Tools for Adelaide business owners

Choose 1-to-1, a group programme, or a mastermind and membership, then how often you would meet, how senior a coach you want and how long you would run it. The calculator returns an indicative monthly band for Adelaide, ex GST, along with the engagement total, the session time included and the cost per contact hour.

It is a lookup over the published South Australian bands rather than a formula, so every result names the band it sits inside and links to the guide those bands came from. It also shows what multiplying your session hours by an hourly rate would have produced, which lands roughly 2 thirds short. That is the mistake most owners make when they set a budget for a coach, and seeing the gap is more useful than being told about it.

Who it is for: the owner who has decided they probably want a coach and is working out whether it fits the year's numbers before talking to anybody. It is also worth 30 seconds if you already have a quote in front of you and want to know whether it sits inside the Adelaide range.

Open the business coaching cost calculator

It asks 10 questions about where the business actually is right now: the hours, the numbers you can and cannot see, whether the business runs without you, and whether you have the time and the money to act on what a coach would tell you. The score comes with a reading of what it suggests and what to do next.

It will tell you when coaching is a reasonable next spend. It will just as readily tell you that a bookkeeper, a first hire, or a subsidised South Australian government business advisory service is the better first move. That is deliberate and permanent: a self-assessment that always says yes is a sales funnel wearing a lab coat, and it is worth nothing to a sceptical owner.

Who it is for: the owner who keeps circling the idea without committing, and anyone who wants a structured second opinion before spending money on something they have never bought before.

Take the business coach readiness questions

A coach builds your own decision-making by asking questions. A consultant does a defined piece of work and hands you an output. A mentor has run a business like yours and will tell you what they did. The 3 are sold in almost identical language, priced differently, and suit completely different situations.

Picking the wrong one is a common reason an engagement disappoints: the owner wanted answers and bought questions, or wanted questions and bought a report. The 8 questions sort out which of the 3 fits, and the result routes you to the service page that explains it properly. Like the readiness questions, it is built to be able to say that a consultant suits this better, or that a government business advisor is the right first call.

Who it is for: anyone who has used all 3 words in the same sentence this week, which is most owners, and anyone comparing quotes that turn out not to be for the same thing.

Work out whether you need a coach, a consultant or a mentor

Enter your turnover and the hours you actually work, and it returns what an hour of your time currently carries. There is no charge-out-rate box, because a charge-out rate is a guess and the whole point is to take the guess out. It then splits the week into the hours spent working in the business and the hours spent working on it, which is usually the uncomfortable part.

It is strictly descriptive. It tells you what your time currently costs the business. It does not project a figure you might earn instead, it does not model a recovered week, and it never suggests that a coach converts one into the other. Those would all be claims nobody can substantiate, and this site does not make them.

Who it is for: the owner who suspects they are the constraint but has never put a number on it, and anyone weighing a first hire against another year of doing it themselves.

Work out what an hour of your time carries

If the question is money, start with the cost calculator and then read what business coaching costs in Adelaide for the bands in full. If the question is whether it is the right spend at all, start with the readiness questions, because a price is meaningless until you know what you are buying and whether now is the time.

If you keep hearing 3 different words for what sounds like the same help, the coach, consultant or mentor selector is the fastest way to settle it, and the business coaching category page sets the same distinction out in prose. If the problem is that you are the bottleneck and you cannot see how much that costs, the owner time value calculator gives you a number to argue with, and small business coaching for owner-operators describes what a coach usually does about it.

None of the 4 gates its result behind an email address, and none of them sends your answers anywhere. The calculations run on your own device, nothing you enter appears in the address bar, and the only way anything reaches me is if you fill in the enquiry form yourself and tick the consent box.

None of them promises you an outcome. No tool here estimates a return, a payback period, a saving or a revenue effect, because nobody can substantiate one on a coaching engagement and the ones you see elsewhere are guesses with a chart on top. Every figure a tool shows is either an indicative market range or arithmetic on a number you supplied.

And none of them is a diagnosis. A score out of 40 is a conversation starter, not a verdict on your business. How the matching works explains what happens after an enquiry, including the 13 checks a coach goes through before joining the network.