Small business coaching services
Business coaching that means you're not alone
Small business coaching
The challenges of running a small business are unlike anything else.
But, you don't have to do it alone.
Keep focused, accountable, and on track to achieve your business and personal goals with a small business coach.
Our members get a monthly one-to-one session with their TAB facilitator and coach.
Discover the benefits of our small business coaching services
Start with you
Focus on what you want in life and how your business can help get you there.
Increase profitability
Be held accountable to meet your business targets.
Improve decisions
Take control of your decisions through peer support and proven planning tools
Make better time choices
Spend your time well by utilising the experience of others.
Become a better leader
Motivate your people with the guidance of peers and an expert coach.
Smaller businesses thrive with TAB business coaching
It’s a combination of support and encouragement, and challenge and hard questions that I just don’t get anywhere else.
"Joining one of David's excellent TAB Boards was and still is one of the best business decisions I've made in many years. David has brought together a fantastic mix of business professionals, all of whom have different experience, skills, knowledge, personalities and views to me. My professional (and personal life) has transformed since joining TAB, thanks to David's innate skill in selecting the best combination of board members. The supportive, constructive advice given to me by my 'tribe' each month is always so useful. David's one-to-one sessions are supportive, constructive and thoughtful. They have been so valuable to me. David asks me to commit to an action and holds me accountable, which is so needed in this rather chaotic life. I highly recommend David and TAB. It will change your life!"
While previously sceptical on the benefits of a business mentor, I have now employed Ted's business coaching services for the past 2 years, and I have been proven wrong! Ted has directly and significantly contributed to our success at BoldType during our 1st year, enabling us to surpass many of our goals and targets. His advice, guidance, and most importantly, challenging questions have helped me succeed as a business owner, giving me the strength and confidence to achieve and overcome the inevitable hurdles and challenges. I look forward to the next two years working with Ted, knowing our investment will be repaid many times over.
Over 5x
TAB members’ sales growth is 5.5 times national SME average
98%
98% of TAB members said their coaching sessions added real value to their business
90%+
90.3% of members said their ability to address personnel and organisational issues has improved since joining TAB
What is small business coaching?
If a small business leader would like to align their business decisions and their personal ambitions by working with a small business coach. A business coach exists not to give you the answers, but give you what you need to make more effective decisions for your business, leading to positive growth.
At TAB, we do business coaching differently. Our experts are trained in coaching, mentoring, consulting and facilitating our peer advisory boards. They also guide you through our exclusive strategic planning platform – The Business Builder’s Blueprint.
Why should leaders consider coaching?
Sometimes it’s hard to justify the extra investment of time and money on business coaching. However, there are many benefits that small business leaders experience which save you both time and money later.
Here are just eight reasons:
- Strategic planning
A business coach is slightly different to a business consultant. They will guide you through your strategic plan for every area of your business, rather than just focusing on one area such as marketing or operations.
- Skills development
What skills do you think you could develop and improve? Communication, negotiations, management? Could you be a better communicator? Wherever you want to improve, a small business coach can guide you to focus on the skills you need to grow your business now and what will help you succeed in the future.
- Accountability
Many business leaders aren’t held accountable to anyone and as a result, they can struggle to drive the right business decisions and projects forward. A business coach will be there to ensure you follow through on your actions to drive your business towards your goals quicker.
- Innovation
Every business should look to innovate, adapt and be open to new ideas and approaches. A business coach is external to your business’ challenges and opportunities, meaning they will be able to give you an external perspective, opening your business up to new strategies and approaches.
- Utilising years of experience
Business coaches have often had successful business careers and so come with years of experience. They will have gathered a lot of expertise around situations that you too might face. Therefore, they will be more likely to share their experiences with you to help you solve your challenges. That’s the power of business owners learning from each other.
- Growing personally
There are many ways that business coaching and mentoring empower your personal development. Our business coaches at TAB focus on you as a person, taking on part of the mentoring role. This means that they can be available to listen to your concerns and help you ensure that your business is helping you live the life you want.
