Week 4

The Benefits of Business Coaching

I always tell myself I wish someone would just give me the answers. I never considered the fact that maybe I just needed the right person to help me find them. Yes a parent, friend, or significant other can offer you suggestions but it's better to go to someone who can look at your life from an outsider's perspective...someone like a life coach. I think this is especially important if you are the owner of a business, whether that business be a large corporation or a small family business. The reason being, if you are the owner, CEO, whatever you want to call yourself...you are holding the futures of many other people in your hands. Their success largely depends on your success. Without a successful business you don't make enough money and you have unhappy employees who have no opportunities for advancement to increase their own income. Everyone needs the opportunity for advancement, without it people are bound to have a limited view of their capacity for success...which definitely won't help when it comes to increasing the individual's money matrix.

Taking advantage of a life coach is an example of opportunism at its finest. I know this because my dad is a business coach and I've grown up around learning from his example. So not only has he learned how to manage large businesses successfully he has learned how to manage our small family farm as well. Because most of his work is away from home I have taken over a lot of the barn management, and I can honestly tell you that people are people...it doesn't matter what business you are in.

There are a ton of advantages to becoming a business coach or getting help from a business coach. I could tell you myself but my co-worker Arina has already written a wonderful article on the benefits to business coaching. So I encourage you to see for yourself and decide to make the best decision for not only you, but your company and your family as well.

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