The Burning Question

There is a lot of guidance available to help you plan and launch your business venture but the key factor in your venture’s success is you. Yet, even though you are the key, your wellbeing is often ignored by everybody including yourself.

Particularly if you are leaving the Corporate or Public sector to set up either on your on your own or with a small group of people then you have lost all the support structures provided by such organisations. This freedom can be highly invigorating and stimulating but there are numerous hidden dangers that you need to handle or avoid.

Our role is to help you to take charge of your wellbeing, as nobody else is going to do it for you.

We will provide you with the tools and techniques that help you to both adjust to this new working environment while also planning to maximise the motivation and satisfaction that you will achieve.

One of the key dangers you will face starting up any enterprise is that it will absorb all of your energies and attention. With the immediate day to day issues you will face it is very difficult for you to justify taking time out for you.

Our on-line tools and exercises can be used 24/7 anywhere and our coaches have had to react to Covid 19 by providing even the 1-2-1 coaching virtually.

Building up self-awareness is key to business success. We do this using a number of questionnaires that look at your interests/passions, values, current abilities/skills and your personal strengths. We examine what you need to get out of work together with what tasks and environments you wish to avoid.

This information together with your work history and personal circumstances allows us to build up an objective picture of where you are today and how best to deal with the personal challenges that you will face starting and building up your business.

This Career-Fit personal profile requires an investment of time and effort from you but it is the best way we have found to help you to really get to know yourself and prepare yourself for the future.

We will work with you to develop the Future-You and look at various scenarios that your initial steps could lead towards. We identify what opportunities and challenges you will face together with the skills and coping strategies that you will need to develop.

This is an important step as it helps you to justify the efforts and sacrifices that you are making to achieve your business goals and keeps you motivated, stimulated and fulfilled from your activities.

We will then provide you with links to training and development courses to further develop your skills to suit your desired opportunities.
If you decide to become a premiere Tbque member you will then have access to a Coach who will work with you to help you realise your potential and achieve your life as well as business goals.

You will be going through major changes as you exit from your employment and it is important that we identify the challenges and opportunities that you will be presented with.

To do this we use in addition to the personal profiling tools additional wellbeing assessment’s which together allow us to identify what is really important for you to have and what to avoid.

Each entrepreneur is different and particularly if this is a small business then you will need to handle a number of roles simultaneously. Some of these you will be familiar with but others are outside your experience. You will need to decide whether you learn the skills required to perform each role or give some of the roles to a colleague/outsourced partner.

Deciding on where best to use your skills and how to develop business critical skills quickly can also make use of your profile and will be helped by our coaches.

If you decide to get somebody else to perform particular roles it is important to select an individual or outsourced partner who has complementary skills and personal attributes so that together you form a far stronger team that covers all the aspects of professionally managing your business. We have a number of team-building tools that you can use to help manage this process.

Being an Entrepreneur does give you the opportunity to custom build a job role that ideally suits your needs.

To do this we use our “Career-Fit Job Crafting” tools and techniques to identify activities that will provide you with motivation, satisfaction and fits with your values and life-goals. As such this should be a key element in your business planning and should be reviewed regularly.