Exprience Matters

23rd February 2016

When I first meet with business owners they will often challenge me, by telling me that I know nothing about their line of business – and more often than not they are completely right about that. But of course knowing about the technicalities and intricacies of their line of business is what all business owners are best at, and I neither need to, nor always want to know, about those details.

The point is all businesses come up against the same issues, and it is these things which I concentrate my coaching skills on. I have coached close to 175 different businesses now, over 14 years, and whether they are animal behaviourists, arboriculturalists, builders, doctors or electricians, I have always ended up helping them to change the same things.

Over the years I have naturally learnt a lot about many different business sectors, and this has helped me occasionally to understand some of the idiosyncrasies which can arise, but on the whole I take businesses through the same processes, so they can create a business which works without them.

With the amount of business coaching experience I now have, I can quickly get a feel for the key areas which are not working in a business, and I can generally ask the right questions to unearth the underlying problems very quickly. However, I have to be careful never to make assumptions, for although my initial diagnosis is probably right, there are often other circumstances which are causing the problems, and they are invariably unique to each different business I work with.

The thing is, being among some of the first business coaches in the country, over the years I have grown and honed my own skills, such that I am seldom stuck for a way forward. And whilst there will always be new challenges to face, it is far less often that I meet a situation I haven’t dealt with before.

So if you are struggling to find a way forward, to pass a seemingly insurmountable problem, why not speak to a business coach who has probably experienced and solved your issue?

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