There is more to business than buying and selling “nuts and bolts!”  

Business…..is any project that requires your input to create and sustain a worthwhile outcome for your time and effort, resulting in short and long term financial and emotional gains.

Potentially, ‘Business Coaching’ clients want to:

• Get out of their JOB.  In other word’s – ‘sack the boss’
• Start up an online business
• Create passive income – through referrals, affiliates, producing and selling products online, property investing and the list goes on.
• Make their business sustainable without them – Time management, systemization and delegations are just three key points to look at.

Employ new staff members. Past experiences may have resulted in poor staffing choices costing time and money, together with frustrations experienced.

• The employer must know exactly what the new role will entail.
• The ideal employee must be a good fit for that new position.
• Additional insight is gained from prospective applicants after they complete the Personality Profile Questionnaire which is part of Jill’s coaching package.

• Equally, a client may be applying for a new position……a gruelling experience for some people. Underselling one’s own ability and worth is common place that usually reflects on how they play life….What ‘was’ is past, ‘what is’ is to be made!
• Brainstorming business ideas with a mentor….looking at:  – lost opportunities – their competitors in the market place – all flowing onto adopting changes with a new directional thinking and focus
• Improving communication skills as the flow starts at the top within any business
• Embrace performance standards for staff members and their given outcomes

The question here is….

• Is your business working for you or are you working for it?
• Are your staff taking home more money than you each week?
• How much business are you leaving on the table through missed opportunities?
• Where will you and your business be in 1, 3 and 5 years time?
• Do you have a business plan in place, plus implementation strategies?
• What are your competitors doing in the market place?
• Who do you have on your team that supports your business growth?

Having strong competitors in your area of expertise evokes a healthy environment, requiring creative thinking with expanding boundaries – within a thriving market place

Business coaching is not always about owing a business. A client may hold a ‘corporate position’ that’s both competitive and demanding.  The spotlight is on input, delivery and results at that level, together with performance and measured outcomes from team members and peers. All of this can be very exacting.

Regardless of where you are at right now…….ask yourself:

1. Q. At what level do you want your business to be at, five years from now? What achievements over that period are you proud to put your name too? Where do you want to be financially?

Because,…….you certainly won’t be the person you are today if you are consistently working on your bigger picture.  This is what I call your ‘game plan,’ and regardless of what form your ‘BUSINESS’ comes in – you must think and act like a business owner to move forward….with success as your No.1 focus.

1. Do you have a clear vision of your desired business outcome? 

• Many people struggle to visualise specifics and:

having no vision equals no direction and no direction equals no ownership and no ownership equals a lack of commitment and follow through which equals another goal or resolution that doesn’t have a long-life span….

Results – frustrations, regrets, sadness, exhaustion and the list goes on.

• Don’t beat yourself up if your five-year business vision is blurred.

Contemplating five years on for many people can be a frustration and a waste of time if they don’t have a set plan to work with, or know how to implements one – let alone its worth.

The solutions…..is to keep it simple, and start projecting where your business will be one year from now. If this is still difficult, then start with your first quarter.  Start small and build upon your vision.

1. Q. Do you work with a clear step by step strategy plan to achieve your desired outcomes?

1. Q. Does your growth strategies tick all of the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats) guidelines?

1. Q. Who do you need on your team to help and support your business and personal growth – (Note: It’s also vital that your head space is in the right place to attain a positive outcome.)

1. Q. Do you refer back to your action planner weekly and note what has been achieve, then look forward to what needs to be completed that’s in alignment with the planner?
2. Q. How much better or different do you want your life to be?

• If you are in excessive pain from your current situation then…..do something about it…..as only you can move on that one.  You may be too close to the problem to be able to work on a different outcome.

1. Do you have ideas and potential that you’ve keep to yourself for years? Is it time to break out?
2. Q. Do you feel worthy of a different outcome to your current one, or are you frustrated and want more? (Remember thinking like a Business is essential when creating your ‘game plan.’)

• Our greatest ‘stoppers’ in life usually happen between our ears.  We become experts at producing 101 negative reasons as to why we can’t change an outcome, rather than focusing on just one positive outcome that will open up the doors of opportunity.

The quality of your life is directly controlled by the quality of your thinking.

If you don’t know what you are working for, then how can you be working towards it????

If you want to reduce your time spent in your business whilst still building equity and turnover, then you have to do more than just ‘wanting’ this feeling of freedom.

There is an equation I often use, and yes I have used it in the ‘Property Page’ as well – because it is my ‘rule of thumb’ regardless of what type of business we are talking about, and yes property investing is business too.

                     Thinking X Action = Results

So check in here……take your current thinking and multiply it by your list of actions that you’re currently implementing…..this then gives you your current results listing.  

Do you want to change your given outcome, and if so what needs to be done differently?

A defining point is….so many people consider that attending workshops, buying self-help books etc is ‘Action’ – it isn’t.

It is ‘Education’ and there is a very big difference between the two.

‘Action’ is all about getting out of your comfort zone, getting into the nitty gritty of growth and putting what you know into practice. This is where Gerber’s ‘Technician’ so often gets caught up – they just don’t have the time to take Action as their day to day existence on the treadmill – never stops revolving.

This step can also be a hard one for many people because of their self-belief.   “I need to complete another course first” or “read another book” or “pay for another product before I take any action steps.”

Regardless of where you current thinking is at:- just starting out or building upon an existing business – you need a ‘game plan’ to move forward upon.