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Establishing a startup comes with a variety of costs.
When planning for your first startup, you have to consider professional fees, staffing and employment, equipment and supplies, and other amenities and services.
With all these expenses, hiring a business coach may be the furthest thing on your mind.
However, there are many benefits of working with a business coach so you might want to consider making this additional investment.
Reasons to Hire a Business Coach When Establishing Your Startup
Working with a business coach as you launch your startup allows you to reap several benefits, which include:
- Helping you set clear, realistic, and relevant goals
One of the most crucial steps involved in launching a startup is establishing the goals you want to achieve with your business.
If you have difficulty narrowing down your business goals, an entrepreneurship coach can help you.
Your business coach can help you identify exactly what you want for yourself and your startup. They can guide you as you distinguish between what you could and should have and get from your venture.
Once you have listed down the objectives that matter to you, you are more likely to work hard and consistently take action to reach them.
- Keeping you motivated
The various challenges that come with launching your startup can make you feel frustrated and discouraged at times, so you may want to give up on your dream.
And even if you do not have any problems regarding financing and resources, you may still be unsure about how you can start setting up your venture.
Aside from guiding you through the whole process of establishing your startup, an entrepreneurship coach will motivate you as you complete each step. With their encouragement, you can achieve your short- and long-term goals.
Additionally, your business coach can become your co-planner and strategist. With their additional advice and assistance, you will get more things done as you launch your startup.
- Enabling you to learn from others’ mistakes
Learning from your mistakes is part of starting and growing your business.
However, making numerous mistakes could set back all your plans. They may even affect your startup in the long run.
As such, you can’t afford to make too many errors even at the start of your business.
The majority of startup failures are because of incompetence. You can minimize and avoid the common errors rookie entrepreneurs make with the help of the right business coach.
Your coach can share with you the experiences of first-time entrepreneurs they know or have worked with, so that you become aware of and avoid mistakes they made.
These details will help you experience a smoother journey as you establish your startup and save you a fortune in the long run.
- Helping you stay on top of your goals
No matter how well you have chosen your goals, your ability to achieve them can be affected by various factors in the future. These can include a lax attitude toward responsibilities or being influenced by other people easily.
Regardless of which factors or issues come up, you need to stay on track if you want to have a successful startup.
Your business coach will remind you to prioritize your business at all times. Whether you get sidetracked during the setup phase or afterward, they will help put you on the right track.
2. Keeping you updated with key trends
Running a business means learning constantly. You need to keep up with the latest trends and all important changes happening in the world of technology and various business processes.
Failing to do so can cause you to fall behind in leveraging these technologies and trends, which will impact your startup, even during its setup stage.
Business coaches are constantly learning and updating themselves. Your mentor, therefore, can share with you the trends worth jumping on, the best technologies to invest in, and skills worth honing and acquiring to help you become a successful entrepreneur.
If you can broaden your skill set before you launch your startup, you can experience more benefits that can help you with the setup process.
- Helping you achieve work-life balance
Without a doubt, one of the reasons why you decided to be an entrepreneur is to have a better work-life balance.
Although this goal is achievable, establishing and running your startup requires a lot of work and attention that you may end up not achieving your goal of living a healthier, more balanced lifestyle.
Your business coach will show you how to manage your responsibilities at work and home. Moreover, they will teach you how you can find time to think about yourself and do what makes you happy.
If you can enjoy an improved work-life balance now as you launch your startup, you will have a better chance of sustaining it as you manage and grow your business.
Hiring a business coach may seem like an unnecessary expense when you are still launching your startup. However, these benefits show the importance of working with one and why you should invest in this service now and in the future.
AUTHOR BIO:
Salma El-Shurafa is an experienced Executive Coach and founder of The Pathway Project. She is a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and a graduate of CTI’s Co-Active Leadership program.
https://ae.linkedin.com/in/salmaelshurafa
http://pathwayproject.ae/
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