What Is a Business Coach?
In sports, coaches lead their teams to victory. They combine their experience and knowledge of the game with their motivational skills to help individuals be better. This makes the whole team better. In business, coaches do the same. A business coach helps business owners, and the teams they lead, succeed.
TASKS OF A BUSINESS COACH
If you own a business, it’s good to have someone in your corner, especially when that coach is someone who has already overcome the challenges you’re facing right now. If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, you’re expected to wear many hats throughout the day. You’ll wear each one a lot better with professional business advice.
From sales, marketing, and finance to human resources, technology, business systems, and planning—managing it all can be overwhelming. That’s when a business coach can help by providing prescriptive solutions to the problems you’re struggling with.
A business coach helps set goals and achieve them. They work with businesses to develop systems and strategies for success.
Types of Business Coaching
There are two types of business coaching available to business owners and entrepreneurs: One-on-one and group coaching. Which one you need depends on your goals.
One-on-one coaching is just that. It’s an individual mentoring situation where you meet and consult with your coach either in person on online. Group coaching is when the consultant meets and interacts with the entire team.
Regardless of the type of coaching you engage in, the goals are similar: to chart a path for success and to help you get there.
What Business Coaches Do
Your business coach is your partner. They succeed when you do. How do they help your business grow and thrive? Here are three things you’ll work on with your coach:
1. Chart Your Path To Success
A business coach asks questions to gauge where you are right now with your business. Using your answers, the coach creates prescriptive solutions to solve existing problems. The coach identifies gaps in your business plan that are preventing you from moving forward. This unobjective, outside perspective helps businesses recognize weak areas and provides solutions for strengthening them.
2. Help you clarify your Core Values, Mission and Vision
One early stumbling block for new business owners is defining what they want to be as a business. That means writing out their core values, mission, and vision statements. A business coach helps with that process. Once these things are defined, the path forward becomes more clear. Success becomes obtainable.
3. Provide accountability
Accountability is an important element of success. With clearly defined goals in place, business coaches help leaders set benchmarks and surpass them. When clients are accountable to their coaches, they are inspired to overcome obstacles and meet goals
Business Health Matters
Our team of experts helps CEO, entrepreneurs, and team leaders excel in their fields. We work with clients to create prescriptive solutions for what is ailing their business. We’re a trusted partner that helps our clients succeed through better business health.
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THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) OF EXECUTIVE COACHING
Various studies have shown investing in executive coaching is worth it and does pay off in positive gains.
• A 529% ROI * was reported and numerous intangible benefits to the business after studying executive coaching in a Fortune 500 firm.
• Companies receive an average return of $7.90 for every $1 devoted to executive coaching *
• Executive coaching provides an average ROI of nearly 6 times ** the coaching cost
• Coaching combined with training boosts productivity by an average of 86% compared to 22% with training alone (Personnel Management Association report).
• A study on executive coaching’s effect revealed an average ROI of 5.7 times ** the initial investment or a return of over $100,000.
*MetrixGlobal LLC
** Manchester Inc.
CLIENT’S TESTIMONIALS
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Frank Santini
"Alan is the pro's pro. With his very successful business building experience he brings his vast knowledge and wisdom to the table."
Jon Kell
Improved Together, Dublin Ohio
"Alan Wozniak is a great, genuine and honest executive business coach who just wants to help grow people’s businesses and see them succeed. Alan is a very knowledgeable and experienced as a business coach and marketing guru. I would recommend him to anyone who is starting a business or has a business that wants to move to the next tier of marketing/coaching from a very experienced guy with multiple businesses that he has started and grew over the years and sold. Alan is honest and very reputable would recommend him to anyone."
Scott Maxwell
Owner Pane in The Glass, Dunedin, Fl
Alan Wozniak has been a pioneering business leader for over 30 years leading an incredibly successful environmental/HVAC company to INC 5000 level (4-years running). Alan, is now president of Business Health Matters - executive coaching who provides business owners with unique assessments of their overall business health (financial, operations, customer service, sales, marketing, logistics), to help maximize their equity position and help exceed their exit strategies. I would highly recommend Alan as he's at the top of the business coaching class.
Ricardo Moncada
Over the nearly 20 years I've known Alan, I've seen his business leadership and coaching bring dozens and dozens of people to the next-level in their careers. He is naturally driven to help people and genuinely wants the best for you. Alan is amazing at boiling complex business situations down into digestible and comprehendible options and cutting through the crap to get to meaningful outcomes. I'd recommend Alan and GBM to executives who are looking to overcome growth challenges, considering an exit, or in the process of building an A+ sales team. Thanks Alan.
Peter Kelsch
As an executive coach Alan combines his 30+ years of experience as a successful entrepreneur with a passion to help his clients improve their business' health. His insights into growing a business and developing a successful exit strategy are clear, practical, and client focused. Alan delivers results every time.
Malina Poshtova Delamere
Los Angeles
I learned a lot working with Alan and at Pure Air. He is a strategic planner and thinker for a variety of concerns that clients brought to us. His leadership and innovation led to the design of industry leading systems that competitors are still catching up to, and he is excellent at giving solutions to complicated issues.
Patrick Moore
Los Angeles
Alan's firm did excellent work in a very challenging environment with difficult access restriction
Jim Wiggins
Los Angeles
Alan and his company provided my organization with high quality services and results, while dealing with some of the most sensitive facilities and customers possible. Alan was able to work direct with me to provide quick easy solutions, while always considering the customer’s needs (time, cost, environmental responsibility, and internal politics). I would HIGHLY recommend Alan and his expertise and professionalism on any project, as well as any future business opportunities.
Damon Gonzales
Los Angeles
I've found Alan very helpful, he has many years of experience and his knowledge is second to none, in my opinion he is at the very top of his field.
Steve Scotter
Los Angeles