Are you feeling stuck and not achieving your business goals – despite working harder than ever before?
Do you know that your business could be achieving more, but you’re just not seeing the results you want?
Has business growth slowed or stalled, even though your goal only seems to be just out of reach?
These are all signs your company might benefit from professional business coaching. Working with a certified business coach might just be the missing piece to getting unstuck, maximising your potential, and accelerating your business growth.
Let’s explore some of the common struggles for business leaders and the key areas where a business coach can make an enormous difference.
1. Your Leadership Team is Overwhelmed and Missing Strategic Goals
As your business grows, your leadership team can become overwhelmed trying to manage day-to-day operations. You get stuck in reactive mode, constantly putting out fires, while you miss the big-picture thinking and strategic goals.
Signs it’s time to get coaching help on workflow and capacity include:
- You’re spending little or no time spent on business development, growth planning, and long-term strategy.
- Leadership is spread out thinly handling daily crises and tasks.
- You’re regularly not hitting business objectives or are frequently moving the goalpost.
These scenarios can be extremely frustrating and demotivating for the entire team.
Engaging a certified business coach can help you streamline operations by introducing systems and methodologies that will improve your capacity planning, prioritisation, delegation, and generally managing workflow.
At Rolling Start, we leverage the proven Scaling Up methodology to structure our coaching sessions. This methodology gives business leaders the tools they need to reduce the time it takes to manage the business by up to 80%. If workflow issues are blocking your strategic objectives, book a free session to discuss your coaching goals.
2. Revenue or Profit Growth Has Plateaued
After steady gains year-over-year, this year your business revenues or profits abruptly stalled. An invisible ceiling has appeared that you’re now struggling to break through. Even if your revenue is still rising, your profits are stagnant.
There are several reasons this could be happening:
- Your offerings haven’t kept pace with industry changes.
- Your messaging fails to attract higher-value clients.
- There are operational bottlenecks impeding scaling.
A business coach can diagnose what’s limiting your trajectory and reignite growth. By expanding your business’s toolkit and offering objective insights to overcome specific barriers related to your situation, your business will be able to break through that growth ceiling to achieve a new level of stability.
3. Your Team Is Not Aligned with your Company Objectives
Have you ever asked one member of your team a question about what the companies strategic objectives are, or what the priorities are for the quarter, and then asked the same question of a different team member, but got totally different answers? This signals issues with culture, communication, and alignment – foundational elements that are critical for business success.
Company culture exists and evolves no matter what, rather than letting the culture evolve into something you don’t want, build a company culture that help the business succeed, here are key indicators that you might want to consider external support:
- Inconsistent work quality and expectations between team members.
- Chronic issues with missed project deadlines.
- High staff turnover and complaints of burnout.
- Dropping client satisfaction and retention.
- Gossip is high and there is a lack of team work
A skilled leadership coach pinpoints areas for improvement and provides concrete tools to tackle them, including:
- Building self-awareness for better communication
- Motivating through emotional intelligence
- Developing manager capabilities
- Identifying core values and defining a desired culture
The aim is to realign teams for more consistent strategic execution. Misalignments risk the health and growth potential of your company if left unchecked.
4. You Know Your Business Could Achieve More
Maybe it’s not anything specific, but you just have a sense that your business could be achieving so much more – if only X, Y, and Z could change. For instance, maybe your team has a lack of clarity around their roles, which causes double-ups and inefficiencies in their work. Or maybe there’s an untapped market with great potential that you’ve been hesitant to explore.
A tailored business coaching approach works well here. Through insightful questioning and strategic guidance specific to your situation, an expert coach help you systematically:
- Identify and prioritise high-potential business areas.
- Build leadership skills around communication, motivation and alignment.
- Create a strategic plan to capture opportunities.
The result is working smarter, not harder.
You methodically build capabilities, resilience, and growth potential across your business. Risks are also minimised through a guided approach backed by an experienced business coach.
Accelerating your business success is not necessarily about doing more work as much as it is about focusing and defining your work. This is the sort of clarity that can be unlocked through personalised business coaching. Learn more about our business coaching in Perth.
5. You’re Not Enjoying Running the Business Anymore!
Running a business should empower you to live your ideal lifestyle. But when you’re overworked, results have plateaued, and there’s always a new problem waiting for you at work, it can start feeling like a prison.
At Rolling Start, one of our core missions is to bring the fun back into running a business. So, if any of these apply to you, give us a call and we’ll help you rediscover the joy and freedom of running a business:
- You’re always tired and lack motivation.
- It’s hard for you to come up with new ideas for the business.
- You used to love your work, but now dread it.
- No time for loved ones or yourself.
- Your work-life balance is just not there.
Through examining core values, building healthier workflows, and achieving more ease and mastery, you can reclaim freedom while reaching your goals. Let’s chat about rediscovering your passion.
Get Unstuck and Accelerate Growth with Business Coaching in Perth
The key to a thriving business is identifying your business weaknesses and limitations and strategically addressing them. Business coaches can help you identify these challenges and provide the proven tools and frameworks you need to take your business to the next level. Personalised support and accountability also provide structured guidance to ensure there is meaningful progress week to week.
Don’t stay stuck wishing things were better. Connect with Brad Willson today. As Perth’s only certified Scaling Up business coach, Brad draws on 20+ years of business management experience to offer unique business coaching services that will help you accelerate your business success.