Advantages

What are the advantages of a small to medium sized business forming a leadership team within the business and also having a business coach from the outside being part of that team here's a few of the advantages:

  1. Internal Leadership Team Advantages
    • Better Decision-Making: A team of leaders brings diverse perspectives, leading to stronger, more balanced decisions.
    • Shared Responsibility: Distributing leadership prevents burnout and dependency on one or two key people.
    • Clearer Accountability: When leadership roles are defined, it's easier to track performance and progress toward goals.
    • Stronger Culture and Alignment: A leadership team helps communicate and reinforce company values consistently across the business.
    • Scalability: As the business grows, having a leadership team in place makes it easier to expand without chaos.
  2. Adding an External Business Coach Advantages
    • Objective Perspective: A coach isn't "in" the day-to-day, so they can spot blind spots, politics, or inefficiencies that insiders might miss.
    • Professional Expertise: Coaches often bring frameworks, strategies, and experiences from other companies and industries that the internal team may not have encountered.
    • Focus on Growth: A coach keeps the leadership team accountable for strategic, long-term goals rather than getting stuck in daily firefighting.
    • Skill Development: A coach can mentor the leadership team on leadership styles, communication, conflict resolution, planning, and more.
    • Neutral Mediator: If there are disagreements, a coach can facilitate discussions constructively, avoiding internal power struggles or grudges.
    • Momentum and Discipline: Having an outsider involved often increases the discipline and regularity of leadership meetings and planning sessions.

In Short

Internal leadership = strength, resilience, scalability.
External coach = clarity, discipline, growth acceleration.

When combined, the business becomes more professional, more future-proof, and often significantly more successful — while reducing stress on the founder(s).