Ep 114: Business Sounding Board
“But people always ask me what it is. So, I work with business owners to be, in effect, their extra pair of eyes and an extra pair of ears. You know, the cliche out there is it's lonely at the top. And it very much is, and you know, what I find these business owners just need somebody to talk to and bounce things off.”
“We had five years when we only had freelancers, we then take the big scary step of an office and staff that's proper grown up, you know, that's proper grown-up stuff, and at the time is scary. And then, you know, the business growth and business growth isn't linear. It's, you know, it's up and down around backwards.”
TIME STAMP SUMMARY
00:40 What is a business sounding board?
04:16 Being coachable
07:51 Building the business space
14:44 Running the business
19:43 Working with clients
23:07 Problem solving
Where to find Phil Fraser:
LinkedIn at @philfraser.
Who is Phil Fraser?
Phil went from a kitchen table start up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million-pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He’s travelled the full SME business journey.
Phil now works with ambitious SME-owners as a Business Sounding Board (think somewhere between Business Coach, Business Mentor, and ‘personal NED’). In simple terms, he’s ‘a pair of ears and an extra pair eyes’ for SME Owners helping them to be better at what they do. The key time most Business Owners look for outside help is when they reach a ‘next stage/step up’ point in their business journey. That’s where Phil comes in. It doesn’t need to be ‘lonely at the top’.
As a Business Sounding Board, he gives SME Owners the time & space to regularly discuss their challenges and opportunities, with no sense of judgement or bias, and in complete confidence. This allows them to explore their options in full, culminating with a list of issues to address/clarify, a clear target in mind, a roadmap to success, and a renewed enthusiasm and confidence for the challenges ahead.
Over the last 12 months Phil has appeared on over 25 podcasts, from around the whole globe, talking on a variety of business subjects. You can view them all at https://philfraser.co.uk/watch-hear-phil/.
Phil is also a volunteer Mentor with a number of organisations including The Prince's Trust and Young Enterprise and is an active Angel Investor. He also mentor’s start-up businesses.
You can usually find him on LinkedIn at @philfraser.
Email – phil@philfraser.co.uk
Mobile – 07960 490416
Web – https://www.philfraser.co.uk
YouTube - https://bit.ly/2OyDYaK
