All of your business coaching or personal business coach clients need to learn how to leverage their time. One of the most effective ways for your business coaching clients to leverage their time is to hire assistants or consultants on an as-needed basis. You, as a personal business coach, are a consultant. Typically, consultants charge between $25 and $300 an hour to provide is highly specialized help. Many of your business coaching clients will hire a consultant, rather than an employee, to do their website work and accounting because it is usually not cost effective to hire a web person or an accountant full time. So to help your personal business coach client save money and resources, have them hire a consultant instead.

Business Coaching: How Does Your Personal Business Coach Client Know When They Are Ready To Hire An Assistant?

This is a very common question that your personal business coach clients will ask you. It has a very simple answer. Hiring an assistant is purely a financial decision. Have your business coaching client determine how many hours they will have their assistant work. Then, have them decide how much they are going to pay their assistant. Let’s say they are going to hire an assistant to work 10 hours per week at $10 per hour. That’s $100 per week. Tell your business coaching clients to ask themselves this question: “If I had an assistant right now working 10 hours per week, could I increase my income more than $100 per week?” If the answer is yes, they should strongly consider hiring an assistant.

Business Coaching: Have Your Personal Business Coaching Client Do What They Do Best, And Hire Others To Do The Rest

A great way for your personal business coach client to increase their profits is to hire other people to bring in sales. Ask your business coaching client some key questions. What if they hired an assistant at $1,000 per month and, as a result, they increased their income by $4,000 per month? Then they could take the extra $3,000 and invest it into advertising and boost their business again. Have your personal business coach client write down how they would use their sales assistant if they were to hire one. Hiring an sales assistant may be out of their comfort zone, but that may be the business coaching they need to get the breakthrough they are looking for in their business.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach