10 wise entrepreneurship lessons from being an entrepreneur-Part 1

 

10 wise entrepreneurship lessons from being an entrepreneur

My entrepreneurship lessons are based on my own experience as a business owner.

For me, entrepreneurship is primarily a matter of doing. However, it requires an entrepreneurial mindset.

As Cicero put it 106 years before Christ, “Character without knowledge has more often led to success than knowledge without character.” For sure, a man with undoubtedly a lot of knowledge and character.

Entrepreneurship is, therefore, about who you are, and your attitude partly determines the behavior you exhibit. You learn to fall and stand up, but also to stand out. What about you? Take our DISC personality test.

Due to damage and sometimes shame, here are 10 wise (read hard-learned) entrepreneurial lessons (with a brief description about each one). It has become my “business handbook” that describes my lessons learned in entrepreneurship. It may sound pedantic at times, but that is really not my intention. I hope it helps your entrepreneurial journey and gets the success you want!

Table of contents

• Wise lesson #1: Give before you take
• Wise lesson #2: Do what you can’t let, but don’t let what you can do
• Wise lesson #3: First good than fast and then lots
• Wise lesson #4: Think from the other person’s filter, starting with the customer’s
• Wise lesson #5: Listen before you speak
• Wise Lesson #6: Whatever you really want, you can
• Wise lesson #7: Make sure you hear yourself talking
• Wise lesson #8: Do not find yourself successful, because then it will be too late
• Wise lesson #9: Stop checking, start learning
• Wise lesson #10: Never give up

Wise lesson #1: Give before you take

The first of the 10 entrepreneurship lessons is mainly about networking but also about collaboration. I have visited many networking drinks and held collaborative discussions. So, I spoke to many people. The majority takes first before giving back. Those “takers” first want to know what they can get or take from you. They will only give you back something later if it proves helpful for them. But even then, some didn’t return anything. Whether it is later or never, it isn’t sustainable. Therefore, my lesson is – before you take – to simply ask:

What can I do for you?

When visiting a networking event, simple ask this question.

Again, the “takers” get shocked anyhow. They did not expect your kind gesture. If everyone does that, you will eventually get what you initially wanted.

Wise lesson #2: Do what you can’t let, but don’t let what you can do

Number 2 of my 10 entrepreneurship lessons is about passion, drive, and perseverance. As an entrepreneur, you are really thrown into the deep. You can no longer hide behind your position, or your colleague, or your excuses such as: “this is not my department.” You irrevocably encounter yourself in all your strengths and weaknesses. It can be confronting. Yes, It does.

Therefore, the entrepreneurial lesson I learned is, above all, to be yourself. There is no point in hiding. So, do whatever you really want to do. That one thing that you are passionate about and you can’t live without it for a day. Then it also becomes a lot more fun, even if you earn too little to live by.

Of course, there is always less fun work left to do in your business. Rather the opposite. So what is left for you to do today? Do it. Now!

Do what you can’t let, but don’t let what you can do.

Dr. Martijn Driessen

Wise lesson # 3: First good, then fast, and then lots

This third lesson of my 10 entrepreneurship lessons is about building a foundation. In short, about planning and organizing. A bitter necessity if you want to make it a real company. Because if you keep making mistakes, you’ll easily get burned out. Of course, mass is money, but without a sound basis – read: proven processes – mass becomes a mess.

Hence, this lesson is actually very simple. Make sure that what you do is right first. Please test it out in small steps and in small quantities. If that all works well, you can start to think bigger and faster. But, again, test, test, test. Only after that can you start focusing on the rest.

Do half of what you do, and do it twice as well.

René Savelberg – former CEO of McDonald’s Netherlands

Wise lesson #4: Think from the other person’s filter, starting with the customer’s

This is the biggest lesson in successful entrepreneurship I learned, however challenging to master. But I’m going to try to teach it to you. It is about market orientation, thinking from the customer, and how the thinking style of a salesperson works. It is primarily about the filter. I do not mean the coffee filter, but the filter every person has. So, your filter and that of your customer. You can view the filter as a pair of glasses that you wear.

Not literally, of course, but a virtual one that allows you to see the world around you every day. Those virtual glasses are the sum of your upbringing, your norms and values, your character traits, your thinking styles, etc. Actually, everything you have experienced so far. The way you view the world in your unique way, the customer does in his unique way.

