Do you need a coach or a consultant for your business challenges? 

The short answer is that you probably need both, perhaps at different times in the life of your business. 

A business consultant will give you specialist advice and work directly in your business to help you improve it, such as designing a business plan, marketing, staff issues. The Institute for Apprenticeships describes it like this - 

'provide business advice to public, private and not-for-profit organisations. This usually involves helping them solve a challenge of some kind, such as how to grow their business, how to make it more efficient or how to organise and structure itself in a different way. Some specialist consultancies have a particular focus – for example, how to write proposals for new work, or how to change an organisation or how to develop their workforce.'

A coach will use coaching skills in a structured way to focus on how YOU are showing up in your business, how you fit in the larger system, how to make this better. They will be led by your agenda and support you to develop goals and actions for the improvement you want. This could include vision, time management, motivation, limiting beliefs, clarity, self-care, action planning, dealing with procrastination, personal organisation. They will help you investigate where you are now and for you to decide what needs to change and how. 

What do you need now?