Start up Coaching: what is it?
Startup coaching is a professional service that helps entrepreneurs and their teams develop skills, make strategic decisions, and overcome challenges to build and grow a business. Unlike consultants who provide direct solutions, start-up coaches act as mentors and advisors, guiding founders to find their own answers, refine their vision, and stay accountable while navigating the uncertainties of a new venture.
What Start-up Coaches do
• Provide guidance: Offer expert advice on business strategy, leadership, fundraising, and marketing.
• Improve skills: Help founders develop the necessary skills for long-term success.
• Enhance performance: Assist teams in improving communication, productivity, and performance.
• Refine vision: Work with founders to refine their business vision and strategy.
• Overcome obstacles: Help entrepreneurs navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and stay motivated.
• Drive growth: Implement strategies for revenue acceleration, market leadership, and scaling the business.
• Ensure accountability: Hold founders accountable for their goals and progress.
How it differs from Consulting
• Coaching: Focuses on empowering the founder to develop their own solutions by asking questions and facilitating their thinking process.
• Consulting: Often focuses on providing direct solutions, sharing experience, or doing market research for the client.
• Improve skills: Help founders develop the necessary skills for long-term success.
• Enhance performance: Assist teams in improving communication, productivity, and performance.
• Refine vision: Work with founders to refine their business vision and strategy.
• Overcome obstacles: Help entrepreneurs navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and stay motivated.
• Drive growth: Implement strategies for revenue acceleration, market leadership, and scaling the business.
• Ensure accountability: Hold founders accountable for their goals and progress.
How it differs from Consulting
• Coaching: Focuses on empowering the founder to develop their own solutions by asking questions and facilitating their thinking process.
• Consulting: Often focuses on providing direct solutions, sharing experience, or doing market research for the client.
STEP 1Goal setting
Establish your short-term and long-term career goals and a forward-looking career road map.
STEP 2Explore
Help you understand yourself, what is important to you and monitor how changes in your interests, skills relate to your career.
STEP 3Discover
Learn about different careers, understand the components and requirements to make a final decision.
STEP 4Action Plan
Create a tactical plan to get you from where you are today to where you want to be. We help fine-tune your plans.
