According to ActionCOACH Founder and CEO Brad Sugars, “They both have limited infrastructure and capital, but can achieve huge successes with the help of a winner’s mindset and a capable coach.”
ActionCOACH, which is recognized as the world’s number one business coaching firm, helps small businesses achieve great things with limited resources – using coaching techniques to help companies achieve big “wins” despite their size.
“Coaching poised a poor island in the Caribbean to find its way on the world sporting map. Business coaching has also done the same for small businesses,”
Jamaica's Olympic track team is made up of top Jamaican talent –one better than the other. The Olympic trials in this tiny island state were quite a spectacle as the best sprinters in the world went head-to-head.
One name that stands out is Usain Bolt who lived up to his name when he broke fellow compatriot Asafa Powell's world record in the 100-meter race. Yet, Bolt and Powell are only part of dozens of fleet of foot Jamaican sprinters, who are vying for entry into the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing (August 8 - 24).
According to the Christian Science Monitor published on June 27th, observers indicate that this level of success comes from improved coaching and a new system to develop raw talent at home.
Technical coach Fitz Coleman attributes the success of Jamaicans in this sport to the attitude the coaches have developed in their athletes.
“We’re small and poor, but we believe in ourselves,” he says.
Even this level of world-class talent needs coaching in order to overcome its limitations in terms of size and resources so they can concentrate on winning.
The same can be said about businesses.
“You can be small and yet do ‘big’ things by playing the game of business. Like a sports coach, a Business Coach can show you the rules and keep your feet on the track,” Sugars says.
The ActionCOACH system empowers small business owners to think “big” and compete with the big players. It uses a combination of mentoring and proven systems that have the power to develop enterprises with limited resources so they can compete in a competitive marketplace against larger companies.
“We show the small fish how to swim with the sharks,” Sugars says.
Owing to the high failure rate of small businesses, many small business owners are now looking at business coaching as an alternative to costly and highly specialized business consulting. As an industry, business coaching is growing at a rate second only to information technology.
For small business owners, stakes are high and they cannot afford to make mistakes.
“By investing in a Business Coach, business owners are able to avoid these costly mistakes that often drive them out of business,” Sugars says. “Business Coaches have years of executive and professional experience – or they have owned successful businesses themselves. They can offer knowledge and insight the average business owner might take years to attain. It’s a way for owners to leverage a knowledge base for their own success.”
With the help of systemized coaching and using the available resources, the Jamaicans have emerged as world-class athletes and competitors.
Just as good coaching has helped transform those who live in what most would term limited circumstances, business coaching is helping successfully transform small business – despite size and regardless of economic conditions.
