Executive Business Coaches
Executive Business Coaches
In order to keep ahead in these changing and challenging times we regularly need to review our career progress and refresh our goals and long term vision. Competition is fierce, change is inevitable and continuous breakthroughs in technology mean we have to ensure our knowledge is relevant and our position is as secure as it can be.
There are many ways of keeping ahead of the curve and ensuring that you are effectively moving up the career ladder and thus avoiding getting stuck on a professional plateau that could lead to a dead end.
Here are three simple ways in which you can leverage your career progression:
- Raise Your Profile - Networking is key to help you gain insider knowledge, it gets you in front of the right people and helps to build your professional reputation. Network horizontally and vertically and even in groups outside your industry. Actively seek out breakfast clubs, conferences and special interest events which will help you gain credibility and expand your horizons. Volunteer for special projects.
- Be Known – Actively get to know people outside your immediate working environment. Make connections across the board, in different departments and locations. Be a person known for their usefulness and connections, share information, introduce people, be in the know – this way you and your reputation will get noticed by important decision makers.
- Develop Yourself – Invest in extra training or coaching to give you the ability to be even better at what you do. Think about presentation skills training, voice coaching or even an image consultant to help you dress for success. Any investment in personal development will pay off and give you that serious competitive edge.
It is vital that you are aware that career progression lies with you the individual and although hard work and diligence are key components to rising on the career ladder, they need to be combined with presence and reputation to ensure success.
All the best,
Natalie Dee
Life Coach & Executive Coach
Business Structure for Counseling/Consulting?
My mother is a counselor and teaches classes. Her focus is family/kids. I help her with the classes, provide some coaching services, and do consulting. We want to start a business, and have picked out a name. At this time we will split the profit from the classes, and we each will get what we earn from our individual activities less taxes.
We want to limit liability and maximize tax benefits. We live/work in Washington State. What form of business structure would you recommend and why? Our gut says LLC, but we aren’t the experts. 
We will be visiting with a lawyer or accounting executive to finalize the business, but wanted to gather some information ahead of time.
If you’ve never been in business before, I would strongly recommend that you talk to a business counselor before you do anything especially spend money. I’d call the local Washington state office of SCORE (go to http://www.score.org and input your zip code to find the chapter nearest you), the advice is FREE.
The counselor at SCORE will help you to write your business plan because it will force you to dig out all of the start up details and the costs of starting your Counseling/Consulting business and force you to also understand all of the aspects of this business including the customers you’ll concentrate on (your market ) and how you’ll go after them.
Try this link :
http://www.ychange.com/small-business-co…
and read some of the articles especially the ones about a business plan and starting a business.
Good Luck
Susan Corbett Klein Executive/Business Coach
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