As a business coach and owner of a business coaching franchise system, one of the recurring questions I and my certified business coaches are asked by small business owners and professionals throughout North America is, "Can I benefit from business coaching?" When anyone asks me, my coaches, or even themselves that very question, I know with certainty that they need business coaching. By asking that question, something in their business or personal life is off track, and that entrepreneur already knows in their gut that they could benefit from business coaching. The only remaining question they need to ask themselves is, "Do I want to take action now to change my situation for the better?" While there is no doubt they need coaching, they must want coaching. The wise ones do!
Fortunately, the vast majority of small business clients who come to us each and every year are referred to The Growth Coach by their advisers ... CPAs, bankers, attorneys, Chamber of Commerce leaders, financial planners, consultants, and Trade Association leaders. These trusted and respected advisers objectively recognize which of their clients or members could benefit from business coaching. Since most of these advisers have already been through our coaching process and know the benefits first-hand, they are confident steering their clients our way.
Most advisers recognize that there's generally a significant gap between where a client is and where they want to be. Most advisers also know that for the client to achieve a better future, the client needs to face the truth about their current situation, get clarity about their future direction, develop a focused action plan to get there, and receive on-going accountability to keep them on track. Advisers know a business coach can deliver on each of these critical needs. But the owner must still arrive at that conclusion for himself or herself ... even with the caring nudge of an adviser or a challenge from me or another coach. You must want to change for the better and take new actions!
To help you arrive at your own conclusion, let me ask you a few questions. Do you feel there is substantial untapped potential in your business for additional growth and profits? Potential for you to make more money? Potential to systematize your business so its value increases dramatically in the eyes of an eventual buyer? Potential to have better balance and satisfaction in your personal life? Potential to work fewer hours and have more free time and flexibility? Potential to improve your mindset, focus and effectiveness as an owner and leader?
If you answered yes to most of these questions, you clearly need and can benefit from business coaching. But again, you must want it. You must see the consequences and costs of doing the same old things. Of not getting help. Of not seizing the untapped potential in you and your business. What is the real cost of NOT getting help?
Please don't let your ego or defense mechanisms get in your way. You are not alone; you are not the exception. No owner has it all figured out. We are all human and the enemies of busyness, denial, distractions, and growing complexity can get us all, to one degree or another, off track, in ruts, and lost in the technical trenches of our business. We get trapped working "in" the business instead of "on" the business. In my opinion, however, the wise ones do something about it. They are strong enough and confident enough to get help and take new approaches. They want different results and are willing to try different things. They choose to seize the untapped potential in their business, life, and themselves.
When did you last spend uninterrupted time focusing on your business and on your life? When have you slowed down to really do some thinking and planning? To pull out of the details and see the big picture? For your business to change and grow, you must change and grow. For your business to expand, you must expand your knowledge, mindset, skills and habits. To do so, you need some structure, discipline and a proven and on-going coaching and accountability process to help you change your thinking, behavior, habits and results. Best yet, with The Growth Coach, you have nothing to lose. All of our coaching services come with a 100% money-back guarantee.
Unless your business and personal life are in such great shape and can't get any better, you could stand to benefit significantly from business coaching. Instead of merely needing business coaching, decide now to WANT it! Have the courage to click on this link to Locate A Business Coach near you and get a 60-minute, no-cost, no-obligation, initial consultation. Tell them Murph sent you.
Daniel M. Murphy
The Growth Coach
Business Coaching Franchise System