What is the difference between an ActionCOACH and other business coaches?

Whatever business you run, whether you sell products or services, there is an abundance of business support and advice available to you.

One of the many forms of support is business coaching. However, finding the right business coach for you and your business can be daunting due to the number of coaches to choose from (including those who use ActionCOACH methodology) and the investment of time and money.

Who are ActionCOACH? ActionCOACH is the world’s number one business coaching franchise and has been going for over 25 years, working with thousands of business owners globally.

Bill Squires Business coaching is powered by ActionCOACH. Bill has many years of experience working in business which is one of the reasons he wanted to become a coach; to support others in building great businesses using his knowledge and expertise.

Being powered by ActionCOACH means that in addition to his own experience, he has access to their knowledge and world-renowned approach to building great businesses. This means when you work with Bill, you get his experience plus the benefits of using ActionCOACH.

So, what is the difference between ActionCOACH and other business coaches?

There are some similarities between an ActionCOACH and other business coaches, such as they both offer guidance, support and advice. For example, a business coach who works under the ActionCOACH franchise and other business coaches both:

Work with you to set better goals
Ensure you reach your goals
Improve your overall business and life.

In addition, an ActionCOACH is part of a global business coaching franchise, which gives you access to a proven methodology for building successful businesses.

Here are some of the key differences between ActionCOACH and other business coaches:

1. Not all business coaches have a guarantee, but those who are part of ActionCOACH do

Many business coaches don’t guarantee the success of their coaching process; all you have is their word that their coaching services will help you and your business. For obvious reasons, this can feel risky and may put you off the investment of business coaching altogether.

But the good news is that ActionCOACH has tried and tested systems, processes and methodologies that will improve your business, which is why ActionCOACH comes with a guarantee. Every ActionCOACH creates their own guarantee, which essentially ensures business owners don’t risk their time, money or success.

For example, at Bill Squires Business Coaching, we guarantee that if you complete all of the actions agreed upon in your coaching sessions, your 1-2-1 coaching programme will increase the amount of gross profit you make in the first 12 months by at least the amount you’ve invested in the coaching, or we’ll refund you the difference.

During the past five years of Bill Squires Business Coaching, we haven’t had a single client who needed to rely on the guarantee, which is all down to the highly effective six-step system (which we explain later on) and, of course, our clients and their team’s hard work!

2. Find the right fit

If you Google ‘business coaches in Leeds’, you’ll have plenty of options, which is great. But it also means you need to research every single one and try to determine who is the best fit.

Not only does that take hours, but it’s also tricky because business coaching isn’t Some business coaches have qualifications, and some don’t; some have years of experience in your business, while others have years of business coaching experience, so deciding who is right for you isn’t that straightforward.

Even though there’s plenty of choice with ActionCOACH (with over 1,000 coaches in more than 70 countries), you’ll have peace of mind when you choose an ActionCOACH because they all undergo extensive training before becoming an accredited business coach.

ActionCOACH also has ongoing training sessions throughout the year and encourages all coaches to experience the methodology firsthand, as they also receive coaching to refine and build their own business.

With the knowledge that business coaches operating under the ActionCOACH franchise are accredited and regularly keep up to date with industry best practices, you can focus on finding the right fit.

At Bill Squires Business Coaching, we truly believe business coaching is only successful if you and your business coach are the right fit for one another, which is why we’ve created a thorough On Boarding Process where we don’t sell to you; instead, we identify if business coaching with us is right for you and us.

3. Choose the right type of business coaching

Choosing the right type of business coaching for you and your business is just as important as finding a business coach who is the right fit. However, due to capacity or knowledge, other business coaches might be unable to offer a wide variety of coaching options, whereas ActionCOACH can.

Business coaches who are part of ActionCOACH come with various coaching options so you can choose the right type of business coaching for you and your business. Here are some of the coaching options offered by those who are part of ActionCOACH:

BookCLUB (sessions to discuss business books)
ProfitCLUB (a networking opportunity)
GrowthCLUB (a quarterly 90-day planning session)
ActionCLUB (an educational type of training course for smaller businesses to learn about and implement business basics)
MentorCLUB (group coaching for larger businesses where business owners have a team to delegate actions to)
1-2-1 coaching (private coaching where you develop your short-term and long-term goals and reach your end goal faster).

At Bill Squires Business Coaching, we offer a range of business coaching options, including 1-2-1 coaching, group coaching and quarterly coaching sessions. You can find out more about our business coaching options, how much they cost and which one might be right for you in our blog.

4. A tried and tested system

The main thing any business owner wants to know is how a business coach will improve their company and life. We can’t speak for other business coaches, but we can explain how ActionCOACH will improve your business.

Over the past 25 years, ActionCOACH has helped over 50,000 business owners succeed thanks to a tried and tested system designed to increase your profits. When you work with ActionCOACH, you can access over 3,500 tried and tested strategies and tactics to ensure you build a successful business.

At Bill Squires Business Coaching, we follow a 6-step process (which is the core methodology of ActionCOACH) that turns good businesses into GREAT ones. This strategic and methodological approach focuses on the six main pillars of business success, including:

Mastery – getting the right foundations in place to support your business growth
Niche – understanding how to use marketing for your business
Leverage – refining systems and processes to improve efficiency
Team – ensuring you have the right people and team members to manage your systems and processes (essentially getting them to a stage where they can run your business)
Synergy – growing and expanding your business
Results – enjoy the results of your success.

Every business owner we work with is different; some go through the entire 6-step process, while others go through one or two of the above steps. We tailor our business coaching for you depending on your needs and goals – an approach that our clients find very effective:

“I’ve met and worked with a number of business coaches before but Bill is the first ‘business coach’ that didn’t just load me up with more tasks and systems but instead quickly identified the stumbling block to better efficiency, more profit and growth was to work on the team I had built around me.” – Mark Barlow, Managing Director and co-founder of Logic Architecture.

Click on the links below to hear what these other six business owners have to say about working with Bill Squires Business Coaching:

Bill Barton – MD, Barton Legal

Paul Van Heeswyk – MD, Crucial Engineering

Rhys Boven- MD, Wharfedale Interiors

Gavin Esberger – Director, GME Painting Contractors

Laura Friedel-Hirst – MD, LFH Regulatory

Paul Addy – Director, Positive People HR

Find a business coach who encourages personal and professional growth

Jim Rohn once said, “Don’t wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Start working on yourself, making these personal changes. And it will all change for you.”

And it’s true. In the context of business growth, this means you need to focus on professional development, but you also need to focus on personal growth, which is something you should look for in a business coach; someone who encourages professional and personal growth.

It doesn’t matter whether you choose an ActionCOACH or another business coach; the most important thing is finding someone who is the right fit for you and your business.

Book a no-obligation chat with Bill Squires now to find out if he is the right business coach for you.