Would a Professional Football Team reach their full potential without a Coach?  Of course not.  And so would a high achieving business leader in the West Midlands achieve heir full potential without a business mentor?

Every high achieving sports person can develop their inherent skills further with a sports coach.

Whether you support Birmingham City, Aston Villa or even Accrington Stanley,  they all have one thing in common, a coach. It is safe to say that there is not a professional football team out there that doesn’t use the services of a professional coach. In the majority of cases, the coach has never been a the ultimate iconic footballer.  But they know how to develop and get the best out of a team of professional players.

In all professional sports, nobody would dream of aiming to become the very best in their field without a coach.  It is the coach that drives and inspires them to improve.  The coach develops a plan with them of how to get to the next level.  As the athlete improves, the plan is modified to keep focus and pushing to improve.

Once in the highest echelons of their sport, none of these professionals are complacent to then think they no longer need a coach and send them on their way. At the very least they would stagnate and improve no further, but more than likely they would begin to slip, and in the case of football teams, tumble down the divisions and be relegated.

Every high achieving business leader can develop their leadership skills further with a business mentor.

This is a great analogy for business mentors too. Like professional sports people, many business owners are typically experts in their field.  But very few have the balance of skills and experience in running and growing businesses. In the words of Marshall Godsmith “What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There“.

So why would they not invest in a professional mentor to help them reach their business growth goals or exit plans? Especially if that investment is guaranteed to be recouped by extra profitability.

Many business owners aren’t initially keen to work with a business mentor.  But often that’s just ego.  They don’t like the idea of somebody coming into their business and helping them grow faster and more profitably.

After all, they have built it from nothing, so they must be doing something right, right?

Absolutely, but they could be doing it so much better and with a smarter work-life balance.

Identifying Marginal Gains

Nobody thinks that a world class athlete is “taught the basics” by their coach.  Everybody realises that it’s the coach that identifies the “marginal gains” and focusses on that.

It’s the same in business, a good mentor will help identify the “marginal gains” and will focus on supporting you with that.

Since many business leaders or owners can struggle with Time, Team or Money issues in their business life, a professional business mentor will help you :

  • Create clarity on what the business looks like in near and long term.
  • Develop systems, processes and ways so you can work fewer hours.
  • Build a stronger and more reliable team to run the business.
  • Drive profitability with proven strategies.

So, if you want to work less, earn more and become the best you can be, then you need a winning game plan for your business, that includes a mentor.

And if you’re near Birmingham or Aston Villa, that would be a West Midlands business mentor.