Small business coaching services

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:

1. 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. 

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Innovation

Every business should look to innovate, adapt and be open to new ideas and approaches. A business coach is external to your business’s challenges and opportunities, meaning they can give you an external perspective, opening your business up to new strategies and approaches.

5. 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 might face. Therefore, they will be likelier to share their experiences to help you solve your challenges. That’s the power of business owners learning from each other.

6. Growing personally

There are many ways that business coaching and mentoring can 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.

7. 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.

8. Growing your business

Every business owner wants their business to grow. A business coach can 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.

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.

Before finding a business coach, you must 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 advise and 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 personally 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 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 area of expertise and can sometimes offer consultancy in these areas.

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 of experience working as business leaders, either running their own business or working in senior roles. While they come from a range of backgrounds, 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, our facilitators will tailor their sessions around whatever you and your business needs.

• Our coaching sessions are complimented by advisory boards.

One of the key reasons why our small business coaching is different is that it comes 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 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!