- You don’t have to be alone
Many entrepreneurs suffer from loneliness, and a business coach is one way to combat that because they can be your hand to hold as you tackle the challenge of business ownership.
- Growing your business
Every business owner wants their business to grow, right? A business coach and give you strategies to achieve business growth and along with the accountability they provide, a business coach can be the catalyst to make business growth happen for you.
What business coaching is not
Before finding a business coach, it’s important you understand that a coach is not:
- Going to solve everything
A business coach probably won’t solve all your business challenges straight away. They are there as a guide, to give advice and to equip you to find the solution for yourself.
- A life coach
While a business coach can take on a mentoring life, they are not going to get personal involved in your life outside of your business, other than making sure it lines up with your business ambitions.
- A counsellor
A business coach is not trained to deal with problems or concerns such as mental health or family relationships. This means they should not be expected to address them or be an outlet for them.
- A consultant
A small business coach can sometimes act in a consulting capacity, but unlike a consultant, they offer more generalised advice rather than focusing on fixing specific problems in a business. For example, like a finance consultant or marketing consultant. Our TAB business coaches all have their own area of expertise and can sometimes offer consultancy in these areas.
Why should you consider TAB small business coaching?
There are many reasons why you should consider TAB. In fact, 98.9% of our clients say their coaching sessions add value to their business. Here are our top three benefits:
- Our UK small business coaches are experts
Our facilitators have at least ten years’ experience working as business leaders, either running their own business or working in senior roles. While they come from a range of background, they all love to help local business owners run more successful businesses and live more fulfilling lives.
- The coaching is bespoke to you
Of course, we have a structure to our coaching sessions at TAB, but ultimately, whatever you and your business needs, our facilitators will tailor their sessions around that.
- Our coaching sessions are complimented by advisory boards
One of the key reasons why our small business coaching is different is because they come with our business advisory boards. Every month, with your coach, you sit around a table with other business owners and leaders in your area, and you help one another with opportunities and challenges you’re each facing in your businesses. In a way, this means that with TAB, you get several business coaches all in one membership!
Small business coaching FAQs
While each business is on a unique journey, there are some common problems that many people face on the road to business success. A coach will utilise their own years of experience in business to help target these issues and get businesses past them. A coaching program can help you identify the areas where you need to make changes to expand your business and to stay ahead of the competition.
Often the qualities that people value in a business coach include insight, life coaching skills, character and areas of expertise, experience and trust. It is important that you find the right business coach for you. It might be However, when you chat with potential coaches you could ask them questions like:
– What are the biggest challenges you’ve helped client solve?
– What do you do best? What don’t you do so well?
– Where have you failed and how did you handle it?
It’s easy to find your local TAB coach, just visit our board near you page, find your nearest coach and get in touch with them. They’ll be happy to answer any more specific questions about TAB and how we can help your business.
Your monthly coaching session, which can be held online, with your TAB business coach focuses on commitments you made at the last board meeting.
Plus, you review a 90-day goal that you set and commit to with your coach, and build the strategic foundations of your business using TAB’s Business Builder’s Toolkit.
The sessions are designed to provide ongoing support, where you can ask for further guidance and resources to achieve your goals and objectives.
Of course, your coach with adapt to your pressing needs, issues, or challenges that you want to discuss.
There is a small difference between a coach and mentor. A coach acts as a sounding board and guide, helping coachees tap into their full potential, whereas a mentor offers or imparts their own knowledge and experience to help someone else grow and develop.
Our TAB coaches endeavour to do a bit of both because ultimately we want you, the business owner, to get what you want from life.
In our experience, we’ve found that the best business mentors are often those who have owned a business themselves. This is because regardless of size, industry or value, 70% of businesses face the same challenges.
Experienced business owners with any degree of success, have already overcome the bulk of the challenges entrepreneurs face everyday.
This is why the TAB system is so successful – alongside our business coaching, we facilitate peer advisory groups made up of other business owners and entrepreneurs, and all of our facilitators have owned their own business or held a senior business leadership role.
