Entrepreneur Scan Helps Coaches, Advisors And Teachers To Assess And Develop Their Clients’ Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Below is our recent interview with Martijn Driessen, CEO at Entrepreneur Scan:

Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to Entrepreneur Scan?

A: The mission of Entrepreneur Scan is to develop entrepreneurship worldwide. We do this by working together with business coaches, both profit and non-profit because coaching plays a crucial role in stimulating entrepreneurship among students and small business owners: established, independent, and aspiring. However only, with the right toolset.

To foster entrepreneurship, we design, develop, and deliver first-class business coaching tools to help coaches and SME advisors add more professional value to their customers and to attract new clients. Our entrepreneur tests and tools give coaches, advisors, and teachers a detailed and accurate insight into the entrepreneurial profile of their clients and the e-learning tools on how to develop it. For the purpose of developing entrepreneurship, we provide first-class and innovative E-Courses on business coaching for (financial) advisors and coaches.

Q: How exactly your tests, tools, and training can help in fostering entrepreneurship?

A: Research shows: the success rates of small business owners go up to 89% after 5 years with expert business coaching using our scientifically proven entrepreneurial tests, tools & training. Comparably: on average, about 50% of companies fail within 5 years in Europe & USA. So, there are many business owners, but not all of them are entrepreneurial too.

E-Scan is scientifically proven, and more than 750,000 people gained insight into their entrepreneurial profile. Our SaaS (Softwareas a Service) tools are developed explicitly for entrepreneurship and validated under large groups of (aspiring) entrepreneurs regarding their business lifecycle.

Furthermore, the emphasis on our business coaching tools lies in the development of the entrepreneur in regards to his future. All entrepreneurial skills (and characteristics) have been increased. The skills showed an even more significantly improvement at the end of the coaching program. The following results were accounted for:

Q: What advice do you have for early entrepreneurs who hope to scale up quickly and successfully?

A: Take a business coach and find out what your real entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses are because research shows that only 28% of the entrepreneurs have accurate self-knowledge. Chances are substantial that business owners make the wrong decisions based on their wrong self-image. Without expert business coaching, that could end up in early failure or worse.

Q: Most entrepreneurs are not looking for a business coach. How would you convince them opposite?

A: Most entrepreneurs are not looking for a business coach, although times are slowly changing for the better. Enterprising has gotten more complex and is changing more rapidly. There simply is no longer the time to ‘learn while doing’ or the luxury to ‘learn by making mistakes.’ Business coaches can help to speed up the learning curve effectively; they have seen so many companies from the inside and helped entrepreneurs to overcome their business and personal challenges.

Furthermore, research among almost 4,000 business owners found that the coaching needs that entrepreneurs have before coaching sessions started differ significantly from the learnings they took home. So, they learn the unexpected. Entrepreneurs run into a common challenge: the more they succeed, the more they outgrow their’know-how’and more than often they don’t know what they don’t know. That’s why they need a business coach.

Q: What are your plans for the future?

A: To develop entrepreneurship worldwide. To build a community of business coaches to help small businesses thrive and to measure the impact that business coaches realize in fostering entrepreneurship.

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