Business Coaching

Business Coaching is all about getting results, through other people, that meet your company standards consistently, maximizing employee productivity and providing a world-class customer experience. Business Coaching is for business owners, managers and their teams, as well as high-level executives.

Business Coaching helps you build a healthy business that gives you the quality of life and freedom that you want, while providing a needed product or service to customers and a good work environment for employees. Can you say this about your business?

A healthy business gives business owners a return on their investment. Can your business operate well without you being there to hold it together? Are you driving the business or is it driving you? Does the business have an identity of its own, apart from you? Business Coaching provides the opportunity to build a healthy business that  reflects your values and high standards, but does not have to depend on you. Coaching addresses employee development and training that is a big part of creating a healthy business.

The Dilemma

As a business owner, how do you get effective results through other people? Business owners are used to doing so much themselves because they know they can count on their own commitment and expertise. What starts out as passion, often ends up in overwhelm and frustration since no one person has the capacity to do everything it takes to run a successful business.

The Solution

Our Business Coaching services are designed to resolve this dilemma, while providing a perspective that promotes balance in life and business. The result is a business that operates effectively and profitably, separately from the owner. A business that depends on the owner to be the glue that holds it together is a business at risk. A healthy business reflects your values and high standards, but does not have to depend on you. Our services support shared expectations, agreement and accountability, three keys to business success.

Business Coaching Outcomes

• Both business owners and managers become effective leaders who form healthy work relationships and produce predictable outcomes through others.

• Business owners expand their skills related to big-picture thinking, day-to-day operations, management and leadership that foster a healthy and profitable workplace.

• Managers learn how to weave the thread of accountability and effective communication throughout the organization through systems and standards.

Coaching offers a solutions orientation and a way of thinking that creates effective teams that can be counted on to deliver results as promised. We help you put in place the Building Blocks of a Healthy Business that are required to support your business success by providing user friendly employee development and training that supports shared expectations organization-wide.

Clear and focused vision, about a task, strategy or business, is the key to communicating your intentions to others. Clarity brings shared expectations. Without them, ambivalence and disconnection occur. Others are left to guess what you want and are vulnerable to missing the mark. Business Coaching cultivates a leadership perspective and provides tools that assist the owner, managers and employees in moving the business forward to fulfill the owner’s vision.

How It Works

Business Coaching for Business Owners

Building a business that works and offers a balanced quality of life takes time and commitment. Embracing a strategic perspective will shift your focus from working day-to-day to seeing your business from a different angle and building the missing pieces that will lead to your success. In order to do this, an annual commitment is recommended.

• Strategies, tools, concepts and skill building to identify and fulfill business goals
• Bi-weekly Meetings by telephone @ up to 1.5 hrs. per meeting
• Email and phone contact available between sessions

Business Coaching for Managers

Business Coaching services for managers and work teams are customized to the work environment regarding focus, number of participants, frequency and discounted fees. Coaching for Managers requires that the owner of the company is already engaged in a business coaching relationship with Intentional Leaders. We recommend coaching for managers for six to eight months or longer depending on participants’ pace and needs.

Benefits of Business Coaching

• Promotes ease and well-being while providing leadership that inspires your team to bring their best to the workplace

• Shifts your focus from “fire-fighting” to implementing the company’s vision

• Creates momentum to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be

• Establishes standards and guidelines for accountable teams that are effective at producing results

• Helps you build the business infrastructure/workflows that achieve results and free you

• Supports the implementation of the tools, techniques and skills offered in the People Management Toolkit

• Weaves the thread of accountability and alignment throughout the organization

• Creates a consistent Management System (i.e. a “way” to get results through others) that maximizes the  effectiveness of all managers

• Gives managers an opportunity to discuss challenging issues and receive coaching with a solutions orientation consistent with the Management Style being cultivated