So, to sell something to your customer, you need to know their unique glasses. Only then will you actually know whether and how you can meet their needs. How do you do that? Very simple, actually. By asking questions, you find out about his or her glasses. An important detail is to ask open questions. They always start with how, what, who, where, and when.

Another tip: if you are really interested in your customer, it goes effortlessly.

When I say apple, what do you think of?

Wise lesson #5: Listen before you speak

This fifth experience of the 10 entrepreneurial lessons that I learned is about social orientation and communication. So in a way also about the filter. Your customer’s filter; what thinking style does he have? What preoccupies him?

Of course, you are full of yourself and your company. You have gold in your hands. But 10 to 1 that your customer has something different on his mind. For sure, he has something else on his mind. Something that he does not immediately throw openly and honestly on the table, especially when he feels that you want to sell him something.

So, first, you must put him at ease and gain his confidence. That starts with asking questions. Exactly: open-ended questions. If you still feel the urge to talk, bite your tongue, and curl your toes.

Another tip: you listen with your eyes. In other words, look closely at what is not said by looking at his body language.

Listen with your eyes & you listen to the SILENCE!!

This is a split newsletter, I will continue with the next 5 in the next newsletter, so keep watching for it.

Leadership Video

https://www.personalityservice.com/portal/HGNG/video-leadership

Teams Video

https://www.personalityservice.com/portal/HGNG/team-performance

✉️ Bridge the Gap: Unlock What’s Holding Your Business Back

 

✉️ Bridge the Gap: Unlock What’s Holding Your Business Back

The Gap Between Struggle & Success — Let’s Close It.

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Every entrepreneur faces it — the gap between where you are today and where you know your business could be. It shows up as:

• Cashflow struggles 💸

• Overwhelmed systems ⚙️

• People challenges 👥

• Lack of growth direction 📉

The truth? You don’t have to stay stuck.

That’s why I created the Bridge the Gap Coaching Program — a proven pathway to help entrepreneurs identify their roadblocks and create practical strategies that move them forward with confidence.

Through focused sessions, we’ll:

✅ Diagnose what’s holding you back
✅ Build systems that save time & money
✅ Create a clear action plan for growth

This isn’t about theory — it’s about real results that get you closer to the business you’ve been dreaming of.

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👉 Ready to bridge YOUR gap?

Book your free 30-minute discovery session today and take the first step toward growth.

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👉 What’s REALLY holding your business back?

🚀 Bridge the Gap Coaching – Break Free from What’s Keeping You Stuck

Every entrepreneur has dreams of scaling their business, but the reality often looks very different:

• You’re working harder than ever, yet profits don’t match the effort.

• You’ve got a team, but communication and accountability are inconsistent.

• Systems feel chaotic and reactive, instead of smooth and proactive.

• You know where you want to go… but something invisible is blocking the path.

That “something” is the gap — the space between your current challenges and your business potential.

The truth is, it’s rarely just one thing. It could be:

• Cashflow management issues draining your resources.

• Operational bottlenecks that slow you down.

• Lack of strategy or direction, leaving you reactive instead of in control.

• Leadership blind spots that hold the entire team back.

✨ Here’s the good news: gaps can be closed.

That’s exactly what the Bridge the Gap Coaching Program is designed to do. Together, we’ll uncover what’s REALLY holding your business back, and create a clear, step-by-step action plan to overcome it.

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Are you ready to stop guessing and start growing?
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1. The Money Gap 💸

What’s REALLY draining your profits?

You’re landing clients, but your cashflow tells a different story. Money comes in, but it slips away just as quickly. The gap? Poor financial systems, underpriced services, or a lack of discipline in managing income vs. expenses.

With Bridge the Gap Coaching, we dig deep into your numbers and create financial clarity so your hard work actually turns into lasting profit.

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2. The Systems Gap ⚙️

What’s REALLY slowing your business down?

You’re working harder than ever, yet tasks pile up, deadlines slip, and chaos creeps in. The truth? It’s not your effort — it’s your systems. Without strong processes, even the best businesses leak time, money, and opportunities.

The Bridge the Gap Coaching Program helps you put systems in place that streamline operations, cut waste, and free you to focus on growth.

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3. The Leadership Gap 👥

What’s REALLY holding your team back?

You’ve built a team, but things aren’t clicking. Miscommunication, unclear roles, and lack of accountability are costing you growth. The gap here isn’t effort — it’s leadership.

Through Bridge the Gap Coaching, you’ll learn to lead with clarity, inspire your people, and build a culture that pushes your business forward — not one that drags it back.

