It can be lonely at the top when you're running a non-profit. As the manager, the buck stops with you and that can result in all the pressures of financial management, people management, strategy and performance ending on your shoulders.
To ease this pressure, it's helpful to have a business coach. A coach can look at your organisation objectively as an outsider, will act as a professional shoulder to lean on, and can help you to focus on and enhance your ideas, strategy and longer-term tactics as a leader.
If you want to get the best from your organisation, you need to get the best from yourself, as the leader. A business coach helps you to work on your own progression, but by doing so also partners with you to improve the future path of your organisation ventures.
For example, having a good adviser and coach:
- Allows you to get an independent viewpoint – when you’ve been running an organisation for several years, it can be hard to see it in an objective light. An adviser comes to your organisation model afresh, and helps you to step outside the day-to-day operations and see things from the outside in. This is incredibly helpful when looking for improvement areas or new opportunities.
- Helps you to spot the key issues in your organisation – with the help of an independent adviser, you’re far more likely to spot the flaws in your organisation model, and the areas where you – the leader – need to work on your own management skills. By highlighting the problems, you can start the process of overcoming these issues and moving forward.
- Provides organisation planning and strategy – a key reason for working with a business coach is to improve and polish your planning and strategic skills. Drawing on your coach’s experience, you will learn the benefits of proper planning and how to utilise these skills to draw up a more robust plan for the future of the organisation.
- Assists with goal-setting and targets – you can’t draw up a workable business plan if you haven’t outlined the key goals of your organisaion. Working with an adviser helps you to narrow down your goals, set proper targets and create more momentum and drive. With a clear set of targets for you and your team to get behind, it’s easier to understand your organisation purpose and measure your performance against these goals and targets.
- Provides you with a mentor – working on your organisation is important, but working on your own skills and wellbeing is equally as important. A coach can act as both a mentor, sounding board and confidant, something that’s incredibly valuable when you're alone at the top. Being able to share your worries and ambitions with a coach helps you to take care of your own mental health and wellbeing – all of which is good for both you and the organisation as a whole. When you’re less stressed, you’re a better leader and decision-maker so there’s an undeniable benefit to working closely with your trusted coach.
If you want to reach your true potential as an entrepreneur and organisation leader, we’d strongly advise working with a trusted business coach.
Business coaching helps you review, analyse and enhance your organisation strategy, while mentoring you as a leader.
"Great overview, very interesting to see it all broken down." "I will implement the knowledge and share it with my non-profit committees. I look forward to attending the next workshop"
