Could You Use Some Support During Startup?
Starting a small business involves risk, financially, professionally and personally. You are doing to need a high level of support during startup from family, friends, business associates if you are going to succeed.
Family and Friends
You will be working long hours, probably alone in the first instance, and your [...]

Coaching : Evoking Excellence in Others
Published by: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0 07506 7920 4

Basically, this book is a how to of coaching. Flaherty bases his text on psychological and management theories, concepts and models to present to his audience how they can be applied to enrich the coaching relationship and empower the coach. [...]

Coaching for Performance, Third Edition (People Skills for Professionals)
John Whitmore (2006)
Published by: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
ISBN: 978 1 85788 303 9
This book is a coaching guide for practitioners who want to do more advanced work with their clients.
After discussing the nature of coaching and coaching in the workplace, Whitmore leads the reader through the GROW model [...]

Are you a natural born entrepreneur? On this page you will find links to questionnaires that will help you to assess your entrepreneurial traits.
Born to be an Entrepreneur?
Find out whether you have the personality and behaviours of a born entrepreneur.
Have you ever met someone and heard stories about their life that made you think, [...]

Published by: Wiley Publishing IncISBN: 0 7645 7652 6
As the title indicates, Business Plans for Dummies is from the ‘For Dummies’ series of books.
The information presented in six sections as follows:

knowing where you want to go,
describing your marketplace,
weighing your company’s prospects,
looking into the future,
putting the business plan into action, and
the part of the tens.

Not all [...]

You will probably be faced with finding a business coach as soon as you make the decision that coaching would help you with your business.
Before you race off and hire the first coach you trip over, there are a few things you need to consider.
First, coaching is generally a long term relationship that can be [...]

While you can work on practically any issue with a good small business coach, some coaching topics come up more frequently than others. On this page you will find some of the more usual topics that a Coach would work on with a Small Business Owner.
Creating a Business Plan
Do you have a business plan? [...]

Are you thinking about starting a small business of your own?
Starting a home business can be exhilarating it can also be very difficult, particularly if you don’t take the time to really plan your business. There is a lot to think about when you are just starting out, things like how much funding you will [...]

Behavioral Coaching: How to build a sustainable personal and organizational strength
Suzanne Skiffington & Perry Zeus (2003)
Published by: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0 074 71328 0
The publisher of this book claims it is the first book published that details a model of behavioural-based coaching and how to apply it.
In the authors own words:
The overall goal of behavioral [...]

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