Saturday 18 October 2008

What is Business Coaching?

Business coaching is an effective way of mentoring individuals who own or run a business in order to assist them in achieving their business goals and objectives. It should be mentioned that many business coaching companies have corporate clients as well. The primary aim of business coaching is to help a business succeed by enhancing its ability to achieve its short and long-term goals. Business coaching usually takes the form of informal, face-to-face mentoring sessions. The effectiveness of business coaching over the years has been well-documented and the benefits that can be obtained from it cannot be too stressed upon. If you own a business or are a manager of large business organization, you will find that you will always face challenges and difficult decisions which you will have to make. Being in such a position of responsibility can be a lonely and daunting experience. Hence, in such circumstances, business coaching is worth considering.

Business coaching covers a variety of key business issues such as; managerial decisions, business growth and development, team management and investment appraisal. The most successful business coaches will be those that have an extensive expertise in a variety of business areas. They will also be able to combine their business skills in such a way that they can effectively incorporate them into the core of an organization. When approaching a business coach, you should make sure that they have a good track record and ideally some personal experience in running a company.

Monday 13 October 2008

Business coaching to implement ideas

When people come to me for business coaching theyare often doing more and more, and working harder and harder, doesn’t it? Well, certainly the "doing" and the "taking actions" are critical elements. Without action being taken, your business will get nowhere fast. There are also times when you need to stop taking action, sit back and do nothing.

I was reminded again of the need to do this recently. Having had a great holiday and lots of time off from my business, I was feeling very relaxed and raring to go. However, on this particular day I felt the need to do even less. To do less was going against my logical thoughts of “You’ve taken enough time off, it’s back to business now”, “It would be lazy to do nothing in particular today” and “Just get on with it”. These logical thoughts battled for a while with the feeling that I just need to do very little at the moment.

Although the logical thoughts were winning, there was a tiny voice saying ‘Trust yourself’. Eventually I gave into this voice and found myself lying on the sofa listening to some light background music. At first I was mulling over some business and personal items, but before long, I’d drifted into thinking about nothing in particular. Once I’d let all my thoughts go and was in a half-awake half-asleep state, the ideas and insights poured out. Wow, it was amazing how many there were and how quickly they were coming. I had some incredible insights into some business items that I’d been pondering for a while, yet was unsure what I needed to do. With the business coaching insights and ideas captured in writing, I was jumping up and down with excitement and inspiration. I was feeling so inspired that nothing was going to stop me from taking the necessary actions. It’s at this point that such actions really count because these enable you to grow your business dramatically.

Actions taken because you think you’ve got to work harder and do more will get you somewhere, but it may be quite a slog. Ideas and insights in isolation stay that way and will only exist in your mind if not acted upon. So combine the two; ideas and insights plus inspired actions and you have a very powerful combination. A combination along with business coaching that will make your business race ahead with a lot less struggle on your part.

Want to know more about business coaching then go here and read about business coaching
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Sunday 5 October 2008

Business Coaching To Help You Reach Your Business Dreams

Are you thinking of business coaching because running your own business not quite the dream you'd hoped it would be? Are you finding it much tougher and wonder what happened to the freedom you'd have, the profits you'd generate and the growth that would naturally occur?

The reality is for many business owners that there is a lot to do and a lot to think about. Some of these thoughts may be keeping you awake at night. These thoughts may be worries about problems in your business or just simply just things that need to be though through. If they're keeping you awake at night, your health will suffer and your ability work effectively and do what needs to be done is diminished.

The first thing you need is a little time. Allow yourself a little time in your day, say about 10 minutes, so that you have the opportunity to think through some of these things. When you give yourself this time every day you're more likely to leave your mind free for sleeping at night.

If the day to day running of your business keeps you very busy during the day, any concerns may temporarily be put to one side, then at night your mind kicks in with the problems, keeping you awake. If you want to sleep better at night these concerns and problems need to be faced head on. Although this can feel scary at times, keep focused on how much better you'll feel once the worries are out of the way. The first step is to identify your concerns, then brainstorm some possible solutions and come up with an action plan to handle them.

With business coaching, taking actions to handle your worries is proactive, so not only do you feel better but you're taking some necessary steps to work through the problems. Then if these problems keep you awake at night, just remind yourself that you have a plan and the worries are being handled.

Ideally having someone to support you through facing any problems, brainstorm ideas with and devise an action plan is often very beneficial especially if they see your business with fresh eyes. Find out how business coaching can help you with this.

Want to know more about business coaching then go here and read about business coaching
More sites blogging about business coaching:
Business coaching blog
Lens's About BusinessCoaching Here
Blogs On business coaching
Tripod About business coaching
On Geocities About business coaching
Yahoo Blogs on business coaching