Business Coaching

Get trained in the one of the world’s fastest growth professions!

Join the profession of Business Coaches & pass on your experience & knowledge to others

Not only is this a career that is exciting and satisfying it is also very lucrative. Business Coaches are in huge demand and are currently commanding high incomes.

8 Lessons informative and practical can take you from zero to hero and get you on the road to financial independence and a new career.

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Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Nature and Scope of Business Coaching
   • Nature of Business Coaching, Life Coaching and Sports Coaching
   • Terminology
   • Why People Use Business Coaches
   • Case Studies
   • Business Failure or Success
2. The Initial Consultation
   • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
   • Goal Centred Approach
   • Reality based approach
   • Motivational Approach
   • First Contact
   • SWOT Analysis
   • Replace Negative with Positive Habits
   • Monitor and Evaluate Progress
   • Closing
   • Case Studies
3. Considering Alternative Actions
   • Developing a Business Plan
   • Feasibility Studies
   • Formal Documentation
   • Operational Management
   • Strategic Planning
   • Operational Planning
   • Components of a Business Plan
   • Implementing Ideas
   • Changing Behaviour
   • Looking after long term Viability
   • Partial Sell Offs
   • Restructuring
   • R & D
   • Changing Products and Services
   • Buying a New Business
   • Staff
   • Selling or Winding Down
   • Case Studies
4. Improving Productivity
   • Quality Circles
   • Cause and Effect Diagrams
   • Pareto Analysis
   • Brainstorming
   • Motivation
   • Internal and Intrinsic Incentives
   • Incentives External to Working Environment
   • Social Reinforcers as Incentives
   • Tangible Rewards
   • Case Studies
5. Marketing
   • Introduction to Marketing
   • Marketing Strategy
   • Starting out in Business
   • Making Contact
   • Controlling Growth
   • Improving Results
6. Building Better Staff
   • Staff recruitment
   • Team building and Team Management
   • Staff development and Training
7. Improving Resource Management
   • BRM (Business Resource Management)
   • Stress Management
   • Case Studies
8. Putting it all into Practice
   • PBL Based Project
   • Significance of knowledge of interviewing and assessment
   • Incentives and motivational strategies
   • Productivity and marketing strategies
   • Theoretical information to derive sensible solutions
   • Initial business coaching assessment for a specified business
   • Actions for improving and sustaining the level of performance

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

• Describe services that a business coach can offer clients; identify opportunities to work as a business coach; and develop an understanding of a business coach’s role.
• Understand how to gather relevant data and conduct an initial consultation with a client.
• Explain the options for action to optimise the operation of a new or existing business.
• Understand methods of providing business coaching to improve productivity.
• Develop awareness of ways in which business coaching can improve marketing.
• Discuss ways to provide business coaching to improve the recruitment, skills, performance and motivation of staff.
• Understand how business coaching can be used to improve resource management.
• Deliver a comprehensive business coaching service to a client.

Business coaching can help a business owner, manager or director to:

• make better decisions
• reach their goals faster
• set better goals
• improve relationships