Business Coaching

At CREST we can offer you, as already successful business people, the opportunity to reach even higher, to pursue your ambitions with courage and drive … and develop to your highest potential … in person and in business.  We are here to help you make sure you bring your visions alive, and in the process grow even stronger and richer as a person.

What is Business Coaching

Business Coaching has the same fundamentals as Life Coaching, but has a stronger focus on the business.  It is aimed at Professional individuals and Entrepreneurs in the SME market and provides a means to develop, promote and grow businesses, the staff and the coachees themselves.

As part of the Business Coaching approach, models can be used to support individual and team development and provide new direction in customer satisfaction, productivity and overall organizational effectiveness.

• If you have a dream …
  • “[A dream] is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
    - Denis Waitley 
• If you tried before, but didn’t quite make it …
  
  • "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
    - Robert F. Kennedy
  • "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
    - Richard Branson: Virgin Founder & Entrepreneur
  • "If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."
    - Lance Armstrong

• Now is your chance …
  • "Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."
    - Robert H. Schulle
  • "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."
    - Jack Canfield: Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul 
• Remember …
  
  • "An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it."
    - Roy Ash: President of Litton Industries
  • "When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."
    -  Zig Ziglar

 Your Business Coach will help you create a clear vision of where you want to go, assist you in developing a strategy to achieve your individual and business goals, walk the road with you to keep an objective perspective of your journey, be your soundboard, give objective feedback and to keep you in action.

We will push you to develop and achieve more, faster
We will help you to stay focussed and will drive you to succeed!

Applications of Business Coaching

Businesses today are faced with an ever increasing rate of change and many find it difficult to achieve, gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage.  Business Coaching is a professional service to help a client master continued change and achieve their desired objectives.

Business Coaching addresses systems and people in an organization and can assist with :

• getting an objective view of the business and seeing the big picture;
• strategic planning;
• vision creation and goal setting;
• identifying business opportunities;
• leadership development;
• conflict management;
• inter-personal relationships;
• team cohesion; and
• skills development.

 Whether you have personal life goals, or whether the goals are in relation to growing and improving your business, coaching can help you achieve your ambitions and goals through providing a process of focus, clarity and structure.

Benefits of Business Coaching

Business Coaching has a positive impact on both the strategic and interpersonal facets of a business :

Strategic Benefits

• improve customer service;
• provide structure, guidance and focus to bring about change;
• guide individuals to adopt and adapt to solutions;
• initiate and sustain momentum to achieve goals;
• provide a non-biased objective view; and
• increase awareness of available resources.

Interpersonal Benefits

• unearth and develop potential;
• improve confidence; and
• develop emotional intelligence (self awareness, mood management, self motivation, empathy, managing relationships).

Ultimately Business Coaching can increase work performance, employee satisfaction and service delivery to customers.  It is also a very valuable tool to create awareness and re-establish a functional work-life balance.