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What's the Difference Between a Small Business Coach and a Consultant?
There is often confusion between the concepts of coaching versus consulting. Like a sports coach, a small business coach works on bringing out the best that's already inside you. In small business coaching, you and your coach focus on the "bigger picture" of what it is you want to create for your business (and your lifestyle), and talk about what will keep you motivated to move forward on your dreams, goals and tasks. You focus on developing YOU to your highest potential, as well as developing your business. A coach encourages you, supports you, applauds you, empathizes with you. They help you to discover honest insights into where things aren't working. They help you tap the "wisdom within."
The net result of small business coaching is that you create a fool-proof plan for moving forward, and the coach partners with you and supports you in actualizing that plan. This creates success in your self-employed business.
In consulting, the consultant comes to the partnership as an expert, whether it be in small business marketing, web design, business strategy planning, or starting a business. They teach you skills: like better time management or better Internet marketing techniques. After careful discussion and analysis of what results you're looking to achieve, they can help you design your project and they sometimes do the work for you. The focus of consulting is to get a project done that will enhance your business.
There is a good analogy that illustrates the difference between a small business coach and a consultant:
- A business coach will help you understand how and why you ride a bicycle, help you to determine what's holding you back from riding properly, and jog along next to you as YOU ride.
- A business consultant will explain why one bike is superior to another, teach you how to ride the bike, and if necessary, ride the bike for you.
Which one is best for you is based on your needs and values, as well your time constraints and deadlines.
--Karyng01 18:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I mean no disrepect to the original author and contributors to this article, but I feel it had been heavily over-Wikified. A considerable number of links had been made to dictionary uses of words, and it appeared that there had been no attempt to see if those links were relevant. Account, for example led to the article on the financial meaning. Also, it is difficult to see how some red links could ever be made into WP articles, 'achieve', for example. I've reduced the number of links in the article; if you feel I shouldn't have, please discuss here. --BillC 11:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
