Small Business Coaching
Leadership Coaching for Owners of Small Businesses
Small Business Owners typically come from a number of different backgrounds; they may have been employed by a large corporate, and either through choice or perhaps retrenchment or liquidation, now find themselves running small businesses of their own. They may have trained in a specialised field, and been unable to find employment. Or they may have decided from the outset that the corporate world is not for them, and embarked on their own pathway following their instincts, passions or simply a "good idea".
In spite of the fact that there is a wealth of skills-based trainings and resources, networking resources and opportunities for financial assistance, in South Africa the statistics are worse – 80% of small businesses fail within three years. The available resources are both valuable and necessary however none of them address the equally critical areas of the mind and attitude: What does it take to BE a successful entrepreneur? How does a successful entrepreneur think? What does a successful entrepreneur do? What, in fact, is success?
Where do entrepreneurs go for an objective viewpoint, or when they need a safe and confidential outlet for venting their fears and frustration? How do they take their existing skills and expand them in every possible direction? Who makes sure they stay focused and on track?
Coaching entrepreneurs is a specialised field, and quite different to other forms of Business Coaching. Entrepreneurs have different challenges, different needs, and different experiences. The best coaches of entrepreneurs have personally experienced what it's like to be an entrepreneur, first-hand.
A successful entrepreneur has a clear vision of where he or she is headed, is flexible, maximises his/her own talents and those of the people working for and assisting them. They are able to be objective and achieve balance. Coaching provides them with experienced and unbiased support, helps them find practical solutions that make sense, and allows them to fully actualise their own potential – and that of their businesses.
Metaco's Coaching Programmes for Entrepreneurs enable small business owners to clarify what is of real value and importance to them, and what they want from their lives and their businesses. These programmes facilitate rapid transition in overcoming the negative factors that hold them back, consuming vital time, energy and focus. Entrepreneurs who undergo coaching are better equipped to drive their own performance and that of their businesses, they are more skilled at working with partners, employees and suppliers, are able to be visionary and flexible, and able to adjust to changing circumstances as they arise.
Metaco's coaches are entrepreneurs themselves. Coming initially from corporate backgrounds, over the past fifteen years they have personally taken their own ideas, dreams and skills, and built them from start-ups into viable businesses. Along the way they have experienced exactly what small business owners go through. They understand the challenges of being in business for oneself, better than anyone. They know how to work with entrepreneurs to obtain outstanding, sustainable results.
Contact a Metaco coach and find out more about Leadership Coaching for Small Business Owners