Leadership Video

https://www.personalityservice.com/portal/HGNG/video-leadership

Teams Video

https://www.personalityservice.com/portal/HGNG/team-performance

 

What is entrepreneurship? Watch and smile.

When you think of entrepreneurship, you quickly think of having and running your own company. In most cases, this is also the matter, but it does not have to be that way.

You also come across entrepreneurship within an organization, also called internal entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship. You are ‘playing’ entrepreneur within an organization.

Many people see entrepreneurship as the same as making money. After all, that’s the goal of doing business, right?

Table of contents

• What is entrepreneurship? Watch the 2 minutes animated video and smile.
• Entrepreneurship runs on money, but isn’t about money.
• Being entrepreneurial as a condition for entrepreneurship.
• See and seize opportunities and create value for yourself and others.

What is entrepreneurship? Watch the 2 minutes animated video and smile.

Did you get a smile on your face?

Entrepreneurship runs on money, but isn’t about money.

To define entrepreneurship, three characteristics of entrepreneurship come into play. It means seeing opportunities, seizing opportunities, and creating value for yourself and others.

With value, you can think of money. Of course, you earn an income for yourself. Moreover, if you employ people, you also have to provide for their income. However, it entails risks, but that’s why you became an entrepreneur. That is part of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship runs on money, but that is not what it is about. Because, with the right intentions, you also offer value to your customers. You sell something that your customers need. You provide something that solves their problem or gives them pleasure. This is called added value.

So, value is much more than just money. For example, think of the freedom to do what you want when you are your own boss. Nobody decides what you must do; you determine that yourself. In addition, many people start their own business because they want to organize their own time.

By delivering value to others, you can also think of the people who live and work near your company. Because you are nearby, they can buy your products and services and no longer have to go to the city by car, for example. The neighborhood is flourishing again, thanks to the settlement of your company.

Being entrepreneurial as a condition for entrepreneurship.

Seeing and exploiting opportunities over and over again says something about how enterprising someone is. For example, it can be someone with their own company, but also someone who works for a public organization. So, this implicates that someone who does not have a company or job can also be very enterprising. So being entrepreneurial is not the same as running your own business.

Even if you are self-employed or own a business, that in itself doesn’t mean you are enterprising too. For example, there are approximately 30,2 million business owners in the USA (US Census Bureau, 2017). However, not all of them are automatically equally entrepreneurial. A large proportion (about 35%) is struggling to survive it to the next year. You probably don’t see the smile of entrepreneurship on their face.

The opposite is also true. Someone who is very entrepreneurial doesn’t always have a business or ever becomes an entrepreneur. So, it doesn’t matter whether you are a business owner, but how entrepreneurial you are. If you are not entrepreneurial – that is to say, you do not see opportunities and don’t take action to seize them; entrepreneurship becomes quite tricky.

See and seize opportunities and create value for yourself and others.

The question: “what is entrepreneurship?” is, therefore, about the combination of seeing opportunities, exploiting opportunities, and delivering added value. The first two parts are about the entrepreneurial attitude: seeing and taking advantage of opportunities. This attitude is also sometimes referred to as the entrepreneurial mindset or enterprising behavior.

You can apply that entrepreneurial attitude anytime, anywhere: at work (job or own company), at school, and in your free time.

Offering added value means that you are of value to others when you take advantage of the opportunities you see. In the end, that also provides you with benefits, such as money, income, satisfaction, or a contribution to society.

So entrepreneurship is not about money; it is a means to a bigger end. So it’s about the value you add to yourself and others. How happy do you make yourself and others happy with your entrepreneurship? Else, look for jobs in US.

 

🚀 Building Business Winners – Scaling for Impact and Profit

Every entrepreneur starts with a dream—an idea that sparks action, courage, and hope. But moving from a small startup to a thriving, sustainable business takes more than passion. It requires strategy, discipline, and above all, a vision for impact. This is where Building Business Winners comes in—a coaching program designed to help entrepreneurs not only grow but scale with purpose.

Why Scaling Matters

Scaling is not the same as growing. Growth can simply mean more sales, more staff, or more resources. Scaling, on the other hand, is about building systems that multiply impact and profit without multiplying inefficiency or costs. It’s about ensuring your business model can serve more people, more effectively, while staying true to your mission.

