What are the Advantages of Digital Business Coaching?
In full disclosure, I am an extroverted, social person that enjoys and is energized by being around other people. That said, I designed my coaching practice to operate in a digital environment, by applying the lessons learned from a long career in financial services, as both an adviser and leader. It’s the key reason Leader’s Cut has the infrastructure to schedule, deliver, and support all services via web/phone/chat/video. While meeting in person offers clear, human contact and nuance we are all poignantly aware of, meeting digitally dramatically increases efficiency with little-to-no impact on effectiveness. Here’s what I mean. If I were to exclusively meet clients in person, the number of appointments is limited by the geography and commute time between each. It also limits the impact I can have to only the parts of Arizona within driving distance. Digital delivery eliminates commute time translating into more coaching time. Further, most executive leaders and entrepreneurs that I work with nearly always present with concerns about time management. Specifically, they tell me they do not have enough time … ever. Add to this that we are all hard-wired to the social graces of meeting in person versus a phone/video call that a scheduled appointment of an hour easily becomes 75-90 minutes when we arrive a few moments early, offer beverages, and exchange small-talk both before and after. The key advantage to coaching via phone/video is that we quickly get to the heart of the priorities, use our time wisely, and when done can move to a new priority with physically ushering people in and out of offices.