1-to-1 Coaching
1-to-1 Coaching is one of the ways – together with team coaching and Design Thinking – that we use to help our clients with building better business and leadership strategies. Interested in finding out how? Keep reading.
1-to-1 coaching for personal support.
Doing business and building personal leadership is a challenge. It takes time. It takes energy. It takes patience. Not to forget skills and resilience. Said differently? Business is like running a marathon, and it requires preparation.
From a more pragmatic perspective, our experience tells us that being an entrepreneur or a business executive is a demanding exercise for most. And 1-to-1 coaching is a strong way to provide you with the personal support you need. Think about it…
Do you feel lonely at times?
Being in charge of a business is a heavy task. Things depend on you, people depend on you, but chances are that there are not many people you can count on for honest feedback and advice. This is fairly normal. After all, you are the boss and making decisions is your job, not theirs. Still, couldn’t you use a direct opinion here and then?
That is precisely where personal coaching kicks in.
Your business coach acts as your own personal adviser. Someone you meet regularly. Someone you can talk to freely. Someone who ends ups knowing your business as well as you do and whose mission is to help you move ahead, strategically, with challenging questions – especially if those questions are the tough ones you cannot answer on your own …
Business is a marathon.
1-to-1 coaching is preparation.
Running after time?
In our experience, a common trait of most entrepreneurs and executives is that time management is not optimal. Often, the hours worked are excessive and the gains insufficient. And the reason behind this unbalance is usually a lack of process and organization.
Again, personal business coaching can help.
By helping you with building a framework and processes in your business, your business coach will help you to rationalize the way you work. What routines can be automated? What can be delegated or outsourced? What is your 80/20? Do you have a 80/20 at all, by the way?
Work smarter, not harder!
How 1-to-1 coaching works.
So how does 1-to-1 coaching work, then? Very simple. Our mission always starts with a private consultation which helps defining whether and how we can help you. We listen, ask a few questions and figure out what your expectations are. We then propose an action plan.
Once you have accepted our proposal, we meet you once a week to debrief your week and make progress on your personal action plan.
Depending on your expectations, work would typically focus on defining your goals, on improving your week workloads, on analyzing your business organization, on developing processes, so forth and so on.
Of course, every situation is different, yet our methodology is built on proven tools and we are confident that they will help you.
