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Small business coaches help small business owners grow their businesses with clarity and confidence.  If you want to achieve bigger and better goals in your business, a small business coach can help you make faster progress. 

A small business coach is typically a business owner who knows how to run and grow a successful business.  A small business coach helps the business owner find shortcuts to grow their business and overcome the obstacles that every small business owner faces.

Small business coaching can give you the confidence, direction, and focus to grow your business faster and easier.  A small business coach provides the support, guidance, and accountability to help you take faster action and capture bigger opportunities.  

When hiring a small business coach, you should expect greater clarity on your long-term vision and a clear plan to achieve your goals.  A business coach can help you eliminate overwhelm, stress, and procrastination.  As a result, you feel clearer, more capable, and more confident. 

Through regular business coaching sessions, you can eliminate obstacles and make fast progress towards achieving your goals.  As a result, you can experience more revenue, more time freedom, and more satisfaction.   

In this article, I’ll outline what a business coach is and share 6 reasons why entrepreneurs choose small business coaches to help them grow their business.

Read also: 6 benefits of business coaching for entrepreneurs.

What is a small business coach?

A small business coach is a professional coach or advisor who understands how to run and grow a business.  A business coach works with the business owner to help them grow their business and achieve their goals.  Small business coaching helps the business owner get clear on their vision and unique strengths and helps them achieve growth faster.

Many business coaches, like me, are specialists in certain areas.  I specialise in time management coaching and productivity coaching to help small business owners get clear on their goals and increase their time freedom.  As a result, they can capture bigger opportunities and increase their revenue and profits.   

What are the benefits of small business coaching?

There are many benefits of working with a business coach.  Small business coaching can help you set better goals, increase your confidence, and hold you accountable to achieve your goals. 

Business coaches can help you develop a vision for your business and make faster progress to enable your business to grow and flourish.  Small business coaching can help you achieve better focus, increased motivation, and greater productivity.

If you’re feeling confused in your business or frustrated with your business growth a business coach can help you gain the clarity and confidence to make the progress you want. Small business coaches will help you develop the mindset and habits to increase your productivity and manage your time better.  As a result, you’ll have the structure, support, guidance, and accountability to achieve greater momentum and results in your business. 

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6 things small business coaching can do for your business

Do you need a business coach?  

There are many reasons to choose to work with a business coach.  If you need help with time management, productivity, staying focused, or working less, a small business coach can help. Business owners often choose business coaches when they feel trapped in their thinking and can’t see a way forward to achieve their goals.   When business owners feel frustrated and overwhelmed they work with business coaches to get them unstuck and increase their clarity, confidence, and capability.  

Small business coaches provide perspective, guidance, and ongoing support and accountability to the business owner.  Every small business owner faces challenges around cash flow, time management, and generating revenue.  A business coach has the experience to provide guidance and support in those areas. 

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6 benefits of working with a small business coach 

Here are 6 benefits of working with a small business coach. 

1. More accountability

A business coach will hold you accountable to achieve the goals you set for yourself.  A big challenge for small business owners to build momentum and get things done is that they only have themselves to answer to.

The most successful small business owners stay accountable and take action on their goals.  They have a business coach to help them stay focused and on track to do the things they say they’ll do.

A small business coach will hold you accountable and provide the perspective and support you need to grow your business.  A coach will inspire, lift you, help you overcome challenges, and ensure you are making the right progress to reach your goals.  Through weekly accountability meetings, you build the confidence and clarity to make fast progress and build momentum in your business.  

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6 benefits of accountability coaching 

2. Better work-life balance 

Business coaches can help you achieve a better work-life balance.  Your business coach will help you clarify your vision and identify your priorities in business and life.  This clarity will give you the time freedom to grow your business and have more time for the people that matter at home.

Small business owner start their business to achieve greater time freedom.  They want a better work-life balance but end up working longer and longer hours.  A small business coach will help you achieve a better work-life balance in less time.  They will help you set better boundaries between work and home, prioritise your time, and make your business work for you.

A business coach will help you understand where your time goes allowing you can find the time to grow your business and have more personal time.  They will help you focus on your biggest opportunities so you can achieve bigger results in less time.  A business coach will help you plan your time better, learn to say no, and use your time more productively.

Read also: 10 tips for better work-life balance 

3. Greater business growth 

A business coach will help you achieve faster business growth and ensure you achieve your goals in less time.  Small business coaching helps the business owner spend more time working on the business, rather than in the business.  A business coach brings structure, clarity, and direction to the business owner which accelerates their business growth process.

Business coaching can help you achieve faster growth, greater profits, and improved quality of life.  A business coach provides the direction and focus to help you achieve greater growth and freedom in your business and life.

Small business coaching will help you identify your greatest strengths.  They will help you focus your time and energy on those strengths so you can maximise your best clients and capture bigger opportunities.

Focusing on your biggest strengths will help you feel more capable and confident.  When you focus on your biggest goals and have a plan to achieve them you can achieve greater business growth in less time. 

4. Better time management 

A business coach will help you develop effective time management and productivity skills.  Time is your most valuable asset so needs to be used wisely.  For successful small business owners, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and stuck.  

Small business coaching will help you clarify your goals, plan effectively, and organise your time.  As a result, you can focus your time on your biggest priorities and opportunities.  Prioritising your time helps you set better boundaries and reduces your stress.  Better prioritisation improves productivity and efficiency and allows you to maximise your biggest strengths. 

Small business coaching gives you the time freedom to strategise and work on the business, rather than in the business.  Greater time freedom increases your energy and motivation to reach your goals faster. 

Read also: 8 time management tips to manage time effectively

5. Greater perspective 

Small business coaching provides guidance, support, and perspective.  It can be difficult for business owners to think through everything themselves.  Working with a small business coach can give you greater clarity and give you the perspective to align your purpose with your goals.  

Small business coaching gives you the sounding board and creative partner to talk through ideas and create solutions.  It’s easy to get trapped in your thinking and circumstances as a business owner.  When you feel trapped, everything feels complex and complicated.  

Having a coach to talk things through and gain perspective can be the difference between success and failure.

6. Increased confidence

Small business coaching helps business owners grow their confidence and self-esteem.  To grow your business it’s important to protect your confidence and develop a positive mindset.

A business coach will help you set measurable goals so you can make positive progress towards goal achievement.  Making positive progress builds confidence and capability, which increases happiness and satisfaction.

When you feel confident you have greater belief and motivation to reach your goals.  You are more creative, excited, and productive.  When your confidence drops it’s more difficult to make confident decisions and take action.  A business coach will ensure you feel clear and confident about what you want to achieve in your business and will celebrate your progress along the way. 

Small Business Coaching Packages 

I have a range of small business coaching packages to help you grow your business faster and easier.  If you want greater clarity on your goals and a proven path and plan to achieve them book a free 30-minute clarity call with me today.

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About the Author

Mark Pettit is a small business coach based in Colchester, Essex, UK.  He is the Founder of the small business coaching company, Lucemi Consulting.  Mark provides small business coaching programs to entrepreneurs and business owners in London, Essex, Suffolk, East Anglia, and across the UK.

He also provides online small business coaching programs and packages to entrepreneurs and business owners in the US, Canada, and Australia.

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