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Biased response - I am a business coach, and have used one as well. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any. Warning: a LOT of a business coaches are a

Biased response - I am a business coach, and have used one as well. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any. Warning: a LOT of a business coaches are a waste of money. I've been coaching around the world for 8 years, so must be doing something right, and even I would consider myself a poor investment for a non-funded startup. For larger, faster growing businesses, the problem with most business coaches is, well, 'coaching'. Pure coaching works from the assumption that the client knows everything, they just need the right questions to draw it out of them. In small business, that's complete BS. Most businesses are run by people who are good at what they do, not because they did an MBA and decide to go code / learn plumbing / become an architect. They need some direct business consulting expertise, and a coaching methodology to embed the key points so you're not constantly paying a consultant to come in and do the work for you. Some good articles: [1] http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/are-business-coaches-a-waste-of-time-20140422-371gx.html http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/are-business-c... [2] http://jacobaldridge.com/business/4-characteristics-of-great-business-coaches/ http://jacobaldridge.com/business/4-characteristics-of-great...

l33tbro 12y ago
Interesting. I'll have a look at these links. Same as anything I suppose - fossicking through the supply to weed out the charlatans for the people with substance and authenticity. I guess my questions are around extracting goals and milestones from people. I, probably like many you coach, have that problem of not being able to crystalise exactly what it is that I want. So would you say that helping someone find what they want is a big part of it?
- JacobAldridge 12y ago
  would you say that helping someone find what they want is a big part of it? Absolutely - in fact, that's one of the few topics where pure coaching really can help, and it can usually be reached in 1-2 meetings (rather than signing up for a long course - see that first article for some lock-in rip offs).

l33tbro 12y ago

Interesting. I'll have a look at these links. Same as anything I suppose - fossicking through the supply to weed out the charlatans for the people with substance and authenticity. I guess my questions are around extracting goals and milestones from people. I, probably like many you coach, have that problem of not being able to crystalise exactly what it is that I want. So would you say that helping someone find what they want is a big part of it?

JacobAldridge 12y ago
would you say that helping someone find what they want is a big part of it? Absolutely - in fact, that's one of the few topics where pure coaching really can help, and it can usually be reached in 1-2 meetings (rather than signing up for a long course - see that first article for some lock-in rip offs).