How to increase your ROI (return on investment) when you hire a Business Coach

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Marilyn Angelena, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.

What if you knew you couldn’t fail?
What if there was another way? Business Coaching is not about painting by numbers! The Coach and client need to set realistic and specific outcomes, which are recorded as part of the coaching strategy. Transparency of your outcome is most important when you start working with your Business Coach. You also need to be focused and clear on why you are coaching and what you want to accomplish. Once the coaching is under way, it’s about getting feedback and having specific success measurements along the way.
Wondering if Business Coaching is worth it?
Coaches don’t come cheap – so how do I my measure (ROI) return on investment? At first glance, it might seem as if only a struggling business would hire the services of professional business coach. But a business coach is worth their weight in gold especially when you are just starting your business, but just as important for a successful business. And even if you are an individual seeking the skills with which to meet your career goals, seeking the help of a Business Coach can create huge rewards.
Business coaching is gaining in popularity. If you’re the owner of a business and you’ve found yourself wondering how to expand and make it more profitable, hiring a business coach is the quickest way to reach your goals. It is also one of the most important and positive steps to identifying and achieving your business goals. I believe it is absolutely, by far, the best investment you can make in your business and in yourself.

Think of a Business Coach as an advisor who’ll work with you to identify your strengths and weaknesses, help you set achievable goals, teach you how to track your progress, and motivate you to make the very best of your business. A professional Business Coach can advise you on what systems to put in place in order to increase your business’s productivity, profitability, customer service satisfaction, and employee morale and management turnover.
A good business coach is always uncovering the gold in you and your business. It is often hard to see inside your business when you work inside your business every day. With many coaches operating via e-mail and fax, you may not even have to be in the same city as your coach, but they’re just a phone call away with advice when you need it.
If you were a professional athlete who already had the skills you needed to play your sport but wanted to get better at your game, you’d hire a coach, right? The coach you hire will work with you behind the scenes to help you become stronger and more focused, making you a better player.
A business coach will do the same thing for you and your business, using their expertise, experience and knowledge to help you find solutions to fulfill your potential. They act as a sounding board and advisor looking to make you a better business player.
What Is The Role of A Business Coach?
A business coach is accountable for eliciting ideas, insights and motivation from you and holds you accountable for achievement of your desired goals. They help you improve your thinking, facilitate solutions, create work/life balance, in order to overcome challenges, discover possibilities and reach your full potential. In short terms, to increase performance, achieve goals and enhance the quality of your life and your business.
Some core competencies of growing your business are:
• Formulating strategy for systems, marketing and client acquisition
• Developing goals that can lead to organization and automation
• Assigning dates, deadlines for measurement and accountability
• Developing activity plans and monitoring progress
• Cultivate, innovate and create
• Continuously improve on performance
• The optimal goal is a greater ROI (Return on Investment)
Think about anything you want to achieve in your business (your goals, your intention, your vision, your impact). For anything you want to achieve, there’s a specific system you can follow to reach your outcome. Accomplishing that will determine your ROI (return on investment).
Why should you hire a Business Coach?
Quite simply, to increase your bottom line! If you are planning on starting a business or want to take your business to the next level in record time, grow from small to big or big to bigger, a Business Coach is the main key ingredient. A good Business Coach has the ability to up level you from where you and your business started.
What’s your ROI (return on investment) for doing this? Personally, I don’t think you can put a value on it….but if you had to, it would go under the “priceless” category. In fact, this is a lifelong ROI (return on investment).
A Business Coach can be your secret weapon in expanding your business or making your career flourishes. Whether, you need clear focus, advice on web site design, develop marketing strategies or help in applying the skills to set effective goals, consider hiring a Business Coach as a positive step towards reaching your full potential.
As a behind-the-scenes advisor, your business coach will help you earn more money, operate your business more smoothly, and become a more effective leader. Hiring the right Business Coach will be the best investment you will ever make and your ROI (return on investment) will sustain your lifetime.
ROI (Return on Investment) and Significant Intangible Benefits
• Get more successful, productive and laser focused
• Create your Client Acquisition Strategy and Systems
• Become the person you want to be.
• Build and monetize your business by tapping into your full brilliance
• Uncover your “hidden gems” define you and your motivation
• Create your proprietary plan
• Accomplish more than you ever thought possible.
• Celebrate your victories and enjoy your AMAZING rewards.
Determining Your Investment
ROI (return on investment) from hiring a business coach can be determined in many ways; however a number of impacts are intangible. Your ROI (return on investment) is based upon your massive action. You will get a greater ROI (return on investment) by how fast you learn and implement. There really isn’t a magic formula, but coaching lends itself by its very process, which is goal-oriented.
A client might have existing measurements to apply or wish to create new metrics at the beginning of the coaching plan. As a business coach myself, I pride myself on helping my clients maximize their ROI (Return on Investment) in their lives and businesses through passion purpose and RESULTS! The dollar sign on this has many zeros attached to it!
Some tangibles of your ROI (Return on Investment) for Business Coaching
• Improvement in focus
• Improvement in clarity
• Increase in clients
• Increase in revenues
• Developed Marketing Systems
• Increased Client Retention
• Improved productivity
• Improved quality and customer-service

Bottom line, business coaching, at all levels, is where real change occurs, and where the return on investment is the greatest. Make the investment! The ROI (return on investment) is up to you and your ROI (return on investment) will be forever compounding.

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