Business Coaching Services to Move Your Business Forward

For Your2IC, coaching means guiding business owners to bring out the best in them and their team. A business coach should be able to:

• Offer an external viewpoint so you can see things from a different perspective,
• Challenge you to be better,
• Hold you accountable – not just to the bank balance but to yourself, your staff, and your business as a whole

If you want to succeed – then yes! Every business owner who is at the top of their game, professionally and personally, has had a coach at some stage in their journey.

You need a business coach if you want your business to gain clarity about where your business is heading and who should be doing what.

You may also need a business coach if you want to develop more effective communication across the business, instil a culture of accountability, and drive the business forward.

However, if you just want to listen to what you want to hear, then you might not enjoy having Your2IC as a coach, because we will tell you what you need to hear, which may not be what you want to hear.

An Integrator is similar to a General Manager in that they bring accountability to the various business units across a business. They ensure that:

• There is consistent communication between the departments.
• The culture of the business is strong.
• The business has measurable goals.
• The business is moving towards those goals.

An Integrator also stands as the tie-breaker for the leadership team and acts as the glue for the organisation. They are the steady force in the business who holds everything together, beats the drum to provide cadence, is accountable for the profit and loss results, executes the business plan, and holds the leadership team accountable.

The Integrator also:

• Creates organisational clarity, communication, and consistency
• Typically (but not always) operates more on logic
• Drives results
• Forces resolution, focus, team unity, prioritisation, and follow-through
• Acts as the filter for all the visionary’s ideas
• Harmoniously integrates the leadership team
• Helps to remove obstacles and barriers

We can help your business gain clarity by ensuring:

• That the values of the business are current and used in the business as a filtering mechanism across decisions (in staffing, resourcing, product choices, etc.)
• That everyone knows what they are doing, where the business is going, how it is going to get there, and who is going to help it get there.

We can help improve accountability when business functions and roles are clear, allowing us to create the measurements of the business. We believe in the adage “Anything that you can measure, you can manage.”

We implement scorecards across the business to allow us to monitor the business in real time. This allows us to identify areas for focus, and areas that are performing without having to wait for the year-end results.

We can create projects for the business to focus on and complete them within a quarter. Completing measurable projects in 90 days can effectively move the business forward. Once done, we ensure that those achievements are celebrated at the end of the quarter.

Finally, identifying issues within the team and the business can also help improve accountability.

Your2IC can help improve communication by:

• Ensuring that meeting structures are in place
• Measuring the business using the scorecard
• Using the values and communicating them to the staff
• Identifying communication issues

Also, communication is improved by default when:

• Bringing clarity to the team
• Identifying the functions of the business
• Allowing the scorecards to measure the outputs/outcomes of the various functions