I have been a business coach and have been coached for several years. You may as well benefit from my experiences!
15 things to look for or do in order you find the ideal business coach for you:-
- Listens and seeks to understand your needs first.
- Asks insightful and mind opening questions.
- Facilitates so you develop your own solutions.
- Have the ability to up-skill you and your team.
- Have corporate and small business experience.
- Are an experienced and succesful marketing and sales professional.
- Have access to the most effective sales & marketing systems.
- Have been successful in building their own businesses.
- Have been competent director of companies.
- Is requested as a guest speaker on evolving business.
- Business consultants and coaches seek them out for advice.
- Their fees are fair and competitive.
- Do a Google search on their name and profession
- Call at least 5 of their clients and ask what they liked and disliked about the coaching.
- Make sure a part of their service is a comprehensive ‘needs analysis’ of you and your business.
Remember to prepare your questions using the list above as your guide so that you can identify whether a business coach is going to be equal to these standards and do not settle for anything less.
This was written by Australian best selling Author, Mind Power and business coach, George Helou. (http://www.quantumevolver.com.au) He is the founder of the Quantum Evolver coaching ethos. For more information about his company, you can read on…
Quantum Evolver business coaching is about providing services that encompass the following 8 guidelines: -
1. Clarifying your vision, mission and goals.
2. Identifying where your business is situated in its product and service cycles.
3. Soundboard – facilitate problem solving.
4. Assess skills and coordinate the up-skilling of team members.
5. Helps you challenge conflicting attitudes that work against success.
6. Share knowledge, experience and imparts skills.
7. Guide the work culture to be accountable and motivated.
8. Adapt to your needs and utilise a network of resources.
Along with these guidelines, you will receive quality feedback and support with your business plan, marketing plan, management style and sales process performance.
If you do not have a business plan or never refer to it, we can assist you with developing one from scratch and ensuring it remains a living document with its components intrinsically linked to the weekly agenda items and key performance indicators of your company.
Quantum Evolver (QE) Difference
What makes business coaching unique to Quantum Evolver is the science behind human behaviour and learning how to master your emotions. Universal Laws form the basis of our coaching equipping your leadership and work culture with the confidence, clarity and synergy it needs to succeed.
The power of evolving with quantum principals is the key to balanced success that keeps you profitable, sustainable and in harmony with the environment. QE Coaching focuses on belief-systems, attitudes and perception, which are the command centre of behaviour and action. Addressing behaviour at the core enables us to ensure your action is aligned with your objectives.
Coaching Process
The following are QE components that form part of the coaching process: -
1. Test the business objectives and ensure they are aligned with what you desire to experience.
2. Identifying existing belief systems and weeding out the misconceptions that works against the company objectives.
3. Educate the work culture on the difference between beliefs and identity. Many confuse having a belief with their identity, thereby needlessly defending a point of view before even challenging it.
4. Facilitate a paradigm shift into self-empowerment.
5. Adopt a revised code of conduct with positive affirmations promoting self-belief, responsibility, accountability and inspiration.
6. Introduce the QE Step Process helping the work culture evolve itself in the field.
Tailored Approach
Although the principals of every business are the same, the individual needs of each business often vary. From the learning style, the team culture and the nature of the industry can call on a tailored assistance from a business coach.
Free Needs Analysis
Quantum Evolver utilises an in depth uncovery process which seeks to identify your needs and the condition of the existing company perception and the best way of assisting you achieve your business and personal goals within the desired timeframe.
The first stage of this uncovery process is at no cost or obligation to you. It demonstrates how QE coaching works and also identifies your coach-ability, which is an integral part of experiencing success from being coached.
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