The Core Principles of Building Business Winners

This program equips business leaders with tools and strategies to expand confidently and sustainably. Some of the pillars include:

1. Clarity of Vision – A business must know where it’s headed. We work with founders to define long-term goals that are measurable, inspiring, and practical.

2. Systems and Processes – Winners don’t leave success to chance. By setting up repeatable systems—from operations to sales—businesses are able to deliver consistency as they grow.

3. Financial Discipline – Scaling requires smart resource management. We coach leaders on how to reinvest profits, manage cash flow, and explore financing options without compromising control.

4. Leadership Development – A business cannot outgrow the capacity of its leadership. We equip entrepreneurs to lead teams with vision, accountability, and influence.

5. Impact-Driven Growth – Profit is essential, but purpose sustains momentum. Building Business Winners integrates social impact into scaling strategies, ensuring that growth uplifts both the business and the community it serves.

The Results You Can Expect

Through this program, entrepreneurs gain the confidence and clarity to take bold steps. They learn how to grow beyond “survival mode” into a season of thriving—where businesses create wealth, jobs, and lasting change.

At TIKVAH Pathways, we believe winners are not just those who succeed financially, but those who scale their businesses with integrity, purpose, and vision. Because true business success isn’t just about how big you become—it’s about the difference you make along the way.

Watch for the following course to be released soon: 

Steps to Successfully Scale a Startup Business

 

A Paradigm Shift in Business….

How many business owners do you know who are up against what may or may not be glass ceilings in the growth of their businesses?  Do the barriers really exist or is it simply that they don’t have the self-belief or the confidence to break through? 

 Here’s an interesting proposition – what if business is just like sport?  What if it is just a question of honing considerable skills coupled with the removal of certain self-limiting beliefs? Do we really know what our psychological limits are?

Remember the sub-4-minute mile: in 1954 it was something that was thought to be simply beyond human capabilities - until May 6th, 1954, in Oxford when a young medical student named Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds….  And then, within one year 37 others did it; within 2 years, over 300 had done it.  Now that’s a shift in belief!

 

And then there's the paradigm-shattering Bob Beamon super-leap in the '68 Mexico City Olympics (29 ft 2 ½ inches - beating the existing world mark by nearly two feet!)…. Not to mention Tiger Woods’ astounding 2000 US Open victory by no less than 15 strokes! It has happened in other sports too:  quantum breakthroughs that somehow enable the next level of achievement by others, and within a very short time frame.

What if that could be achieved in business?  Well why not?  If you have the skill set and you have the necessary support and coaching, why couldn’t your business take a paradigm shifting leap forward?  There is a growing interest in seeking business advantage in this way – by doing what the sports stars do – taking help to build performance enhancing beliefs … having someone along side to keep you ahead of the game.  Can you afford not to be one of the enlightened ones?

If you are in need of coaching, take advantage of our 30 minute free session to determine if it is the right fit for you, your team or your business. See the links.

If you need team building, feel free to contact us.

 

What can you learn from football? A Business metaphor

During the World Cup, everyone loves football a little bit more. Many are captivated by it. Many companies are also responding to this world event. They try to seduce the football fan with all kinds of creative sales promotions. They have to because customers are flocking in front of the tube instead of spending money. But apart from that, football is a good business metaphor for running a business with staff.

Provided I don’t understand football; I do know how to do business with a team. In this blog, you can read the comparisons between football and entrepreneurship with staff and without a crew. It helps you start and expand your business.

Table of contents

• Goalkeeper
• Backs
• Midfielders
• Strikers or wingers
• Coach
• Entrepreneur

Goalkeeper

The goalkeeper must keep all balls out of the goal. “Logical,” Johan Cruijff would undoubtedly say. After all, you win by having more goals than your opponent. However, that is no different from entrepreneurship. The common business logic here is to make sure more money comes in than goes out. A bit simplistically stated, but it basically boils down to that. As an entrepreneur, you are responsible for making a profit. Not your accountant, your finance department, nor the bank you borrowed from is to blame when you lose (money). You need to make sure you always have a positive cash flow.

TIP

Always make sure you have enough money to pay the bills for the coming month. After all, the goalie must also anticipate what is to come. It is quite a specialistic role to perform.

Backs

The main task of the backs, like the goalkeeper, is to prevent goals. They do that by defending well, stop or take over the ball and then play the midfield as best as possible. That means the ball has to go forward. The backs have to ensure that all other players can play the football forward. That means they have to get organized.

