While it is well known that top athletes have coaches it is not well known that top performers in most professions also have coaches. These coaches provide the same service: insight, experience, perspective, motivation, introspection, and direction. It is interesting that both Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had coaches who made big impacts on their lives.
Review the biographies of most successful business people: Bill Gates, Microsoft; Bo Rydin Swedish Cellulose, Jack Welch, GE to name just three CEOs and you will find they all had coaches.
#2 How are you different or better than other coaching programs?
There are several coaching programs offered across the MENA region including e-myth by Michael Gerber, Brian Tracey programs and others from Australia and the UK.
We are challenge-driven while the others are content-driven. They have information and their main goal is training through their materials. We begin by finding out what your challenges and issues are and we then tailor your program to create solutions to overcome your challenges and we also help you execute these solutions.
Our coaches are extensively-trained and highly-educated individuals with strong business and international experience who can respond to your questions with depth. Other coaching programs are largely franchised and operate with teachers who have little business or international experience.
#3 How do your fees compare?
The fee structure among coaching companies is surprisingly similar about US $1,000 to US $1,500 per month for two to four one-hour sessions each month. We also provide unlimited emails, phone calls, and SMS or text messages at any time at no additional cost.
#4 What are the deliverables?
The Sukraat Coaching Program provides insights and content to help the busy executive and entrepreneur solve problems, pursue opportunities, and in general take his or her business to a new level and/or new directions. We address a wide-range of situations. We provide a complete retrospective commentary following each session. Often we prepare tailored materials for us to work through with you during our sessions. We also support you with unlimited email, phone calls and SMS or texting.
You have access to premium data bases without having to pay over US $77,000 per year. See information question below.
Outside the framework of the Sukraat Coaching Program, we provide traditional management consulting services, that includes, but is not limited to, research studies, organizational effectiveness analysis, cost savings studies, training programs, organizational development, virtual work solutions, and more. Our capabilities lie in the areas of analysis, planning, and smart execution (implementation). Our research practice utilizes the latest and the most leading-edge data bases available including the deep web.
#5 How can you find information on our country about our competitors and markets?
We have Premium level access to several leading data bases to answer your questions including: Hoovers, Dun & Bradstreet, First Research, Zawya, Highbeam, Northern Light, and Reference. You have access to all these sources without spending the US $50,000 a year your firm would have to pay to have premium access to all of our sources.
Country Watch and Country Forecast provide market and economic data on over 200 countries. Highbeam provides access to 35 million articles from over 3,000 journals, magazines including: The Economist, CNBC, Associated Press, Herald Tribune, Mercury News (Silicon Valley). Journal of Accounting, Journal of Business, Journal of Economics.
Northern Light provides 800 international online news sources, 1,900 industry blogs, tens of thousands of white papers, webcasts, and case studies.
Zawya is a Middle East data base of 15,000 MENA companies and hundreds of industries. Hoovers is a data base of 24 million global businesses, 31 million people. First Research provides data and tracks more than 700 industries.
We provide some research in the course of our work. Should there be a need for more extensive research requiring several or even many hours of work we will make you a written offer to conduct a study for you but only upon written agreement by you.
#6 How can we know our information will be kept confidential?
All client information is kept strictly confidential. Information is on a need to know basis only with the Sukraat Coach with whom the client is working. We operate like lawyers and other professional counselors with the utmost discretion.
We ask for your personal email which we use to send our retrospective commentaries on our sessions with you. We then send an email to your company email letting you know that we have sent a confidential email to you. All information is only shared with you unless you specifically request in writing to us to share something with others either inside or outside your company.
In situations when the Sukraat Coach wants to share information with a colleague, permission is asked of the client first and the client either gives permission or not. Should a client want the Sukraat Coach or Coaches to sign separate agreements, for example, a non-disclosure agreement, we are always happy to do this.
We will sign your NDA, Non Disclosure Agreement, or provide you with our mutual NDA.
