Business Coaching - Client Selection

You have accomplished a lot. Yet it seems you have even more potential; why are you not even further along? Your convictions are strong, although you know a pragmatic, flexible approach is needed to maintain progress as change is a given and the competition never sleeps.

You know where you are going, but prefer not to reinvent the wheel. There are few individuals who have played your particular type of game at your level. However it would certainly be useful to confer with someone like that.

The other pressing issue as your company grows is your ability to coach and mentor team members at the level necessary. How do they need to advance their executive and leadership skill sets, as well their ability in their functional business roles?

Are you an entrepreneur who is accustomed to growing fast moving, high potential organizations? Do you feel like your current company will make a real difference in the lives of many?  Are you aware that your rate of personal growth is related to the growth of your company? This is acutely true for your team as well. You need to accelerate their abilities to contribute more dynamically.

Profile of an entrepreneur we seek to coach

  • Experience as owner or president of an Inc. 500, Private Equity or pre-IPO company.

  • Desire to build something meaningful. Money is not primary motivator.

  • Situated within a dynamic, industry changing opportunity.

  • Coachable; open to letting go of long held assumptions.

We may also work with the management team of such an entrepreneur

  • The aim is for a close-knit team with everyone on the same page moving forward.

  • Enhancing leadership capacity of senior team members.

  • Determine necessary repositioning of team members based on natural talents.

  • Advance their discipline specific competencies beyond your ability to mentor..

You have been there and done that. Your background includes successfully building, running and exiting profitably from small businesses. You have always had a knack for building leaders and unlocking other's potential. You could, and may still want to, build another business yourself yet are open to other roles. You find great satisfaction in helping guide others down paths you have traveled many times before.

General Credentials Required

  • 10+ yrs as president or owner of a small business, starting with less than 20 employees.

  • 3 + yrs as owner/director of inc 500, pre-IPO , Private Equity owned or equivalent firm.

  • Natural predisposition towards coaching and facilitation leadership styles.

  • Ability to develop leaders and a passion for training and teaching others.

  • Well documented client and employee relations excellence.

  • Excellent project management expertise; consulting experience helpful.

  • Strong track record of company growth resulting in successful exits.

 

Together, you and your coach can raise the level of play to a place unseen in your industry niche. The right complement of experience, talent and personal dynamics sets the stage. A genuine level of trust and respect builds quickly. Candid communication takes place. The feedback you receive is meaningful. It is evident that a partnership of value is blossoming.

General characteristics we seek in a match:

  • Coach understands business model and seen the situation many times prior.

  • Client and Coach's personalities are complementary, yet compatible.

  • Learning style fit allows maximum transference of knowledge.

  • Match based in part on streamlined, yet comprehensive business baseline.

  • Leadership team profiling and company culture incorporated into decision.

  • Coach has the level of domain expertise for a mentoring or coaching role.

 

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