When people ask me what I do, I tell them I am blessed to oversee a North American business coaching franchise system that helps thousands of small business owners and professionals every year achieve greater success and balance in their lives. Invariably, if they are business owners, they then ask me, "Who can benefit from business coaching and how does it work?"
Based on my sixteen years of business coaching experience, and without any reservation whatsoever, I tell them that there is not an owner alive who could not benefit significantly from business coaching. I don't care how successful he or she is or how long they have been in business. There are always facets of our business and/or personal life that could be improved. Said another way, with business owners, there is always something out of whack. What is out of whack in your world?
Specifically, most owners would like to earn more, work less and enjoy a richer life. They want more freedom, personal time, and less hassles and headaches. Don't you? If so, you can NOT keep doing the same things and expect to get different results. That's a form of insanity.
For your business or life to change ... you must change ... or nothing will change. If you want to change something on the outside, you must change on the inside. At The Growth coach, we believe that nobody is in a better position to help advance your business and life than you. After all, your business is where it is and what it is because of your past thinking and behavior. For your business to change, you must change ... your knowledge, mindsets, strategies and habits. You must be open to thinking and acting differently so you achieve different and better results. Coaching provides you with the on-going process, structure, discipline and accountability to help you adopt better mindsets, plans, strategies, actions, and habits.
Why is coaching so necessary and beneficial? Because there is always a gap between where you are now and where you want to be, both professionally and personally. The larger the gap, the larger the need for coaching. Furthermore, most owners DON'T have clarity about their future, let alone clarity about where they are right now -- the good, the bad and the ugly. We all play mind games of denial and seldom have the discipline to face reality and accept the truth. That is how we get into trouble ... we don't confront our problems or opportunities! An effective business coaching process will help you face and accept the truth ... about your strengths, talents, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in all facets of your business and life.
Business coaching will also help you gain clarity about where you want to go. A proven coaching process will help you clearly define the outcomes YOU WANT, develop an action plan, hold you accountable for achieving those outcomes, and also help you tackle any limiting beliefs that might be holding you back from taking the right actions. While such a strategic-focusing process is powerful by itself, it is the on-going accountability and support that truly helps owners to change mindsets, behaviors, habits and results. That's how you achieve real and lasting change.
Don't worry, true business coaches, like The Growth Coach, will not tell you what to do or how to do it -- that is old-school consulting. You are the expert in your business and industry; you don't need someone telling you what to do. Besides, you never want to give your power and responsibility away to anyone else. Isn't that why you became your own boss in the first place? As it should, business coaching puts you front and center in coming up with the right answers and solutions for you and your business.
Again, with the right focusing process, it will help you draw out the best answers for your particular situation. Like a great athlete, you just need a proven coaching process to help you unlock the potential in you, your business, and your personal life. A coaching process to help you discover better ways to manage your business and life. A coaching process that will provide a structured and disciplined way for you to do some proper thinking and planning to achieve high-end results.
In the end, with the Growth Coach process, our clients have greater awareness and clarity about where they are and want to go, possess a strategic and focused action plan to get there, and receive on-going accountability and support to make critical adjustments along the way to stay on track. Each client fills out our proprietary strategic planner and they review and update it every 90 days in order to make on-going refinements and course-corrections to get them closer to their dreams and goals.
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Daniel M. Murphy
The Growth Coach
Business Coaching Franchise System