Our market & expert specialism is working with independent, self employed coaches who work in the life coaching/ small business coaching sectors.
The 3 main groups we work with currently are:
- Coaches in training who are aiming to successfully pass their initial coach training within their stated timeframe.
We have a further goal for the coaches we work with to help them make this as easy a goal & as fun a journey as possible as they work with their coach training provider to learn all the core coaching skills & take those first tentative steps as professional coaches. To do this we help coaches understand where coaching fits in alignment with all aspects of their life & value & create personalised study & action plans that we work with them throughout their training with as accountability partners. In addition to this we help with some of the specific challenges of completing coach training including defining who you are as a coach, meeting the needs of the accrediting body and coach training school you are learning with, completing study assignments & learning the real skills you need to coach with. - Coaches who have completed coach training & who want to transition to “real” coaches as effortlessly as possible.
Often the step from “pretend” to “real” clients can feel a massive jump & many coaches miss the structure & support of the training provider they worked with, as well as grappling how to turn coaching into a business that they can be both proud of as a professional coach & which is a profitable small business. Often key challenges at this time are aligning and balancing the need to learn how to run your business from scratch, to developing your coaching skills & confidence, whilst avoiding feeling overwhelmed with all the different steps involved in marketing and selling your service.
We help coaches in transition to get clearer about who they want to work with, where they hang out & how to use the best of who they are to market their skills to the particular needs of their clients. Through our partner coaches we also help them work on Business Basics & Confidence Tools to give a holistic support approach to these crucial stages in the coach’s progression. - Experienced coaches who want to stand tall & proud as coaches by continually improving their personal & professional growth & business skills:
Our whole philosophy and vision at Grow as a Coach is about ongoing development & progress that we make as coaches. So, we work with coaches to help them think about their longer term plans as coaches, whether this is taking a step back and re-evaluating where they are & their success criteria, to creating professional portfolio’s, to developing a long term career vision for their own professional development.
In the longer term we will also be offering coach mentoring & supervision support across all 3 of these groups.
