Tactician, Consultant, Strategist, Coach: Which One is Right for You
Entrepreneurs and small business owners have plenty of options when seeking support. The complicated part is knowing who you need that support from in connection with your objectives. There’s been a surge in coaching and consulting, while finding available strategists and tacticians is limited. This can be an overwhelming choice and you understand how each of them could help you and why you may need them.
Business Coach
A business coach supports business owners by helping them clarify what their business vision is and how it fits in with their personal goals. A coach focuses on the client, asking questions to help the client generate answers and solutions themselves.
Hire a business coach when: you want to narrow down your key strengths and learn to apply them to your vision so you can personally impact the achievement of your goals.
Strategist
A strategist devises and implements a strategy to achieve longer-term goals. They also analyze existing strategies, to identify specifically what areas need improvement. Once those goals are set, a strategist determines the actions necessary and researches the best way to complete those actions.
Hire a strategist when: you need help clarifying your 3, 5, or 10-year plan for your business and need help organizing the necessary tasks and goals to see those plans through.
Business Consultant
Where coaching is about the client, consulting is about the problem. By analyzing the root cause of a problem, a business consultant can establish a diagnosis and recommend the best way to deal with it.
Business consultants use their expertise to help companies assess their weaknesses then recommend solutions for their particular business challenges. Consultants work in all areas of business including business development, human resources, management, and systems. They work with clients to develop strategy, execute plans, and implement problem-solving.
Hire a Business Consultant when: you need an expert to define your challenges and advise you on what needs to be done to solve immediate issues that are holding your company back.
Tactician
A tactician is skilled at responding to situations as they arise and developing sound plans to resolve those situations. A strategist writes a long-term plan, while a tactician comes in and starts executing the more immediate steps necessary. They come up with, prioritize and focus on the specific actions needed to make improvements in the now, to start saving time, increasing profitability, and organizing your workload efficiency.
Hire a tactician when: you need an extra person with the expertise to put a plan into action by instructing, delegating and accomplishing necessary tasks to complete projects successfully.
I am both a Business Consultant and a Tactician, an excellent combination when you need an extra set of hands to figure out what’s not working and what to implement immediately to get back on track for the growth of your business.
As a seasoned business executive, I can strongly impact your business with my extensive level of expertise and provide services that you don’t have time to do yourself. I will advise you on what I find as the best strategy to address the problems at hand, whether they are with people, a project, profitability or a process.
Then, as a tactician, I assist you and your staff with executing that strategic plan, becoming another set of confidential, trusted hands on your team to enable a project’s completion.
Together we will make strategic decisions that directly influence the progress and profitability of your business. My goal will be to resolve any current chaos in your business and find a path for everyday sustainability or to assist in a project or system implementation or documentation.
When you have a pressing issue that you just don’t have the resources to handle, one that cannot be easily delegated to your existing staff, that is the time to Contact Marcia LaBelle at 508-264-7492 for a Complimentary Consultation.