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Coaching in the Future: Maximum Opportunity

Good morning, fellow coaches. If you are a corporate world refugee like me, you’re probably making more money and living with less stress now that you’ve taken the leap (or gotten a “downsizing push”) to operating on your own. I see advantages that I use every day from my corporate experiences as I coach, and I’m glad I served my time in the “system”. But it’s important to remember that the future of business is not in the hands of the Fortune 500; it is instead in the energy of the 95% of American businesses that are still privately owned and operated by entrepreneurs.

That’s not to say the corporate realm of business is unimportant to me as a private coach. On the contrary, the corporate world is my greatest source of continued business. Most of the coaches that we will train this month at our facilities at Businesscoach.com are corporate refugees. They’re great people who wanted more and were getting less from corporate America. Every time a big company downsizes or freezes promotions, you and I get more company in the coaching business. That’s a good thing.

But the corporate world is also contributing to my future business prospects as a coach. How? Because of downsizing and consolidation, there is a new surge of activity in the small business sector that shows no sign of stopping. Experienced execs with golden parachute deals are flush with cash, starting their own companies, and are in great need of coaching. Trimmed down Fortune 500 firms are now outsourcing work like never before, which means all kinds of new service and contract businesses are starting, led by owners who need coaches who understand the dynamics of the corporate world. Translation: maximum new business opportunities for savvy business coaches. Are you set to take advantage of this forecasted twenty year trend?

For more info on the contract business explosion, see the Intuit Future Business Report at the Intuit website.

As always, if you have any stories or questions to share, I’d love to hear them!



Gary Henson