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Brandywine East Community News:
Vince Lombardi and Phil Jackson are proof that good coaching can lead a sports team to success. Some business experts argue that the same holds true for entrepreneurs.

Business coaching involves taking a hard look at the strengths and weaknesses of a business and its owner in search of ways to improve both, explained Doug Dowd, owner of a Growth Coach franchise in Chadds Ford, Pa.

Most entrepreneurs break out on their own because they have a real passion for something, like cooking or flower arranging, he said, but many don’t know the first thing about running a business. A coach comes in to help an entrepreneur set goals, plan for the future and make hard decisions to make the business run more efficiently, he said.

“A lot of times, business owners don’t know who to ask or how to change,” he said. “A business coach gets a business owner to face reality.”

The idea has been steadily increasing in popularity since the mid-1990s, but the recent economic meltdown has convinced even more business owners to give it a try, said Barbara Necar, associate state director of the nonprofit Small Business Development Center, at the University of Delaware.

Most business owners recognize that they should be planning more, but few ever really do it, she said, especially when they are struggling to stay afloat as it is.

“They need to look at strategy instead of what broke today,” she said. Read more.

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