Coaching
In professional sports, great athletes and their teams’ work with coaches to define goals, develop strengths, identify weaknesses, plan strategy and support success. In the fast-paced world we now live and work in design professionals are turning to business coaches to help them attain – and sustain – the level of success to which they aspire.
Business coaching is about top lines, bottom lines, finding better ways to do things, achieving measurable results and living a profitable, productive and balanced life. Clients who benefit from business coaching are motivated and committed to helping themselves, their staff and their design businesses achieve higher levels of success.
I work with creative professionals at many stages of their business lives:
- Career coaching with designers seeking to identify their own “genius work” and map out a personally and economically satisfying career.
- Freelance designers ready to take the next big step and build a studio, with (gasp) employees, rented space and all. They benefit from encouragement, clear thinking and solid business advice from someone who knows the design business.
- Tired and disillusioned studio owners working too many hours and wearing too many hats. This is a time when a coaching relationship can really make a big difference by helping the client identify their own “genius work” and then reorganize their business to recapture the love for their work and time for their lives.
- Established studio owners seeking a change of direction or recognizing a need to develop their leadership skills to navigate all the personnel, client and practical challenges of growth.
- Studio owners contemplating, or in the middle of, downsizing because they crave a simpler life doing what they love to do and a reduction in the amount of time spent managing their business. This can be an exciting and very fruitful time with often surprising outcomes.
Coaching is a collaborative relationship in which the coach is responsible to:
- Discover, clarify and align with each clients’ goals and dreams
- Encourage client self-discovery and growth
- Bring real world business experience and perspective to the relationship
- Elicit client-generated strategies and solutions
- Hold each client accountable and responsible for their results
As a business coach I help my clients by making suggestions, pointing out connections, sharing powerful tools and helping each client develop clearly defined goals, processes and expectations. Coaching conversations allow the client to step aside for a moment, reflect and then make quicker and better decisions.
Coaching concentrates on where each client is now and what they are willing to do to get to where they want to be.
Why Does Coaching Work?
1. A coaching relationship requires the client to make changes, improve their skills and take specific action steps. As a result, clients reach their big goals faster.
2. A coach provides an outside perspective and provides honest and truthful advice untainted by corporate politics or hidden personal agendas.
3. The client receives the benefit of industry and business knowledge, professional experience and a broad range of resources, all freely shared. The result is greater leverage, which leads to increased profitability.
4. As your business coach I will ask laser-questions, make big requests, offer powerful observations and provide heart-felt and sincere support.
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