Provide a foundation in your company that you can always fall back on. Everyone must know and be able to play their position. The detail here is that no one should hold the ball for too long, but pass it on.

The business metaphor here is that you need builders and tacklers who push the products or services forward. Make sure it is produced and delivered according to standards. So, standardization. Whether you work alone – as an independent professional – or with personnel and hiring self-employed professionals, you need to have your business processes in order.

TIP

Make sure you standardize your processes of creating, delivering, administering, and invoicing your customers. Otherwise, you will perish on your success! Many entrepreneurs underestimate this managerial role.

Midfielders

In the midfield, the midfielders have a double task. They have to act quickly, receive the ball from the backs, and deliver it tailor-made to the front of the field. On the other hand, sometimes, they have to help defend and sometimes prepare others to strike. The midfielder must be permanently playable. It requires planning and walking ability.

In entrepreneurship, you can compare this business metaphor with the support department. A crucial department. For example, they are the backers of the marketing and sales department. The seller, pitcher, or sales team can score optimally by passing the ball at the right time.

TIP

As an entrepreneur, make sure that things are arranged around you. So, make sure that you are always in the position to receive the ball. In other words: is your sales going on while you are practicing your part in your business?

Strikers or wingers

The striker’s job is to score! The best way to do this is to run free, be smarter than your opponent, and mislead the goalkeeper. You are only successful if you know how to convert a shooting opportunity into a goal. It requires a performance orientation and creativity. Because here, too, it is about anticipating and launching an attack.

The similarity with doing business is that you need a good pitch. A sales or elevator pitch that triggers and scores you points. For this, you need good (sales) arguments that fit into the goal of the customer. The entrepreneur ensures that the sales team in his company can convert any scoring opportunity into a goal.

The self-employed professional will also have to stand out during his absence and radiate and satisfy the (potential) client.

TIP

Make sure you know the demands of your customer as well as possible. It will automatically help you counter any against arguments that they have and score a point.

Coach

The football coach is there to make the team perform at all times. That is to say, as a team. Not only all positions in the group must be clear, but also their tasks. Besides, each player must also be flexible enough to respond to the game’s opportunities and threats. Because no matter how well you have determined your setup in advance, each game is different.

The coach’s primary weapon is his strategic insight. Translated into the business metaphor of entrepreneurship: the entrepreneur keeps an eye on the entire company, all roles, and the game’s changes. As an entrepreneur, you have to continuously respond to the opportunities and threats that the company faces.

TIP

Create a SWOT confrontation matrix. A difficult task for many entrepreneurs and, therefore, rarely executed, but oh-so-useful and very easy with this online Confrontation Tool.

Entrepreneur

Now you might think that the entrepreneur is most comparable to the role of the coach in football. My point is that as an entrepreneur, you could play any position on the football field. It is evident that you have to have all roles “covered.” But no doubt you feel more at home in one position than in another. How well have you covered all positions? Just check with yourself. Are you more the productive midfielder, but do you score (too) little, so the goalkeeper cannot handle it? In other words, is money leaking from your company?

Or are you the creative striker who sees many opportunities, may even get to score, but has not organized his backs well enough? In the end, leading your company to lose money. It applies just as much to the entrepreneur with staff as without staff. There is a good chance that you, as an entrepreneur, are more likely to be on the playing field than assume the role of a coach.

TIP

A business coach or entrepreneurship trainer who occasionally gives you tips and advice from the sidelines will significantly help your game.

Just like football, entrepreneurship is a top sport, and every top athlete has a coach.

Dr. Martijn Driessen

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What are the benefits of coaching?

In this 4 minute blog, you learn about the impact and benefits of coaching small business owners and how that differs sharply from why entrepreneurs think they need a coach. What are the learnings they took home from this blog?

Table of contents

• Entrepreneur coach
• Business coaching questions to ask
• Benefits of coaching sessions
• Four major learnings
• Small business coaching services

Entrepreneur coach

There are a lot of business owners. But, many of them struggle with running a business and achieving business success. That’s where the small business coach comes in. Small business coaches help new and existing business owners with any number of tasks to foster their entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is not about having a business, but about having an entrepreneurial mindset. At least being enterprising enough for the type of business in which a small business owner is active.

Maybe your coachee has the mindset to be a successful entrepreneur, or perhaps he doesn’t. Nevertheless, in entrepreneurial coaching, which is very different from life coaching, you need to have an accurate profile of their personal entrepreneurial competencies.

