It is a question I have been asked frequently, especially these last few months. Always the question revolves around value. Can a Business Coach add value? As with many things and not in an attempt to be a smart alec but it depends. It depends on the Business Coach, and it depends on who wants to be Coached. Further, it depends on what the person wanting to be coached expects to gain from the relationship.
What creates value for a Business Coaching Client?
How many of you reading this have experienced a layoff? Not enough work and BOOM, laid off. Discontinuing a product or service line and BOOM, laid off. It is painful as an employee and painful as a business. Further, the cycle of hire and layoff can be damaging to a businesses Brand and future recruiting efforts. After all, who wants to take a job when you know in a few months you will most likely be laid off. There is a way to eliminate or significantly reduce this practice for most businesses. It takes work, you have to be patient and persevering, you have to use math, but it is proven time and again to help businesses succeed. It has been proven to drive business success in such a way that staffing the workforce becomes less of a problem. What is this process?
Last week I wrote about the simplicity of Problem Solving. A key component of solving any problem is to first identify the problems root-cause. All too often we address symptoms of a problem and not its root-cause. Imagine after feeling hot all we did was unbutton a collar or took off a sweater only later to discover that we have a fever and the cause of that fever is an infection from a simple cut. Trying to solve a business problem based on symptoms alone could end with the same result – you could succumb. How do you find the root-cause of a situation? What steps do you follow?