Chris Budd explains how he developed his ‘coaching then planning then advice’ approach, and how he discovered the big blockage to delivering meaningful financial planning
Back in 2011 I began training to be a business coach. I started by taking the certificate in business coaching, delivered by Jan Bowen Nielsen of Quiver Management. Two years later I passed my diploma. I learned many things, but perhaps the deepest (and hardest to achieve) was the importance of taking myself out of a conversation. I also realised the power that this approach could give to a financial planning process. Coaching, then planning, then advice I started bringing the coaching skills I had been taught into financial planning meetings. Very quickly I saw how much deeper t...
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