Coaching and Mentoring for Entrepreneurs

Effective coaching helps us to recognise our strengths and supports us in finding the courage to take action.

The challenge for an entrepreneur in a small dynamic organisation is a lack of a sounding board. They often have to work with a minimum of back-up resource. They also know the buck stops with them – they are responsible for their team's livelihood, there is no big corporation to bail them out. Whilst they are usually charismatic and can be strong motivators with their enthusiasm; this type of personality can also fall into the trap of considering that they are the only person who can do anything competently, even as the organisation grows and so they can become:

• a bottleneck
• exhausted and overwhelmed because they have far too much on their plate
• assume their way is the only way
• they can demotivate their team because they are always meddling
• they can get bored with things very quickly and tend to leave a trail of loose ends in their wake for others to pick up.
• they often don’t hear what they need to because no-one in their organisation is either senior enough or prepared to stick their head above the parapet.
• they can begin to feel isolated and stressed

If an entrepreneur is dealing with any of these challenges; a combination of coaching and mentoring can help. The executive coach and mentor can provide support to:

• build on the entrepreneur's strengths
• eliminate the weaknesses
• access their resources
• help develop a clarity of purpose which can be communicated to the team.

By providing an executive coach who has senior level business experience we can also offer: wise counsel; a sounding board; the ability to give honest feedback and different ways of doing things to the benefit of the entrepreneur, the team and the business. This combination of coaching and mentoring is a very effective use of the entrepreneur’s time and can address a broad range of the business, personal and emotional challenges of being the leader of a smaller organisation. Our Coaching and Mentoring for Entrepreneurs is discreet and confidential and is designed to work around the schedule of busy people.