Business Coaching

What is Business Coaching?

Business coaching is the practice of providing positive support and positive feedback while offering occasional advice to an individual or group in order to help them recognize ways in which they can improve the effectiveness of their business. Business Coaching is an excellent way to attain a certain work behavior that will improve leadership, employee accountability, teamwork, sales, communication, goal setting, strategic planning and more.

When is Business Coaching required?

Professional Business Coaches are often called in when a business is perceived to be performing badly, however many businesses recognise the benefits of business coaching even when the organisation is successful. Business coaches often specialise in different practice areas such as executive coaching, corporate coaching and leadership coaching.

Business Coaching v Mentoring

Business coaching is not the same as mentoring. Mentoring involves a developmental relationship between a more experienced "mentor" and a less experienced partner, and typically involves sharing of advice. A business coach can act as a mentor given that he or she has adequate expertise and experience. However, mentoring is not a form of business coaching. A good business coach need not have specific business expertise and experience in the same field as the person receiving the coaching in order to provide quality business coaching services. Business coaching needs to be more structured and formal than mentoring.

What do Business Coaches do?

Business coaches often help businesses grow by creating and following a structured, strategic plan to achieve agreed upon goals. Multiple organizations train professionals to offer business coaching to business owners who may not be able to afford large coaching firm prices.

The business coach may specialise is the following area's.

• Establishing Business and Marketing plans
• Sales Coaching
• Clarifying the Vision and Mission of the business
• Goal and Target setting
• Dealing with employees
• Conflict resolution
• Enhancing customer satisfaction
• Streamlining business processes and systems
• Identifying new markets and contacts
• Time management and  Work life balance

 Watch the following clip to hear some of the benefits of having a business coach.