{"id":5107,"date":"2014-06-30T06:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2022-09-20T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:21:52","slug":"coaching-gps-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/coaching-gps-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching \u2013 GPS for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coaching \u2013 GPS for Business\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-921x692.jpg 921w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_2073-470x352.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Increasingly start-up, small, and mid-sized business owners are <a href=\"https:\/\/findacertifiedcoach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking a coach<\/a> to help move in their right direction.\u00a0 This makes sense \u2013 after all, while they are great at the work, there are areas of business ownership and management that call for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additional support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The starting point is knowing where you are and defining where you want to go with your business.\u00a0 To get started in the right direction, a coach will ask questions.\u00a0 This process provides the business owner with clarity as well as helping choose the direction. Examples of questions include:<\/p>\n<p>1. What stage are you in for your business? Please explain.<br \/>\n\u2022 Start-up<br \/>\n\u2022 Growing<br \/>\n\u2022 Maintaining<br \/>\n\u2022 Sustainable<br \/>\n\u2022 Strategy<br \/>\n2. What is the history of your business?<br \/>\n3. What is your passion for the business?<br \/>\n4. What are your ideas for the business?<br \/>\n5. What is your vision for the business?<br \/>\n6. What is your business strategy?<br \/>\n7. Prioritize the coaching focus starting with this list:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Create or re-develop Mission and Vision statements<br \/>\n\u2022 Business Planning<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/findacertifiedcoach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marketing<\/a> and Social Media Planning<br \/>\n\u2022 Refining Plans<br \/>\n\u2022 Strategizing<br \/>\n\u2022 Exploring Ideas<br \/>\n\u2022 Action Planning<br \/>\n\u2022 Project Management<br \/>\n\u2022 Customer Service<br \/>\n\u2022 Operational Efficiency<br \/>\n\u2022 Financial Management<br \/>\n\u2022 Growth<br \/>\n\u2022 Sustainability<br \/>\n\u2022 Increasing Efficiencies<br \/>\n\u2022 Employee Management<br \/>\n\u2022 Vendor Relations<br \/>\n\u2022 Other<br \/>\nClarity of the starting point and priorities for the direction maximize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/resources\/faqs\/is-coaching-right-for-me-take-the-quiz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coaching<\/a> as your GPS for reaching the destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly start-up, small, and mid-sized business owners are seeking a coach to help move in their right direction.\u00a0 This makes sense \u2013 after all, while &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[70,52,91,69,119,77,55,88,115,103],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-build","tag-business-coach","tag-business-development","tag-career-coach-certification","tag-client","tag-coaching-services","tag-effective-coaching","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-opportunities","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11173,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/11173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}