Are you in need of Coaching? Asking for help is okay

Unfortunately, a lot of business owner will not ask for help even if they need it

All businesses experience difficulties at one point. These challenges come in many forms, may it be financial, operational, or leadership-wise. As a business owner, there are times when you just cannot get the results that you want which may cause you to get overwhelmed while you struggle to come up with a fix. Sometimes, even when you do know what to do, you just cannot seem to do it.

Business owners are often reluctant to submit themselves to Coaching because they perceive it as a sign of failure. In fact, it’s a sign of progress — you’re willing to do whatever it takes to be better. My job is to help you take control of the situation by highlighting the essential things and eliminating bad habits. I’m here to make sure that your time, energy and attention are in the right places.

However, it’s not about dictating you what you must do. Much like the relationship between a psychiatrist and his patient, Business Coaching heavily relies on how much the client is willing to take action in order to achieve certain goals — goals that the client himself has established.

You need to allow yourself to be coachable

What does being coachable mean? For one, it doesn’t start and end with allowing another person to give you directives and strategies for your business. Willingness to receive external knowledge is not enough; there has to be willingness from your end to make changes on how you approach business.

Change is fundamental in Business Coaching, because if no change has taken place during or after the process, then the whole thing would have been completely pointless. Owners who have been running their business for a long time may sometimes find it hard to diverge from what they have been accustomed to. And that causes goals to remain unachieved.

Remember, the first requirement is for you to be able to embrace change with a positive attitude. Once that mindset has been established, it’s time to translate that into action.

Being coachable also means you are willing to commit the time

Change doesn’t happen overnight; it is a process. In the world of business, that process is even longer. If you’re going to have all those sessions with your business coach, make sure that you’re devoted to apply those concepts and schemes in the real setting, otherwise you would just waste time and money.

Once you’ve started making adjustments and gradually taking steps to meet your goals, you will notice that it may require you to expand your daily duties to include additional work, as well as paying extra attention to details that would normally go unnoticed. Don’t worry, as long as you have your eyes on the goal, patience becomes second nature.

Finally, you need to manage your expectations

Being in a Business Coaching relationship means you need to be open-minded and be receptive to feedback, whether the results are pleasant or not. The thing about Coaching is there’s no universal formula to success. It’s a continuous learning process. What matters most is that you understand the relationships between factors that led to the success or failure. And through business coaching, you gain clarity of mind, helping you to strategize better and improve on the next opportunity.

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