Business coaching questions to ask

Furthermore, you need to find out what he misses out on and what his real coaching needs are. Because most of the coachees don’t know what their real problem is, as it turns out.

Research among almost 4,000 business owners found that the coaching needs that entrepreneurs have before the coaching sessions started differ significantly from the learnings they took home.

In an open-ended question, business owners wrote down what they expect before the coaching session began. And, at the end of the executive coaching sessions, they jotted down what learnings they took home. Their answers were categorized into labels to compare them. It led to the following exciting findings.

Benefits of coaching sessions

Most entrepreneurs are not looking for a business coach or mentor, although times are slowly changing for the better. Any business owner can benefit significantly from a professional coach, who is an experienced entrepreneur and has led a successful business.

Managing business has gotten more complex and is changing more rapidly. There simply is no longer the time to “learn while doing” or the margin of error to “learn by making mistakes.” A business coach can help to speed up the learning curve to guide a founder from his comfort zone towards business growth effectively. They have seen so many companies from the inside in their life, that they can help any coaching client to overcome their business and personal challenges.

Four major learnings

First of all, as an entrepreneur coach, you need to get in contact with troubled business owners. To get in touch easily and ask great questions, our business Reality Check offers good help to get potential clients. At the first encounter, the coaching client will tell his primary needs, but is that what he truly needs?

The chances are big that ‘Support’ (80% of the entrepreneurs say they look for an entrepreneurial coach, not a life coach, to solve their problems) and ‘access to your Network’ (mentioned by 73%) are at the top of their list. That’s okay, of course.

But, as it turns out after the coaching sessions ended, ‘Support’ is the least mentioned (71%). The more crucial lesson they learned from their coaching experience is that they have determined how to solve their problems on their own (mentioned by 96%).

The table below states the benefits of business coaching. On the left, the needs mentioned before the leadership development started and on the right, and the learnings after business coaching.

Needs mentioned before coaching	Learnings after business coaching
#1 Need: Support, mentioned by 80%	#1 Learning: Sparring partner and much more than that; learned to solve problems on their own, mentioned by 96%
#2 Need: Network by 73%	#2 Learning: Network (learned how networking works by 75%
#3 Need: Sparring partner by 70%	#3 Learning: Mirror; insight in own profile & business and specific skills by 73%
#4 Need: Mirror by 64%	#4 Learning: Support by 71%

Learning #1

The first and most crucial learning of coachees is that they learned how to solve their problems on their own. They found out that the small business coach was much more than a sparring partner or mentor. An executive coach who motivated them to believe in themselves and in their ability and accountability to solve any problem they face.

This learning was reported by 96% of the coachees. This development of entrepreneurial learning was an unexpected outcome. Coachees were expecting a good or even a great coach who would solve their problems; mentorship and support (mentioned by 80% of the coachees). However, the coaching relationship turns out to be very crucial to get this kind of business success.

Learning #2

The second learning that the coachees took home is learning how networking works for them. Where they expected to have access to the network of the business coach, what they got, the bigger surprise was that they learned to start networking effectively.

So, how they can build a network of their own that fits their entrepreneur profile.

Learning #3

The third learning that entrepreneurs reported after coaching sessions is that they have a better and deeper insight into their entrepreneurial personality profile and what business skills and knowledge they miss out on.

Many more entrepreneurs (73%) reported that they appreciated the coach holding up a mirror, where only 64% anticipated this before business coaching started.

Learning #4

The fourth lesson learned by entrepreneurs is that they have received assistance in improving their company performance and business skills. Of course, the need for support is the primary driver for any business owner to start seeking help; mentioned by 80% of the coachees.

Some aspects of their business or performance aren’t going the way they foresaw. Although the coachees seek help and call it ‘Support,’ they have no clear idea what a business coach will bring to the table.

To speed up the connection and ‘chemistry’ between a business coach and business owner, DISC was introduced. It helped the coach to talk about the person behind the business and its problems and build a sound coaching relationship right from the start.

Small business coaching services

Every entrepreneur is unique, so is their path to business growth and emotional intelligence. Thus, small business owners need to discover what works for them and their businesses. However, many never get to make it successful businesses. So, as a small business coach, you can help to speed up this problematic, unpredictable process with action plans, coaching programs, and coaching sessions.

Something to keep in mind when you talk to a prospect who is considering business coaching about the extra unexpected added value that you provide as a business coach. Entrepreneurs don’t know upfront what they are going to learn. 

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