#7 Are there examples of leading political figures who have had coaches?
Certainly, both Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had coaches. William Cockran a US lawyer and statesman was Churchill's coach. Louis McHenry Howe a journalist who later owned a newspaper was Roosevelt's coach and mentor.
#8 Are there examples of leading businessmen who have coaches?
Yes, Jack Welch the CEO of GE for two decades and acknowledged as the best executive of the century had a coach. He increased the value of General Electric from US $13 billion to over US $400 billion over his career. His coach is Ram Charan who charges US $20,000 PER DAY!
#9 What about an example of a Middle Eastern businessman?
Sure, Maurice Flanagan was the mentor and coach for HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, أحمد بن سعيد آل مكتوم Chairman of Emirates Air. Flanagan was an athlete and playwright before joining BOAC and British Air and later launched Emirates Air.
# 10 What about an example of a Middle Eastern businesswoman?
Of course, Anousheh Ansari, انوشه انصاری, and her coach and mentor Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradova a Russian Cosmonaut. She founded Prodea Systems and sold the firm for US $24 million and then went on to become the first Muslim female astronaut. She was also co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies. She came to the US not knowing English from Iran and obtained a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
#11 Who are the Sukraat Coaches? We don't know them.
Although you may not be familiar with our brand, each of our Sukraat Coaches has over twenty years experience with leading brand name companies and emerging companies. Our lead coach has been serving Middle East companies for over twenty-five years. He read Middle East Studies at University.
#12 How does the program work?
The business owner or executive works with a Sukraat Coach two to four times a month. They work together in "real time." The Sukraat Coach is a "virtual coach." Bring to the meetings your goal of always wanting to make your business better. You may contact us anytime as much as you want by telephone, email and SMS.
Together, we strive to resolve your challenges and issues. If you do not see the progress and results you want, stop paying us.
#13 The money issue
Our clients report their investment in Sukraat Coaching returns from 10-20 times to their business in hard currencies both in revenue gains and in costs saved.
Do you think Tiger Woods complain about the fees? Look what he has achieved; he's making--from his coaching millions -- it's a return on his investment well spent.
#14 The time issue
It's been our experience that business leaders and entrepreneurs have little time. They are busy and they are striving. Yet, ironically, these same people DO FIND TIME for new things, such as improving themselves and their business.
They have learned that what’s important must be done in spite of what seems urgent. Their coaches often help them discern between the two, importance v. urgency.
#15 Small and medium businesses are tight with funds.
You should be tight with your funds. You should also spend wisely. A small investment with us will help you focus on making more money and building your business.
Check with our clients. If you need their emails or mobile numbers just ask. They will report to you that we return over ten times in hard cash on monies they invested in our work. Take a look or download their letters and screen shots of their comments right after a session with us.
#16 Small business owners are entrepreneurs
Does that mean you don't go to the doctor or dentist? Does that mean you don't use an accountant? Does that mean you have never used a lawyer?
Having a Sukraat Coach on your team is a way to put talent on your team at a small investment.
#17 Location: you are far away being in the United States
As we know, the world at times is small. We can pick up the phone and talk to each other faster than you can walk out of your building, get into your car, and drive to a hotel where we could meet. What is interesting and important to recognize is this: companies are finding that online discussions and meetings are sometimes more productive.
Stanford University discovered that engineers taking online sessions actually OUT performed those that took live class sessions. Email us if you want some data on this and other results from companies like Nokia and Cisco on the productivity and results of online sessions.
#18 Commitment and Cancellation
You are allowed to cancel our service any month for the following month for no reason whatsoever. We do strongly suggest you consider giving the process three months as it may take some time for you to be able to see tangible results in your business.
#19 Why the name Sukraat Coaching?
Socrates guided through asking questions. Sukraat is the name for Socrates in much of the East.
#20 Who are some of the clients your coaches have worked with over the years?
