Why Female Entrepreneurs Need a Business Coach

So, you've taken the plunge and started your venture. You've covered all the basics of developing a business plan, securing funding and even started delivering products and services. But somehow, despite your best efforts, business operations are becoming overwhelming, there is an unending list of things to do and you find yourself with a constant headache of having to juggle priorities to keep a hold of everything.

If you find yourself needing processes to follow to plan your time well, create a pipeline of projects, finesse branding or marketing, or increase productivity, then you need a business coach.

Simply put, the key to finding an maintaining a competitive edge for your business is through finding efficiency in the continuous pursuit for excellence. This performance can be found through not only improving business processes but also yourself. To understand why soliciting for an external perspective from a business coach will help you improve your operations, let's first understand what I can do for you.

Minimizing errors

Since automation and software are pertinent in modern business operations , the weak link to its efficiency may not be the artificial stuff but yourself. Yes, you and the small mistakes you make. The formative stages of a business are a steep learning curve for both the business and yourself. As you change the business processes to attain efficiency, you too need to check yourself to see to it that the mistakes you make don’t cost you the gains you make.

As a coach, I work with many clients and I will be happy to share knowledge and past lessons (while maintaining confidentiality) from people who have seen similar circumstances. This will save you the painful journey of discovering them at the expense of your business.

The all-important feedback

Short of hiring a full-blown auditor who will only check out your books and business processes, I will be your all-important feedback mechanism. Just like an auditor helps with your financial decisions, you need an unbiased perspective that serves as a place to moot your ideas before going through with them. Getting feedback is also a reality check for those ideas that only sound good in your head. As a business leader, this is the support framework that will be the source critique and positive reinforcement.

I have no emotional investment in the business and you can rely on my objectivity. This means helping you push hard when you ought to, ground you when you are in over your head or preventing you from being distracted by chasing the wrong things.

For difficult conversations and decisions

Business environments are incredibly sensitive and uncertain. Therefore, every decision you make in your business could be of immense impact down the line. Therefore, before making any impactful decisions, you can come to me to have the difficult conversations you have with yourself before going through with a decision. These cases could involve topics like how to implement change within the company, addressing opposition, handling issues with recruitment employee appraisal and how to deal with partners who are lacking off. From experience, these are real conversations that most female business owners face. Therefore, I will have these difficult conversations with you to see ways of coming up with the most impactful resolutions from them.

For the right frame of mind.

Not everything needs a brute force approach or a whole raft of measures to implement efficiently. Sometimes it is down to individual perceptions of how to run a business. Consider a case where someone opens a restaurant just because they love to cook. While the passion for cooking is great for the food, do you have what it takes to make money from it as a business? If you don't know where to start with things like hiring help, marketing, dealing with accounts daily or even knowing where your strengths lie, I am the right person to help you.

Ask me about Research & Strategic Planning, Process Documentation, and System Implementation. This will equip you with the right frame of mind to comprehend business decisions and how to execute them efficiently.

Book your free 20 minute consultation today!