Business Coaching - 10 Signs You Need A Business Coach

Every business encounters problems from time to time. Here are ten of the most common - recognise some of these in your own business?

You work longer hours than your staff and take shorter holidays
You spend your day fire-fighting rather than developing your business
Cashflow is tight and/or profits are poor in relation to overall sales
You find it hard to motivate yourself or business partners
You need to generate more enquiries and new leads
Your sales team don’t perform as well as they should
It’s hard to recruit, retain and motivate good quality staff
Your business seems to break down when you’re not around
You are losing customers to the competition and want to fight back

When experienced over a period of months and years, they can be frustrating and tiring. They can make running your own business seem a lot harder than having a good job with regular pay and holidays. It doesn't have to be this way…

Business Doesn't Have To Be So Tough…

Business doesn’t have to be this tough. Before starting their own business, people expect perks because having your own business should mean you get more freedom and better pay.

Most of us know people who seem to have everything right in their businesses: great marketing and effective sales methods, well organised finances, staff performing as a motivated team even when the boss is away.

This isn't a pipe dream - there really are people like this who enjoy the perks of business. You've probably met some of them yourself and wish your business could be like that, too.

The reality is that only a small percentage of people in business have figured out how to make it happen. It might seem unlikely to you right now, but it’s not…

If It’s So Easy, What's Stopping You…

You are probably caught in the Catch-22 of being an owner/manager - you are so busy fire-fighting and working in the business, that you find it hard to find time to change things to cut out the firefighting. So you spend your time working in the business like another employee, rather than working on your business to develop and improve it.

Or perhaps you're not quite sure what needs to be done first, because there seems like such a lot that needs doing?

The first thing to recognise is that just because people run a business, it does not make them an expert in business management. In fact, they are generally technical experts – accountants run accountancy practices, mechanics run a garage, printers run a printing company.

Their expertise in accounting, cars or printing does not make them great at finding new customers, understanding their accounts or managing their staff.

No matter how many hours you work or how hard you try, if you build your business by trial and error, you're doing it the long and hard way. With the right help you will discover lots of secrets to streamline and quickly turbo-charge your results.

Just imagine for a moment, right now, how different your business would be if Richard Branson took it over for you for a few months to give you a long holiday. How much more money would you be making by the time you came back…

How To Create A Better Business…

The business coaching process starts with understanding where you really want to go. We define this as your business vision in a powerful and practical one page plan that you can put up in plain view on your office wall. It contains clear goals and measurements to make sure we’re taking your business where you want it to go.

Next we take action to start making your vision come true – day by day, week by week, month by month and in steps that are just the right size for you to take. You can explore how business coaching works in more depth.

When things are tough, you’ll want your business coach to hold you accountable. Perhaps you’ll also want to use your coaching session to brainstorm strategies and ideas, or to develop and critique new marketing pieces.

Over the first three to six months your business will gradually change, until one day you look back at the journey you have taken and feel amazed at how far your business has come. Shorter working hours, more profit and less stress. In fact, some of those elusive perks that other business owners seem to enjoy at the moment!

Take Your First Step Now…

Lee Duncan has been coaching businesses successfully for over 5 years and has worked with over 100 companies. Typically his clients achieve growth between 30% and 300% in the first year of working with him. It’s time to take your business to the next level…

Call Lee Duncan now on 01480 370142

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