7 Reasons Why You Need a Business Coach
Whether you run your own business or are a professional trying to grow or make a change in your corporate career, when work gets overwhelming it’s hard to know if you’re taking the right approach to reaching your goals.
A business coach supports your goals and provides you with valuable insights, tactics, and a plan to help you succeed and achieve professional and personal growth.
If you’re still on the fence about hiring a coach here are 7 more reasons why it’s worth investing in yourself with a business coach:
Reaching new self and professional awareness: a business coach will help you become aware of any self-imposed limits you are setting for yourself. Awareness is always the necessary first step to overcoming these limits and starting your journey towards growth.
Setting realistic, achievable goals: as ironic as it may sound, we often undervalue and impose limits on our capabilities while setting highly ambitious objectives, that sometimes are unrealistic, vague, and therefore stress-inducing. Your coach will not only make sure your goals are smart and realistic, but they will also come up with a plan to help you achieve them. From assessing your schedule to prioritizing tasks to managing your time more effectively, your coach will work with you to help you meet more of your personal and professional goals.
Becoming accountable: It happens to anyone to get distracted and to lose sight of their goals. Your business coach will make sure you follow through on what you committed to doing, while still motivating and supporting you as you go.
Closing knowledge gaps: When you look for a coach, make sure they are knowledgeable and experienced about the industry you operate in. That being said, as keynote speaker Brittany Hodak puts it: “the biggest hurdle to success is that you don't know what you don't know. You can't Google your way out of a problem that you aren't sure how to articulate—or worse, how to anticipate”. Your business coach is there for you to provide you with the necessary insights and field experience to close your knowledge gaps and unlock your potential.
Gaining honest, competent, unbiased opinions: having a business coach allows you to get constructive criticism from someone that is not biased in their opinions (like co-workers, peers, friends, or family can be). Their fresh perspective on you, the way you operate and your industry can make them uncover solutions that you or people in your circle may be overlooking.
Being open to new habits and ideas: We all tend to stick to ourselves and not observe the habits and patterns that have proven successful to others, especially if we’ve been somewhat successful ourselves. Your business coach can help you become aware of new habits or ideas that you could implement to keep enhancing your growth or professional success.
Boosting self-confidence: Working toward your goals can sometimes leave you feeling as though you aren't where you want to be. Having a business coach on your side will help you see how far you’ve come and what you've accomplished so far.
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