What can online business coaching help with?
When you work for yourself, a coaching conversation can help you examine a decision alongside the business you have and the life you want around it.
Online business coaching can help you examine choices about what you sell, how you earn and how work uses your time. In my coaching for self-employed people, we work with your own examples and choose a next step you can try in the business.
You may be planning to become self-employed, or you may already have a business that works financially and takes more of your week than you want. What you bring to the conversation can be quite specific. It can also be the feeling that something needs to change, before you know what that change should be.
Start with the choice you are facing
A question such as whether to change your offer gives us something to examine. What would you like to sell? What are clients buying today? Which parts of the work do you want to keep doing yourself? We can look at those questions together with the income you need and the time you have.
You do not need a precise goal before we talk. We begin by working out what you want from the conversation and what you would like to have decided or tried by the end. That might mean making a choice you have postponed. It might mean finding out what you still need to learn before making it.
Use your own work to understand the problem
Bring an example that helps us see how the business works. An offer shows what you promise and how you expect to deliver it. A week in your calendar shows where your time goes. Looking at them together can reveal a difference between how you describe the business and how you spend your days.
Suppose, for example, that you want to develop a new service. Your calendar may already be full of delivery and follow-up for the existing one. We can examine what would have to change for the new work to have a place in the week, and what you would be giving up to make that room.
In the first conversation, you choose two or three real pieces of your work. We look at what you were paid, how long the work took and what it gave the client. We also look at what came afterwards. Those details help us test whether a possible change would address the difficulty you described.
Choose a step and what you want to learn
The next step should be small enough to carry out alongside your current work. You could revise the scope of one offer, set aside time to work on a service or check where a particular kind of assignment uses more time than you expected. The choice depends on what we have examined and what is possible for you now.
Decide what you want to notice when you try it. If you revise an offer, what would a client's response help you understand? If you make room for development, can you protect that time when delivery gets busy? This gives us something concrete to return to if you want another conversation.
You choose the step. I ask questions, point out contradictions and bring other perspectives when they may be useful. When the question is about clients, offers or prices, I also bring what I have learned from building and scaling companies. You decide what applies to your business.
What a first conversation with me involves
The first conversation is 90 minutes and stands on its own. Afterwards, you receive a short written summary of what we agreed, including the step you chose. There is no fixed programme or minimum number of sessions. If you want to continue, further conversations are 60 minutes.
You can read the fee and practical details on the first-conversation page before arranging a time. What you tell me stays between us. Practical help with the business beyond our conversations is agreed separately, so you can choose coaching without committing to another collaboration.
Working online in a shared language
I offer online coaching internationally, in English or Danish. English can be our shared working language even when it is not your first language. We agree the time zone directly. You can also meet me face to face in Copenhagen.
To begin, write a few lines about the business you have, or the one you are planning, and what you would like to talk about. You are welcome to ask a question before arranging a conversation.