For Small Business Owners
Build with people who get it.
Owning a business is a thrill and a grind. You wear every hat, decide what comes next, and figure out who you can trust, often with few people around who know what that feels like. Good Works Results works with owners as peers, through coaching, strategic advising, and a local network of leaders who are building too.
Some ways to work together
Coaching →Strategic advisory →Convening →What an outside view gives you →
Real Challenges
What owners bring to us
- Wearing every hat
- Being the only one who can do it
- More ideas than time to chase them
- A decision you keep circling
- Knowing who you can trust
- Promoting your first managers
- Hiring and keeping good people
- Growing without burning out
An Outside View
What an outside view gives you
Four things that are hard to find inside your own business.
Someone who gets it.
A fellow owner who sees you as a peer, so you can say what's really going on in the business.
A clear head on the hard calls.
A conversation outside your own thinking moves the decision you've been circling, whether it's a hire, a price or a new direction.
Focus.
Sort out which ideas to chase first, so the best ones get your full attention and the rest can wait.
Follow-through.
Each conversation ends with a next step you choose, and the next one starts with what happened.
How We Help
Three ways to work together
Coaching
One-on-one coaching for you and your managers, plus coaching for your leadership team.
Strategic advisory
One-on-one work with an owner who is scaling, from a fellow owner who runs his own business too. Part strategic advisor in the integrator role, part coach: a steady second seat that turns your vision into priorities and follow-through.
Learn more about Strategic Advisory →
Convening
The Community Leaders Series, where business, school, government and nonprofit leaders meet around real community challenges.
"Thank you again for taking the time for the discovery call and putting structure to my scattered thoughts. I came into this week feeling very much in control and reinvigorated to tackle my tasks list…"
Discovery Call Recipient
From the Field
Notes from the coaching and advisory work with local business owners.
Let's Connect
Tell us what you're working on. We'll follow up with a next step that fits: coaching, a peer forum, or a partnership.
Daniel Riemenschneider
Daniel's approach is grounded in deep listening and compassionate guidance, meeting leaders where they are before working toward a path forward.
Daniel runs his own business too, so he knows the thrill and the grind firsthand.