Registration Now Open for The Coach Entrepreneur: Building Your Coaching Business Web Course

7/11/2012

The Coach Entrepreneur:

Building Your Coaching Business

Most coaches are passionate about coaching, but quickly realize that starting a coaching business also means becoming a smart entrepreneur. This 8-part web course is designed to help you to clarify, differentiate and strengthen your offer, develop a successful and sustainable coaching practice and navigate the ins-and-outs of starting and growing a coaching business. Facilitator Kate Ebner of The Nebo Company will lead each class and provide a host of practical tools, resources and perspective to give momentum and focus to your business efforts.

The Coach Entrepreneur features guest appearances by subject matter experts on topics such as legal concerns related to setting up and running the business, marketing and building your brand, and managing for profit and financial success.

Format:

8 90-minute classes (50 minutes of presentation + 40 minutes of question-and-answer with guest experts and/or Kate Ebner)
Classes will be recorded for participants who must miss a class during the series
Materials will be provided to registrants prior to each class
Participants will complete assignments related to growing the coaching business between classes

Timing:

Wednesday evenings from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Every two weeks, beginning August 15 and ending November 21, 2012

Class Schedule*:

August 15: Making a Living as a Coach
August 29: Your Offer: Creating and Articulating a Distinctive, Compelling Value Proposition
September 12: Building a Practice: Planning, Pricing and Profit
September 26: How to Fill Your Coaching Practice
October 10: Establishing Your Brand
October 24: Working On Your Business While Working In Your Business
November 7: Your Vision and Your Plan
November 28: Make Your Vision Real: Executing Your Business Plan

Instructors will cover:

Building a coaching practice vs a coaching business

What to do first, second, third...and what not to do
Business models that work for coaches

The success mindset
Use of assessment instruments

How to talk about coaching and your business so that you get hired

Strategies for differentiating yourself in the coaching market
Understanding of how to build your brand using both traditional methods and social media platforms

Partnerships, collaborations and subcontracting relationships
Vision for the business
Simple and effective business planning

Questions? Contact Rachel Wold at rwold@nebocompany.com.

*Class schedule subject to change