Running a business requires skills that some individuals need to develop or strengthen, in particular leadership and motivation or, on occasions, more fundamental business skills.

Leadership is not an innate quality, rather it is a combination of skills, aptitudes and perspectives that can be learned and developed.  To hone your leadership skills, you may feel the need to have a sounding-board, someone you can talk to in confidence to help you to reflect on your own actions and feelings.  Many leadership-development programmes are too general in scope to permit such intensive, personalised work.  Coaching fills this void.